Where is your favourite family chalet for beginners...or is it a secret?!

Hi all,

Just discovered this forum - wish I'd found this forum before our first ski trip last year!

I wonder if any of you guys can give us some of your years of experience as we are trying to find and book our perfect chalet in the perfect location for Half Term 2010. The ones I seem to find want loads of money (9-11k for one week whole chalet rental for 11...5 of those being children age 4,66,9,11!) which, apart from not having, we cant possibly justify.

We are going round in circles.

Our first trip was to Le Viking hotel (through Crystal) which was in the perfect of all perfect locations at the top of Le Pleney cable car in Morzine. Right on the green slope, with a fantastic area for kids to ski (or try) and sledge right outside the hotel with rope and magic carpet lifts. So we have been spolit. The hotel on other hand was not so perfect....by a looooong shot so next time we want to go with our friends (as before) in our own chalet and take our childcare with us.

So, we want a chalet (ideally catered), ideally ski in/ out and on/ near an easy blue with a green or other child friendly ski/ toboggan area very closeby so our childcare can entertain kids in the morning.
Close to lifts and blue/ green runs.
Easy walk to town/ village/ shops/ cafe/ restaurant. We dont want a car.
Dont want chalet to be up a slope as have a child with mobility problems with us who prob will need a buggy - am I showing my ignorance here...is it possible to get a ski in/out chalet not up a slope!!

Anyway, I cd really do with your list of favourites to help me out.
We were looking at Chalet Fram in Les Gets but it looks like its in the 'other' side of town with a bit of a walk out of town, no ski area for kids nearby and off a red run (yeah right!).

..or your thoughts on a good website to help me out wd be great.
Sorry for the ramble.
Hope you can help!

Becs

France is about the most expensive country in Europe to ski in. Maybe you should consider looking elsewhere. Italy has some nice places, and the exchanve rate makes Switzerland more appealling. Austria has the best standard of accommodation at the mid range of the market generally.

Could I just ask if you have found the perfect place and love it, why not go back? instead of worrying yourself to death and wasting a lot of money for a holiday you may or may not enjoy? sorry i cant give you any advice, but I am sure you will get plenty of peeps at your aid shortly

Tony_H wrote:France is about the most expensive country in Europe to ski in. Maybe you should consider looking elsewhere. Italy has some nice places, and the exchanve rate makes Switzerland more appealling. Austria has the best standard of accommodation at the mid range of the market generally.

Hot off the press price list for Switzerland Beer 5 Sf, Spag bol 21 Sf, Pizza 22 Sf, coffee 4 Sf soup 6 Sf roll extra to calculate into sterling the exchange rate we got was 1.58 Sf to the pound. Work it out yourselves to ascertain if you still think it is cheap I would suggest Nil point . :shock: :shock:

Oh. Nicht so gut. :shock:

That seems pricey. It's possible to get a day lift pass and plat du jour for 59chf where I generally go. Coffee is 3.50chf. It's a small resort though, so it won't suit a lot of skiers looking for mileage and piste variety. The day ticket is 47chf by itself.
http://www.rma.ch/template/fs/AsSKIette_panoramique_small.pdf

ise regularly tests the Plat du Jour, and look at what he gets up to )