Apartamentos Grifovacances Tres Estrelles Club

Very Good
Traveller Type:
  : nice, clean and modern
  : hot water running out

Pleasant
Traveller Type:
  : Close to the lift
  : Everything in the kitchen was dirty, beds uncomfortable, had to clean before leaving.Where to start...You can hear the neighbours upstairs and theres constantly moving furniture for some reason late into the night. Its very loud and impossible to sleep through without ear plugs. You can also hear peoples conversations through the walls. There is no place to store your ski gear so you have to carry it up the stairs and through your apartment to the balcony making the floor wet as you go. The room itself is pretty rundown. In a double room you get a bunk bed, which is very hard, and a sofa bed that is unusable for sleeping. The hot water doesnt last long enough to fill up the bathtub. Theres no space to put any of your stuff like helmets and bags. Everything had to go on the floor basically. You would definitely not get more than two people into a room for 3-4 as theres just not enough space to put your things. There was a constant cold wind coming in under the door from the balcony making it very cold, especially during the night. We managed to prevent this by placing our skibags in front of the door but we could then not access the balcony very easily and stored our ski gear in the bathroom instead.You have to make your beds yourself and clean the apartment spotless before leaving or they charge you a cleaning fine. This was not mentioned anywhere on the site during booking (Ive checked afterwards online but no mention of it) and was told to us when we arrived, which was quite frustrating since we had to leave quite early and didnt want to vacuum and mop at 6am.Theres no furniture on the balcony so you cant really use it.Tv is very small and far away from the couch with bad sound.The area wifi does not work at all.No shower holder so have to hand held showerEverything in the kitchen was very poorly cleaned and felt oily. We had to clean everything before usingWe would definitely not stay here again and would not recommend.

Pleasant
Traveller Type:

Very Good
Traveller Type:
  : The proximity to the slopes, the fact that it was a decent size for where it was.
  : Nothing about the apartment was unlikeable, just I think people smoking in the corridors of the building was not acceptable

Good
Traveller Type: Family with Young Children
  : The location is very close to the skilifts of Pas de la Casa, the apartment is well equipped
  : The wifi connection wasnt very stable, the sofasleeper was broken and couldnt be closed to use it as a sofa, the kids bunk bed was only separated from the main room with a curtain and the warm water depends on a water tank and once its used up, one has to wait for a while until it refills and warm water is available again. The walls to the adjacent apartments are very thin, so if you have noisy neighbors, its very loud. Long line at the checkin process in order to receive keys and instructions. It is impossible to park in Pas de la casa and very annoying to do so (9,50 in coinsneeded every day to park in the street)

Wonderful
Traveller Type: Family with Young Children
  : Very strong smell of a dog on 3rd floor

Good
Traveller Type:
  : location

Pleasant
Traveller Type: Traveling as Couple

Very Good
Traveller Type: Solo Traveler
  : The key collection was at an office right next to our aparment block, with the staff being very helpful. The apartment overlooked the Gondola lift and was a very short walk to the Ski School access to the slopes. The apartment had good facilities and was clean, possibly more facilities than was needed for a single occupancy short stay, but would certainly be useful for longer visit.
  : We had a little difficulty getting through the apartment block's front door, as the code we had been given was incorrect (one digit wrong) but we got help from other residents... Some of the electric heating was not working in the apartment, which was not too much of a problem, as it was not particularly cold outside (visit to the office gave some help, it seems the electric radiator had been turned off on it's main power switch, which was not easily visible).

Very Good
Traveller Type: Traveling as Couple
  : The key collection was at an office right next to our apartment block, with the staff being very helpful. The apartment overlooked the Gondola lift and was a very short walk to the Ski School access to the slopes. The apartment had good facilities, some nice decor and was clean. Possibly more facilities than was needed for a short stay as ours, but would certainly be useful for longer visits, especially if you wanted to cook and eat in. Our apartment had a small double-glazed conservatory type construction after the doors that led out on to the "terrace". It would have made a useful storage for ski gear, if we hadn't used the block's ski locker room (which worked well). But possibly the most useful aspect of the extra set of double-glazed doors on the terrace end, was that it provided extra sound insulation from the outside noise (mainly the night time beeping of the piste bashers) which the apartment next door, where our friend was staying, did not have.
  : Not a lot really - so these are pretty much all I could say that could be better. The "hidden" light switch for the main room lights (over the sofa-bed). We looked, what we thought was pretty much everywhere, but not behind the toaster - and only after the reception staff gave us a clue that it might be behind a kitchen top appliance (genuinely, they were very helpful). The ROCA bathroom suite/shower cubical is of "interesting" design. The sink mixer tap has a sensor operated on-off arrangement, which turns on OK with the nearby wave of your hand (sometimes even if you didn't mean to turn it on) but getting it to turn off is something of a learned skill. Maybe it was just us, but it took a couple of days to master-ish the tap. The shower cubical fittings (fittings is not really descriptive of the major installation of moulded plastic, jets, hoses and controls) and while it can most likely jet water at you in every way you'd ever want to, it takes up a lot of space that would be useful for the person in the shower. It's not a major problem, as the shower works and gets you wet, but possible more form over function (but funky it is). And lastly, we did not find the apartment info pack till our last day. Possibly don't tidy it away at the back of a storage cubby hole in an otherwise empty cabinet, maybe leave it on the top? Again, very minor things in an otherwise lovely place to stay.