Meribel Vs Mottaret Vs Courchevel

Help

We're trying to plan a skiing holiday for mid-Jan 2004. The more I look, the
more confused I get. I guess it's down to 3 possible locations:

Meribel - Sounds like lots of shops/bars etc. But I worry that it's a little
low. Anyone know the Hotel Savoy?

Mottaret - Higher, and better possibilities for linking with courchevel &
Val Thorens but possibly less to do in the evenings. Here we'd be looking at
the Hotel Royal Le Mottaret.

Courchevel 1850 - Good and high (even if I discovered it's only at 1747M)
but expensive. Also, the only google groups reference to the hotel we are
looking at (Anemones) wasn't great (Small rooms, noisy)

Does anyone have any view on either of the above resorts or specifically the
hotels?

Many thanks

Rob