 Poster: A snowHead
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Hello All,
Heading to Avoriaz next week. Four adults with between 3 and 5 weeks experience.
We can all ski most reds pretty confidently and can get down some blacks with various degrees of elegance!
So - the plan is to have a couple of 'private' lessons with just the four of us, hoping to improve our general technique and help us into the world of off-piste skiing.
My on-line research has come up with four ski schools in Avoriaz
ESF - cheapest
Ecole de Glisse
Avoriaz Alpine Ski School
Freedom 2 Ski - most expensive
Does anyone have any experience with any of the above, or can you suggest anyone else who might be what we're looking for?
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Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
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Andy G,
I used Alpine Ski School in 2006 and they were really good. I had 3 group lesson over the course of a week, on the first 2 days there were only 4 in the class and on the last day the rest of the group had come down with food poisoning so there was just me! They keep their groups small and if all four of you are of a simular standard then it should work out quite well.
I was in an "advanced intermediate group", we did a few blacks, plenty of moguls and my first bit of proper off piste.
It should be nice & quiet in Avoriaz next week, have a good time!
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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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I was an able bodied buddy taking wheelchair users skiing in Avoriaz 5 years ago.
The instructor on the course was Ian McKellar, currently the director of the Avoriaz Alpine Ski School. He is an excellent ski instructor.
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Another vote for the Avoriaz Alpine Ski School.
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Anyway, snowHeads is much more fun if you do.
Anyway, snowHeads is much more fun if you do.
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Just back from Avoriaz - a quick update for anyone who might read this looking for feedback.
We ended up having two morning sessions with Jerome of the Ecole de Glisse. 155Euro per 3.5hr session for the four of us.
Excellent tuition, would recommend them to anyone. Others in our chalet also had lessons with them (on our recommendation) - different instructors - and came back with positive reports.
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Andy G, I am oiff there in a few weeks, did you book it before you went or was it easy to get lessons when you where there?
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Gsyfreerider, we booked our two half day sessions the Wednesday before we went, but the other guys in the chalet only did it the night before for their 2hr sessions. Our instructor certainly didn't have any other clients either of the afternoons following on from us.
Having said that, it was a pretty quiet week, so I'd book sooner rather than later if you know what you want to do.
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We tried to book Ecole de Glisse but they couldn't fit us in. We then went to ESF who were remarkably good. We've tried a few different ESF's and this was the best one but we may have just been lucky with the instructor. Certainly no negative feedback about them anyway.
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