La Couchire is just across the road from the Fornet cable car. Walking slowly, it takes precisely 75 seconds to go from the door of the chalet, down through its cavernous shared garage and across the road to the lift station.

La Couchire's best bedrooms are among the biggest in the resort, with amazing views from the Galise, on the Italian border, to the Grande Motte, above Tignes. Most give the choice of large twin or vast double beds. Only Bedrooms 7 and 8 are typical of Val dIsere, where space is used with the skill of an agoraphobic ant.

The chalet has a superb dining room, a sitting area with a log fire just next to the dining room and a bigger sitting room downstairs, with a second log fire and a large plasma screen for DVDs.