Getting Ready For The Ski Season With The Family

Here in Chamonix we are once again eagerly awaiting the ski season and with our first ski planned for next week on the Grands Montets opening day, the four of us are already like children waiting for Christmas. With Josh now 5 and Victoria 7, they have now skied for 2 years and 3 years respectfully and clearly they are already hooked as the mere mention of the phrase 'we are going skiing next week guys' gets a beaming smile and them both into an excited frenzy.

I guess living in the apartment that is short walk from our luxury catered chalet and also on the piste, they are quite lucky. But that is probably not the whole story, here in the ski region of Les Houches in the Chamonix Valley we have probably one of the best family orientated ski schools and the ESF team, who are also just below the ski run that passes the chalet, is second to none in our experience. Their support and family friendly approach with all childrens ensures most importantly the children have a great time and have always wanted to attend ski school and learn. The other important factor is probably the fact that Les Houches is probably one of the best family ski resorts in the region. With few steep drop offs the ski area has some great confidence building runs and the 'off-piste' is not too steep and the small jumps and bumps ensure skiing is great fun, especially for Josh who craves something extra (a real boys boy as my husband would say).

Right, bedtime for them both so will sign-off at this point but will try and keep this updated, especially after our first ski of the season!