Opening 2030

One&Only Courchevel

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

One&Only's first address in the Alps

Courchevel 1850, France

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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.

Sofie, who runs the Fat Voyage booking desk with Nicolas

Want us to get you in when it opens?

Nothing to book yet — rates usually load a few months out. We're Sofie and Nicolas; tell us roughly what you're after and we'll come back the moment One&Only Courchevel is bookable, with rates, what the rooms are actually like, and whether we'd go in the first season.

You'll be dealing with the two of us the whole way through, which is why we only take on a handful of trips at a time — if we're full, we'll say so. We reply by email, usually within one working day. The hotel pays us, not you: your rate is the same as booking direct, and the perks come on top.

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.

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One&Only One Za'abeel

Dubai, United Arab Emirates

One&Only One Za'abeel occupies The Link, the sky-bridge building that's become one of Dubai's new skyline landmarks, and the reviews back up the claim: glass curtain walls, a suspended infinity pool, suites that look over the whole city. What you're actually paying for, though, is the front desk. Kareem turns up by name more than almost anyone else in this batch, greeting guests with Arabic coffee and dates and somehow making a five-star check-in feel personal rather than choreographed. Doormen (Duncan, Dominic, Ramadan), housekeeping (Bijay, Telanie), and restaurant staff who talk a full-up Andaliman into finding a table all get named for the same reason: they solve a problem rather than just smile through it. The building sits in One Za'abeel, near Downtown but boxed in by the interchange it's built over, and at least one repeat Dubai guest found it genuinely inconvenient to get to anywhere else from. The service is close to unanimous, but the operational seams show up too: one guest was promised a dining credit that turned out not to apply anywhere they could use it, and a manager who said he'd follow up never did. Worth flagging plainly rather than burying it. Book it for the architecture and the people at the desk, not for a base that puts you five minutes from the rest of the city. Anyone cross-shopping against the Lana or the Delano should know this one wins on staff and loses a little on getting around; if the skyline view and the pool matter more than proximity, nothing else in Dubai's new crop touches it.

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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, who anticipated requests before they were asked, or Zaza, or Elton at the Vista Bar. One guest mentioned liking the spa's carrot cake in passing and had a whole one delivered to her room that evening. Another had a doctor in the room within thirty minutes of asking, at 10pm, prescription delivered by midnight. That's the level 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 come up often and specifically, and breakfast gets mentioned almost as much as the staff do. Price it against what long-term Cape Town residents point out: you're paying international resort rates for something closer to a very good island resort than a distinctly Cape Town stay. One 2025 guest had construction starting at 7:30am despite being promised 10 — worth asking about directly before booking. A loyalty guest in 2026 also found the upgrade flexibility didn't match what the brand promises at its other properties, which matters if repeat recognition is the reason you're picking a One&Only over 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 making you ask twice. Book this for the location, the pool and spa, and service that puts a name and a face on nearly every good thing that happens to you here.

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One&Only Mandarina

Riviera Nayarit, Mexico

The reason to book is the villas, 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, treehouse or cliff. Jetty Beach is the rare genuinely swimmable stretch on this coast, thanks to the protective jetty, and Carao gets named the standout table on property more than any other, with the fish chorizo and tacos coming up often. 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 that's the real cost here, not the bugs or the heat. Waits of 20 to 60 minutes show up routinely, even at low occupancy: one traveller waited over an hour on a Tuesday in July with the resort near 40% full, after a host had promised ten minutes. There's quietly upcharged bottled water (ask for the free filtered house water instead), a $700-an-hour jet ski, and one guest was handed a cash deposit back in pesos instead of the dollars they'd left, then charged a commission to convert it back. Staff turnover explains why service swings: one host tracked down two O&O hats for a guest who wanted souvenirs, while other shifts feel scripted and hover without actually helping. The food outside Carao is good rather than great, and the wildlife program, coatis raiding minibars, a canine unit, on-site biologists, adds a real sense of place few resorts bother with. Book it for the villas and the privacy, ideally November through February for the better weather and fewer bugs; travellers wanting steadier, more predictable service tend to end up next door at the Rosewood instead. If the cart waits or the small nickel-and-dime charges would eat at you, weigh that before you book. For the setting alone, nothing else on this coast looks like it.

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One&Only Palmilla

Los Cabos, Mexico

A junior suite with a plunge pool runs somewhere around $1,400 a night before you've ordered a drink, and the drink will be $30. What you get for it is a genuinely old property: hacienda buildings from 1956, gardens that took decades to grow in over a desert that gets seven inches of rain a year, and a beach you can actually swim at, which is rare in Cabo. The butler program is where this hotel earns its keep. People come back with stories: a star map left in a room after a stargazing conversation, a birthday cake arranged with zero notice, a maternity massage where the therapist knew exactly what was and wasn't safe. The food and drink pricing is where it gets ugly, and it's worth saying plainly: a small guacamole running $35, margaritas at $30, a $20 horchata that tastes like every other horchata. That's on top of room rates that already sit at the top of the Cabo market. Housekeeping has real gaps too. One guest got a soaked, mildewed duvet re-covered with a dry blanket instead of replaced. Another spent 36 hours chasing down drinking water because there's no bottle station or shop on property. The service can be extraordinary and inconsistent in the same week, and the standard seems to depend heavily on which staff member you draw and whether you booked through a travel advisor. Families do well here: there's a real kids club, a family pool with a splash zone and zero-entry that beats the adult pool for space, and a beach walk that's quiet even in season. Couples looking for old-school Mexican grandeur over a newer, glossier build will get exactly that. If your priority is swimmable water and a hotel that feels lived-in rather than freshly built, book it for the beach and the gardens.

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