Opening 2030

One&Only

One&Only Courchevel

Name: One&Only Courchevel
Address: Courchevel 1850, France

One&Only's first address in the Alps

Courchevel 1850, France

First look

Kerzner is taking the site of the Courcheneige, the old hotel at the top of Courchevel's Jardin Alpin, and putting a One&Only on it. The Bellecôte piste runs past the door, so you ski out and ski back. In 1850 that is the whole game, and the addresses that have it have mostly been in the same hands for decades. This one came free because the Courcheneige closed.

Kerzner's announcement gives a year and a site and not much else. Rooms and suites, "an exceptionally limited collection" of private homes, a wellness floor with an indoor-outdoor wet circuit and thermal rooms, and restaurants and bars pitched at both slope-side lunch and dinner. No key count, no architect, no designer. That is normal four years out; it also means anyone quoting you a room number today is guessing.

Two things worth holding onto. It would be the group's first address in the Alps, and One&Only's resorts are almost all warm-weather places where the water is the point, so the ski operation is the part with no track record behind it. And 2030 is far enough away that the date is the least reliable fact on this page. We haven't stayed. Nobody has. There is no Fat Score here and there won't be until it opens and guests start reporting.

Not yet scored. We publish a Fat Score only once a hotel is open and real guests have stayed and written about it — this is a first look, not a verdict.

Before it opens

When does One&Only Courchevel open?

Kerzner announced it for 2030 when it unveiled the project in May 2025, and has not named a month. A five-year runway on an alpine build is long, so treat 2030 as the target rather than a date to book around.

Where exactly is it, and does it have ski-in/ski-out?

It replaces the Courcheneige hotel at the summit of the Jardin Alpin in Courchevel 1850, with direct ski-in/ski-out access to the Bellecôte slope. Room and residence counts have not been released.

Open now

What you can book today

One&Only Courchevel is still under wraps. Here's what's already open and scored in our collection — more from One&Only, and nearby in France.

Fat Favorite

One&Only

One&Only Cape Town

Cape Town, South Africa

Almost every traveller who stays at One&Only Cape Town comes home naming a specific person: Menzi, Oliver, Zaza, Elton at the Vista Bar, Melvin pouring juice at breakfast. One guest got a whole carrot cake sent to her room after mentioning she liked the spa's slice. Another had a doctor in the room within thirty minutes of asking, at 10pm, prescription delivered by midnight. That's the level of service this hotel operates at, and the setting backs it up: right at the V&A Waterfront, walkable and safe, with Table Mountain filling the view from the lobby, the rooms and the pool deck. Nobu and ROOI both get singled out specifically, and breakfast comes up almost as often as the staff do. Price it against what long-term Cape Town residents keep pointing out: you're paying international resort rates for something closer to a very good island resort than a distinctly Cape Town stay. At least one 2025 guest had construction starting at 7:30am despite being promised 10 — worth asking about directly before booking. A loyalty-tier guest in 2026 also found upgrade flexibility didn't match what the brand promises elsewhere, which matters if repeat recognition is the reason you're choosing a One&Only specifically rather than any other five-star in the city. Travellers wanting more local texture over polish tend to land at the Silo instead. None of that undercuts the case. The rooms are spacious and well kept, the pool and spa are well above what most hotels offer, and the staff solve problems, a dishwasher favor, a birthday, a bad night, without being asked twice. Book this for the location, the pool and spa, and service that keeps showing up by name, trip after trip.

Fat Approved

One&Only

One&Only Mandarina

Riviera Nayarit, Mexico

The treehouses and cliff villas are why this place is on anyone's list, and the reviews back it up: cliffside architecture cut into the jungle above the Pacific, private plunge pools, and views guests keep calling among the best they've had anywhere. Jetty Beach is the rare genuinely swimmable stretch on this coast, thanks to the protective jetty, and Carao is named the standout table on property again and again, the fish chorizo and tacos coming up often enough to trust. The setting and the villas are the reason to book, and they hold up. What you're trading for that seclusion is a property so spread out that golf carts become the whole logistics of your stay, and the wait for one runs 20 to 60 minutes on a routine basis, even at low occupancy, even after a host has promised ten minutes. One traveler waited over an hour on a Tuesday in July with the resort at 40% full; another was told a cart was "busy" after two unanswered messages. Add quietly upcharged bottled water, a $700-an-hour jet ski, and at least one guest handed back a cash deposit in pesos instead of the dollars they'd left. Staffing turnover shows up often enough in these accounts to explain the swing in service, from hosts who track down forgotten items and learn a family's drink orders to shifts that feel scripted and hover without helping. The buggy waits and the inconsistent service are the real cost here, not the bugs or the heat, which mostly come down to booking November through February, by repeated account. The food is good rather than uniformly great outside Carao, and the wildlife program (coatis raiding minibars, the canine unit, on-site biologists) adds a real sense of place few resorts bother with. Book it for the villas and the total privacy, in cooler months if you want the better version of this place; travelers wanting tighter, more predictable service tend to end up recommending the Rosewood next door instead. For the setting alone, nothing else on this coast looks like it.

Fat Favorite

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One&Only Palmilla

Los Cabos, Mexico

People come back to One&Only Palmilla year after year for one reason above all: the staff remember them. Guests describe assigned pool loungers held for the whole stay, hosts who fix a problem before it's raised, a return rate one longtime guest pegged near 50%. Add one of the only swimmable beaches in the corridor and hacienda grounds that read as genuinely decades-old rather than landscaped last season, and you understand why people who also love Las Ventanas or Four Seasons Cabo del Sol still concede Palmilla's staff are a step above. That loyalty is being asked to cover real gaps. Food and drink pricing here is aggressive even by Cabo standards — a $30 margarita and a $35 guacamole show up as complaints across several years of stays, not a single bad night. The rooms split people: some find real character in the older suites, others (usually mid-comparison with the newer Four Seasons down the road) call the bathrooms dated. Recent reports also flag spa scheduling errors and slow follow-through from management when something goes wrong, plus an odd, specific gap — no water refill station or cooler anywhere on property, so hydration outside meal service means chasing down housekeeping. Book this for the grounds and the people, not the room category or the wine list. If old-world hacienda charm and a beach you can actually swim past the shoreline on matter more than a renovated bathroom, it beats the newer competition nearby, and even guests who prefer Las Ventanas' room stock still admit Palmilla's service culture is the one to beat. Go in with a bar tab budget already decided, and book it for the staff and that beach.

Fat Approved

One&Only

One&Only Reethi Rah

North Malé Atoll, Maldives

Reethi Rah sells scale, and it delivers scale: 109 acres and twelve beaches, linked by bike paths and buggies, with a 45-minute yacht transfer from Malé that skips the seaplane circus most Maldives trips involve. Staff turn up by name across a lot of these reports: a butler who solved a middle-of-the-night health scare, a buggy driver who detoured to show a hidden beach path, a dive instructor who narrated the reef like he'd built it himself. That kind of detail is hard to invent, and it's the strongest case for booking here. The island is man-made, though, and the reef reflects it: snorkeling generally means a boat out rather than a walk off your deck, a real trade against a place like Soneva Fushi where the house reef is the point. Money mechanics are the other thing to price in. A foilboarding session billed at $730 after being told the gear was "included" isn't a one-off complaint, and daily dining credit that can't cover room service is a small but recurring irritation at these rates. One recent account also describes the rooms and pool decks as tight for the category and the service as closer to a good Caribbean resort than the rest of the Maldives luxury field, so which villa and which team you draw seems to matter. Confirm in writing what's actually included before you touch the water-sports desk, and don't expect the room itself to be the headline. Book Reethi Rah for the size of the island, the beach-to-beach variety, and staff who seem to remember you by the second day, not for the reef outside your door.

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