Un crowded skiing for beginner young children

[123Outnumbered]

Hi,
We took our 2 young children for a week in Sainte Foy and it was great.

Pros:

• small resort made it super convenient for children
• pistes were empty and no lift queues.
• A couple of lovely mountain restaurants.

Cons:

• We felt it was missing big wide open green slopes for beginners. The green run there was closed due to lack of snow and the easy blue was mainly a (beautiful) path through the woods, which didn’t allow for much practising of turns.
• only just enough snow- I wouldn’t want to be going in April.

Looking to go next year- Sat 29th March (school holidays) any suggestions for where to go:

• High/snow sure
• uncrowded- this is the most important thing
• Wide open green runs for kids
• i’m not too fussed on the size of the resort, I’m happy skiing anywhere, getting somewhere right for the kids is the main priority.

Failing that, any Feb half term suggestions for places that won’t be too crowded. I would prefer March, as it’s usually warmer, but appreciate there is usually more snow in Feb.

I had looked at Montgenèvre, which seems to tick all the boxes, but I gather there aren’t many mountain restaurants, the one I looked up was a self service one and the one at the bottom of the piste was in a big modern building. Realise these aren’t the biggest problems but thought I should be honest! I might just have to look past this if I can’t find anywhere else.

Any help appreciated

Hochgurgl.

Pricey though.

Came to say La Rosiere for same reasons

What about Areches? It’s on the small size for capable adults, but ticks all your other boxes.

I’ll buck the trend (in typical MN style) and say I’d go to courchevel. It’s never that busy that week and has loads of greens and decent ski schools, new gen for example. It will be fine that week as many UK schools don’t break until later and it’s not French holidays. There are plenty of blues there when they progress because I never knew any young kids who needed two weeks on greens tbh. And interesting skiing for you.

I leant to ski in Arreches on a school trip in the 80s. Would love to go back!

A friend and family have been in Les Orres this week. 5 yo was in ski school with Ozone. Very quiet. 3 kids in the class. Loved it. Spring snow.

@123Outnumbered fair enough if SF lower slopes are closed then yes I guess it's a bit limited. We were lucky to have plenty snow and the Plan Vert and Plan Bois slopes were great for the kids. Also the reds there aren't particularly hard - my DS was on those at 5yo but in some resorts that would be a no go.

Les Arcs definitely has long wide greens & blues from close to the top so probably a better choice for late in the season.