Esprit offers a superb range of chalets ranging in size from sleeping 5 guests to 46.
The informality and friendly camaraderie of a chalet makes a holiday with children relaxed and stress-free, and it is no surprise that over our 26 years of providing specialist family ski holidays, this is the preferred choice of most Esprit guests.
You are welcome to join a chalet as an individual family, or you can book the whole or a part of a chalet for your group. All our chalets are equipped and run with children of all ages in mind, including toys, cots, high-chairs, sterilisers and access to a microwave.
Chalet Facilities
Many Esprit chalets have the added bonus of a log fire, sauna, hot-tub, or sometimes all three!
Room Descriptions
To make descriptions even clearer, Esprit have introduced the term ‘Suite’ to describe accommodation with at least two distinctly separate sleeping areas, whilst ‘Room’ indicates that all beds are in one area.
No-Smoking Policy
Esprit feel it is inappropriate and unpleasant to expose children to smoking and so we have a complete no-smoking policy for all our charter flights, coaches, chalets and Chalet Hotels.
Over the last 28 years Esprit have constantly developed and refined our services to create the UK’s market-leading child care programme for family skiing.
• The biggest choice of child care services in skiing
• Flexible child care options, from half-days up to our ‘Seamless Service’ from 9am-6pm
• Strict ratios of nannies to children in all our Nurseries
• All nannies properly qualified and English-speaking
• Snow Club fun for children over nursery age
• All child care staff subject to the ‘Enhanced Check’ with the Criminal Records Bureau (CRB)
• All appropriate child care staff trained to the Chartered Institute of Environmental Healths Level 2 in Food Safety
• Children’s special diets catered for (eg. allergen-free, gluten-free etc)
• Strict signing-in/out procedures whenever responsibility for children passes between Esprit staff and parents or ski instructors
• Exclusive Esprit- only ski classes, with the best English-speaking instructors
• Maximum 8 children in a class, and only 6 per class for 3-4 year-olds
• Guided Ski Fun and Snowboard Beginner afternoon groups
• Family Ski Guiding on your last day
• FREE evening Baby-Listening/Child-Patrol Service every night in all our Chalet Hotels and larger chalets and in all properties on our staff’s one night off per week.
For parents, Esprit Classic Child Care means being able to leave your accommodation after breakfast to head for the first lifts, only needing to return after the last one shuts. We look after your children completely throughout the ski day if you wish. While the babies and toddlers go to our Nursery, Esprit staff take the older ones to our partner ski-school, collect them, give them lunch, run activities to keep them happy and stimulated and then take them back to their chalets for their high tea, giving you our super-convenient ‘Seamless Service’ throughout the day.