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Hi, wondering if anyone can give me some info on the nursery slopes for kids (age 3 & 5) in Val Claret, Tignes, as in what do they consist of and where exactly are they in Val Claret? Have been looking on the web but very little info available. I know some exist and from what i can gather other areas in Tignes / Val D'Isere may have more extensive nursery slopes, but would be fab to get a bit more info on this. I guess if they are limited the ski school would take you on the bus to Tignes Le Lac? Thanks in advance!
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Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
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I guess if they are limited the ski school would take you on the bus to Tignes Le Lac?
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I expect so, I did beginner classes there and we went to le lac
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Well, the person's real but it's just a made up name, see?
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If the rug rats are absolute beginners put them with the specialist kids ski schoos (Marmottons or ESF Piou Piou - I think thats the name). They have dedicated snow gardens - completely segregated and have the magic carpet lifts. There is also a drag lift under the Tufs Chair with a piste segregated by a snow bank from the main piste. The only other beginners piste is the main run back into town served by the Bollin lift which is uber busy.
Other than that its off to Lac for the Rosset chair - which has no foot rests so can be a little tiring but the piste is segregated or to Lavachet for the drag lift and the Lavachet gardens piste. The dedicated snow gardens are repeated in Lac.
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There are no nursery slopes in Val Claret, so it is a bus ride to Le Lac.
Here's the nursery slope:
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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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It has always amazed me that the above nursery slope is next to the run off from a black run.
Andy
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hillmad, the snow garden for the marmottons / pandas or what ever is on the other side- you can just see the hut I think it is to the right of the gondola in the picutre above.
In January it is  freezing with next to no sun.
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Thanks v much that's all really helpful, and particular thanks for the picture....have skied before in Tignes and that's reminded me of the layout...agree its interesting to have black next to nursery slopes but on the plus side if you're an adult you get to have a whizz down as well as catching a glimpse of what spritelets are up to 
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Having learned in Tignes as a complete beginner (though far from a rugrat  ) I would agree that the beginner slope in Val Claret, accessed from the Bollin free lift, would be somewhat hairy at busy times. In fact seven years on and confident on any pisted slope I still find the chicanes at the end of that run uncomfortable when it's crowded.
In le Lac I would say that the Lavachet slope is the one for complete beginners with Rosset as the first step up. Rosset is actually graded blue and like others I spent a fair amount of my first week looking enviously across to the last pitch of Trolles thinking that I could never possibly get to do that.
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