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Flexible ski breaks to Europe. Stay 3, 4, 5 or 7 nights. ⛷️🏂 Catered chalets / ski hotels. Maximise your time on the slopes!
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HOW TO BOOK A SKI HOLIDAY - PART 3 ⛷️

If you’ve never booked a ski holiday before, or it’s your first time taking kids, it can feel like there are about 400 things to think about.

But genuinely, once you break it down, it becomes SO much easier.

A few things to keep in mind:
📅 Your dates make a huge difference. If you’re tied to school holidays, Christmas and Easter can often be better value than New Year or Feb half term. Outside them, January and early December can have brilliant deals.
🏔️ Don’t just book the famous resort. Think about your ability AND the kind of holiday you want. Beginners don’t need hundreds of kilometres of pistes, and a smaller ski area can mean cheaper accommodation, lift passes and spending once you’re there.
🏡 Spend where it matters to you. Self catering can save loads, but ski in ski out can be worth every penny with kids. And if you want the easiest week, catered or all inclusive can completely change the holiday.
🚗 Don’t compare travel on flights alone. Add bags, ski carriage and transfers before deciding what’s cheapest. Driving can work brilliantly for families because you can throw EVERYTHING in the car.
🎿 Lessons are worth budgeting for. Group lessons usually give you more hours for your money, while private lessons cost more but can mean faster progression.
🎟️ Lift passes are a BIGGIE . An adult day pass can range from around £40 to nearly £100 depending on the resort. Some resorts also have free or discounted kids’ passes. Beginners really don’t need to pay for a huge linked ski area they won’t use.

Sunweb include them in all their holidays. See below for our discount code.

First trip? Rent your skis and boots rather than buying them. Booking online before you travel is often much cheaper too.
Hopefully this makes the whole thing feel a little less overwhelming 🤍

SAVE this + FOLLOW for more family ski help this winter.
Ready to price one up? Comment SKI DISCOUNTS and we’ll send you our current discounts.

ADAFF (from the discount codes)

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Education, but in the way that works for your family.

For the past three years, we’ve been travelling for work. We try to keep as much of it as possible within school holidays, but inevitably some trips spill into term time too.

This year, our boys missed 38 school days between them - 19 days each.

But the thing is, this isn’t just us taking them out of school because of our job. This is how we want to educate our kids and ultimately a big part of why we choose this job in the first place: learning from the world, experiencing different places and cultures, and spending as much time together as a family as we can before they’re grown.
We’ve seen how much they’re thriving through being educated in a slightly less traditional, mixed way.

In reality, they haven’t missed that much school, and when they are away, their learning doesn’t stop. They continue with maths and reading, work on projects they’re genuinely interested in and learn so much simply through being somewhere new.

They’re both doing incredibly well - socially, academically and in themselves.

Everyone is allowed to have an opinion on it, but for us, our boys are proving that full-time schooling isn’t necessarily the only way for every child to receive a brilliant education.

Less school doesn’t mean less education or fewer opportunities. For our family, it has very clearly meant more.

So yes, perhaps we are trying to have our cake and eat it - finding a way for them to have the stability of school alongside all the opportunities travel brings.

If you feel the same, you’re in the right place.

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Our first hosted ski trip! ⛷️

Are you coming?

If you watched the video and thought, we’re in! please send us an email to adventuresofthewests@gmail.com including:

Your name, party size, phone number and confirm you’re ready to pay a £200pp deposit to secure your place.

A few more things you may need to know -

- The trip is 3 nights from 25th February in Les Gets, France.

- Les Gets is a brilliant family ski resort. It has a lovely village feel, great ski schools, fun ski areas for kids, and access to the Les Gets–Morzine ski area with 120km of pistes.

This is a hosted trip, not a guided ski trip. We’ll be there with our boys, staying in the chalet too, and we’ll arrange meet ups, lunches/après and chalet time, but we won’t be acting as ski guides or instructors.

- The price is from £783pp and includes catered chalet accommodation and return airport transfers. The final price will depend on room type and occupancy.

- The ideal flights would be out as early as possible on Thursday 25th February and home as late as possible on Sunday 1st March, so you can make the most of the long weekend and potentially ski on the travel days too.

You don’t have to ski on travel days though, you could absolutely just use one or both as travel/chalet days.

Please don’t book flights until Ski Weekends has confirmed your place and the transfer-compatible flight times.

Ski hire, lift passes, lessons and flights are not included.
Your holiday will be booked directly through @skiweekends , not through us. We’re collecting the details of interested families first, then Ski Weekends will contact you directly to confirm details and take your deposit.

If you have any questions, or would be interested in a different type of trip, please ask below or DM us.

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Save this video for your next trip to Tignes-Val d’Isère ⛷️

Here is Part 2 -

This section of Tignes is better (in my opinion) - the snow evens out that bit more and although the piste is still super steep it’s actually a much more enjoyable run.

Would you ski this one? ⛷️

#skitok #skiseason #skipov #Tignes #skilife

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Falling down the toughest black run in Tignes 👆

Would you try this run? ⛷️

This run is called Sache and it’s found on the Tignes side of Tignes-Val d’Isère - this is a gruelling 10km black run that takes you from the Aiguille Percée (2700m) to Tignes Les Breviérès (1550m).

What makes this run so difficult?

Firstly - it’s ungroomed.

The piste bashers do not touch this run - it’s completely au natural. This makes it more difficult as it is constantly choppy which makes it tough to find a rhythm as you’re avoiding moguls and clumps of hard snow.

Secondly - it’s long.

Sache is 10km in length - which means you have to keep your concentration for a very long time.

And if you don’t? This is what happens 👆

Sponsored by @skiweekends ⛷️

#skitok #skiseason #tignes #skipov #skilife

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Welcome to Chalet Vallon by @skiweekends ⛷️

Chalet Vallon is located in Val d’Isère 📍

We stayed here for five days and had the most amazing time.

Chalet Vallon is found in the most perfect ‘ski in ski out’ location and it takes only 90 seconds to ski to the lifts.

It’s also only 60 seconds to après ski 🍻

The food at Chalet Vallon was incredible - the food was homemade by the staff on site every day:

• full breakfast in the morning
• afternoon tea and cakes
• three course evening meal with wine

This was amazing for us as it meant that we could spend as much time on the slopes as possible.

One of the best things about booking with @skiweekends is that transfers are included so we got to Val d’Isère quickly in the comfort of a shared minibus.

We also collected our lift passes at the chalet which meant saving us even more time 👆

If you’re not bringing your own ski / snowboards - you have the option to book your own ski and snowboard equipment through @skiweekends 🎿

I’ve stayed in many catered chalets over the years and Chalet Vallon was 10/10 🤌

#skitok #skiseason #valdisere #skipov #skilife

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Some of the incredible food to be found in Les Gets and Chatel in the French Alps this week with a lovey group of journalists covering the new Premier Festival - dedicated to complete beginners. We stayed at Chalet Marjorie, run by SkiWeekends and its team of fantastic hosts and star chef Marcus #lesgets #skiing #snowfood #learntoski #skiweekends

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Winter has returned in the French Alps this morning as we wake up in Châtel, French Alps with @skiweekends.
#skiing #alps #snowday

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Thank you @skiweekends for a fantastic ski trip- we had the best time ⛷️☀️👌🙌🤩❤️

#skiweekends
#lesgets
#chaletmarjorie
#skiing

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The skiing ⛷️ or the Apres 🍻?

Why do you ski? 👀 Vote below 👇

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What my kids ate in a day on a catered chalet ski holiday ⛷️

Skiing all day with kids means a lot of food and for us, very little energy left to cook.

Staying in a shared catered ski chalet on this trip, I was a bit worried the food wouldn’t suit our less adventurous eater, but the chalet team were amazing at catering to what they actually like, and I didn’t need to worry at all.

This is why this trip actually ended up being perfect for a family ski holiday - breakfast, lunch (if you want to take baguettes), afternoon tea and dinner sorted, and everyone actually eats.

On this trip we were staying with @skiweekends in Les Gets (PR stay).

We’ve shared more from this trip including the chalet, skiing with kids and where we stayed in the recent posts on our page 🤍

Save this if you’re planning a family ski trip and follow for more.

#FamilySkiTrip #SkiingWithKids #CateredChalet #LesGets #FamilyTravel

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This is how much it actually cost us to do a short family ski break in peak season ⛷️

We did 3 nights in a shared catered ski chalet in Les Gets, travelling just before half term, and managed to pack in what felt like a huge amount of skiing without missing a full week of school.

Everything is broken down in the video, but a couple of extra bits worth knowing:

Flights were even cheaper when we looked a week earlier - we found them for £634 total.

You can book a 3 night break in the same chalet from £421 per person later this ski season

For us, this worked so well:
✔️ peak-season skiing
✔️ almost 4 full days on the mountain
✔️ cooked breakfast, afternoon tea, packed lunches + evening meals included
✔️ no school fines
✔️ under £1k per person on this trip

This trip was a PR stay with Ski Weekends in their shared catered ski chalet right in the centre of Les Gets (we’ve been away with them 3 times now and genuinely love how easy they make ski trips).

If you’d like the details, comment “chalet les gets” and we’ll send you the link plus a discount code you can use on any of their ski holidays this season or next (valid until 1st March).

Would you consider a short ski break like this with kids? 🤍

#familyskiing #shortskibreak #skitravelwithkids #familytravelinspo #lesgets

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