Christmas Ski Holidays

I don't know about you, but already I'm certainly chomping at the bit to get the skis waxed and back out onto the slopes. It is apparently going to snow down to about 1,750m tomorrow but it won't be around for long so I won't be getting them out too quick.

As a consequence of this the next ski opportunity is therefore going to have to be in December and for most of you skiing Christmas. I personally love Christmas in the Alps and its not driven by the romance of a white Christmas either. With a family of two (they will be 7 and 9 by Christmas), I kind of remember the anti-climax that was Christmas, two months of build up undone, literally, by 10 minutes of unwrapping!  Might seem a little disingenuous to the hard work of my parents (and yes I was grateful), but when you are children that is how it is. Early morning rise, big excitement, then subsidence.

So is it different on a Christmas ski holiday, yes in my view. The excitement is over a week, and on Christmas Day they can go and get lots of energy out of the system, before coming back and enjoying the presents. This shorter window and the fact they have ex-sponged a lot of energy already allows them to appreciate more what they have. Christmas is important but so is life basically on a Christmas ski holiday - try it, you'll understand a lot more after it than by reading my ramblings! 

Ski Family

Family Skiing or in this case snowboarding

March will see the full launch of the new family ski site from Chalet Ski, as they seek to penetrate into the growing family ski market. Family skiing has always been popular, but nowadays even more so. School holidays are forcing more family skiers into the peak weeks of half term and easter, but we are finding that due to the high cost of these particular weeks many family ski groups are starting to take their children out at other times to avoid the peak week prices.