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Hi,
Can anyone suggest a good resort for an Easter break (3 adults and 3 children) bearing in mind the youngest child (will be 3) gets unbelievably car-sick? I did think of Alpe d'Huez but that winding road on the way up may finish her off!
I've never booked DIY myself so am a little nervous, and in Europe have only skied in France and Sweden so am not sure of all my options. Realise we'll have to go quite high which will inevitably mean some winding roads! Was planning to fly into Geneva and then get a private transfer.
All reasonably good skiers - with the exception of the car-sick 3-year old who will be learning.
All suggestions much appreciated!
Thanks
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Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
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fs, welcome to snowHeads 
Why not look at one of the Swiss resorts that you can get the train to from Geneva airport? That will avoid the car-sick problem, and you can get reasonably priced transfer tickets where the children will travel for free.
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Well, the person's real but it's just a made up name, see?
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fs, welcome to Snowheads. Have you tried asking your GP about medication for the 3 year old? There are quite a few discussions here about the problem of car sick kids, including some suggestions, from medically qualified members, of what to give them.
One thought. You can get to Bourg St Maurice by train, and then go up to Les Arcs on a funicular, thus completely removing all road travel from the equation. But there are also heaps of Swiss places easily reached by train from Geneva (I'm assuming, maybe wrongly, that train-sickness is not such an issue). Many Snowheads know the Swiss resorts well and might be able to suggest somewhere.
Easter is later in 2009 but it doesn't mean you've got to go terribly high. Slope aspect and geographical location is also important. One suggestion in France, and quite close to Geneva, is Les Contamines. Easy road, not windy. The village level and bottom slopes could well be suffering but I've skied mid April in Les Contamines most of the last 6 years - last year was particularly splendid, with absolutely heaps of snow on the day the resort closed, around 24 April, though obviously you couldn't rely on that!
There are lots of threads about little kids learning to ski, too.
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fs, Welcome
I have 3-kids - 2 of which are prone to the odd bout of euggghhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh, as am I if not driving!
Not sure of your kids ages (ours 8 and 6) but dosing them with over the counter travel tablets has been effective - Quells etc. We also let them listen to Audio-Books - seems to keep them sitting up and looking out of car, rather than reading looking down etc which seems to bring on the sickness.
Never had an issue with them on the Motorways as smooth and straight
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fs,
There are a lot of Swiss resorts that you can do train transfers with. I have never been but am told that Arosa is family friendly and is certainly reasonably high.
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Cradling a sick child and a plastic bag full of hot vomit whilst ascending a road to a ski resort is character building.
fs, welcome to
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Frosty the Snowman, and Anniepen, I read your posts and celebrated being child free 
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Anniepen, try Kwells Kids - suitable from age 4
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MarjMJ, you don't know the fun you're missing
I well remember climbing into the back of the car to try and bottle feed twin 14-month olds while stuck in traffic around Lyon - oh the fun
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You know it makes sense.
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You can use Joy-Rides from age 3, and promethazine (Phenergan) liquid from age 2.
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Otherwise you'll just go on seeing the one name:
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West London to Crans/Montana and back, every summer, while I was a child. Sheer, unadulterated misery all the way. Never mind the parents, it ain't no fun for the kid either. I used to get force-fed Dramamine, sometimes it worked (ie knocked me into unconsciousness, from which I would wake with a mouth like a gorilla's armpit) sometimes it didn't. Nightmare.
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I used to get horrendously travel sick when I was, dunno, about 10 to 12 or so. It only ever happened in one car of my dad's, which had the most repugnant upholstery/glue smell. Except nobody else thought it did, just me. I'd start gagging just from opening the door on a hot day and getting a whiff. Weird eh.
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Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
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I get travel sick still on ferries and trains if travelling backwards - Avomine the stuff for me
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Well, the person's real but it's just a made up name, see?
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I used to a bit iffy on ferries. Against all conventional wisdom my solution is: a beer. Just one. Don't get pissed. Very calming.
Last edited by Well, the person's real but it's just a made up name, see? on Thu 13-11-08 14:31; edited 1 time in total
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brian
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Me three on the ferries. My solution is to spend the whole journey on deck, keeping the visual/balance info the same.
Never knew about the purging thing either, thanks Boris, I love a useless factoid. 
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brian,
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Me three on the ferries. My solution is to spend the whole journey on deck, keeping the visual/balance info the same
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Me four. And reading in cars (including map-reading, which can be inconvenient) or on buses remains a no-no as well. Reading on trains usually OK, so long as facing the direction of travel. The worst car I ever travelled in was a Citroen belonging to one of my French uncles - I used to start feeling sick before it even finished rising up on its strange suspension system. 
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paulio,
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Citroen CX estate. Did you think it smelt funny too?
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Don't remember, it was the 'floatiness' of the ride that got to me. The worst in-car smell for me is perfume, or after-shave etc, even if very posh and expensive - instantly green-inducing!
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Boris, As if the traffic around Lyon wouldn't have put you over the edge - What possible motion could there have been 
Poor kid, well, poor everyone!
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MarjMJ, we weren't moving admittadly - but one of them did have a habit of bringing milk up generally - even sitting at home
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And love to help out and answer questions and of course, read each other's snow reports.
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| I used to get horrendously travel sick when I was, dunno, about 10 to 12 or so. It only ever happened in one car of my dad's, which had the most repugnant upholstery/glue smell. Except nobody else thought it did, just me. I'd start gagging just from opening the door on a hot day and getting a whiff. Weird eh. |
So did I, and I have never been travel sick before or since. Turned out that there was a leak in the fuel filler pipe, and I got the whiff of petrol from it, as that was where I sat in the car. Parents blamed the circular multistorey carpark we tended to be in when it happened.
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if you are flying then ask the air hostess for a handfull of sick bags - useful for the car/coach afterwards too.
our dd is plane as well as car sick
i hadn't considered the windy road thing though, and we are going to alpe d'huez this year - which i noticed someone mentioned as being particuarly bad - oh no! we find joy rides useless but phenergan pretty good, and it makes her sleep most of the journey too. this is fine until we arrive and she's so tired she can't stand up and walk, when we have 4 suitcases to carry too......
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You know it makes sense.
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fs, as an alternative, you could fly to Salzburg and then go to Obertauern. No winding roads and only an hour transfer (shuttle busses easy to book). Should be snowsure for Easter (was when we went last year) and in typical years it doesn't close till May.
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Otherwise you'll just go on seeing the one name:
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Our GP recommends Piriton (Chorphenamine) in elixir form for travel sickness. He drives to Switzerland with his 7 children
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Poster: A snowHead
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Our GP recommends Piriton (Chorphenamine) in elixir form for travel sickness. He drives to Switzerland with his 7 children
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Lou, you presumably wouldn't choose him for family planning advice?
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Not sure of the younger age limit, but worth investigating
Still, don't care as long as I'm not covered in sick for 900 miles ! Feeling a bit queasy yourself now 
