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Help! Kids ski school booked out!

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Hey hey!
We've booked a week at half term in Tignes to take our 4 year old skiing for the first time. Unfortunately every ski school is booked out for kids group ski lessons!!!
Any advice on how to get him into classes - he won't do well with private classes and will freak out, will be much easier with other kids.

Any advice appreciated!!
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Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
Not much you can do apart from maybe hoping there will be a cancellation or try finding an alternative nearby location where availability might still be there. Or maybe another school (ESI?) has spaces
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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?
I haven't checked availability for you but have you tried Maison Sport? They list independent ski instructors, who are verified, however they won't be group classes and I am unsure what access to the jardin des enfants they will have but perhaps worth a go?
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@Chattji,

Send me details of your requirements and I will see what I can do for you.
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@stewart woodward, up in the middle of the night ready to help!! Madeye-Smiley That's disappointing, but not surprising, @Chattji, it's a hugely busy week. welcome to Snowheads. snowHead

If all else fails, with such little ones, although I'm a big enthusiast for ski lessons for all ages, you can have fun with them doing some "hands on knees" (absolutely no poles!!) playing around and if you have somebody competent to ski backwards in front of them, like the instructors do in 1 to 1 lessons with tinies, helping them get the snow plough, that's worthwhile too. But mostly sledging and building snowmen. If he likes toy cars, building roads and bridges is fun, too. They can only take so much sliding at that age. And next year, at 5, he'll be the ideal age to start learning seriously.
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Great, thanks for all the input!
That was going to be the fallback...lots of snow play, loves a snowplough truck, cars, bridges and anything vehicle related so we should be fine! Just wanted him to start enjoying and seeing other kids get involved too.

@stewart - thank you! I'll ping you details.
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Then you can post your own questions or snow reports...
Sorry to intrude guys....but when is the UK half term??
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dazman wrote:
Sorry to intrude guys....but when is the UK half term??


that is the true skiing dad asking! Happy
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Chattji wrote:
Great, thanks for all the input!
That was going to be the fallback...lots of snow play, loves a snowplough truck, cars, bridges and anything vehicle related so we should be fine! Just wanted him to start enjoying and seeing other kids get involved too.

@stewart - thank you! I'll ping you details.


The recycling bins (we have the type with handle at each end, rectangular in oblong shape, importantly with slight taper inward to base) make fantastic snow blocks to build an igloo with.

Just fill with snow shovel, tamp it down and tip out one beautiful block. Just keep going until full igloo is achieved Very Happy

Well need a picture if you complete it though. Laughing

Our children loved the little igloos built at village in Praz d Lys, couldn't get them out when younger.
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@Pyramus, I live in Rutland and ours is the week after.
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Chattji wrote:
Hey hey!
We've booked a week at half term in Tignes to take our 4 year old skiing for the first time. Unfortunately every ski school is booked out for kids group ski lessons!!!
Any advice on how to get him into classes - he won't do well with private classes and will freak out, will be much easier with other kids.

Any advice appreciated!!


Can you get him to a snowdome and get some lessons before you go - that's what we did with ours, so they could ski with us in the afternoons even from day 1 on holiday.
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So if you're just off somewhere snowy come back and post a snow report of your own and we'll all love you very much
The problem is that all our various half term weeks always coincide with the French "vacances scolaire" weeks, which spread over 4 weeks, with the Paris (zone C) fortnight the worst by a country kilometre.
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 You know it makes sense.
You know it makes sense.
skimummk wrote:
Chattji wrote:
Hey hey!
We've booked a week at half term in Tignes to take our 4 year old skiing for the first time. Unfortunately every ski school is booked out for kids group ski lessons!!!
Any advice on how to get him into classes - he won't do well with private classes and will freak out, will be much easier with other kids.

Any advice appreciated!!


Can you get him to a snowdome and get some lessons before you go - that's what we did with ours, so they could ski with us in the afternoons even from day 1 on holiday.


Every child is different of course but I doubt they will be skiing in the afternoon (in any meaningful way) with a four year old after a snowdome lesson Happy
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Otherwise you'll just go on seeing the one name:
Yes, I'd agree with that. And unless you have a snowdome near home, it's quite a faff - and not cheap. I say that having dragged my family to ski lessons on a primitive dry slope in the Ayrshire coalfield, where the drag lift had long broken down and you had to shoulder skis and walk up. Very good for the legs...... rolling eyes I must have been mad.
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alexsas wrote:
skimummk wrote:
Chattji wrote:
Hey hey!
We've booked a week at half term in Tignes to take our 4 year old skiing for the first time. Unfortunately every ski school is booked out for kids group ski lessons!!!
Any advice on how to get him into classes - he won't do well with private classes and will freak out, will be much easier with other kids.

Any advice appreciated!!


Can you get him to a snowdome and get some lessons before you go - that's what we did with ours, so they could ski with us in the afternoons even from day 1 on holiday.


Every child is different of course but I doubt they will be skiing in the afternoon (in any meaningful way) with a four year old after a snowdome lesson Happy

NB - I said lessons (plural) one lesson would obviously be a waste of time Laughing
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