 Poster: A snowHead
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off to avoriaz 12-19 April. I've emailed ESF, EVO2 and the British ski school there. The British school can only offer individual, which is too expensive at their prices.
Has anyone got any experience good / bad / indifferent of ESF or EVO2?
EVO2 can offer us group lessons for our 6 year old. But nothing for us or the 9 year old. But the individual lessons for me and mrsL will come to the same price as group lessons, so we will possibly go with that. Our 9 year old could do individual with us, but he really wants to develop his snowboarding which would be a separate individual lesson, which is obviously getting more exepensive
ESF can offer group lessons for all of us apparently.
I've no experience of either, a brief google seems to reveal that evo2 have a good rep and ESF can vary from resort to resort. Some great experiences, some terrible on google.
The difference in cost between the 2 options isn't huge and when looked at against the cost of the whole holiday, Is very modest, so I'd rather get the best option rather than the cheapest. Also does anyone know if both schools meet at the same place. All the avoriaz maps and info on the web is very confusing! If they meet at the same place then we can use both schools
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Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
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I know it's not what you asked, but - have you looked at the Village des Enfants, which is an ESI school. Despite the name, our, then,13 yr old son was pretty happy with his week in lessons - so much so that even though we had only booked mornings, he chose to extend to afternoons as well after a couple of days.
I agree that the maps look confusing, but they make sense once you're there. Can't help with where Evo2 meet, but ESF is on the plateau at the top of the village(the top of the Plateau lift is at the left on the map), the village is on a slope then all the way down towards the Stade lift. Village des Enfants is in the village at the bottom of the shopping area.
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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?
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I did look at village des enfants but I got the impression it was for very small kids and / or beginners? our 9 year old can keep up with me on blacks and easy off piste and the 6 year old is just about doing parallels (level 2 i think in ESF Parlance).
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alexl, definitely not just for littlies, but the older ones don't stay in the garden! Our lad was in the Freeride group - part of their Teens offering. We make him do lessons because he's a lot more adventurous than his mother is (and probably a little more than I am) and we would hold him back, plus he has a better chance of learning decent technique from a proper instructor.
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Anyway, snowHeads is much more fun if you do.
Anyway, snowHeads is much more fun if you do.
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Cool. I'll have a look at that.
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Happy to endorse Village des Enfants, my lad (7 years old) loved his time there and want to go back next year
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