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kids lessons chatel
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anyone got any experience of kids lessons in chatel outside of the school hols. The ESF chatel website seams to be saying that before feb half term lessons are only in the super chatel area but after that they start at pre la joux. The problem is our 9 year old will be doing gold level as he passed bronze last year and we are concerned that the super chatel area is simply not large enough to keep him interested or motivated for a week. woudl welcome any experience anyone has on this, i know the ski area well having been over there from morzine a few times but only ever done it on adult only hols so not really had any exposure to lessons. thanks
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Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person

backhojo, sorry a bit late finding this. OK not out of school holidays but experience of kids lessons in Chatel. A few things to consider, the Super Chatel area for a kid in lessons will be fine as in lessons generally and at that level in particular they will be focussing on drills and practising gates as IIRC the end of week test for gold involves a timed course. So they don't need a big area to ski. So if you want him to continue with the ESF then I wouldn't worry about that.

If you want him to ski from Pre La Joux more than you want him to ski with ESF then I can highly recommend BASS school there for their kids groups. The way they teach is different to ESF, they are all native english speakers and the groups were small. The ESI school also ski from Pre La Joux and have a lot of native english speaking instructors too and I would have happily used them if there hadn't been an appropriate BASS group for my son. The only thing to check with BASS outside school holidays is that they will have a group running at the level your son is at.

Hope this helps a bit Smile
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Well, the person's real but it's just a made up name, see?

Please don't use BASS either. They cancel days at very short notice - whilst having pre-booked lessons and they make changes to class composition every day - yes every day.
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camoa1, cancellation is not nice! Sometimes if there are not enough people for a group lesson, the lesson providers reserve the right to give a smaller number of "private" lessons. I am used to changes in class composition. Virtually every time I have skied in group lessons the composition of the class has changed from day to day. Doesn't bother me unless the newbies are numpties.
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dobby wrote:
camoa1, cancellation is not nice!

... but spamming every thread you can find referring to BASS with the same non-specific moan is lame Mad
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