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Help! I am trying to find the best place to take my 1 year od daughter and 4 year old son skiing? Both me and my husband ski so need childcare, but it would be nice if my son could ski too this year.
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christine28, 4 yr old will be able to ski and lots of places will be able to assist.
Any thoughts on what country you want, whether you are happy to go DIY or want a package (in which case the answer is Ski Esprit or Mark Warner I believe), method of travel, catered/self-catering etc.
From a personal perspective - Vallandry. We booked through Touist Board there, self catered, booked little-un into Tom Pouce nursery directly, older ones went with ESF and us in afternoon. Nice family friendly resort. But if you want catered chalet with flights - probably non-starter!
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Ski Esprit based purely on what I've read on here. Do a search and read through the posts and trip reports.
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Ski famille in les Gets, worked for me.
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Anyway, snowHeads is much more fun if you do.
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christine28, As far as I know creches/nurseries in France will not take children less than 18months old. Your best bet would be Ski Esprit and their most popular resort is La Rosiere in France.
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Look at Espirit.
We've using them for our two (2yo and 4yo) for the fourth time this January, eldest skied (sort of) in their Spritelets ski class last year at 3.
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Tom Pouce in Vallandry take them from 1 according to website
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christine28, if you are interested in Austria then possibly take a look at the various Kinderhotels accommodation.
http://www.kinderhotels.co.uk/index-en.html
Haven't used them myself but came across them in the past through work.
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christine28, espirit or ski famille are both good choices. If you can avoid French school holiday time. But be warned if the kids also get hooked you will never have any money again.......
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christine28, +1 for Ski Esprit. Expensive, but worth it. Go out of school holidays, unless you are teachers..and go after Feb half term so it's sunny and warm - early March? 4 year old will have fun and should be able to ski, stop and turn a bit after a week, as long as he/she can follow instructions.
We enjoyed La Rosiere but also had fun with Esprit at La Plagne and Arc 2000 -however I would not recommend you try to stay too high as kids/babies don't always cope well with altitude.
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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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This is our first snowboard / skiing trip with our 4 year old (over 4yrs since we've been!  ) and we opted to go with Esprit in Les Gets, only cost us £1400 for the 2nd week in January. Luckily for us we don't need permission to take our lad out of school because legally he doesn't need to be there until he's 5.
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Welcome to snowHeads Craig G. Nice 1st post 
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You know it makes sense.
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| Ivor Shed wrote: |
| christine28, As far as I know creches/nurseries in France will not take children less than 18months old. Your best bet would be Ski Esprit and their most popular resort is La Rosiere in France. |
This. From experience on several trips with Esprit to La Rosiere for similar reasons. The Chalet Braconnier is the place I would recommend - adjacent to slope so ski in/out, 50m or so from the enclosed children's learning area, 50m from the daytime childcare place. There are other options in this part of La Rosier that are also well-worth considering.
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Otherwise you'll just go on seeing the one name:
Otherwise you'll just go on seeing the one name:
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Poster: A snowHead
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Ivor Shed,
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| As far as I know creches/nurseries in France will not take children less than 18months old. Your best bet would be Ski Esprit and their most popular resort is La Rosiere in France. |
That is not the case in our local creche in Champagny. According to the website they will take children from 4 months to 6 years outside of the main French holidays (18 months to 6 years in peak holiday weeks) but I'm sure it is possible even during the holidays. We had a family staying in our apartment for an extended stay and they used the creche for their youngest even during the peak weeks.
I would imagine it depends on how busy they are and when you book.
More details here - http://www.champagny.com/en/winter-champagny/ski-champagny/ski-schools--sitraCOS404015--day-nursery-les-cabris.html#10
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Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
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We put our 11 month old in creche with ESF (Piou Piou) in Les Menuires back in 2010. Many other creches seem to take little ones from 3 months old - so you chould check in the specific resort you're looking at.
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Well, the person's real but it's just a made up name, see?
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Not that I've stayed there but the esprit hotel in courchevel http://www.espritski.com/resorts/courchevel-1850/ is well located as it's ski in ski out which gives you that peace of mind when you do need to get back ASAP and also just below the hotel is the jardin alpin area which is great for your 4 year old and has the added benefit of there being a few free drag lifts and travelators or the bus to take you back up to the hotel via the road.
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| Not that I've stayed there but the esprit hotel in courchevel http://www.espritski.com/resorts/courchevel-1850/ is well located as it's ski in ski out which gives you that peace of mind when you do need to get back ASAP and also just below the hotel is the jardin alpin area which is great for your 4 year old and has the added benefit of there being a few free drag lifts and travelators or the bus to take you back up to the hotel via the road. |
I can also recommend Esprit and have stayed with them in their Courchevel offering when our girls were 4 & 1. We all had a great time.
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Anyway, snowHeads is much more fun if you do.
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NickyJ, we've took our lad to the esprit hotel in val d'isere when he was 1 , courchevel when he was 4 , montgenevre when he was 4 and a bit older and we've now booked alpe d'huez and being able to ski back or virtually back is the one thing I'd recommend over anything else.
It just gives you that piece of mind when you're out.
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Has anyone used or heard of reviews of the Piou Piou creche situated in Les Menuires? We have booked our 8 momth old into the crech at La Croisette & cannot find any reviews anywhere! Thanks 
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How about grandmas?
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A little impossible as all grandparents live in Australia & we are in the UK!
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if you are not tied to school holidays and are flexible on resorts esprit seem to have pretty good last minut deals £1000-1200 for family of 4. there are add ons for child care but even so reasonable prices.
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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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We have already booked everything independently, wish I had looked into the family packages more though! I guess we are going to stick with the ESF & hope they are ok.
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I would endorse that. We had several excellent holidays with them in Zauchensee where no.1 son learnt to ski, starting at age 4 and going through to red run standard by age 7. Super hotel hard by the piste and great child care for our daughter who was just 4 months old the first time we went. Kids evening club was very good too.
Last trip with them was Jan 2008 and we only really moved on because Zauchensee was getting a bit boring.
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