Your Perfect Week

You are feeling rather chuffed with yourself. It has only taken a month of pinning down your eldest son, making sure that your youngest’s annual school ski trip doesn’t coincide and ensuring that your non-skier parents and in-laws will be happy. You have the family secured and now it’s time to secure your perfect place to stay.

That sounds like quite a list you apprehensively query. Doubt not, you know that your friends in high places will have just the place with your name on it. Verbier’s Chalet Ivouette. Welcome home.

Ivouette is located just a few minutes’ walk from the main Rue de Médran in Verbier. Not only are you close to all the bars and restaurants but also to the main Médran lift station. I can see your shoulders relaxing already.

Perfect for large family gatherings, there is a combination of twin and double rooms all with en-suite shower or bathrooms. Squabbles over bedroom sharing are a thing of the past. I can see the look of relief washing over your face. For you, we have reserved the beautiful master, peacefully furnished in cream and wood, complete with French windows opening onto the upstairs terrace. I can see you sinking onto the end of your bed. The children have found the snug and you have found peace.

Upstairs the fire is crackling. It’s hard to pick which out of the two inviting seating areas to collapse into. Your eye catches the bar that separates the kitchen and dining area. Stocked with the finest selection of house wines, complimentary beers and soft drinks and two bottles of house spirits, you know where you’re having canapés this evening.

With your phone switched to silent, happy laughter resonating from downstairs and plump snowflakes landing on the balcony, your favourite time of the year has just arrived.