Chalet Les Hirondelles has everything we require - amazing views, ski in/ski out, apres ski jacuzzi and steam room, log burning fire and a kitchen which has fondue, racklette etc. This was a five star experience from the beautifully furnished rooms, chalet manager (Christophe) who overlooked the chalet to the breathtaking views from the balcony. We have already booked out holiday at Les Hirondelles for 2019/2020!

Chalet Les Hirondelles has everything we require - amazing views, ski in/ski out, apres ski jacuzzi and steam room, log burning fire and a kitchen which has fondue, racklette etc. This was a five star experience from the beautifully furnished rooms, chalet manager (Christophe) who overlooked the chalet to the breathtaking views from the balcony. We have already booked out holiday at Les Hirondelles for 2019/2020!

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We had a wonderful holidays in September in Switzerland and we enjoyed our stay at Les Hirondelles chalet. We were a family with small children 2 and 5 years old and grandparents.We arrived at the chalet after a long trip and found it clean and inviting. The house is very safe and comfortable for staying with a small children.The house is fully equipped the furniture, the kitchen, the bathrooms are made in high standard. The owners Ian and Denese very nice people and I have got a full information about the chalet and what we can do during our vacation .Ian answered me immediately for all my questions. So it was very comfortable to correspond with him. I will also agree with all reviewers and descriptions of the chalet from other guests. I highly recommend this chalet. We are looking forward to come back for winter holidays. Yana and family.

We had a wonderful holidays in September in Switzerland and we enjoyed our stay at Les Hirondelles chalet. We were a family with small children 2 and 5 years old and grandparents.We arrived at the chalet after a long trip and found it clean and inviting. The house is very safe and comfortable for staying with a small children.The house is fully equipped the furniture, the kitchen, the bathrooms are made in high standard. The owners Ian and Denese very nice people and I have got a full information about the chalet and what we can do during our vacation .Ian answered me immediately for all my questions. So it was very comfortable to correspond with him. I will also agree with all reviewers and descriptions of the chalet from other guests. I highly recommend this chalet. We are looking forward to come back for winter holidays. Yana and family.

We have just come back from 5 days at the chalet, Les Hirondelles, and we had a fabulous time. The chalet itself is extremely comfortable and very well appointed. It has that special combination of being homely but incredibly functional: clearly a lot of care and thought has gone into designing and furnishing Les Hirondelles and nothing has been overlooked. We were in Villars to do some walking and the chalet was well located for this. The area caters for all levels of walks and hikes and everything is extremely well sign-posted. Generally we would go out in the mornings and have lunch at one of the mountain restaurants recommended before heading back to the chalet to recuperate and take in the stunning views over the valley from the chalet balcony. We would unhesitatingly recommend Les Hirondelles to anyone looking to spend summer days walking in Switzerland. You could spend the entire summer there and still not get through all that is on offer in terms of walking, biking, swimming and, of course, eating. Useful information for all of these is provided at the chalet and the owners were extremely helpful when it came to the complicated rules of recycling in Switzerland. We would love to go back!

Absolutely enjoyed our week long stay at Les Hirondelles chalet and would highly-recommend it. Plenty of room and space for our family of eight (six adult 'kids') to play, relax, cook, and make some great memories together. Ah, the view - which is stunning - and then it gets turned up yet anther notch by the surprise double-rainbows and the magnificent sunsets, the cows and their harmonious bells in the distance and a sky full of stars. Really special. Great hikes to Travayenne, Solalex, mountain biking, visits to the new Bains de Villars, the bakery in Barboleuse, Le Table restaurant and nostalgic day-trips to Vevey, Gruyere, Fribourg and Interlaken/Thun. Our second to last day also coincided with the Vaud wine festival and Marché Artisinal which was so much fun. Transaction and communications with the owners and property manager were smooth and efficient.

Another wonderful visit for half term with my family to Les Hirondelles in Villars (see Taline F. review). This year was extra special, for the first time we navigated our way down the mountain as a family of 5. Given we are avid skiers this was a BIG milestone. When this feat is considered in combination with the familiar luxury and comfort the chalet it amounted to our best holiday ever. L'Etable is still a fantastic restaurant, the pistes are still extensive and well groomed, the post-ski hot tub and sauna get more necessary every year and the view from the sitting room still takes the breath away. I cannot recommend this chalet more highly.

Amazing. I have already booked for next year

As a family we have skied in many resorts and stayed in many chalets. Chalet Les Hirondelles if by far the very best we have ever stayed at. Firstly it has the most unbelievable view from every window. It is decorated with huge style and comfort and has a wonderful friendly feel to it ... a little like being in ones own home. All the bedrooms are of a fantastic size with their own immaculate and up to date bathrooms. The kitchen is equipped with everything you will need and more. The open plan living room with central fireplace is stunning and works so well as an entertaining space and equally well as a space to sit and read your book while looking at that view! If you have children their is a great games room, TV/snug room and a wonderful hot tub - we couldn't get our children out of this! It is located just off the slopes so makes for the perfect start and end to your skiing day. I highly recommend a stay at Chalet Les Hirondelles - you will never want to stay anywhere else again!

We have just returned from a week at Les Hirondelles, and wished we could have stayed longer. This chalet really is superb. It is spacious, well laid out, excellent facilities, very tastefully decorated, a real luxury experience. The views from the chalet are stunning and really help you unwind. There is plenty to do and see in the area. We enjoyed trips on a mountain railway from nearby Villars, a trip to Montreux and Vevey on lake Geneva, an excursion to a spa bath (there are several to choose from) and the cable car from nearby Barboleuse up to Les Chaux. We also hiked a few times out of the chalet and up to Les Chaux where you will find a cafe with a terrace that we just loved. We would love to return to this place, and without question would try and stay again at Les Hirondelles. You will not be disappointed.

Over the last 6 years we have visited Villars for our half term ski holiday and I am yet to see or hear of a better chalet in which to spend a week with the family. The resort itself is all one would expect of a premier Swiss ski town but all the while maintaining a unique charm and character. Les Hirondelles matches such a setting with consummate ease, not only does it have charm and character but an understated yet immediately apparent feeling of luxury and style. The layout of the chalet makes it ideal for larger or smaller groups wheteher they are feeling social or looking for post-piste downtime. There are light and airy double bedrooms with en suite bathrooms, an open plan kitchen, dining room and sitting room that has a communal yet spacious feel with a cosy log fireplace as a centrepiece. This room enjoys the everchanging and inspiring views to the mountains as seen in the photographs. This year I felt the benefits of the sauna and hot tub bath after a day on Villars' scenic slopes (growing older!), the children enjoyed winding down in the TV room, slouching on beanbags with a DVD on the widescreen television. The owners Denese and Ian can accomodate most requests and this year recommended an excellent restaurant (L'Etable) for lunch - it was delicous and a short ski from the house. We had 6 days of blue sky skiing as well! Les Hirondelles is impossible to fault.

We arrived at the chalet, after a long tiring drive. The chalet was clean and inviting.The cupboards were stocked with tea, coffee, milk etc which was very much appreciated. Our party consisted of skiers and non skiers aged from 6 to 66.The ski area is extensive and suitable for skiers of different abilities. There are 2 runs out of the chalet .The first involves a shortish walk uphill, then a gentle downhill ski to the chairlift. The other route is a short walk downhill onto the piste that now leads directly to the gondola station. (Previously the piste terminated in the village square, some distance from the gondola) The ski back to the chalet involves either a shortish downhill walk from the piste or a very short off piste run to within meters of the chalet door. For the non skiers, a 5minute drive to Barboleuse or 10 minutes to Villars gave access to a variety of mountain restaurants via the gondola and venicular. The chalet is tastefully furnished with attention given to comfort. The beds were comfortable and the on suites all had baths, which were appreciated at the end of a long day ski-ing. The kitchen is well equipped with everything one needs to cook for a large party of ten.There is a TV room with sofa and bean bags where the children would chill out and enjoy a film or their favourite TV programme. ( All UK freeview channels plus innumerable Swiss/French/German channels)The lounge is comfortable with a lovely log fire in the middle of the room. Everyone enjoyed the amenities the chalet had to offer, including the spa and sauna. We also enjoyed the New Year celebrations. We all stayed up until 1o'clock watching the fireworks in all the surrounding mountain villages and down in the valley. Spectacular! Can't wait to go back!

We loved our week in this beautiful chalet. We came in the summer for a week of walking, hiking and biking and we managed to do all of that in the surrounding area. The chalet exceeded our expectations - it is huge and the kids loved having so much to space to spread out in. The chalet is very well kitted out and had everything we needed for a week of self-catering. There is a great bike shop down in La Babalouse where you can rent bikes for the day and they have excellent biking maps (sorry, meant to leave ours in the villa for other guests but forgot). So much to do here in the summer and it is truly beautiful to sit out on the large terrace and watch the sunset. We will return....Owner was incredibly helpful and responsive.

Luxus-Chalet für bis zu 10 Personen in Traumlage und mit Traumaussicht in unmittelbarer Pistennähe in den Höhen von Barboleuse. Für uns perfekt, da man nach ein paar Metern Fussmarsch direkt ins Skigebiet gelangt, ohne zur Talstation abfahren zu müssen. Abfahrt bis direkt zum Chalet. Das moderne und sehr geschmackvoll ausgestattete Chalet bietet neben den 5 Schlafzimmern und 5 Bädern einen grosszügigen Wohn-Ess-Bereich, eine grosse gut ausgestattete Küche, ein Fernseh-, ein Spiel- und ein Arbeitszimmer und als besonderes Highlight einen Spabereich mit Jacuzzi und Sauna. Auch bei unserem dritten Aufenthalt hat uns das Chalet wieder begeistert und der Kontakt mit dem Eigentümer war wie immer sehr angenehm und unkompliziert.

The chalet offers everything one needs for a hassle-free and relaxing ski get-away; accommodations are modern and clean, amenities abound, and there is ample room for families. Location is spectacular overlooking a snowy valley and the Alps. Convenient to the piste and nightlife. Cannot be faulted. Mimi & Ned, London

Je n'ai jamais loué un bien avec de telles conditions. Les propriétaires sont charmants et tout est prévu pour que le séjour se passe au mieux. Les équipements de la maison sont plus que parfaits et l'on se sent comme chez soi. N'hésitez pas à réserver votre séjour, vous ne serez pas déçu ! Valérie, France

This is a stunning chalet, as good as you can expect from the pictures and more! Light,spacious interior in all rooms,tasteful decoration, functional kitchen, play room for the children,a nice TV room to watch movies. It is 5 min drive from the village but we did not feel need to go there more than once or twice, we felt we had everything we needed in the chalet,where we could eat dinner and talk by the fireplace or enjoy the hot tub and sauna after a day on the pistes. The slopes are indeed very close; we preferred to take a car 500 m up the road and start skiing from there to the L'Etable restaurant from where a chair lift takes us to the top, or one can cross over to the slopes above Villars. We would then all ski down to the chalet and send a volunteer to walk up to the car and bring it back, thus saving walking with the ski boots which you have to do if you ski down to Barboleuse gondola. We also enjoyed walks in moon boots on the runs and paths above the chalet, very pleasant after a long dinner. The 3 young children we had with us, aged 3, 7 and 10 loved the chalet and had enough room to play without being in the way of everybody, we felt the place is safe for them and there were lots of toys and children books to keep them busy for a week. One world of advise if you don't go there with a 4x4 - take snow chains even if the car rental company charges you for winter tires- while the Swiss do clean the road , it is a challenge to go up and down after a day or more of heavy snowfall, so better be prepared. We were 3 families, of which one a couple without children and the other 2 with children ; there was enough room for all of us, we could have even fitted 1-2 more people if parts of the same families. This is a wonderful chalet and we would gladly stay there again.

We had the most fantastic Easter skiing break at this beautiful chalet. The location is stunning with outstanding mountain views from almost every room. After a fun day on the slopes, it was great to come back to such luxury...beautiful bathrooms, amazing hot-tub room and comfortable stylish bedrooms. The chalet is equipped and decorated to the highest standard and looks like it could be gracing the covers of any interiors magazine! We found it to be exceptionally clean and well maintained, with detailed inormation about everything we needed. We took our two small boys (who loved the hot tub!) and everything about the chalet was very family/child friendly, in spite of being so luxurious. The position of the chalet made ski in/ski out possible which was wonderful and we found Villars skiing to be perfect for a family skiing trip. All in all we couldn't have asked for better accommodation and we would wholly recommend it to anyone.

Only 48 hours since we left Les Hirondelles and already we are plotting our return! This chalet is truly top notch with heart-stirring views that have to be seen to be believed. The interior is just as impressive – all the facilities are fantastic and it is clear that the owners splurged on the best of the best down to the last details (as always, the little things make all the difference: fantastic shower pressure, great soundproofing between the bedrooms, strong wifi signal…). The drive from Geneva is quick & easy and Villars has everything you need for a perfect holiday without the chaotic frenzy of one of the bigger ski resorts…though honestly we were so enamoured of the views and the Jacuzzi that it was hard to drag ourselves beyond the front door. Thanks to the helpful guidance of property manager Christophe we had no trouble arranging babysitting, taxis, chefs, etc. We are eager to return in the summer months to see the region in a different light. NB: I have worked in luxury travel for many years and would not hesitate to send my most discerning clients here.