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@Rh2205, personally I'd not be going to Flaine at that time of the year, IMHO. It's a low area, lots of the skiing is below Flaine, down to 700/800m and that all shuts 13th April so will be in closing down mode the week before. Flaine is a bowl at 1600m with skiing up to 2480m.
Compare to Tignes which is at 2100m with skiing up to 3456m and lots accessible over 1800m
Or La Tania which is 1400m with all the skiing above that, lots over 1800m from Courchevel up and up to 3000m in Val Thorens.
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Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
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We were in the Forum both times and it was ideal with kids.
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Well, the person's real but it's just a made up name, see?
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Last year, Easter fell in the first week of April, but in 2025, I believe it’s on April 20th (?). That’s quite a difference.
We were in Avoriaz last season, and while the snow conditions were above average, after 13.00 pm was really slushy.
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Anyway, snowHeads is much more fun if you do.
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We’re looking at the first week of Easter school holidays which commences weekend 5th April in our area, weirdly schools here go back immediately after the Easter bank holiday Monday! Is this not a standard date for school holidays?
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I mean we didn’t ski grande massif to 700m in December, there’s only a couple of slopes that low and they are wayy too low in all but the best conditions of the year. Skiing in Flaine itself seemed pretty good and we preferred it to the other grand massif resort areas. When you have a child in ski schools the reality is you don’t traverse an entire ski domaine as you don’t have time for those kind of trips so to some degree wider ski areas become less relevant.
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| Rh2205 wrote: |
| We’re looking at the first week of Easter school holidays which commences weekend 5th April in our area, weirdly schools here go back immediately after the Easter bank holiday Monday! Is this not a standard date for school holidays? |
do you mean in UK? in GER the Easter School holidays are 14.04. - 26.04 meaning back to scholl at 29.April
If we choose the Week 19.-26.April, i suppose Tignes-Valdisere or VT are the only options in FR
Do not know if Paradiski is also doable
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Sorry yes I am only talking about the uk where schools break in our area on 4th April and return immediately after the Easter weekend, hence looking at early April rather than later on.
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It’s much better than in Germany; it’s earlier
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