 You don't need to be an 'investor' to invest in Singletrack: 6 days left: 95% of target - Find out more
Hi All,
We have been looking at next summers holiday and I potentially have access to a nice apartment in Morzine. Certainly thinking about taking the offer up, but apart from riding what is there to do for a family there? We've got 2 kids one who is 6 and one who is 2. Will they be bored rigid hanging round a town with nothing to do or is there plenty for us to do together as a family?
I'd probably only looking at riding for a couple of days and then want the rest of the time to be a good chance for a family Holiday. Outdoorsy stuff is more than welcome, but some suggestions for if its wet or the kids are tired would also be welcome. I know I can google, and have been, but I'd really like some first hand recommendations.
Thanks 🙂
So much to do for kids and families
http://en.portesdusoleil.com/summer/multi-pass-activities.html
http://en.portesdusoleil.com/summer/multi-pass-activity-guide.html
That's superb, thank you!!!
Indiana Parc Aventure http://www.indianaventures.com/fr
Cascade Aventure http://cascadeaventure.wixsite.com/cascade-aventure
Aquariaz http://www.avoriaz.com/envie-de/activites-en-famille/aquariaz#tab83
Parc des Déreches http://www.parc-dereches.com/en/
Les Gorges du Pont du Diable http://www.lepontdudiable.com/
and more lift-assisted hill walking than you can shake a walking stick at with the Multi Pass that BB links to
You're superstars, thanks guys. 🙂
Absolutely loads for kids. Seeing more kids every year and more for them to do. Swimming, tennis, ice skating, skate park, go ape, horse riding, beaches and streams.
Don't write off riding too. With easily accessible trails you can do a couple of hours or a half day and still get back. Plus there's plenty of riding suitable for kids either on their own bike or on a trail gator or child seat. Another thing we do is shifts so you set up camp at the beach by the lake then do laps of the trails swapping child care duties.
Did Les Gets last year with a family of 6 - the 3 younger kids (aged 7, 10 and 14 - though the 14 year old has some disablity challenges) had no interest in MTB, whereas the 16 year old got a 14 day pass for the lifts.
The multi-pass is excellent value for families if you make sure you use it well, and what kid doesn't love a ride on a chairlift or bubble. Morzine swimming pool (Park des Dereches, plus all the other things that area has) is excellent, didn't do the Avoriaz one as I don't think that was in the multipass, but the mini golf up there was fun. Free ice skating too in the multipass.
The swimming lake at Les Gets is nice to spend the afternoon at, and the lake at Montriond is stunning, with a nice small pool for kids and parents to play in.
The goat village at Lindarets is kiddie friendly, we parked up at Avoriaz and did the lift down to there, then up over into Switzerland and back down to Lindarets for lunch. Promptly getting stuck down there as an afternoon thunderstorm came over and they shut the lifts! Fortunately I was in my running shoes that day so "happily" 😉 ran up from Lindarets to Avoriaz on the road in a deluge of biblical proportions! 2/3 up I was saved by a lovely French family as I'd started thumbing for a lift on the basis that I was in fear I'd get struck! So perhaps, don't risk that!!
Riding with the family we managed to accommodate by using the car to get bikes up the Les Gets side to park up at Chavannes and ride on appropriate trails down with them. All of mine can ride bikes, and we had them with us (though we're talking Frog 62, Decathlon kids bikes etc) so we just picked a decent route down off the DH trails and then I agreed to ride back up the hill to the car on my bike (which in fairness wasn't too bad) as I didn't have a lift pass.