 Poster: A snowHead
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Hello fellow snow heads,
I have written for advice before and the responses where excellent, so here I go with round two. We are supposed to meeting friends for a week skiing next january at Tignes. Our friends have bought a package to stay at Club med. we don't want to stay at such a big place. Prefer the smaller more intimate chalet experience. We both have two children each ( ages ranging between 7 & 4). Looking for recommendations of other great places to stay close to the club med..
Thanks in advance!
Cheers
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Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
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@Tdavies, are you after childcare as well from wherever you stay?
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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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@Tdavies, have a look on crystal website, hotel diva advertises there, they do a 'SkiPlus' package which essentially included everything from lift pass to ski hire, I looked at this for January 2nd 2016 and it was £919 for adults, pretty reasonable I think?
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We had a good holiday in the Mark Warner chalet hotel in Tignes. It is obviously bigger than a chalet but not huge.
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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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I have friends going out to one of Ski Esprit's properties in Tignes in a couple of weeks. As a TO they should suit the ages of your children perfectly. Smaller properties that Club Med too.
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How close to Club Med? It's in Val Claret. Would le Lac or Lavachet be close enough, or would it have to be VC?
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@Tdavies, Esprit have several properties. Childcare and getting kids to ski lessons etc is excellent but these are all 'add ons' to the starting price. However, skiing in Jan is no too badly priced but it depends on your budget.
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We've booked with Crystal in a chalet in Tignes Le Lac for the first week of January. The childcare means we'll have to get the free bus (7 minute journey I think?) every morning over to Val Claret, but it does then mean we are free then from 8.30am until 5pm  with the option to pick up the older ones in the afternoon on an ad-hoc basis to do some skiing with us which we will do on most days. They haven't signed a contract with a ski school for next season yet but this year it was Evo2 and they are hoping they are able to renegotiate that otherwise it'll probably be ESF.
Booking at the Hotel Diva means it will all be on site, but we have four children too (they'll be 9, 7, 4 and 21 months) so that meant separate rooms so we went for the chalet option instead despite the bus ride as we wanted half board. I don't think there are any Crystal chalets in Val Claret at any sort of sane price, but there is the Diva and there are apartments.
You'll have to be quick if you want the "Whizzclusive" package (£450 for all day including ski school AM) as I booked the last three myself for our older three a few nights ago for that week! Although for all I know they might make more available later, but I suspect childcare places do go very fast.
We went with Crystal to La Plagne at Easter 2013 and used their childcare in a similar way and had no complaints whatsoever - they were great.
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A word of warning if you have smallies who will be using the Piou-Piou or the other ski nursery beside it in Val Claret. It is way up the hill, a good (adult) 5 minute walk from the main ski school meeting points. You can't get to it by bus. (assuming you won't be riding with 4 yr old up Bollin it is a 10 minute walk from nearest bus access). It is very close to Club Med and a few other hotels. Just be careful to choose location with great care.
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