Courchevel 1550 · French Alps
Where themountainsremember you.
A converted 1932 hunting lodge. Fourteen rooms. No loyalty programmes. A cellar of eight hundred bottles.
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The Lodge
Built in 1932 as a private hunting lodge for the Vernet family, Maison Celeste passed through three generations before it quietly opened its doors to guests in 1978. Nothing significant has changed since.
We have fourteen rooms, a cellar, a fireplace that has never been cold, and a valley that looks exactly as it did when the lodge was built.
Read Our StoryAccommodation
A haven of warm timber and woven linen, with floor-to-ceiling views across the Bellecôte ridge.
The whitest room in the house. Luminous at dawn, impossibly still by night.
Named for the family who built this house. Two rooms, one fireplace, a terrace facing the Massif.
The entire top floor. A private dining room, a wood-fired sauna, and the only rooftop terrace in Courchevel 1550.
What We Offer
Wine & Gastronomy
Forty years of acquisition. A cellar of 800 bottles. Dinner for twelve, served in the cave itself. The sommelier — Jean-Paul Vernet, third-generation — pours without notes.
Mountain Experiences
A former ski champion lives in the valley. He guides guests through terrain that doesn't appear on maps. Six guests maximum per season. Early booking essential.
Breakfast Ritual
Bread baked before five. Honey from the Beaufortain. Eggs from a farm nine kilometres away. A breakfast that makes departure feel like grief.
What Guests Say
"We have stayed at Badrutt's, at Cheval Blanc, at places whose names carry weight. Maison Celeste is the only one we come back to. It doesn't try to impress you. That's the most impressive thing about it."
Isabelle M.
Paris
"The Vernet Suite felt like staying in someone's home — except that home happened to be more beautiful than any hotel room I'd encountered in thirty years of travel."
James T.
London
"They remembered how I take my coffee. On the third morning. Without my asking. That is Maison Celeste in a single detail."
Margot de V.
Geneva
