Family Ski Resort

If you are looking for a great family ski resort, you might be surprised when we suggest Les Houches in the Chamonix Valley. Chamonix might be famous for extreme skiing, but in Les Houches they have one of the best family ski resorts in the Alps. A great family friendly ski school, fabulous facilities for children at the top of the Prarion. A travelator / magic carpet and an adapted chair lift for added safety for small children. Add this to a sunny plateau, confidence building green, blue, and red runs, and there you have it, a must visit family ski resort.

As for ski in ski out chalets, there are very few, but close to the Prarion Gondola and ESF Ski School one chalet stands out as not only the best family chalets in the Chamonix Valley, but in the Alps with pricing that may well be pleasantly surprising for the service you get!

Season Slowly Coming To An End

Well slowly the ski season is now coming to an end, although many resorts still have great snow, with the high altitude resorts likely to stay open well into May. Here at Ski In Ski Out Blog we won't however be putting our feet up and will continue blogging on the best places to ski and the best places to stay.

Luxury Ski Resorts In Europe

Luxury ski resorts are the difference in our opinion between having a nice ski holiday, and a fantastic one. So if you are looking for one of the best luxury ski chalets you can find, make sure its in one of the ski resorts that matches such luxury with plenty of ski runs, for all levels of skier, its skiing is world famous, its extensive and has high altitude skiing, the resort is known as much for its apres-ski as much as it is for its skiing, and its somewhere Kylie doesn't mind being seen in (but not just Chamonix of course)!

And one last thing, so you have selected first the luxury ski resort, second the luxury catered chalet, but don't forget of course to check its a ski in ski out chalet too! Happy skiing everyone.

Best Chalets

If you are looking for great luxury catered chalets, no, the best chalets in Europe, Val d'Isere has to be top of the pile. In Val d'Isere, it seems that there are more luxury chalets per chalet, than in any other resort in the Alps. Chalet Yeti is definitely worth a mention with its own indoor pool, as is Chalet Le Chardon, or Chalet Kilimanjaro.

But don't just take our word for it, check out the link at the top for the Ski In Ski Out site and see for yourself.

Family Chalet

If you are looking for a great family chalet, this week we're focusing on Chamonix and Chalet Prarion, the best ski in ski out chalet in the Chamonix ski area, but also probably one of the best family chalets too.

Sleeping 12 people in 6 en-suite bedrooms, this luxury catered chalet really is very well priced and aimed at family ski groups as a consequence. In many other resorts, and chamonix itself you would typically expect to pay considerably more but their preference and market focus seems geared towards the family market, affluent yes, but in the reach of most successful businessmen and corporate executives who ware looking to bring their family to a great luxury family chalet, that is right on the piste.

In terms of the family ski chalet facilities, lets start with the younger ones who have their own Games Room, equipped with a full size pool table, a Wii, and home cinema, as well as stacks of DVD's and games, and outside a large south facing garden with sledges and toys. In terms of the parents, assuming Dad can be removed from the Pool Table, the terrace with its sunken hot tub, and then inside a luxurious oak dining table in front of the log fire where you can dine in style the meals produced by the professional chef. Afterwards relax in the leather suites and listen to the music on the Chalet's Bose system, or watch a movie in high definition projection cinema?

A truly magnificent ski in ski out family chalet.