Children’s clothes

Children's clothes need to be warmer than adults’, ideally one-piece suits, perhaps sprayed with silicone. Mittens are warmer than gloves. Your children will almost certainly need two pairs, at least, because even if they don’t keep falling over, they’ll probably soak their mittens throwing snowballs! You can buy disposable hand and footwarmers from the ski shops and chemists.

They also need a selection of clothes and socks or tights to adjust the temperature beneath their suits. A cagoule might be useful, and a balaclava is a must.

Children should wear helmets, which we advise you to pre-book from the ski-hire shops (and to adjust to their heads). With the helmet they wear goggles, but once they stop for lunch, they remove the helmet and goggles, and need a hat or cap and wraparound sunglasses that stay on.

Children need easily applied sun block (you can ask the instructor to re-apply it) and lip salve with a sun screen.

Precision rent out ski clothes, but only have a small selection. If you wish to hire children’s clothes, you need to act fast. Skis and boots are no problem, though we recommend you pre-book equipment if you’re coming during school holidays.

We list the shops with discounts for YSE on the Val d'Isère section of this website, under Ski Hire. Sport 2000 is near Le Grizny; there’s an Intersport at La Daille. The rest are more or less central. Just book – don’t pay, unless you’ve got a better deal than ours. To book skis, tell them the child’s height. For boots, the shoe size. Doing so merely gives the shop an idea of what to put aside: they will still fit the equipment properly on arrival.