Six Senses Residences Courchevel celebrates a decade at the top
Six Senses Residences Courchevel opens the 2025–2026 winter season with a renewed focus on longevity, privacy and community, where home, health and heritage converge. Before Courchevel 1850 became the playground of jet-set skiers and snow-dusted soirées, Six Senses carved its own quiet summit in the French Alps. A decade later, the alpine sanctuary still defines what it means to live well and deeply at altitude.
This season marks ten years at the top with the launch of the Longevity & Performance Programme for optimal body alignment on and off the slopes, alongside an exclusive PAPER London capsule collection that blends fashion, style and alpine living in a shared story of conscious luxury. The season also introduces the Dual Ski experience, allowing non-skiers to glide the same run, side by side.
Home – The art of alpine living
Six Senses Residences Courchevel remains the quiet constant of Courchevel 1850, the place where alpine home life becomes its most intimate expression and privacy meets personal five-star service in a way that turns home into an art form. The entire journey is designed to bring presence and grounding, beginning with the arrival ritual – a single note of the alpine horn blown by the guest, a playful yet resonant moment that settles the mind, shifts guests out of travel mode and gently marks the true start of the stay; a quiet homecoming in the French Alps.
The spacious two-to-five-bedroom residences were created for ease and togetherness, offering full chef kitchens, expansive private outdoor terraces, living and dining spaces that feel instantly warm and lived in, with wool, timber and leather echoing the landscape and easing circadian stress. Lighting supports deep recovery, and the signature “Retour au Chalet” scent – alpine pine, cedarwood, vanilla and musk – brings the quiet familiarity of coming home after a day on the slopes.
Throughout each home, small rituals deepen that sense of ease, making ordinary moments feel restorative and entirely individualised. Each home is equipped with handmade Naturalmat organic mattresses, organic linens and personal yoga mats to encourage quiet movement at your own pace, whether a morning stretch beside the window or an evening unwind before dinner. Integrated this year is the Six Senses Shower Ritual, transforming a daily habit into a pause for intention, with dedicated morning and evening shower gels, a one-minute hourglass and curated shower playlists accessed by QR code.
The concierge team, led by Clément Alloy, curates every detail with understated precision, from pre-stocked pantries and private in-residence breakfasts to butler-led ski fittings and seamless mountain logistics.
The dedicated private chef service brings dining into the heart of the home, with seven bespoke nutrient-rich menus celebrating local produce and winter comfort, from roasted poulet to mountain greens and alpine cheese boards. Guests can also enjoy live breakfast stations prepared in-residence, an experience designed to slow the morning pace. Simplicity is also at hand with the indulgence of a daily gourmet hamper breakfast basket delivery with hearty granola, yoghurts and fresh baked viennoiseries.
The journey closes as it begins, with intention. Before departure, guests are invited to write a wish or memory on a snowflake card and place it on the concierge’s wooden Snowflake Wall. It is a gentle moment of reflection that marks the transition home and leaves a trace of each stay within the wider story of the community.
New: The Longevity & Performance Programme
In its tenth winter season, Six Senses Courchevel leads a new era of alpine wellness rooted in deepening life. The spa, open to both guests of the residences and Courchevel goers, introduces its most advanced experience yet, the Longevity & Performance Programme that blends ancient rituals and diagnostics with cutting-edge biohacking technology, personalised musculoskeletal therapy and sleep therapies.
Designed for those who see the slopes as both a playground and performance arena, the tailored programme helps guests understand their bodies on and off the mountains, optimising movement, sleep and recovery for long-term vitality.
“At Six Senses, we’ve adopted the ethos that longevity is less about defying time and more about inhabiting it fully and optimally so that life at Six Senses is an experience that leads to long-term restoration and rebalance,” says Nikos Papoutsakis, spa manager of Six Senses Residences Courchevel.
The journey begins before guests even arrive. Participants can choose from three pathways or the complete journey – Pre-ski, Active and Recovery – each blending science with the brand’s signature holistic philosophy. The experience starts with a detailed wellness screening that examines 30 biomarkers and 10 core indicators, including body composition.
The focus then turns to movement and endurance, as well as injury prevention, with ‘Snow Sports Preparation’ and ‘Aerobic’ training sessions to address how the body moves, identifying strengths and misalignments to enhance balance, control, mobility, agility and cardio fitness.
Recovery sits at the centre of the programme, with bio-hacking tools like the Normatec boots, Hypervolt percussion therapy and the Venom back belt supporting the body’s natural repair processes. Sleep tracking, hydrotherapy and the detox programme deepen that work, creating the conditions the body needs to adapt, rebuild and perform in the alpine environment.
“It’s about rest, vitality and giving guests back a sense of time that feels completely theirs so they can deeply reconnect with themselves and the rhythms of the mountains,” says Stéphane Rigaud, general manager of Six Senses Residences Courchevel. “The result is not just better performance on the pistes but a renewed understanding of longevity itself: how rest, movement and mindful recovery create balance that lasts long after the snow melts.”
Younger guests can access a junior spa menu built around early body awareness. Foot mapping, the core treatment, teaches children how reflex zones on the feet correspond to the rest of the body, echoing the alignment and recovery principles central to the resort’s Longevity & Performance programme. Warm-oil massages and simple hand, face and foot rituals round out the experience for kids and teens.
New: Capsule winter collection – PAPER London x Six Senses Residences Courchevel “Dressing the Decade at 1850.”
To honour a decade in Courchevel 1850, Six Senses Residences Courchevel unveils an exclusive capsule collection with PAPER London, “Dressing the Decade at 1850.” The collaboration blends conscious luxury with the resort’s alpine soul: ultra-soft alpaca ski jumpers and socks with natural thermal performance; regenerated ocean plastic swimwear designed for spa and recovery rituals; and organic cotton sweatshirts cut for modern après-ski ease. Available in-resort and globally via PaperLondon.com, the collection reflects the values both brands share: thoughtful design, low-impact materials and a spirit of style and adventure shaped for life at altitude.
“At PAPER London, our collaborations always start with a deep connection to place,” says Philippa Thackeray, Founder and Creative Director. “Six Senses Residences Courchevel embodies a thoughtful alpine luxury that instantly drew us in. Alpaca felt like the obvious next step for PAPER – technical, sustainable and perfectly aligned with mountain living. Bringing it together with our recycled swim pieces created a balance of warmth, wellbeing and purposeful design.”
Slopes – Where the Mountain Meets Ease
New: The Dual Ski experience – side-by-side slope experience with non-skiers
Set within Les Trois Vallées, the world’s largest ski domain with 600 kilometres/372 miles of pistes and 200 lifts, Six Senses Residences Courchevel turns one of the planet’s great ski playgrounds into an experience of pure ease. From long, cruisy greens and blues ideal for beginners to the highest concentration of black runs in France, including the Championship Eclipse, every level finds its rhythm here.
The ski concierge handles the details with quiet precision: fittings at Ski Set next to the residence, equipment carried to the private ski-in, ski-out lodge at La Croisette, heated boot racks and morning shuttles timed to the first gondola. Boots are buckled for you, poles handed over and coffee in hand.
This season, the resort deepens its mountain offering through its partnership with Oxygén Ski School, Courchevel’s leading multilingual instruction team known for technical mastery and a warm, human approach. Whether guests book private instruction, group lessons, adaptive skiing or off-piste guiding, every session is tailored to ability, confidence and performance goals.
The newest offering this season is the Dual Ski experience, enabling guests of all abilities – beginners, elderly travellers or those with limited mobility – to glide the same run at the same time. With a professional instructor steering, it transforms the mountain into shared memory-making rather than parallel plans.
For the adventure seekers, private back country tours are available from the Bellecôte slopes or La Saulire ridge for an off-piste adventure above the clouds.
Winter pursuits beyond the pistes
Dubbed the “St. Tropez of winter sports” for its multilayer experiences of adventure, style, dining and alpine curiosities, the Six Senses Residences Courchevel concierge curates the best of it:
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Husky sledding (solo or groups) for a quiet glide through snow-dusted forest landscapes.
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Snowshoeing along tranquil frozen lakes, forests and hidden valleys during sunrise or sunset with guides who reveal hidden trails and alpine stories.
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Piste bashing at night – an exhilarating climb in a giant groomer under the stars, returning to the lights of 1850.
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Snowmobiling – guided after-dark circuits across the mountain plateaus with hot cocoa and champagne stops.
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Horse-drawn sleighs and Segway rides for slower-paced exploration close to town.
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Ice skating in the village centre, The Forum, a favourite for families.
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Luge runs in Moriond and Courchevel, including a two-kilometre floodlit track with a 300-metre vertical drop for après-ski thrill seekers.
And for those who want the Alps from above:
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Helicopter flights over Les Trois Vallées (Méribel, Val Thorens or Mont Blanc)
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Hot air ballooning with champagne tastings at altitude.
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Paragliding: tandem wingsuit jumps from a helicopter - exclusive to Courchevel
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Ice Climbing, a unique frozen-cascade climb guided by local professionals
The concierge team also supports families with practical needs, arranging nanny and babysitting services, coordinating children’s outdoor activities and managing logistics so parents can move between pursuits without interruption.
“We manage every moment to the minute, acting as curators and connectors, so guests simply choose their pace, step outside and start living the mountain their way,” said Six Senses Residences Courchevel head of concierge Clément Alloy.
At Six Senses Residences Courchevel, some return for the spa, others for the stillness – all for that unmistakable feeling of arriving home, again.
In the words of Rigaud, “Ten years on, we’re still inspired by the same idea that started it all, creating spaces where people can breathe deeply, live slowly and feel completely at home.”
Six Senses Residences Courchevel is a collection of 53 private two- to five-bedroom residences located in the heart of Courchevel 1850, France. Combining the intimacy of an alpine home with the service and wellbeing philosophy of Six Senses, part of IHG Hotels & Resorts, the property offers access to the world’s largest ski domain alongside award-winning spa and wellness facilities. From pioneering biohacking treatments to sustainable design and community-driven experiences, the resort embodies the brand’s ethos of reconnection with self, others and the natural world. http://sixsensescourchevel.com/
