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We are honoured that our Morzine chalets have been nominated and it would pretty much make our year if we won. It takes only 10 seconds to complete the voting process. Here is the link:http://morzinesourcemagazine.com/awards/

It’s a new dawn, a new day, a new life. Most people spend roughly half of their waking hours at work (Mon-Fri) so working for the right company in the right role is an essential ingredient for being happy. Recruiting exceptional people is the most important thing we do so…

It has always been important to me to use local ingredients whenever possible and so for one of this season’s starters, I decided that I wanted to take a typical Savoyard dish and give it fun and modern twist. You can’t get much more Savoyard than a Tartiflette which graces…

Ancient folklore says that when the fruit on the trees and plants are plentiful in summer and autumn, it is nature’s way of providing a good stash of fuel for it’s animals ahead of a cold, hard winter. And of course a cold, hard winter is a good thing for…

With 2 new Morzine chalets next year, we are going to be recruiting a bigger AliKats team, and as anyone who has stayed with us will know, our chalet hosts are EVERYTHING! So what makes a great chalet host and what do we look for? Here are our top 3…

Running your own business means you end up doing lots of varied activities. Running a chalet business is no different and one of our favourite, if infrequent activities, is doing the photoshoot when we take on a new chalet.

Following on from a really successful 1st 3 years running the current AliKats chalet in Morzine, La Ferme a Jules, we are delighted to announce we will be taking on 2 more Morzine chalets next year. 

Our 4-day intense deep clean comes to an end tomorrow and we will be handing the keys to the chalet back to the owner for the summer. 

Spring has sprung here in Morzine: the birds are singing, the sky is blue and our chalet guests are enjoying a summer holiday and winter holiday in one! Sure, the slushy snow towards the end of the day can be a bit tricky to ski on but having a long…

When you work in a seasonal business, the periods where you are in-season are usually very intense and running a chalet in Morzine is no different.

After a fairly shaky start in January, the season in Morzine has been going from strength to strength and each week has been better than the last….

For the last 24 hours it has been dumping down with snow and it looks like there is more snow to come this week. 

We are so excited to be able to introduce this year’s team: Abi, Jay, Leo & Lian.

At AliKats, we’re all about building solid, long-term partnerships that are win-win for both parties. When both parties feel like they are getting something positive from a partnership, it forms great relationships and helps provide customers with great value for money and fantastic customer service.

As we come to the end of our 1st week in the AliKats chalet, we thought we’d quickly take stock of what’s happened before the Christmas ski season starts in earnest! Our top 3 highlights have been…

When Kat said to me she was going to be offering a 6-course menu for a special AliKats New Year’s Eve dinner, I sarcastically replied: “6 is too easy. Do 7”. So she did.

The start of this season in Avoriaz has been unbelievable for snow and as we started 2012, it was the best snow on New Year’s week since the turn of the century! So, we thought we’d compare it to 4 of Europe’s other big resorts (Meribel, Val d’Isere, Kitzbuhel and…

This week marks the half way point of the season, as well as UK half term which is our busiest week of the year. And with 27 in the chalet this week (and still feeling surprisingly spacious), we thought we’d take a few minutes to summarise the 1st half of…

If you haven’t done it before, spring skiing is something very special and this year, with 270cm of snow still in Avoriaz, is going to be pretty special. Here are some crude maths to prove this:

After two ski seasons of chalet hosting, I was surprised by the number of guests staying each week who were on restricted diets because of food sensitivities or intolerances. It turns out at that I shouldn’t have been surprised at all as research shows that 1-2% of the UK population…