We have some friends that live & work in Val Thorens and visit every New Year. We booked the hotel quite late and were informed that it would be on a Dinner, Bed & Breakfast rate. Fine, although we would probably not dine at the hotel as we would be out with friends I was happy to pay for the dinner as the booking was made at the last minute and we informed the Hotel of this. We went to check out fairly early in the morning, around 7:30ish as we had a long drive home and we received a barrage of abuse & attitude because we had not informed them of our early (ish) departure (which we did when we checked in). This mainly came from the owners dragon of a wife who also layed in to us for not having dinner at the hotel? I informed her that we had still paid for it so they were on a winner really but she didn't see it that way. For a while they were refusing to check us out before I told them that I was going to just walk away if they didn't. The husband then grunted something... more