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A design lodge in unshowy La Thuile, built in 2014 as one family's memorial and renewed by another — 55 rooms, a serene spa, and 160 km of two-nation skiing.
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A complimentary 30 minute spa treatment for 2 people (between 9.00 and 15.00)
Need To Know
- 55 rooms and suites, most with balconies or terraces to the mountains; Duplexes suit families, the Exclusive Suite tops the ladder
- Our Favourite Rooms: ask for the mountainside, away from the road — the views improve, and the quiet is total
- ERRE Spa entry is quota-controlled for calm; couples treatment rooms; book slots ahead in season
- Bistrò Alpino serves Aosta Valley cooking through the day; breakfast in the double-height mezzanine room
- Families and pets welcome; indoor play area
- Free shuttle to the lifts (about 400 m); village centre 300 m
- Free parking at the lodge
Check in - Check out
Check in from 14:00; check out before 12:00.
We Love
- La Thuile itself — the Aosta Valley's quiet one: an old mining village turned serious ski town, minutes from Courmayeur's glamour but priced and paced like the mountains used to be.
- The skiing — one pass covers the Espace San Bernardo's 160 km across two countries, long Italian cruisers linking to La Rosière over the Little St Bernard, affordable heliski beyond; a free shuttle runs to the lifts.
- The ERRE Spa — indoor pool, outdoor heated jacuzzi, sauna, Turkish bath and vitarium, with admissions capped so it stays genuinely calm; the Ayurvedic treatments are the insiders' pick.
- The design — Italian contemporary furniture against Valdostan timber, a double-height restaurant, an open fire in the lobby, and rooms with balconies, curated books and mountain light.
- Ottavio's — craft beers, proper cocktails and the après-ski dehors, named for the father in whose memory the house was first built; the name survived the change of hands.
Key Features
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€221.80 for 1 Night
Location
Address
Località Arly, 87, 11016 La Thuile, Italy
Travel Info
Geneva and Turin airports are each about 1h45 by car, over the Mont Blanc tunnel or up the Aosta motorway; free parking at the lodge. The village centre is 300 m, the lifts 400 m with a free shuttle, and Courmayeur 20 minutes' drive.
Nearby Places
Turin Airport
157km
Geneva Airport
36km
Last Updated: 2026-06-04
Expert Review
Origins
The lodge began as a memorial. Ottavio Quattrocchi, an Italian businessman who had spent four decades in Asia, returned home with the idea of building something singular in the shadow of Mont Blanc, and chose La Thuile — the Aosta Valley's quiet, unglamorous ski village on the Little St Bernard road. He did not live to see it open: his children Massimo, Anna and Mirella completed the hotel in 2014 as Nira Montana, putting their father's memory into its details. The purpose-built lodge gave the village its first design hotel — Italian contemporary furniture against local timber, glass to the peaks, a spa worth the altitude.
The house has since changed hands, acquired by R Collection, the family-owned Italian group, and renamed Montana Lodge & Spa — but the bar is still called Ottavio's. The new owners kept the founder's name on the door where the evening gathers, which says something about how the place understands itself: a building with one family's love in its bones and another's stewardship on its books.
La Thuile repays the decision. At 1,441 metres on the French border, the village keeps an old mining and military past, a World Cup downhill, and lift access to the Espace San Bernardo — 160 kilometres of cross-border skiing shared with La Rosière — without Courmayeur's prices or its parade. The lodge sits 300 metres from the centre: close enough for the village, calm enough for the spa.
Top Secret
The QC Terme thermal baths at Pré-Saint-Didier — Roman-rooted, steaming outdoor pools facing Mont Blanc — are five miles down the road, and Courmayeur's Skyway rotating cable car is twenty minutes away: the two best off-piste afternoons in the Aosta Valley, both an easy run from the lodge.
The Review
La Thuile is the Aosta Valley for people who dislike fuss, and the Montana Lodge is its natural address. The drive in — under two hours from Geneva or Turin — ends at a long contemporary building of timber and glass that manages the alpine trick of feeling both designed and warm: an open fire in the lobby, Valdostan wood panelling against clean Italian furniture, curated books in the bedrooms and mountain views from most of the balconies. Ask for the mountainside and the quiet is complete.
Days divide by season but pivot on the same two assets. In winter the free shuttle covers the 400 metres to the lifts, and one pass opens the Espace San Bernardo: long, uncrowded cruisers on the Italian side, the swoop over the Little St Bernard into France, serious freeride between, and some of the Alps' most accessible heliski above. In summer the same lifts serve hikers and bikers, with the staff's route advice worth taking. Either way the afternoon ends at the ERRE Spa — pool, outdoor jacuzzi steaming against the cold, sauna, Turkish bath and vitarium — kept calm by capped admissions, with Ayurvedic treatments that send people out horizontal.
Evenings run from Ottavio's — craft beer, a proper negroni, the après crowd thawing on the dehors — to Bistrò Alpino's Aosta Valley table: local cheeses, seasonal cooking, a wine list that respects the region, all under the double-height ceiling where breakfast earns its own paragraph in most guests' reviews. The lodge's case is simple: five-star design and a serious spa, in the one Mont Blanc village that never learned to show off.
