Family Snowboard Holidays
Morzine / Avoriaz - France
2020/21 Dates TBC - Click ENQUIRE NOW to sign up for info
Families have been enjoying Our Mini Shred Snowboard Holidays in Morzine since 2012. These popular holiday packages include fantastic accommodation, delicious food, superior snowboard instruction and snowboarding equipment for your kids.
We partner with Skiology chalet company based in Morzine who offer a fantastic level of food, service and care. Enjoy your Family Snowboard Holiday with a relaxing stay in a superb catered chalet and with the kids booked into snowboard lessons with our reputable instructors at MINT Snowboard School.
Dates for the Family Snowboard Holidays are set for the spring and the Easter holidays, when the weather is warm and the snow is soft and slushy… a perfect time of year for kids learning to snowboard!
MINT Snowboarding will provide the tuition for your children for 3 days either on the Morzine or Avoriaz slopes (dependent on snow conditions and ability). The main focus of the lessons will be learning through fun & games, enabling your children to adopt the basics of snowboarding in an exciting and stimulating environment.
The kids are partnered up and taught in pairs by one of the MINT Snowboarding kid specialist instructors. For the younger first time snowboarders we encourage parents to stay around and get involved in the lessons – enjoying your child’s first time on snow with them.
The package includes 3 x 2hr lessons over 3 consecutive days starting on Monday, with the option of booking further lessons. Lessons are based upon 2 kids, of a similar age & ability, sharing. If you prefer your child to have a private instructor, this is possible with a small supplementary fee.
Lessons are scheduled to run on the Avoriaz area for the week of 12th April 2020, either from 11.45 – 13.45 hrs or 14.15 – 16.15 hrs. The lessons are scheduled at this time to avoid the mornings which are icy at this time of year. The soft, slushy snow in the afternoons is much better for little kids learning to snowboard.
Your accommodation will be in Chalet Grand Hibou which is located 650m from the Prodains Express cable car taking you up to Avoriaz.
Grand Hibou features a hot tub and sleeps 14 in all ensuite bedrooms, has 3 team members to look after you and offer back and forth shuttle runs from the Prodain cable car. The chalet has 5 ensuite bedrooms, heated storage for snowsports gear and a small games room and an open plan lounge and kitchen.
All bedrooms are classically furnished with luxury linen for you to snuggle up in. The living area has comfortable seating for all, an open fireplace and floor to ceiling windows to take in view while the chef and team prepare and serve your meals.
Skiology are focused on giving you the ultimate family snowboard holiday by providing a fantastic service in beautiful chalets and with delicious and nutritious meals.
Accommodation is in Chalet Grand Hibou.
Chef and Host. Wake up drinks service, cooked breakfast, afternoon tea & cakes and 3 course dinner with bottomless organic wine every catered day. Separate kids dinner service.
3 x 2 hr private lessons based 2 sharing*. For more info check ‘Structure’
Burton Riglet kids snowboard equipment (boards, bindings & boots) with Riglet Reels (where needed) are provided. You will need to provide all other equipment and clothing.
We recommend Skiidy Gonzales. Use the promo code ‘mintsnowboarding19’ for a 10% discount.
Ski passes are FREE for children under 5 years old in the Portes du Soleil.
FREE kids passes are also available in April. Check here for details.
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MINT Snowboard School lead the field with making snowboarding accessible to young kids. MINT provide the right combination of expert tuition, passion for riding and most importantly being able to relate to young kids…..couldn’t fault them and have already booked to use again and would definitely recommend to others.
We cannot recommend MINT enough!! Right from our initial enquiry to our daughters fantastic instructor, the whole experience was first class. Our 3 year old had the best introduction to boarding that we could have ever hoped for – thanks to her awesome instructor Simone. Never for a minute expected her to be riding a chairlift, doing nose and tail grabs and even turning smoothly. We won’t hesitate booking again, definitely some progression lessons also for mum and dad too – before we get left behind by the mini-shredder!!
MINT Snowboarding has made it a very easy decision for us to book again next year. Both of our children (8 & 6) enjoyed themselves hugely within group and 1:1 lessons. MINT Snowboarding took great care to ensure the group was balanced with similar ability levels and with a max of 6 children. The instructors were friendly, fun and nurturing which really inspired our children and helped cement snowboarding on their “again, again!” list. Thank you!
Mum, Dad and three boys (14, 12, 8) brand new to boarding had private family lessons. Instructor Simone was excellent and the boys were whizzing along and doing 360s after two days. The organisation of the company was very good and communication both when in UK and in resort was great. Simone really made it for the boys and they progressed amazingly under his tuition.
My little boy had lessons with MINT in Avoriaz. WOW….. absolutely brilliant, Gerard had the patience of a saint and was super enthusiastic with Eddie. His professionalism and encouragement was just mind blowing and it reflected in my little boy being excited each morning to join him!
Even writing this review doesn’t seem to do MINT or Gerard any justice!!!
We will be back next season!
I’ve been snowboarding a couple of years but after a fall I’d lost confidence on a board, after a 2 hour lesson with Tammy I got that confidence back and found my love for snowboarding again; she’s an absolute legend an amazing instructor I have been singing Tammy’s praises to everyone……I will be back in Morzine next season and I will be booking Tammy for private lessons again 5* instructor and absolute legend!!! Thank you so much!!!
I can’t recommend the Technical Performance Course highly enough. I have been riding for 15 years and the skills I learned during this week have moved me on further than I could have hoped.
From the initial booking, Tammy and her team were great and helped with everything. On the course Toni our instructor was patient and encouraging and helped whenever it was needed which made the trip fun and exciting.
The other people on the course were great and we all got along really well which made for a great trip, I would highly recommend to anyone whatever your ability!
Me and a couple of mates had a private lesson with Toni. We can all board but wanted to progress. I have had experience of a number of instructors in France and Switzerland but Toni was by a mile the best. Why? He was fun, but firm and kept us safe. He gave us all time and rather than ‘focus’ on our weaknesses, looked at the positives and helped us to build on those. We’ve given up on being professional (!) and our goal is not to be technically brilliant but to have a bit of fun and ‘try’ new things. Toni tuned into that straight away and from start to finish, we all got something valuable and memorable. In just 5 hours, we ‘mastered’ the ‘dark arts’ of switch, freestyle, the parks (safely!) – we cracked ‘the green’ and were lucky enough to get a real good go at some powder off piste. We loved it and would highly recommend MINT and especially Toni.
Thank you! I had an amazing time! Valerio was incredible…
I was quite scared to even start, but he was very calm and patient. He was encouraging and always there.
Really, you have amazing instructors… Be proud of him!
My instructor, François, was excellent from start to finish. With around 22 years of Snowboarding experience, 14 of which coaching, he really understood the mechanics of snow boarding and was able to communicate them.
He kept it fun and was very up beat. But most important of all he cared about our group getting better and did everything he could to ensure we did.
