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"Ski" options for 3.5 year old near Montriond

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Florabelle · 23/01/2014 21:03

Hello. Looking for advice on options for 3.5 year old in Montriond area, Portes du Soleil. Chalet will be dropping off adults to get Ardent bubble, and suggested Avoriaz side easiest from there rather than Morzine or Les Gets.
Google has shown that there is an ESF that does a Piou Piou club for that age, or the children's village in Avoriaz that do similar. Both French run and wondered if anyone had experience of either for little non-French speaking kids? We are going outside UK school holidays. It's for my nephew, and he is used to going to nursery ... Thanks in advance

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IwishIwasmoreorganised · 26/01/2014 20:03

We have used ESF at Les Lindarets (right at the top of the Ardent bubble) for the past 5 years (we go with Family Ski) and it's been great. Their instructors are very used to having English speaking children in their groups (because of Family Ski).

It would be tricky to get him to Avoriaz for his lessons. It would mean him taking a chairlift from Les Lindarets and skiing to ski school from the top of there - not easy as he's not skied before.

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Florabelle · 28/01/2014 22:11

Thanks - really useful info. It might have been a bit of a tall order expecting him to hop on a chairlift to Avoriaz !!
What was the youngest your kids went? Did you just put them in mornings when they were little? Granny has decided to try skiing for 1st time at 66, so be great if he liked it so my sis and BIL could get a bit of skiing together:-)

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IwishIwasmoreorganised · 28/01/2014 22:19

Ds1 was 4.3 and ds2 3.8 when they started. Mornings is plenty at that age. Ds1 has just started skiing for half of the afternoons at 8.3 (he got his esf 3* this year).

My dad started skiing at 58 and now (66) goes at least once a year!

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