France
7 ranked
hotels in Courchevel
12 MICHELIN Keys · 1 Forbes Five Star · 0 World's 50 Best placings
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Seven ranked palaces at the top of the Trois Vallées
Courchevel has 7 hotels ranked in the finehotels.world index. Cheval Blanc Courchevel leads on prestige score at 6.78 out of 10, followed by Le K2 Palace and Aman Le Melezin. Of those, 6 hold MICHELIN Keys, 1 hold a Forbes Five Star rating, 1 are rated by La Liste.
Courchevel holds the densest concentration of very high-end alpine hotels in France: seven ranked properties, two of them at the three-Key level, the strongest showing of any destination in this batch outside safari country. Almost all sit in Courchevel 1850, the highest and most developed of the resort's linked villages.
Cheval Blanc Courchevel began as a private LVMH family chalet before opening to guests and remains the reference point. Le K2 Palace and Le K2 Djola belong to the same locally owned family group on the Cospillot slope, Aman Le Melezin sits directly on the Bellecôte piste, and L'Apogée Courchevel commands the Jardin Alpin above the altiport. Airelles Les Airelles reworks its Austro-Hungarian pastiche facade each season.
| Hotel | Prestige | Distinctions | |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Cheval Blanc Courchevel3 Keys · La Liste · 36 rooms | 6.78 | 3 MICHELIN Keys; La Liste 98.0 |
| 2 | Le K2 Palace3 Keys · 29 rooms | 6.64 | 3 MICHELIN Keys |
| 3 | Aman Le Melezin2 Keys · 31 rooms | 5.99 | 2 MICHELIN Keys |
| 4 | L'Apogée Courchevel2 Keys · 55 rooms | 5.99 | 2 MICHELIN Keys |
| 5 | Annapurna1 Key · 67 rooms | 5.20 | 1 MICHELIN Key |
| 6 | Le K2 Djola1 Key · 24 rooms | 5.20 | 1 MICHELIN Key |
| 7 | Airelles Courchevel, Les AirellesForbes | 5.07 | Forbes Five Star |
Prestige score is shown out of 10. Sources: MICHELIN Guide hotel selection, Forbes Travel Guide 2026 Star Awards, The World’s 50 Best Hotels 2023 to 2025, La Liste Top 1000 Hotels.
Courchevel 1850 concentrates the palaces, split between the Jardin Alpin above the village, the Cospillot and Nogentil slopes, and the central Rue du Rocher; the lower villages of Moriond, Village and Le Praz keep the same lift access with a quieter, more Savoyard streetscape.
The season runs from mid-December to mid-April, with Christmas, New Year and February school holidays the tightest fortnights in the Alps; early December and the final weeks of March and April offer the same snow with far more space.
By prestige score, the three highest ranked hotels in Courchevel are Cheval Blanc Courchevel, Le K2 Palace, Aman Le Melezin. The score is a composite of MICHELIN Keys, Forbes Travel Guide Five Star ratings, placements in The World's 50 Best Hotels for 2023, 2024 and 2025, and La Liste's hotel ratings. finehotels.world tracks 7 award holding hotels in Courchevel in total.
Courchevel has 6 hotels holding MICHELIN Keys in this index, of which 2 hold the top rating of three Keys and 2 hold two Keys.
Each hotel is scored on a fixed formula built only from award facts, then shown on a scale of 5.00 to 10.00. MICHELIN Keys carry the most weight, a Forbes Travel Guide Five Star rating adds a flat six points, placements in The World's 50 Best Hotels for 2023, 2024 and 2025 are weighted equally, and a La Liste rating moves the total slightly. Nothing a hotel supplies about itself enters the score, and the full formula is published on the methodology page so any figure in the table can be reproduced from the awards beside it.
The season runs from mid-December to mid-April, with Christmas, New Year and February school holidays the tightest fortnights in the Alps; early December and the final weeks of March and April offer the same snow with far more space.
Courchevel 1850 concentrates the palaces, split between the Jardin Alpin above the village, the Cospillot and Nogentil slopes, and the central Rue du Rocher; the lower villages of Moriond, Village and Le Praz keep the same lift access with a quieter, more Savoyard streetscape.