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 — with a group at Christmas, that matters more than almost anything else on a brochure. 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 starts being the best thing in the resort.

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. Bed configuration is the thing most worth checking 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 We do not publish transfer times, because they swing widely with traffic and road conditions on a Saturday in Christmas week.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 2027 runs 18 Dec – 25 Dec 2027 — the Saturday-to-Saturday changeover most Alpine chalets work to, with Christmas Day falling mid-week.

La Plagne scores 46 out of 100 on our Christmas Snow Score. The La Plagne resort page shows how that is worked out and what Christmas in the village is actually like.