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 Poster: A snowHead
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Taking my lovely wife skiing for the second time in March and we're off to VT.

Can anyone recommend a decent ski school? I was hoping to find a British Instrutor out there but the search is proving fruitless thus far.

Any help would be greatly appreciated.

Cheers
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dme, We skied with the International Ski School there last year at the EOSB and they seemed very decent guys and spoke very good English. I'll see if I can find Philippe's full name later at home. Very Happy
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Well, the person's real but it's just a made up name, see?

easiski, Thanks that would be a great help. If anyone has any other suggestions all will be appreciated.
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dme, plenty of brits in couchevel and meribel but a distinct lack in VT
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" A couple of seasons ago we used www.prosneige.fr for all ages and they were very good not English but speak very good English. Toofy Grin
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dme, easiski, Philippe MARTIN - Telephone: +33 4 79 01 07 00 Mobile: +33 6 61 73 21 50 and e-mail philippe.martin58@wanadoo.fr.

Philippe is an honorary snowHead snowHead (He calls us: Tetes de Neige...) and one of the partners in the business, Pro Neige, so with boredsurfin, 's you have quite a few votes. I would ask for him specifically - he is good and has a sense of humour.
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BernardC, but would you trust him with your wife wink wink Laughing Laughing
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CEM, I'll have to take the 5th Amendment on that........! Toofy Grin
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dme,
I'd recommend Lara at Prosneige - good English, very pleasant and very good analysis and tuition.
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Hywel, that sounds like a safer bet, unless of course Lara is a bloke Laughing Laughing
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Thanks all - a real help - any other suggestions always gratefully received though
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CEM,

No Lara was definitely not a bloke.....

(Right hand column, seven rows down) Cool
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Hywel, ....I see she is having another bad hair day.......! Toofy Grin
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You know it makes sense.

Just wanted to get this back to the top so hopefully a few people will read it and hopefully give some advice.

Thanks
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 Otherwise you'll just go on seeing the one name:
Otherwise you'll just go on seeing the one name:

dme, there aren't a lot of different ski schools to choose from in VT. Obviously a resort can only support so many.

AFAIK the main ones are:
ESF
SKi Cool
ESI
ProSneige

As VT historically has a very high proportion of Dutch visitors, there are far more Dutch instructors to choose from than English. Obviously, being Dutch, most of these speak excellent English.

ESF: Take your chances
Ski Cool: Presents as independent but is actually ESF
ESI: is a branch of the international federation of ski schools (Easiski can tell u more about this)
ProSniege: is also affiliated to ESI

As you've seen above, ProSniege tends to come out favourite around these parts.

If you want Ski schools that are specifically British run, Meribel, in the next valley, has a few and Courchevel has a couple too.
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My parents had lessons with ProSneige last year, and they managed to do the impossible and get my dad to actually enjoy skiing, and they were full of praise for them afterwards
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Looks like prosneige is the best bet then.

Thanks for your help all.
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Hi

We used proniege for three years and would not use anybody else when in VT. Their office is close to the slopes and at the end of a long day there is a lift to get you back up to street level. With the two family that went (4 kids) we had a five of the instructors over the three years.

The company is run by a X tec head of ESF. He left becouse of the problems he had trying to change the mind set of ESF, esp the problems with class sizes ESF would run with, and the problems this coused such as lost children that resulted.

Pro neige have max of 10 and all are in raido contact at all times.

Our Kids when in group lessons, the class sizes were only 5 and 6 of which we had 2 kids in each group (last week in Jan)

If you go with them they also have a deal with one of the ski shop for discount on equipment hire. they have a good web site.

I can not recommend them enough.

Cheers

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ntfarmer, Thanks Farmer - I'll be booking proneige then. We've got a couple of novices so will be getting them private lessons to get them up and running as soon as possible and then group for the rest of them.

Thanks Again
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