Gilles was a great host! He helped us with a last minute booking and my issues collecting the keys early in the morning.
The apartment is perfectly located, just 10 meters and a lift, from the start of the main street. With skis it is ski in / out (in all of Avoriaz, that is a bit too flat with snowboarding).
The apartment is 'French', so compact and no hook for the hand shower, you now know that in advance :)
If your luggage is in backpacks, you can easily walk from the Avoriaz entrance, possibly using the 'shopping carts'. Otherwise a short horse drawn carriage ride.
The pity of Avoriaz is that there are quite a lot of diesel tracked vehicles, hopefully they will become electric like the snow scooters, because that will make a difference in the sound.
Furthermore, a nice compact town, great!