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Ski Resort Facts, Childrens facilities, Courchevel 1550 & Courchevel 1850

COURCHEVEL CHILDRENS FACILITIES
Child lying in snow, Courchevel

Finlays skiing holidays run catered chalet holidays in Courchevel 1550 & Courchevel 1850 (see our Courchevel page for details). We are happy to advise our ski holiday clients on any of the following Courchevel nursery childcare services. We can also make bookings for the nursery, on behalf of our clients, but would recommend that child care within the chalet is booked direct with the respective organisation.

In Courchevel children under 5 years of age ski for free, also, there are a few beginners lifts that do not require a lift pass so some children may not need a pass for the first few days of their holiday.

Village des Enfants - 2006 2007 prices
The Village des Enfants is an organisation run buy the ESF (Ecole du Ski Francais) and is ideally located in the centre of Courchevel 1850 just below the Forum.

They offer a Nursery Kindergarten for children aged 18 months and over and a Kindergarten with ski school for children aged 3 to 12 years old. It is open 7 days a week from 9.00 - 17.00 each day. For the Nursery kindergarten Ski School you can choose from 1 morning to all week with or without lunch. The costs timings are as follows;

Nursery Kindergarten - (18 months and over)
5 mornings 9.00 - 12.00
106€
6 mornings 9.00 - 12.00
119€
6 full days 9.00-12.00 & 14.00-17.00
187€
Lunch and supervision over 2 hours
16€ day
 
Nursery Kindergarten with Ski School - (3 - 12yrs)
6 mornings 9.30 - 12.00
170€
6 afternoons 14.15 - 16.30
118€
6 full days 9.30-12.00 & 14.15-16.30
235€
Lunch and supervision over 2 hours
21€ day

Please note that the prices for the Kindergarten with ski school do not include a lift pass or equipment hire.

Les Farfadets - childcare in the chalet
A private babysitting nanny agency based in Aime in France. They offer a flexible childcare service in Courchevel and will come to the chalet for a minimum of 2 hours or daily for up to a full week (at busy times of year they may only accept bookings for full days/full weeks). They will bring a box of toys appropriate to the childrens ages. Many of the carers are British or English speaking and the Les Farfadets office is manned by English speaking staff. They do have fully qualified British nannys on thieir books. The price varies depending on the resort to allow for travel costs, Courchevel prices for the 2006/2007 season are shown below

Les Farfadets
Full time, 8 hrs/day
Part time, 4 hrs/day
1 to 2 children
£545
£298
3 children
£580
£318
4 children
£620
£340

The above prices are based on one nanny looking after the children.
The number of children that can be looked after by one nanny is dependent on the age of the children:
Children 2 years and under - 2 children per nanny.
Children 3 years and over - 3 children per nanny.
Children 5 years and over - 4 children per nanny.

Evening babysitting may be an option.

Evening Baby-Sitting
A list of registered baby-sitters is available from the Courchevel tourist office, most of them will be French. Les Farfadets (details above) may also be able to organise evening babysitting.

Alternatively, with advance warning, we are happy, using our network of staff and friends, to attempt to find our clients a baby-sitter. Please be aware that this can be difficult in the evenings particularly on the staff day off and can only be done on the understanding that all arrangements regarding hours, payment, responsibilities etc. are between our clients and our staff/friends. It is not normally possible for our staff to baby-sit during the hours they would normally be working.

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