Rooms of the apartment are large, including the children's bedroom and living room. Nicely renovated to a high standard, ski boot warmer in basement, fire worked nicely, lots of lovely clean towels and bed linen to high standard. Kitchen equipment of a high and modern standard. If renting in winter and hire car from an Italian airport and forecast to snow during your stay or just before than you should insist request winter [mountain and snow - M&S] tyres from the hire car agency, it is not standard in Italy (unlike all of Switzerland) but the road to the apartment - if snowy - is not that well treated and all the locals have winter tyres fitted. We walked into town one day but generally drove as during our stay loads of snow. Chains will get you up and down but are a (unnecessary) hassle. Only a short drive to Salette lift with ski hire and storage at the bottom. The apartment is far better than normal ski accommodation and Valtournenche is a lovely, quite and unspoilt village - actually the original village where the first attempts to climb the Matterhorn were made from, although this hasn't been exploited for tourism. Google Whymper (posh English gent) vs Jean-Antoine Carrel (a hunter and mountain guide from Valtournenche) - 4 died on Whymper's ascent from Zermatt vs no deaths or injuries from Carrel's team a few days later from the harder Italian side. A lovely town square with memorial plaques to various mountain guides through the ages. Wonderful Xmas lights in general.
The village has enough restaurants and pizza places and cafes to suffice. We didn't need any ski school for any of our children as they all ski well {ages 9 and 11}, I think perhaps available but more limited than Cervinia. All in all highly recommended for a ski touring holiday into Cervinia or Zermatt :)