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Les Menuires childcare
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Hi all-now that we are in the fag-end of the ski season, I hope there are still people reading the forum!

Anyway, am already planning a school trip to Les Menuires next Easter, and have been told by Mrs Hound in no uncertain terms that the only way I'm going is if I bring along the wife and kids. Will be 21 months and 7 months by then.
So I am investigating childcare options, and wondered if anyone has used the resort creche and so knows if it is any good? I think it's called the Piou Piou nursary.

Plan A is a nanny for the week, but they seem a bit thin on the ground-any recommendations for these would also be gratefully received. I have only found the Lesfarafets agency, but they are proving quite hard to get hold of.

Thanks.
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snowhound, I doubt you will find a nursery/creche that will accept babies as young as 7 months, in our village the youngest the very good creche/nursery will take is 18mths. You should find that the local Tourist office will have a list of child minders, but they will not have been vetted.
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“Nursery(from 3 to 30 months), at the Piou- Piou village in La Croisette only. Medical certificate and reservation obligatory.” –From the web site

http://www.lesmenuires.com/en/plan_your_stay/children.html

We stayed at les Bruyeres and the Piou Piou, was in the center we never went to the child care place in La Croisette.

I will have a 8 1/2 month old by Christmas and expect to go back to LM, I would struggle to persuade myself the hall was good enough in Les Bruyeres for a 7 month old I suppose it may depend if they are crawling as at least then they could get around and are a little more independent, but defiantly i wouldn't leave the little on there all day - personal preference i suppose. I intend to either find a nanny there or take one with me..(rich friends with nannies)..hoping they won't need them at New Year
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Thanks for that. We are only getting childcare for mornings-and one of us will go and collect at lunchtime.

Life seemed so easy before babies arrived...I read an interesting article in the Telegraph about ski resort childcare. Basically said, don't trust the resort creches as they can be very variable in quality!

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/core/Content/displayPrintable.jhtml?xml=/travel/exclusions/Supplements/winterski/winterfamily.xml&site=3&page=0

Ho hum-will keep trying to get through to lesfarfadets.

Any more recommendations out there?
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I forgot to say we have one 6 yr old (she was with two friends and the friends’ two 4 year old brothers.

We used the ski school for the girls and the boys were in a nursery Ski school (part of Piou Piou but with skiing as well). we found the girls moaned about the ski school so to save our skiing we got an instructor for the week for the mornings for the girls..the boys did ok in Piou piou...One of the good things we did was to get then booked in for lunch it gives us more time to ski (significantly more as the ski school was 9-12.30 and then lunch til 2pm).. we could then have lunch and watch the kids sledging or skip lunch and take them out skiing..

Good Luck if after you have booked one (a nanny) let me know where from as we're interested for next Christmas but of course have done nothing to date..
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Thanks.
The only nanny service I have found is the Fafadets (sp?), with the Croisette Piou-Piou resort creche taking from 3 months. I'm getting our Head of French to phone up the Tourist Office tomorrow to see if they know of any other nanny services.

We are using SkiPlan for our school trip, and they are looking into options for us as well.

Will keep you posted as and when.
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