Poster: A snowHead
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We are thinking of going skiing in April 2007. We are a family with four children (who will be 7, 5, 3 and 6 months in April) so the resort need to be very child friendly. We skied last year in La Rosiere in February with Esprit which was a great success.
Which resorts are going to be good to ski uring April (i.e. still have plenty of snow cover)? Does anyone have experience of going long haul with young children - we will need childcare.
Also does anyone have experience of still breast feeding and going on a skiing holiday?
Thanks in advance
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Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
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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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We first skied in N.America with our kids when they were only just 4, at Mammoth. The flight (to LA) was no problem, and their jet lag was no worse than mine. For the following 6 years we skied in Banff (with weeks in Panorama and Jasper) with the kids, then Breckenridge (which was abit high for all of us).
N.American childcare is excellent, in my experience. At Mammoth and Sunshine (Banff), the creche offered one or two one hour lessons a day (Breckenridge may do far all I know); if you said that you wanted the kids to ski, they more or less left it up to the kids to decide whether or not they felt like it, which makes sense (they always did).
All our N.American skiing with the kids has been in the Easter hols apart form Mammoth, which was right at the end of April (Mammoth has almost year round skiing although it doesn't have a glacier). Snow conditions have always been good, often excellent.
Of the places we've visited, I'd recommend Banff for a family although Mammoth was very good and apparently the vilage has improved a lot since we were there. I think that Breckenridge is too high for very young kids. You'd have to sort out care for the 6 month old in Banff, though, as the creche starts at 19 months, IIRC. I have no idea what is available, but maybe TOs will offer it. I'd leave the youngest at home personally, although obviously not on it's own, not that it's any of my business. An opportunity for grandparent/grandchild bonding? The 3 and 5 yos could go in the creche with ski lessons if they wanted and the 7 yo could go to ski school all day or half day. The ski school and creche are astonishingly flexible; we booked them in all day, every day, and then booked them out the day before if we didn't want them to go in.
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