Booking private ski lessons with ski school

[mandy214]

You may have seen from my numerous messages that I have booked a first family ski trip to Cervinia for Christmas. Not gone through an operator, done everything independently.

Next question am sure there will be more we arrive on a Monday afternoon so the normal Mon-Fri lessons / ski school don't really work, plus Friday is Christmas Day and not sure we'd want to put children in ski school. Bonus of having 3 DC is that private lessons are not much different in price to ski school.

So there seems to be 3 ski schools - I have emailed them and they've come back to me. Is there anything I need to check - am thinking of 3 x private lessons on Tues / Wed / Thurs for 2 or 3 hours each.

How do I check it will be an instructor that is good with children? How do I know whether they'll be good at English?!

Any advice?

Thanks

We used to do this, and it worked well. In peak periods (like Xmas.New Year/Feb half term) you might have odd times of day, that's all, as a lot of the instructors are committed to the group sessions am and pm. We've often had, 12-2pm for instance (although not always). Book well in advance and request an English speaker. If they know the lessons are for kids, I would imagine they'll allocate someone who's OK with that. Can't see how you can guarantee how whoopy they'll be though. Over the years in France we've had a mixed bag.

Thank you!