Chalet Riva

Chalet Riva is a catered chalet in La Plagne, sleeping 15. It is ski-in/ski-out, so skis go on at the door and the day ends without a walk in boots, which helps with a group at Christmas. Cots and family rooms are available, which is the detail that decides it for anyone travelling with small children. It has a hot tub. In the last week of December the afternoons are short and everybody comes in cold, which is when an outdoor hot tub stops being a luxury and earns its place.

We have not published a Christmas Snow Score for La Plagne yet — its altitude figures are still being verified, and the resort page says exactly which ones.

At 15 beds this is a whole-group property — two or three families, or the kind of Christmas where everybody comes. Being catered, nobody spends Christmas Day in the kitchen, which is the single strongest argument for a chalet over an apartment in this particular week.

A property this size usually only goes as a whole, so it is a better fit for a group that has already formed than for two or three people. Check the bed configuration directly with the operator — how a chalet divides its beds matters more at Christmas than the headline number.

Chalet Riva is in La Plagne. The usual arrival airports for La Plagne are Geneva (GVA), Lyon (LYS), Chambéry (CMF). We do not publish transfer times, because they swing widely with traffic and road conditions on a Saturday in Christmas week.

Christmas week 2026 runs 19 Dec – 26 Dec 2026 — the Saturday-to-Saturday changeover most Alpine chalets work to, with Christmas Day falling mid-week.

La Plagne scores 58 out of 100 on our Christmas Snow Score. The page for Christmas chalets in La Plagne shows how that is worked out and what Christmas in the village is actually like.