Choose a large suite or chalet-style hotel space with a separate lounge for family comfort. Keep furniture away from balconies and ensure balcony safety to prevent children climbing. Verify bathroom floors; avoid slippery marble or porcelain surfaces or request multiple rubber mats. Confirm sleeping arrangements with separate child sleeping quarters and twin beds for siblings. Check pool viewing times, kids club hours and age limits, and whether staff provide outdoor activities on sunny days. Ask whether kids club staff can babysit, whether restaurants offer early children's dinners, and request baby equipment, a kettle, and pints of milk in advance.
The ultimate set-up is a large suite or chalet-style space within a hotel, with your own lounge area. Are the balconies safe? Ostensibly a strange question, but I continually see furniture placed next to balconies (a hazard for excitable children when heads are turned) and swiftly pull it right back or even into the bedroom. I always ring up ahead and check that the bathrooms aren't clad in slippery marble floors, and if so, if they provide several rubber mats.
Then there's the kids club. Is it open on weekends? Is your youngest old enough to be left there, and if not, what's the alternative? I always check that they head into the crisp mountain air on sunny days (the guilt only compounds when you've had a belter of a day on the slopes and they've been stuck inside coloring for hours).
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