Instructor Les menuires - or ski school- recommendations please!

[mummybearsurrey]

We have a group trip planned for Easter.

Will have teen boys. They could have their own instructor I guess as there are 3 boys. Plus adults could join in too and maybe we could get some miles In across the three valleys as well as improve our skiing

and we will have 2 tweeen / teen age girls.
both intermediate. Not as confident as the boys. And probably want to ski without them for half a day.

we are staying in Les menuires.

can you recommend an instructor? And / or a ski school for us?

tia

ski school for the varying abilities will be cheapest. Esf. However, Esf do private lessons too. You’ll need to book soon.

We were in the 3 Valleys last year and used Tom from Marmalade. He was great, but we were based in Méribel which is there main start point. Whether on a private basis you could meet elsewhere in the area I’m not sure. We basically used and abused him as a guide (2 good holiday skiers, will take on most things with piste markers, but secretly glad the couloirs were closed!) and got plenty of hints and tips on the way round (as opposed to a really in depth technique focussed lesson). We covered the highlights of all the main resorts in the day. We recorded the map on Strava to help us revisit bits we liked the most, and covered 73km on snow (excluding lifts) and 40k feet vertical drop, if stats are your thing… It was noticeable that without the benefit of the instructor to queue jump at lifts we couldn’t replicate this distance of our own volition in the rest of the week. He was British as well which was nice. Our French is adequate for a holiday but native British speaker was helpful on technique points for chairlift chat.

Thanks @JarvisIslandfor the rec. Will follow that one up.

thanks@Thelondononexperience of. We have not had a great impression or experience of ESF in the past so try to avoid them tbh. Plus their group lessons mornings only are not very long.

we loved the 4h format some schools offer but the one we used last time - Snow Limits - has now stopped business.

who else is out there??

Came back yesterday from a week in Les Menuires. Our 4 year old daughter went to ski school in the mornings with ESF, at the club Piou Piou. I think your kids would be too old for this? Seems to be catered to the young but worth checking out. Would recommend the ESF instructors though!

have you tried the websites of the other usual suspects, oxygène, supreme, evo2 etc.
unfortunately the ones we use in 3V (new gen) aren’t in Les M but only VT or St Martin.
you should not let a view on ESF groups put you off getting a private instructor from there — ours is fantastic.

I have just come back from Les Menuire, and used Supreme Ski for one on one tuition. But they also do group and children’s lessons too. The cost was around €85 an hour for private lessons, and they were happy to do 2,3,4 hour or even longer lessons if you want. My instructor was Italian, and was great - Francesco.

www.supremeski.com/france/les-menuires-ski-schools