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Good Ski School for kids in Solden?
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Heading for Solden for the 1st week of April - accompanied by our 4 year old. Now here's the difficult bit.... at 4 he's already been skiing (well on skis anyway
since before he could walk. As he's used to skiing on the mountain proper, he will not be amused if he's asked to go back to messing about in a snow garden or on a nursery slope.
Last year he managed (at 3 and a half) to get himself thrown out of one ski school in France because he could ski better than they thought a 3 year old should be able to. They wanted him to walk around on the flat, and take turns at walking up a carpet (not even a moving carpet) with other three year olds (turned out they wouldn't take them on the mountain until they were 5) - whereas he just wanted to ski. So on spotting that the slope he was on had a working poma, a turned round, skied down to it and jumped on. On picking him up we were told "he's very good, but we're not keeping him" - bye bye any hopes of mum and dad actually getting any skiing without junior in tow.
All of which means I now need to find a ski school who are going to cope well with a child of his age, who can already ski reasonably well (red runs no problem). Last Easter one of the schools in Mayrhofen just put him in a group of children twice his age, and he was fine with that, so I'd like recommendations for a school which might have a similar attitude in Solden, preferably one which also offers the option of 2 x 2 hours with lunch and a supervised play/rest session in the middle.
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since before he could walk. As he's used to skiing on the mountain proper, he will not be amused if he's asked to go back to messing about in a snow garden or on a nursery slope.
