Ski chalet jobs are a popular way to earn money, experience life in a winter resort, and have great access to skiing and snowboarding during the winter season. There is some hard work involved, and often unsociable hours as you have to be awake before the guests and asleep after they have everything they need, but you should still get enough free time to make the most of the surrounding mountains and snow with many companies giving you plenty of time off to enjoy yourself. Follow this link for a full chalet host job description.
A small chalet taking a family or two may be run by a couple or a few individuals, in which case you could be tasked with cooking and cleaning and much else besides. If you are interested in taking on a small chalet that involves some cooking, but you haven't got the experience, we'd certainly recommend you think about taking a chalet cookery course.
POPULAR CHALET HOST JOBS
France & Austria
Do you have a taste for leadership, a passion for food, and a knack for creating a flavourful guest experience? You'll mix your seasonal expertise with your love for customer service to create the perfect Skiworld holiday.
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France
Across our portfolio of properties in Morzine, Courchevel/La Tania and La Plagne, our chalet hosts are responsible for providing our guests with a great catering experience, a clean and comfortable chalet and a wealth of knowledge about the resort. Details & Apply..
France Morzine - Portes du Soleil
Two positions available for qualified chefs with 2+ years’ AA Rosette-level experience (or equivalent). Work in a closed, professional kitchen within a private chalet, alongside a KP and chalet hosts. Ideal for a chef couple or team of two. Confident, organised, and guest-focused. Details & Apply..
France Morzine - Portes du Soleil
As a Chalet Host, you are responsible for delivering the high standards of hospitality that Skizeen is known for. You’ll help create a warm, welcoming atmosphere for guests while ensuring the chalet is clean, well-presented, and running smoothly. Details & Apply..
France Morzine
Riders Refuge is a small, independent chalet company based in Morzine, France, offering incredible catered chalet holidays for skiers and snowboarders. We’re more than just hosts we’re a passionate crew that lives and breathes alpine life and we’re always on the lookout for like-minded. Details & Apply..
France La Tania
We are seeking a dedicated, experienced chalet couple to manage and host a 14-person chalet in La Tania for the upcoming 2025/26 winter season. This role is ideal for a couple with previous ski season or hospitality experience, a passion for food and service, and a proactive, can-do attitude.
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France Rhône-Alpes
Across our portfolio of properties in Morzine, Courchevel/La Tania and La Plagne, our chalet hosts are responsible for providing our guests with a great catering experience, a clean and comfortable chalet and a wealth of knowledge about the resort. Details & Apply..
France & Austria Val Thorens, Meribel, Courchevel, Val d'Isere, Tignes, La Plagne, Les Arcs, Les Deux Alpes, Alpe d'Huez & St Anton
Do you have a taste for leadership, a passion for food, and a knack for creating a flavourful guest experience? You'll mix your seasonal expertise with your love for customer service to create the perfect Skiworld holiday. Details & Apply..
Finland & Sweden Karesuando
As an Outdoor Instructor, you will deliver a range of fun, memorable and tailored adventurous activities, experiences and adventure holidays aimed at families, individuals and groups. Such as snowmobile tours, ice fishing, snowshoeing and cross country skiing. Details & Apply..
France Morzine
Our chalet couples host our larger 14-16 person chalets. The role is an all-round chalet hosting role shared between the two of you, and includes preparing & serving delicious homemade meals, housekeeping and providing an excellent guest experience. Details & Apply..
France & Austria Val Thorens, Meribel, Courchevel, Val d'Isere, Tignes, La Plagne, Les Arcs, Les Deux Alpes, Alpe d'Huez & St Anton
Sweep into action and help make our chalet as fresh as the first snow of the season. It’s time to dust off those ski legs and come join us for the winter. Details & Apply..
Switzerland Saas-Fee
Viamonde are currently seeking experienced Cooks/Chefs to join our team in the stunning Swiss Alps, providing catering services for English speaking groups from around the world. Positions available from September to October with the potential to extend this into the 2025/26 winter season. Details & Apply..
The staff needed to run a ski chalet will cover a wide range of jobs, including chalet cooks, cleaners, and hospitality or hosts. Chalets vary in size, some catering for just a few people, others for several dozen and the bigger the chalet. The size of the chalet will often determine your job role. The more staff required to run the chalet, the more specialised your task. If the chalet takes a lot of people then they will probably need a dedicated chef with a good degree of previous experience.
Starting early in the morning, you may be required to see to breakfast. Holiday makers with a long day on the slopes ahead of them are going to need a lot of fuel so dishing out a few bowls of cocoa pops probably isn't going to cut the mustard. After breakfast you are going to be cleaning and getting ready for the evening meal. If you are working on the catering side you will have to spend some of your time shopping for ingredients, especially with the smaller chalets, you will have to do all the budgeting and shopping to make sure nobody goes hungry. And the last thing you want is a ski chalet full of hungry snowboarders! By evening you will either be serving meals to the guests, clearing up at the end of the meal, and setting your alarm clock for breakfast the following morning.
If you are on the chalet host side of the job, you will have the changeover day to deal with, which means cleaning the chalet from top to bottom, between guests departing and new guests arriving. Unless the company you are working for is quite big, they probably won't have their own reps, so that could be your job too. You may be responsible for meeting guests, driving them back to the resort and getting them settled in the chalet. But other than shopping for supplies and changeover days, you can expect the middle of your day to be mostly leisure time. All we would say is take care if you plan to do some skiing. If we had a pound for every time we had an advertiser call us to re-advertise a vacancy because one of their chalet staff had broken a limb(!)
Ski chalets are often luxurious accommodation and almost always situated in stunning locations - some right on the pistes themselves. It may not always be a well paid job, but with your accommodation and meals taken care of, and a resonable amount of free time compared with some other winter jobs (see our comparison guide), finding employment in a chalet is an understandably appealing way to work a season. So, if you are looking to head to the Alps this winter, you could do worse than get yourself a chalet job. For more options of who is currently recruiting, please view the jobs being offered below.
