Just do half-day lessons in the morning
in the first few days you'll find it too tiring to ski all day and you'll want to spend the afternoons drinking/chilling. By the end of the week you'll want to go out in the afternoons for a bit, especially if you have other beginners to ski with.

Courcheval is very, very good for begineers. It's also the poshest resort in France (well, 1850 is) and the holder of my personal "record beer price" at 23 euro for 25cl of beer. In 2003. Drink apres in Bar Le Jump (assuming it's still there) as it used to be where the seasonnaires drank so it's more like 6 euro a pint.

Oh, and buy a helmet before you go, eh?
( the mighty badger Aphrodite, on a bar stool, by your side, Tue 7 Jan 2014, 16:56, 2 replies, latest was 11 years ago)

i thought i might hire one - we're only there for 3 days. would that be do-able?
I've borrowed a ski jacket and salo's and a few other bits.

i will have to let you know if the beer prices can top your record. i am such a mal-co, i can see me coming back with more metal than you've got!
( rachelswipe with a fork, Tue 7 Jan 2014, 16:59, Reply)

it might be doable
but they aren't that expensive, and hire gear does tend to smell a tiny bit of Frenchman's wee.

You'll need to hit the dodgy nightclub for that kinda cost and these days it'll be full of Russian gangsters.

If you're only there for 3 days try and get out at least on the afternoon of the third day, you might as well really see if you like it. It's not a sport that requires any serious sporting prowess, it's great fun and it is heavily drinking based. All-round win.
( the mighty badger Aphrodite, on a bar stool, by your side, Tue 7 Jan 2014, 17:02, Reply)

Schumacher's

(Bonzodog29 is an unemployed sponge of the worst kind, Tue 7 Jan 2014, 16:59, Reply)