Hotel L'Eterlou

Hotel L'Eterlou is a hotel in Méribel. It sits in the resort centre, which puts the shops, the bars and the Christmas market on the doorstep rather than at the end of a bus ride. Cots and family rooms are available, which is the detail that decides it for anyone travelling with small children. It has a hot tub, a sauna and a swimming pool. 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.

Méribel scores 46 out of 100 on our Christmas Snow Score, with the village at 1450m. That makes it more weather-dependent than most in late December, which is worth weighing before you book.

Hotel L'Eterlou is a hotel rather than a chalet, so rooms are booked individually and there is no whole-property hire. That suits a couple, or a group happy to be under one roof without sharing a kitchen and a sitting room. Rooms sleep up to 3.

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.

Hotel L'Eterlou is in the centre of Méribel. The usual arrival airports for Méribel 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 We do not publish transfer times, because they swing widely with traffic and road conditions on a Saturday in Christmas week.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.

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