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Cheap beginner lessons in Les Arcs
 Poster: A snowHead
Poster: A snowHead

Me and my wife will be in Peisey this winter and our family want to come visit us. Some of them have not skiied before, and pricing up lessons + lift passes quickly gets expensive. Plan-Peisey ESF have a 'beginners pack' that has 6 days lessons + plan peisey lift pass for 285euro which is OK, but only appears to run sunday to friday. Ideally they will travel out mid week (January) to get the cheapest flights. Does anyone know of any local small resorts that have cheaper lift passes and a ski school that we could drive to? I'm thinking of a couple of days of lessons in a limited resort and then get Plan Peisey / Les Arcs passes for the remaining days.

Thanks!
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 Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person

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Ideally they will travel out mid week (January) to get the cheapest flights

If they will be staying in your accommodation, mid week fares could make very good sense, but if they have to find their own they might find it difficult. Also, the cheapest ski lessons are group lessons, and they start on Sundays for obvious reasons. If they travel mid-week they might have to pay for private lessons, which eat into the savings on airfares.

How many beginners will you have? If there are a few of them, and likely to learn at a similar rate, you might be pleasantly surprised at the cost of booking private ski lessons, and just buying lift passes for the relevant hours. But unless they are fast learners they might struggle if they only have "a couple of days lessons".
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 Well, the person's real but it's just a made up name, see?
Well, the person's real but it's just a made up name, see?

As Pam says, have a look at private lessons instead of group. When I worked in Les Arcs a couple of years back it was definitely an option worth looking at, so long as at least 2 want to take lessons. As I recall ESF were extremely reasonable and it worked out that, based upon 2 people learning, the same price for a week of group lessons would pay for 4 lots of 2 hour private instruction.

Of course it does rely upon the learners being of an approximately equal standard but that's certainly what I'd look to do.
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