Half Term Ski Holiday

Next year the ski half term week will fall once again over two weeks rather than the one (12th February and 19th February 2011), as was the case this year. Normally the public schools week is different to the private schools half term break, but those that took their annual family ski week during the half term in France or parts of Switzerland, will have experienced unprecedented demand which reflected both private and public schools electing for the same half term window! Further compounding the problem was that it corresponded with the largest canton in France taking the same week, as well as regions in and around Geneva!

Fair play to most resorts and ski schools for coping very will with the half term ski demand and making this week a great success. Nevertheless, avoiding a repeat next year is of course a very welcome redress!

Ski Half Term

You may be surprised to see a blog right after the school holidays on the half term ski break, but having talked to many operators, repeat bookings and guests who missed out this year, not wanting to miss out on the next years ski half term holiday, has meant already catered chalets are being booked up fast, particularly in the big resorts such as Chamonix, Courchevel, Meribel, St Anton, Val d'Isere, Verbier, and Zermatt.

If you are looking at a catered chalet or luxury chalet for half term, our advise is book early, but as its a family ski break, search out for the chalet operators that have a family ski friendly record (this in our opinion should not necessarily mean the branded 'family ski company's' as many of the private catered chalets provide better family friendly, high quality chalets and service in comparison), and one's that are close to the slopes and ski school, preferably ski in ski out if possible to really make life easy!