Opening Winter 2028

Raffles

Raffles Courchevel 1850

Name: Raffles Courchevel 1850
Address: Courchevel 1850, France

Raffles' first Alpine resort, in the Jardin Alpin precinct of Courchevel 1850.

Courchevel 1850, France

First look

Raffles is moving into the Alps for the first time with a 50-room resort in Courchevel 1850, set in the Jardin Alpin precinct of Les Trois Vallees. A May 2026 Accor announcement revised the timing to the 2028 winter season, so this is a longer wait than the brand's Red Sea and NEOM projects.

It is listed on the official Opening Soon page, which gives it more standing than a pure announcement. The build is small at 50 keys, which fits the chalet end of Courchevel rather than a big-box ski hotel. What we will be watching for is whether Raffles can hold its grand-hotel identity at that scale in a market already crowded with serious alpine luxury, and whether the 2028 date holds after one revision.

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

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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.

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What you can book today

Raffles Courchevel 1850 is still under wraps. Here's what's already open and scored in our collection — more from Raffles, and nearby in France.

Fat Favorite

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Le Royal Monceau - Raffles Paris

Paris, France

Most Paris palace hotels compete on gilt; this one competes on personality. Philippe Starck's redesign, with its 350-plus pieces of art scattered through the public spaces and rooms, gives the place a genuinely offbeat, gallery-like feel nothing else in the 8th attempts. One guest's deluxe room came with a giant mirrored bathroom and an Eiffel Tower sightline from the sitting area; another spent a jet-lagged first night being gently lectured by the turndown attendant to lock up her passport, which says something about the kind of care on offer here. The concierge team gets named and re-named by guests who keep coming back: Karla built a first-timer's itinerary around three tight days in Paris, and Mélinée comped a suite night after a rough previous stay. The people are why guests rebook, not the incidental nice touch. The building is where the price starts to wobble. Reports running into 2026 describe an AC problem needing several technician visits before a room change fixed it, a sewage smell and a damaged wall in another room, and a general sense that the fixtures don't always match the rate. First-floor rooms catch bar noise until midnight, and the front door goes unmanned often enough that guests mention coming and going unnoticed. The concierge, for all the goodwill, can be slow on basics: one simple restaurant confirmation took five days to come back. Matsuhisa gets real praise for the room and the staff, but more than one diner found the menu thin for the price; breakfast and Le Bar Long, snacks and all, get closer to universal approval. Book this one for the people and the art, not for flawless upkeep. If you want a spotless, predictable room over a hotel with an actual point of view, that's a fair preference and this isn't the address for it. For most people who've done the other Paris palaces and found them interchangeable, this is the one that stops feeling like a hotel.

Fat Favorite

Raffles

Raffles Singapore

Singapore, Singapore

Book Raffles for the all-suite rooms and the staff who seem to have been doing this since 1887. That's the pattern across nearly every recent stay: a doorman named Narendra greeting returning guests by name after a single day out, a butler covering a cash-only cab fare when a card failed, hot honey-lemon water arriving for a hoarse guest before anyone asked. The 2019 restoration keeps earning the same praise: soaring ceilings, period furnishings, bathrooms as large as the bedroom, and it reads as restored rather than staged. Breakfast comes up constantly as the best meal of the trip, the mee goreng singled out often enough that it isn't a fluke. That's not the whole stay, though. Pre-arrival emails go unanswered for weeks — one guest waited three weeks just to confirm a room location, with nothing back. Check-in has produced real misses: wrong suite categories, guests left waiting past 3pm with a manager's apology and no follow-up after. And there's an uncomfortable, recurring thread of guests in casual dress being challenged about whether they belong on property — one traveller says it happened four separate times in a single stay. That's not a bad afternoon; it's frequent enough that you should assume it could happen to you too, whatever you're wearing. The Tiffin Room splits opinion every time: a gorgeous room, food that lands well for some and falls flat for others. If what you want is the history, the courtyards, and staff who remember your drink order by day two, this still beats Fullerton Bay for that particular feeling, and it's worth the price for it. If you're travelling casually and don't want to explain yourself to a doorman, price that risk in before you book, not after.

Fat Favorite

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Raffles Udaipur

Udaipur, India

Book Raffles Udaipur for the island itself, not just the Raffles name on the door. It sits on its own patch of Udai Sagar, reached by a short dhow boat crossing, and almost every recent guest writes about the same thing before anything else: staff who remember a kid's food allergy, an anniversary, a father's retirement, and act on it. Named staff show up constantly and specifically — Gaurav upgrading a couple to a private pool room after learning it was a celebration, a housekeeping manager named Satya walking a lost family 40 minutes back to the property on his own time, off shift. That's the kind of detail a script doesn't produce. The building earns its own case: colonial-trader-estate architecture, lake views from most rooms, and enough going on (archery, pottery, birdwatching, a nightly Rajasthani show) that several guests say they never left the island and didn't miss the old city. Chef Ranchhod's Rajasthani menu at Sawai gets called out by name more than once, dishes and all. The trade-off is the buffet, which more than one guest flags as repetitive across a multi-night stay, and one detailed account from July 2026 describes a front-desk and restaurant team that walked past guests without acknowledging them and left a tea service without napkins — a real miss, and worth knowing about, though it sits against a much larger stack of specific, glowing service reports naming staff by name, week after week. This isn't a hotel for people who want to walk out the door into old Udaipur; it's for people who want the island to be the whole trip. Families and honeymooners get the most out of it, based on what's written here. Book it for the staff and the setting, and let the boat ride be part of the arrival.

Fat Legend

Cheval Blanc

Cheval Blanc Courchevel

Courchevel, France

This is the hotel people go back to every year on purpose, not out of habit. Guests who've done the full circuit of Cheval Blanc properties around the world single out Courchevel as the favorite, and the reason is specific: it's not just a beautiful building on a slope, it's a building that runs like a machine built entirely around getting you out the door and back in again. Ski boots come off at the entrance and slippers go on before you've said a word. The ski room team clocks you coming down the mountain and has your gear ready before you've caught your breath. The food is where the picture splits. Le 1947, Yannick Alléno's three-star, is treated as close to essential by people who plan whole trips around it, meat-forward and technically serious. But the hotel's grill drew a sharp complaint about a €95 filet arriving with nothing on the plate and a €20 side that tasted like fast food, with the same guest pointing across town at a restaurant doing more for half the price. Nobody disputes the staff, even there: the same review that hated the value called the service across the board kind and professional. The spa, a Guerlain, gets treatment rooms with a slope view and a team that finds room for you even when the book is full. Book it for the ski-in, ski-out setup and the level of care that has people rebooking a year out, sometimes literally waiting a year for a room. Go in expecting Courchevel pricing throughout, including a grill that doesn't always earn its menu, and eat at Le 1947 at least once while you're there.

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