Care first. Mountain second.
Ski kindergarten is usually Piou-Piou from 3. Under 3 is creche, halte-garderie, nanny, or one parent sits. Named operator ages only. Confirm the cart.
The short answer
Months to 1
Visitor creche only, if the operator prints months. Half-days are common under 15 months.
Walking 1 to 2
Halte-garderie territory. Some floors require walking. Still not ski school.
Age 2
Rare ski tasters exist. They are not the jardin. Confirm the product name.
Age 3 cliff
Piou-Piou / ski kindergarten usually starts. Some care products start later than 3.
If your child is under 3, do not book "kindergarten" and expect both adults to ski. In the Alps that word is usually the snow garden from 3. Under 3 you need a visitor creche or halte-garderie that prints your age, a nanny, or a week where one of you stays down. Of 141 ski-school ages we already hold, 86 start at 3. That is a library, not a law.
The under-3 slot. Named floors we hold start at 3 months, 6 months, 1 year, or 2 years. This is daycare, not a ski medal.
Not "kindergarten" on an English brochure. Not a municipal creche that redirects vacationers.
Snow garden. Named French clubs we fetched start at 3. Warth Ski-Kindergarten starts at 3 and wants the child toilet-trained.
Not a place for a 2-year-old who still needs a nap room. Not proof they can ride a chair.
Of 141 verified starting ages we hold: 86 start at 3, 33 at 4, 12 at 2. Confirm the named school.
Do not treat Kinderclub lunch care or a hotel kids club as the ski-school floor.
Avrizou from 6 months. Village des Enfants from 3.
Half-days only for 6 to 15 months. ESF heading says through completed 2 years; the same FR booking table and the OT fiche say through 3. Confirm the cart. About 20 places. Book ahead.
Club Piou-Piou from 3. SkiMômes garderie from 3 years 3 months.
SkiMômes wants school plus toilet-trained, no nappies. A 3-year-old who is not yet 3 years 3 months needs a school certificate. This is not Baby Ski from 2. Places limited; book before you arrive.
Piou-Piou from 3. Club des Galopins from 3 to 12.
Galopins prints it: they do not have state authorization for under-3s. They will check ID and refuse. Under 3 here is nanny territory, not a visitor creche we hold.
Creche Le Nid Alpin from 6 months (FR OT). Baby Ski from 2. Piou-Piou from 3.
The English OT daycare line said 3 months. The French official page wins at 6 months. Baby Ski is a short midday product, not the jardin.
ESF Mini Club from 6 months. BB Skieur from 2. Piou-Piou from 3.
Municipal creche Les Sourires is residents-priority. Vacationers go to ESF. OT: reserve the garderie even outside school holidays. OT and ESF price tables disagree. We are not printing a euro.
Les P'tits Chabottés from 3 months to 5. Piou-Piou 3 to 4.
Visitor sign-up by mail or Sunday morning on site, on the ESF FR page. That is a logistics fact, not a "book Christmas" measurement.
Village Club Enfants from 6 months to under 6. Piou-Piou at 3 or 4.
Open Monday to Friday on the OT fiche. ESF can walk 3-to-6-year-olds to the club after morning lessons. That relay is not the under-3 product.
Club des Marmottes at 1800 only, 6 months to 5. ESF Piou-Piou from 3.
Not at 1650. Not resort-wide. Winter 2026/27 daily from 19 December 2026. If you sleep at 1650, you still transfer to Farandole.
Halte-garderie Les Petits Loups from 1 to 5. ESF from 3.
This floor is 1 year, not months. A 9-month-old does not fit the OT fiche we hold.
Halte-Garderie de Sommand: walking children 1 to 6. ESF Sommand from 3.
No garderie in Praz de Lys village. Walking is mandatory. Village Club Piou-Piou lists 4 to 5; the jardin des neiges is the age-3 product. Do not use the Super-Besse PDF search throws up.
Official winter garderie from 2 to 5. Piou-Piou Peyrakid from 3.
Pyrenees, not the Alps. Same trap, different massif. Live official winter floor is 2. The 18-month line is stale press. Famille Plus "from 18 months" is a label sentence, not this garderie.
Salober Ski-Kindergarten from 3, toilet-trained. Kids ski courses from 4.
This is ski kindergarten, not a Krippe for a baby. We did not find an official visitor creche age. Do not invent one so the week looks easy.
Bambini ski course from 3. Two hours, 10:00 to 12:00.
Infant creche minimum age: not found on the official pages we hold. Honest blank. Do not write a Kinderhotel as if it were this mountain's nursery.
Both adults can ski if the creche prints your age and still has a slot. Avoriaz, Montgenèvre, Oz, Bonneval, Pralognan, Les Orres 1800 sit here. Watch half-days and village-vs-altitude traps.
A baby who is not walking yet does not fit. Sommand (not Praz village) and Pra Loup are the named examples. Peyragudes winter garderie starts at 2, in the Pyrenees.
Famous family names can still refuse the under-3. La Rosière Galopins will turn you away. Les Arcs SkiMômes starts at 3 years 3 months. Warth and Reiteralm ski products start at 3. One adult stays, or you hire a nanny.
Christmas and February do not invent extra cots. Montgenèvre OT tells you to reserve the garderie even outside school holidays. Avoriaz and Les Arcs print limited places. We do not hold a sell-out rate. Book the named care slot when the beds land. The Christmas sequence is a later page.
Only if a visitor creche or halte-garderie prints age 2, or you hired a nanny. Ski kindergarten we fetched starts at 3. Oz Baby Ski and Montgenèvre BB Skieur are short ski tasters from 2, not all-day care.
Usually no. In this cluster it is Piou-Piou / ski kindergarten from 3. Creche and halte-garderie are the under-3 words. The product decoder sits on ski-school-vs-kindergarten-vs-childcare.
Named visitor floors we hold: Bonneval from 3 months; Avoriaz, Montgenèvre, Oz, Pralognan, Les Orres 1800 from 6 months; Sommand and Pra Loup from 1 if the child walks (Sommand) or is 1 (Pra Loup). Les Arcs SkiMômes starts at 3 years 3 months. La Rosière Galopins refuses under 3. We will not dump 177 noindex pages.
Montgenèvre OT says reserve the garderie even outside school holidays. Avoriaz and Les Arcs print limited places. We do not hold a sell-out rate. Book the named slot when the beds are real. A Christmas sequence is a later issue.
Warth Ski-Kindergarten and Reiteralm Bambini start at 3. That is the same cliff, in German. We did not find official infant creche ages on those pages. Kinderhotel is a different product and a later issue.
No. It is Pyrenees Famille Plus. Official winter garderie is 2 to 5. Same trap, different mountains. Linked because the live page is indexable and the age is sourced.
No. We hold 141 verified starting ages. 86 start at 3. The starting-ages audit is the sibling page. We will not invent the other 159.
Pralognan-la-Vanoise with kids: childcare and ski school
Village children's club plus ESF Piou-Piou. Childcare is the desk. Ski school is the lesson.
La Rosière with kids: childcare and ski school
The resort page answers childcare and ski school. Club des Galopins starts at 3 and refuses under 3.
Bonneval-sur-Arc with kids
The resort page answers childcare and ski school for this village.
Montgenèvre with kids: childcare from 6 months
Parents search “kindergarten montgenevre.” Visitor care is ESF. The municipal creche is residents-only.
Les Orres with kids: Club des Marmottes at 1800 only
Club des Marmottes is at 1800, not 1650. Ages 6 months to 5. Do not write it as resort-wide.
Praz de Lys-Sommand with kids: childcare at Sommand
GSC query “kindergarten praz de lys” (154 impressions). No garderie in the village. Halte-Garderie de Sommand takes walking children 1-6.
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