Family skiing

We aim to provide a more understanding friendly service for families staying on a catered basis, providing early kids meals and hassle free free holidays for you parents.

We understand that taking the family on holiday is not a cheap option, so we offer self catered accommodation for families on a budget, or special family rate (2 adults, 2 children under 14), sharing a room with their parents or in either our family room or quad room for families who want a break from cooking and cleaning.

We also offer our catered guests private minibus transport to their lessons, and our private ski lockers right by the slopes are available to store the skis and boot. We even accompany guests to meet and greet their ski instructors!

La Clusaz is a very popular resort with families and places in the kids clubs are limited, so we recommend booking as early as possible during the school holidays.

Child-minding by local English speaking nannies is available at Chalet Fan La Bise during the day or evening. Alternatively there are two creches in the town centre, Club des Mouflets and Club des Champions . For a taste of skiing the ESF Piou-Piou club kids ski kindergarten offers short ski sessions. More intensive private ski tuition is available from 3yrs+, and structured ski school from 4yrs+ with ESF and Snow Academie.

Club des Mouflets caters for younger non-skiing children from 8 months to 4 years, with a range of organised indoor activities. It has 34 places, is located in the centre and is open from 8:30-12 pm and 2-6pm and meals can be provided.

Club des Champions is for older children from 3 to 6 years old. It has 40 places, and kids enjoy indoor activities such as collage and music and outdoor activities such as walks, making snowmen and sledging. A one hour ski initiation lesson in the ESF kindergarten, is possible for children aged 4+. Open from 8:30-12 pm and 2-6 pm. Vaccination documentation is obligatory. 

Our family friendly Chalet Fan La Bise has a relaxed atmosphere which allows families to feel completely at home. We eve have a dedicated 'kidszone' with loads of board games, videos, DVD's and playstation 1, 2 and Nintendo Wii with a variety games needed to keep the kids (and dads!) occupied.

The chalet sleeps 10-16 and we have a combination of room sizes to suit your families needs.
On the top level of the chalet is our family suite. Made up of 2 adjoining rooms (double/twin and x2 twin rooms) with a private ensuite bathroom. It is perfect for families with young cildren, who can also take advantage of our special family rates.
On the middle level of the chalet is a double bedroom with a quad room opposite (two sets of bunk beds) and bathroom with WC between the two rooms, perfect for families with older children.
On the bottom level there is a double ensuite bedroom with small bunk room opposite. The layout of the chalet makes it perfect for groups of two or three families holidaying together, and can be booked on an 'exclusive use' basis, for extra privacy. A travel cot, high chairs and stairgates are also available for really young guests. 

There are loads of lovely mountainside restaurants available to help warm the kids up with a hot chooclate after a ski lessons or re-fuel them for the afternoon. They provide a range of foods from snack foods (chips or crepes)to full traditional dinners. In the town centre and around the 'Champ Guiget' where the ski schools meet, there is more choice with some very good reasonably priced Pizzerias.

As part of our catered package we can provide children's meals* at an earlier dinner sitting if required.

We provide well balanced two course meals for the kids (2-16yrs) based on the adults menu. Sorry no chicken nuggets, definitely food Jamie Oliver would be proud of! Plus if you fancy a whole day on the mountainside where there are no accessible restaurants, we can pack you up a picnic for a small extra charge, just let us know in advance, what you would like in it.

*We provide childrens meals as an option on 'exclusive use' catered chalet bookings and insist on them at 6-6.30pm, for mixed groups with children, so that adults have time to put the kids to bed before enjoying their evening meal at 8pm. Teenagers of 16+ and over can opt to eat with the children or adults. 

The tourist information organises a lot of activities in the town during the peak winter months, especially at Christmas and New Year which are celebrated in style with street performers and spectacular fireworks displays.

La Clusaz offers many other non-skiing activities for families including, sledging, ice skating, swimming, cinema and horse drawn carriage rides We try to make skiing with the family as easy as possible and offer our catered guests use of our private ski lockers available close by the main ski lift and lesson areas, so you can store all your kit and change into some comfy boots if the kids are tired and you want an afternoon off the slopes.

The town centre also has an abundance of shopping to meander through and some lovely coffee shops to sample the delicious local patisseries. Plus if you need some supplies there are 4 supermarkets and 2 pharmacies.