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Registration's totally free, of course, and makes snowHeads easier to use and to understand, gives better searching, filtering etc. When you register, you get our free weekly -ish snow report by email. It's rather good and not made up by tourist offices or people that love the tourist office and want to marry it either We don't share your email address with anyone and we never send out any of those cheesy 'message from our partners' emails either. Anyway, snowHeads really is MUCH better when you're logged in - not least because you get to post your own messages complaining about things that annoy you like perhaps this banner which, incidentally, disappears when you log in Username:- Password:. Or: Register to be a proper snow-head, all official-like! Prev topic :: Next topic. Poster: A snowHead. Hi all, first post on here for donkeys years after more than a few years in the wilderness I wish having kids and thus being sadly away from the slopes. Thanks to all the info on this forum, me and the wife finally crossed our fingers and took the plunge at the weekend to book our first ski trip with the children 11,9 and 6 to La Plagne at the end of March. I'm excited as I've dreamed since we had the children to get them on skis just like my mum and dad did but I'm weirdly nervous, don't want to mess it up and put them off for life!!!!! Cheers Dom. Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person. Dom , The only problem I can think of is sunburn. The sun is fierce at altitude. I'm sure you will be able to cook and manage shopping just as well in an apartment as you can at home, but I do reccommend taking a sharp knive with you. Those in rental apartments tend to be blunt. Well, the person's real but it's just a made up name, see? Dom , Welcome back. The key question we answered with our 3 when they were young, is do we Mum and Dad want a Ski holiday, or a holiday with some skiing? For Mum, it was definately the former and that meant not supervising our own children during the day. You'll thank me afterwards. If you actually like your children and think you want to ski as a family then I still recommend you book morning lessons plus the lunch club. That means you and Mrs Dom at least get to have a nice lunch which she's not cooking! Alternatively,stop in Albertville to stock up before going up the Mountain. If you have a 'TV Firestick' take that too. Finally, as with any holiday, take twice the money, half the clothes and stick to the Merlot. You need to Login to know who's really who. Ski locker at the ski school meeting place. Or you'll end up being a mule all week. Anyway, snowHeads is much more fun if you do. JohnE Thanks, definitely wouldn't have thought about the knife! Initially we've discussed just the morning lessons but the meal included could be a good option. I think the full day idea all depends on whether they enjoy being in the group they're in - if so, we might leave them in for the first half of the week maybe. Csb - again, wouldn't've thought of the locker option - I'll have to find out where they are in Plagne Centre that's where they'll be doing lessons with Oxygene. Cheers everyone. You'll need to Register first of course. Dom , sounds great and you'll have a fantastic time! Personally, I think self-catering works much better with families as it gives you more space so the kids can do their own thing - it turns into a little home from home. Try and find out how good the wifi is - I tend to get a hippo wifi for the week to ensure good wifi, but that's just personal preference. Knowing they will have fast wifi allows us to enjoy a glass of wine in the evening in a bit of peace! I've not taken a firestick before great shout - but have an HDMI adaptor for my phone so the tv will mirror what's on my phone. I've downloaded movies onto my phone before going out, and then we have a family movie night a couple of times a week. As mentioned, it can be very sunny - but as long as you suncream the kids up and make sure they have a small tube of suncream and lip balm on them in their lessons then you'll be fine. We tend to go higher and later, and have never had an issue. It just means you can take your jacket off and sit outside at lunch! Having the kids in lessons in the morning is good, as it allows you a couple of hours to ski on your own. However, we tend to enjoy having lunch with them on the mountain especially as we tend to eat-in in the evenings - it's great family time to chat about what they did in their lesson etc. Skiing in lessons for a full day can be quite exhausting for the kids first time, and you don't want to put them off. Personally we do a couple of runs with them in the afternoon, but sometimes after that they want a snow ball fight, do a bit of sledging etc - the more flexible it is, the more they'll enjoy it, and then the more they'll want to ski. Then you can post your own questions or snow reports La Plagne vet here both as couple and then with 2 kids in tow. Haut Bois is a bit of a faff if the kids don't ski in our experience as you have to trek through the car park and up multiple lifts to access Aime If you're doing that, I would definitely suggest ESF at Aime rather than anything in Centre as you'll then be taking the cable-car down to Center for lessons. That is NOT a quick journey if you're in a rush and, as another poster said, you won't want to lug 5 sets of ski gear all that way. The Spar in Aime is absolutely fine for the basics although obviously if you can stock up in Albertville beforehand so much the better. Don't be put off by self-catering, we've always done it that way with kids and it's so much nicer in the evenings just being about to stretch out, watch a family film on the laptop etc. FWIW, our kids have always done full day not lunch but we've only left them in for meals on the odd days we've fancied a trip over to Les Arcs and they've not complained! If they've not skiied before, it's probably a bit early to try the 'ski as a family' thing but once our eldest was good enough and before our youngest arrived it was really nice to ski with him, even it was only for an hour or so over lunch. Any specific questions, more than happy to help. After all it is free. I don't know the geography of La Plagne, having only been once, years ago and without kids. But what LondonHawk says makes a lot of sense. I've done plenty of holidays with kids and grandchildren since and having the easiest possibly journey between your accommodation and the ski school meeting place is perhaps the most important factor in the whole holiday! But your kids are old enough to learn to carry their own skis properly for a short distance and they won't have poles, to start with though you might help the 6 year old at first! If you're a mule, you're a mug! Ski lessons are quite tiring when you start - even for kids. Morning lessons might be enough. We rarely did the 'buy lunch on the mountain' thing because it's so expensive for a family, and restaurants can be very busy after lessons. If your accommodation is nearby when you pick them up, going back for them to get rid of all the clobber and slob out for a bit with some easy, familiar, lunch options, isn't a bad idea. Depends on your budget. If you can afford to buy everybody lunch in a nice, uncrowded place - go for it!! You'll get to see more forums and be part of the best ski club on the net. Flippin 'eck, didn't expect so many helpful replies, thanks so much everyone. LondonHawk I did notice on web images and maps only after we'd booked that the Les Hauts Bois did look a bit of a trek up the road to the cable car. I'm hoping that Oxygene's free Mini bus pick up service in the morning will help out with that and if we can also sort lockers down near the ski school, that'll help prevent any lugging of kit about after skiing has finished. I don't know why I'm preferring the idea of Oxygene to the nearer ESF school in , I think I've got the impression that it's a bit military-like, not as good for young children and, I dunno, its just a daft hunch which could easily be turned round with any good experiences people have to share I'm also assuming there'll be better supermarket facilities in Plagne Centre which we can take advantage of at the end of the day before heading back up to if need be? Thanks for all your helpful advice and suggestions. Ski the Net with snowHeads. Quote: I don't know why I'm preferring the idea of Oxygene to the nearer ESF school in , I think I've got the impression that it's a bit military-like, not as good for young children and, I dunno, its just a daft hunch which could easily be turned round with any good experiences people have to share Certainly not the case in our experience we've been with them from 36 months because they had the Garderie attached. Not particularly. Similar sized Spar and a couple of very small independents. Nice boulangerie in Centre though. Quote: Not particularly. Wasn't expecting that. With no car we're not going to be able venture very far for groceries in the week, so unless the Spar on site is adequate it'll be restaurants all the way! And love to help out and answer questions and of course, read each other's snow reports. You will have a brilliant time! We have skied in la plagne for many years. Morning lessons sound good but the children may be a bit wet and tired by the end so an easy return to base or somewhere they can relax a bit is good. Do some skiing with them in the afternoons until the rubber legs yours or theirs appear. Find some easy runs near your accommodation- very early on you might find the one under the le France building at plagne centre nice and easy possibly get to this by lifts initially until the kids can ski down. If they can ski down then they will find the green too easy. There is a fairly busy and steep bit down from the top of the Becoin lift though which might initially be worth avoiding. The runs at aime that might be worth looking at would be the blues around the golf chairlift but check them out when you are skiing alone. Once the kids are more confident and you have time - the blues down through the trees to montalbert are fun as they have lots of creepy models of witches and trolls complete with sound effects. Also check out that the Envers chair is working as this is a vital new lift for the return which has needed a fist bit of repair work. I would avoid cournegodoille if you can probably spelt wrong though as the lower part can get icy just when the legs are getting tired and this might be off putting. If the children have had enough after their morning lesson or the weather is a bit iffy though , take the afternoon off and go for a lovely hot chocolate with cream on top chocolate chantilly. This is often transformative. So if you're just off somewhere snowy come back and post a snow report of your own and we'll all love you very much. With some advance planning and taking crucial ingredients with you and that sharp knife , you can do a lot of meals from what'll be available in the Spar. It'll be expensive, compared to your local Tesco, but not compared to going out! And the wine will be reasonable. Evenings in a ski apartment with small kids whacked out from the day's exertions are long - there'll be time to cook! You know it makes sense. I wouldn't want to be relying on a mini-bus to get three beginner kids to their first week of ski lessons. Getting three of them togged up and ready to go then untogging at least one who needs a last minute wee is sufficiently trying when the timing is entirely under your control. Otherwise you'll just go on seeing the one name:. Quote: I wouldn't want to be relying on a mini-bus to get three beginner kids to their first week of ski lessons. OMG you've just painted a picture of every school morning in our house. ESF has just gone back on the agenda. Other thoughts, and I'll admit to being biased about things depending on my own personal experience growing up. Agree about the general comments that kids will get tired easily, so won't want to be skiing all afternoon. I would definitely lean towards making it more of a 'mountain family holiday' rather than a 'skiing holiday'. It'll be worth it in the long run, and your kids will get great memories: some of my fondest memories of growing up are of my mountain holidays with parents and brothers, and I'm very much looking to build similar memories with my own son when he's a bit older. Self-catering should be fine. The Spar will have enough to cover evening meals, although it will be quite expensive. You can think about taking some basics with you - oil, salt and pepper, spices, dishwasher tablets, and so on - stuff you don't want to have to buy on the mountain and end up leaving most of behind. I don't know what the possibilities in Aime are, but there might also be some kind of 'traiteur' for a night or two. Growing up, we always used to meet up and have family lunches in a restaurant at the base of the slopes. It was a great chance to go over what we'd been doing that morning. If your kids are happy in restaurants I'd go with that. It won't be cheap although you should be able to find reasonably priced options , but then again, a family ski holiday won't be cheap anyhow, so Just remembered this place for lunch with kids. Cheap option in Belle Plagne and opposite the infirmary, which often provides entertainment! Dom , agree with most of the advice so far. Ski School. Always a tricky decision. From our observation, ESF classes tend to be far too large we've counted 16! I would go with Oxygene. Definitely only lessons in the morning, and expect kids may not want to ski all afternoon. Spa Shop. The shop in is quite adequate. Don't forget it. Make it part of morning routine whatever the weather. Forget at your peril. Put your kids first, and skiing second. Quote: Put your kids first, and skiing second The whole process of kids learning to ski is one of the most enjoyable family activities - those of us who can afford it are fortunate. Our first holiday was two weeks self-catering in Austria, with kids aged 4, 11 and We took hired skis from a shop in Ayr, a pressure cooker, lots of meal ingredients, and grandma. The entire family went into lessons, except the 4 year old, who was very hesitant, and stayed with grandma and went to the creche entirely German speaking, which she didn't greatly enjoy! Grandma cooked simple lunch for everybody after lessons. At the end of the week ski school medal-presentation ceremony the 4 year old decided she wanted to join in, so did ski school for the second week. So she moved up to a class with a teacher who spoke a bit of English, and enjoyed the faster pace. Her two big brothers watched proudly when she did her first run up the nursery drag lift and managed a wobbly snowploughed down to join the queue. We were all ecstatic. Sharing that process - the problems along with the triumphs - is irreplaceable. I can't imagine dumping kids in ski school in the morning and picking them up at the end of the day still less having a 'nanny' take them and pick them up! After some years they repay the time you've invested. You might be happier if we took the lift down'. Quote: I would definitely lean towards making it more of a 'mountain family holiday' Love that. Definitely a better perspective, I'm having that if you don't mind!!! Quote: Cheap option in Belle Plagne and opposite the infirmary, which often provides entertainment! Nice one. Quote: ESF classes tend to be far too large we've counted 16! I think this kinda sums up my concerns really - although my concerns are just a hunch so its a bit unfair on ESF!!!!!! Quote: After some years they repay the time you've invested. Superb, I'm praying for this in 10 years time!!!! Thanks everyone, off to print this off!!!! Dom , Superb, I'm praying for this in 10 years time!!!! It will be more like years before they are faster and more stylish than the adults. Self catering is never a real problem. You will find enough food to buy around La Plagne is in France after all! I do recommand to have your kids going to ski lessons all week long on mornings then take them on the slopes with you during the afternoons. They will be proud to show you how they are performing and this will be a great opportunity to take pictures and film them. She is 10 and this december she will for the 1st time attending a full day lessons with ESF at a Competition Camp We will have full days of ski just for my wife and myself! Lots of good recommendations here already. Mine is - get the kids skiing before you go. On the first day in resort they were flying down reds with us in the afternoon. Our first trip we did morning lessons followed by lunch at ski school. That was the last we did that, as it just wasted time. We went against the grain and put the children in school all day, but did meet them for lunch. Ski school was , lunch and afternoon ski school was So they were only away from us for two hours at a time. They were 8 and 6 when we went. It's worth noting that Mr. Owlette and I were also beginners though so we had morning lessons and practiced in the afternoon. We were not confident to ski anything other than the nursery run with them, which we'd generally do between 3 and 4. A lot of it will be down to the individual. Youngest was happy having one or two runs on the nursery slope after ski school but more interested in his hot chocolate and donut tip: pick up from ski school holding food to throw straight at them , oldest was disgruntled when the nursery drag lift was turned off because he wanted to keep going. We self-cater too. There's a lot to be said for slobbing in base layers with electronic devices whilst waiting for dinner. Great tip about the Firestick! Using that one, though Mr. O and I usually play cards or read. I saw the 4 gang plug tip on Mumsnet years ago and have used it for every holiday since. Have a fantastic time! Lots of good advice and i used SH advice for our trips with the kids when they were learning. Food directly after lessons is good advise, we shoved some chocolate and coke down them at pick up as there was definitely a drop off in excitement and energy! Would add Ski pass make sure its in a pocket with a zip and tell them never to open it! Add to same pocket your phone number. Lots of kids jackets have a zip pocket in the forearm. Probably worth the insurance extra incase it gets lost. Get everything ready the night before, getting out takes twice as long and then add some more time to that. More clothes are better, its much better to be too hot and take a layer off than too cold. Bear in mind kids get cold quick when they stop so find a good hot chocolate place to stop. Take snacks on slope. Echo the comments on ski locker near slopes. I became an expert at carrying two sets of kids skis plus mine and a child at times when they were small and hated it. Also, if you can get them a couple of lessons on slope. Will give them a good foundation. I would also say leave them to it when doing lessons, I made the massive mistake of trying to watch them and my youngest spotted me only 5 at the time and wouldn't go back to her lesson. Much better if you do want to see them is get to the ski school place early for meeting or ask the instructor where their last run is likely to be. They now dont want us to be there so not an issue! Its great, one of the best things we do as a family. They are missing out. Its amazing how quickly they progress. Kids have 0 fear and will be flying by the end of the week! Take a good sized day pack! I couldn't believe the amount of extra stuff I had to carry when mine were little. We got ours camel backs so they always had water. I'd go for mittens over gloves and get ones that either clip onto their coats or with strings - they will lose them otherwise. We found with both ours that by day 3 or 4 we could enjoy skiing with them for a couple of hours after ski school. The first holiday is hard work and you may not ski as much as you would like, but you will reap the rewards in years to come. Before they had phones, I made up laminated cards with our phone numbers and accommodation on and put them in their pockets - we did misplace a 6yr old once as she followed someone in the same coloured jacket as me. Good Luck. Just thought of another tip - bring loads of packets of Dextrose tablets with you from the uk. Literally like instant energy for the kids in the afternoon when energy levels drop. Much easier to carry around than chocolate or sweets. Quote: Kids have 0 fear Not always true. Some are more hesitant to start with, and their anxiety about the slippy ski feeling is exacerbated by being away from parents with people in funny clothes who talk funny. I have helped shepherd 3 kids and 6 grandchildren through learning to ski and not all have been gung-ho. Two who were quite timid one daughter and one grand-daughter have become good skiers because they listened to the instructor, never rushed off, watched and copied, wanted to be perfect, were really quite anxious, quite a lot of the time, though they were very brave and never gave up. But they needed very careful handling to enjoy it - and the grand-daughter had one to one private lessons with a lovely instructor. The daughter spent the whole first week of a two-week ski holiday just watching and taking it all in. On the second Saturday I rented skis and boots for her and pulled her up and down a very gentle slope, did the 'hands on knees' thing, and told her if she didn't wimp out and moan at me I'd pay for ski school for the following week for her. Absolutely no way would she have gone into group lessons with a German speaking instructor on the first day after a long and difficult badly delayed journey. She was 4 and when she joined the group she had learnt to say 'Ich heisse Alex. Ich kann nicht Deutsch'. We lived in Scotland at the time so she her pronunciation of 'nicht' was spot on. You will know your own kids - they are not all fearless speed freaks. There's always next year. New Topic Post Reply. Snow Snow Snow! 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This week we're going skiing to La Plagne and letting the train take the strain. Peter Welcome to our travel podcast. Train traveller 4 We all met at uni and we used to have up to hour coaches. So this is…. The downside is having to sit up all night for nine hours in your seat during the rail journey across Europe. The reward is a full seventh day on snow in a one-week holiday. And being able to bring your own equipment and whatever luggage you want at no extra cost. These two towns are the railheads for a host of French resorts. Eurostar has been running direct trains to Bourg St Maurice on winter weekends since actually. Peter Yes, but in , to the horror of its regular snowbound customers, it dropped the service, citing the pandemic as a reason. UK emergency laws prevented British skiers travelling to France that winter, and there was little or no prospect of services being restored for the following one. This is the accommodation arm of CdA — or the Compagnie des Alpes , which happens to be the largest owner of ski lifts in Europe. Peter Now, the absence of British skiers in the French Alps has been really hurting resorts in general and CdA in particular. You see, British skiers are really important to the Alpine economy. Sure, the UK has hardly registered on the scoreboard of the Winter Olympics. Felice How could this be? Very simply, the vast majority of Europeans can only take vacations at set times of year. Brits, on the other hand, can traditionally take time off whenever it suits them. For example, in January, which is largely a no-go month among the French and others, major resorts rely on a high percentage of British to fill their beds. Peter The situation is really hurting CdA where it hurts most: in its pocket. So Guillaume decided to do something about it. Now, in the past Eurostar has always steadfastly refused to run charters from London. Traveller 1 It feels like an airport. Peter No indeed. The passport and health security procedures seem pretty straightforward. I just hope the station cleaners managed to rescue it and pull the cork. Perhaps the no-alcohol rule is a good idea. Felice Our seats are Standard Premier, which means that they partially recline and we also get an airline-style dinner and breakfast the next day. But shortly after 8pm on the last Friday in January, the train pulls slowly out of St Pancras. Now that we are finally on our way and have already reached French soil, Guillaume has got a huge smile on his face. Guillaume, you must be very pleased that you finally got the project off the ground. So far, so good. Guillaume Yes, so far so good, as you say. We are very excited. Yes, quite happy. Guillaume Tonight we have over passengers, precisely which is quite quite an amazing number in view of the context and the complexity of organising all this in the middle of the COVID crisis. 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And in a couple of weeks, we will start to discuss whether we should continue, do it differently next year. Maybe they will do it by themselves, maybe we will add another train by ourselves. You have to have booked with you to come on the train. Is that right? Guillaume Absolutely. I mean, a Travelski train, and obviously, yes, the only way to book this train is to go through our website and actually book on our website to buy a package, which includes not only the train, but also includes some accommodation and a ski pass and a number of services which go together. Felice Very comfortable, nice, comfortable seats that recline; wide seats, big tables, food — better than airplane food, lots of room to stretch your legs, go and walk around if you want to. You can have all your washing things with you in your hand luggage. 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As we were about to discover that some serious steep here off-piste. Felice We were booked into a hotel at Plagne Centre. Not the prettiest, but one of the most convenient purpose-built villages at an altitude of meters. What more could we want? But after another breakfast, we changed into ski gear, grabbed rental skis and met up with our guide Thierry. And we were raring to go when the lifts open at 9am. Ready to ski? Hmmm…tired but not ready to go to sleep yet. Who would be on such a perfect day? Well, what we thought we should do is to explore as many of the pistes we can, so that we can see how they all link together. Peter next to the cross-country track at Champagny le Haut. Felice Well, our guide… ESF guide. We would avoid it and go off-piste. And anyway, he assured us that it would be a nice, lovely flat open powder field. It was gorgeous, an open powder field. We had lots and lots of turns through powder, not very steep. And then I sort of suspected that it was on a plateau and that you actually have to get off the plateau at some time. Peter Yes. Well, he did tell us that it would towards the end, it would be a little bit of a narrow path, as he put it, where we would sort of side-slip and stop and look up and… with a bit of luck, we should see quite a lot of wildlife and that we would see bouquetin , which is a kind of mountain goat with huge horns. But anyway, we carried on down through the powder field, which was pretty good. But it could have been a lot worse because he wanted to start from up on the glacier and take us down quite a difficult piece of off-piste first. But fortunately for us, the high winds had closed the lifts up to the glacier. The start of our off-piste run down to Champagny le Haut. So we started with the Roche de Mio, which is itself high enough. Felice is right, the talent through the powder in the middle were sensational. Then there was just glorious, untouched field with ice crystals dancing on top of the snow, and it was really, really beautiful. And then it just kind of got a bit worse. Felice First of all we went down a very narrow path, which you had to side-slip, and then the snow ran out. Then there was more snow. Well, when the snow ran out, we could clamber over it on our skis; it was sort of grassy. Then there was a bit more snow, much narrower. Then the snow ran out altogether so we had to take our skis off. And the edge was crumbling a bit, so you had to think very carefully where you put each footstep. But our guide had sort of feet like a bouquetin really, and he just sort of strode forward with our skis and occasionally he put the skis down and he came back and he helped us with our footsteps. But this whole process took what…how long did it take? And then when you turned a corner, which was not easy in itself, you could see the same conditions stretching out for maybe or metres ahead and then no sign of snow. Felice So on and on we went, very slowly turning corners, working our way down the cliff face until finally, what a relief we got onto the piste at the bottom. Peter Well, piste is not the word. Actually, what we got onto was the same ledge, slightly wider with some traces of snow on it. Enough certainly to ski on. And so in a sort of glorified sideslip, we carried on down this for maybe another quarter of a mile or something like that. Felice We had to pole along the cross-country…or over the cross-country track, and I was so exhausted. Delicious Croute au fromage at Refuge du Bois. Felice Which was a beautiful old place decorated with lots of old books and funny hats and mountain eclectica and really warm and cosy and delicious food. Really delicious. So it was worth it for that. That refuge, by the way, is called Refuge Du Bois. I had a Croute au fromage , one of the traditional dishes of the Savoie and Haute Savoie. The dish is basically bread soaked in wine, topped with melted cheese. Peter So a taxi took us from Champagny le Haut to the main ski resort village of Champagny, from where we caught a gondola back up into the main ski area. Thierry, led us home…off-piste, it has to be said, whenever possible. Personally, I suspect a true mountain man like Thierry avoids groomed slopes whenever he possibly can. So finally, we return to the Terra Nova as the light was fading, exhausted, but absolutely exhilarated. What a day. The train? Resident dog outside Chez Pat du Sauget. We got exactly the kind of skis we wanted and the service with a huge smile was absolutely brilliant. Felice, home tomorrow. Thoughts on La Plagne overall as a destination? Felice Yes, you are taken by surprise because everyone thinks of La Plagne as having motorway skiing. 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