Hôtel Saint Roch Courchevel opens on 18 December 2026 in the heart of the 1850 resort, 30 metres from the Bellecôte slope — Maisons Pariente’s 37-room reimagining of a mountain institution, with interiors by Friedmann & Versace, a Tata Harper spa with pool, and rates from €1,300 including breakfast.
Courchevel 1850 has spent the last decade in an arms race of palaces — Cheval Blanc, Airelles, Le K2 — each grander than the last. The most interesting opening of this winter goes the other way. Hôtel Saint Roch, a longstanding landmark on the Bellecôte piste in the Jardin Alpin, returns on 18 December 2026 as the fifth French address of Maisons Pariente, and its second Alpine property — the family-owned French group behind Lou Pinet in Saint-Tropez, Crillon le Brave in Provence, Le Coucou in Méribel and Le Grand Mazarin in Paris — reimagined at 37 keys as something Courchevel has surprisingly little of: an intimate house rather than a machine.
Hôtel Saint Roch Courchevel: Key Facts
- Opens: 18 December 2026, for the winter season
- Location: 30 metres from the Bellecôte slope in the Jardin Alpin, in the heart of Courchevel 1850 and moments from the village — ski-in access with easy reach of the whole 3 Vallées ski area; Geneva and Lyon are the usual gateways, with Courchevel’s own altiport for the impatient
- Keys: 37 rooms and suites — the reimagining of a storied piste-side institution well known to Courchevel regulars
- Design: Parisian studio Friedmann & Versace — a layered, collector’s-home interior drawing on Slavic dachas, Mongolian landscapes, ancient Persia and the romance of travel: patinated wood, stone, velvet, agate, marquetry, bronze, onyx and handcrafted ceramics, with an eclectic art collection and bespoke furniture beside pieces gathered worldwide
- Craft: agate-stained glass by Atelier Toporkoff and mosaic frescoes by Pierre Mesguich
- Wellness: a Tata Harper spa with an indoor pool and hammam-inspired interiors evoking Ottoman hammams and Caucasian palaces, plus a fitness room
- Spaces: the top-floor Penthouse; a living room built around deep sofas and a fire; a restaurant and bar; a dedicated Kids Club; and an in-house ski shop
- Concierge: arranges dogsledding, snowmobiling, mountain dining and helicopter flights
- The group: Maisons Pariente’s fifth French address and its second Alpine property, shaped by founding sisters Leslie Kouhana and Kimberley Cohen
- Rates: from €1,300 per night on a B&B basis
The Dacha Next Door
The design story at Saint Roch Courchevel has a real anchor. Kouhana and Cohen grew up on family ski holidays in Courchevel just steps from Yves Saint Laurent’s famous dacha — and the Slavic-dacha thread running through Friedmann & Versace’s interiors reads as autobiography, not mood-board. The execution leans on named hands rather than catalogues: Atelier Toporkoff’s agate-stained glass, Pierre Mesguich’s mosaic frescoes, ceramics made rather than bought. The stated ambition — the home of an eclectic collector instead of a conventional luxury ski hotel — is exactly the register Maisons Pariente delivered at Le Grand Mazarin in Paris, and Courchevel is the harder place to do it, because the resort’s default setting is spectacle.
Where It Fits in Courchevel
At €1,300 with breakfast, Saint Roch Courchevel undercuts the 1850 palaces — Cheval Blanc and Airelles open well north of €2,500 in season — while sitting far above the village’s chalet-hotel middle. The 37-key scale, kids’ club and in-house ski shop point at the group’s actual bet: the multigenerational family that returns every winter and wants to be known by name, not processed by a brand.
It’s the same intimacy play the group already runs down the valley at Le Coucou in Méribel — and the Tata Harper spa is a quiet coup, the clean-beauty cult brand being exactly the signal that audience reads. The group’s other Alpine address, Le Coucou in Méribel, reopens for the season on 11 December with 55 rooms including 39 family suites and two private chalets, from €780 half board.
The collector’s-home model has momentum across Europe this season: La Réserve’s six palazzo apartments in Florence work the same instinct in a city, and across the Atlantic White Elephant just made the residential-scale bet in Aspen. And if you would rather drive in than fly, the Alpine passes are worth building into the journey. The same family-run instinct is at work in the Nordics, where four brothers have opened 59 keys on a Lapland lake.
Tip: December openings in ski resorts are soft openings by nature — teams bedding in as the season starts. For Saint Roch Courchevel at its best, book late January: full snow record, post-holiday calm on the Bellecôte, and the kitchen a month into its rhythm. The opening weeks from 18 December, though, will carry the best availability Saint Roch may ever have.
How Much Does Hôtel Saint Roch Cost?
The opening rate at Saint Roch Courchevel is from €1,300 per night on a B&B basis, and Saint Roch is now sellable on both Booking.com and Expedia — whose numbers are a useful reality check on that headline. For a midweek mid-January stay — Wednesday 13 to Friday 15 January 2027, two adults, breakfast included, taxes and fees in — the entry-level 33 m² Prestige room came to €5,381 for two nights on Expedia, or €2,690 a night, against €6,097 (€3,049 a night) on Booking.com. The smallest suite, the Junior Suite, came to €5,780 on Expedia, or €2,890 a night, against €6,550 (€3,275 a night) on Booking.com. It climbs steeply from there: on Expedia, €3,289 a night for a Superior Suite, €3,788 for a Deluxe Suite, and €17,058 for the five-bedroom Penthouse.
Worth five minutes before you commit: the same Prestige room on the same nights was more than €700 apart between the two platforms. The hotel’s own booking engine was quoting the same two mid-January nights from around €2,245, and rates for an identical room routinely swing 10–20% between a hotel’s direct site and the platforms depending on the dates you choose and who is discounting that week. On a Courchevel room in the €2,500 bracket that spread is several hundred euros a night, so check before you book — the links are pre-filled below.
Check Saint Roch on Booking.com — the widest choice of rate plans, from room-only to B&B and half board, with free cancellation until mid-December.
Check Saint Roch on Expedia — the lower total for these dates when I checked, on fully refundable rates with breakfast included.
Trip.com had no Saint Roch listing when I checked.
How to Book
Rates start at €1,300 per night including breakfast; book via maisonspariente.com ahead of the 18 December opening. For the logistics: Geneva–Courchevel private transfer.
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