We're a family of 4 who went on our first ski holiday earlier this year, to Val d'Isere with Mark Warner. It was a brilliant holiday, we went for 2 weeks and had very leisurely ski-ing. I had never ski-ed before but dp can ski well. At the time our children were 3.8 and 18 months, so they were just in the creche (we decided not to sign dd1 up for lessons, although she did potter on the nursery slopes a couple of times with her dad)
This years holiday we are just going for a week and need creche facilities but are very keen for dd1 to start lessons, be familiar with ski's. I've read lots of threads and got a good idea of the companies people like etc. I think the one that will suit us is Esprit, but I've heard a range of reviews from great things to terrible stories of food poisoning etc. etc
The main reason I want to go for Esprit having looked at MW, Ski Famille and various others, is that I really want dd to be taught by a native English speaker. Esprit seem to be the only company who use English instructors, most of the others use the various companies based at the resort. While I was ski-ing, I observed quite a few ski groups with young English children and instructors without English as a first language and wasn't that impressed with what I saw a few times. I think when she's older it wont be such a big deal, but I want to try and get her first ski sessions as right as possible.
Also, lots of other companies seem to only take them a bit older and I don't want to do 1:1 tuition that seems a bit intense for 4 years old and I'm pretty sure she wouldn't like it!
Anyway, any tips or re-assurance welcome. happy ski-ing everyone