Two families, four adults, somewhere between four and eight children: the chalet has to give each couple a queen bedroom and keep the children's rooms sensible. This guide ranks the Blue View chalets for exactly that. Book on the family chalets page, or, if you are leaning toward separate houses, the two-chalets page. The multi-family vacation rental guide covers how the costs and chores get shared.
The two-family test for a chalet layout
Every cluster chalet puts the kitchen and living space on the upper level and the queen bedrooms on the main level, with bunk rooms below. The test is simple: two queen bedrooms for the parents, and children's rooms that match the ages. A single-over-double bunk plus a single bed sleeps three children; a room with two single beds suits two older ones. The numbers below are from each chalet's listing; the links go to the room-by-room pages.
1. The Aurora for two families with six to ten children
The Aurora sleeps 14 and has three queen bedrooms on the main level, so both couples get a queen room with one spare queen for a grandparent or a teenager. The two downstairs rooms (a single-over-double bunk with a single bed, and a single-over-double bunk) take the younger children. The dining area seats 10, which is the first thing two families outgrow in a smaller house. Aurora rooms and beds.
2. The Stella for two families where one child is older
The Stella sleeps 12 with two main-level queens, a lower-level queen and two children's rooms, one of which has two single beds. That two-single room is the right place for the oldest child or a pair of cousins who have outgrown bunks. The dry sauna is for the parents after the ski day. Stella rooms and beds.
3. The Omega or The Vega for a group of exactly 13
The Omega and The Vega each sleep 13 with two main-level queens, a lower-level queen and two bunk rooms. Two families with an au pair, a grandparent or a teenager who wants a door that closes land here. Compare Omega and Vega.
4. The Vista for two small families
The Vista is the four-bedroom cluster chalet: two queens on the main level, a room with two single bunk beds and a room with two single beds downstairs, sleeping 10. For two families with two children each it is the tidiest fit, and it shares the pool, patio and fire pits with the rest of the property. Vista rooms and beds.
Sharing one kitchen between two families
Every cluster chalet has one fully stocked kitchen on the upper level with a dishwasher, oven, stove, microwave and a single refrigerator, and dining for ten. Two families cook better in shifts than in parallel: one family owns breakfast, the other owns dinner, and lunch is sandwiches on the balcony. The feeding-twenty meal plan scales down to fourteen, and the chalet kitchen answer explains why cooking in beats eating out with eight children.
The children's floor: what two families agree on first
The bunk rooms are on the lower level and the parents' queens are a floor up, so agree the night-time plan before the first night: who has the monitor, which child takes a top bunk (the single-over-double bunks put a single above a double), and whether the two-single room goes to the oldest or the youngest. The private hot tub is a supervised space with eight people in it at most and the cover on when it is empty, and the outdoor space answer covers the garden and the balcony railings.
Two families in summer: the pool, the patio and the beach
From May to mid-September the cluster's shared heated outdoor pool is open to registered guests, which changes the two-family calculation: children have somewhere to be while one set of parents cooks. The communal patio with its gas fire pits is where the two families meet the other households on the property. Aqua Villa swaps the pool for a sandy public beach steps from the door, with four bathrooms and a washing machine, which matters more with eight children than any amenity list suggests. The summer chalets page has the dates.
Who books when two families share a chalet
One person makes the booking and is the registered guest who signs for the house; the $500 security deposit is authorized, not charged, on that person's card at check-in. Everyone sleeping in the house goes on the guest list, because day visitors are not allowed on the property. The split-payment answer explains how the second family pays its half, and the cost-per-person answer explains how fourteen beds divide.
For the booking itself, the family chalets page carries the ten houses with their bed counts, and each chalet's rooms-and-beds page is the sheet to send the other family before anyone pays. Check-in is 4 pm, checkout 11 am, linens and towels are provided, and every house is pet-friendly, so the second family's dog is not a reason to book separately.
When two families should book two chalets instead
If the children are very young, if one family keeps different hours, or if the group is over 14, two adjacent cluster chalets are the better answer: each family has its own kitchen, hot tub and front door, thirty seconds apart, and the shared fire pits are where everyone meets. The two-chalets page lists the pairings by combined capacity, and a private chalet per family on the same property explains how the booking works. Whichever way you go, each chalet has four free parking spots, and the shared heated outdoor pool runs from May to mid-September only.
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