Learn to Snowboard

Learn Snowboarding in just 3 easy days with our learn to ride packages.

Popular Links:
- See our Learn to ride package deal
- Most popular beginner resort - Les Gets

Listen to the experts
We have introduced thousands of snowboarders to our sport over the last 12 years and our dedicated snowboard staff never run out of steam or good ideas to help make that learning curve even easier for beginners. Our accredited snowboard schools are the best you will find and have been specially selected for their patience and performance.

Lessons, equipment and instructor programmes have been getting better over the years, and so much so that we know we can get any aspiring rider of average physical fitnessup and going in just 3 days. That means turning both ways and stopping in (relative) safety! In fact you will be cruising all over the resort on your own two feet by the end of your first week.

We recommend
Avoid the expense of full day lessons which do more to overwhelm than to inspire. We recommend a 3 or 5 half day course of lessons which will give you the right balance of "instructor-time" to get the basics mastered and "you-time" to practise what you learnt in your own space. Our experience and stats have shown that novice boarders get more from the snow with this combination of instructor and personal input. The added advantage is that half day lessons are cheaper for you!

You will need
On top of one of our holiday packages, you will need 3 or 5 half days of snowboarding lessons, a local area liftpass and snowboard hire. We then advise picking a beginner friendly resort. Our beginner resorts have been hand selected for the their low-pressured atmosphere which is handy for confidence boosting, the range of good schools and the variety of easy slopes on offer. These resorts are Les Gets, Les Arcs and La Rosiere.

Les Gets

Les Gets is part of a huge ski and snowboard area that lends itself perfectly to beginner riders. You will find easy slopes, hassle free chair lifts, english speaking instructors and smooth wide slopes with a low pressure atmosphere and a very friendly outlook to boarders. Les Gets even has its own beginner / intermediate snowboard park which must be the only one of its kind in France. In other words a park that is completely un-intimidating from top to bottom thus giving novice riders all the confidence they need to master the basics and the technical basics from rails to small jumps and even hips. The slopes at Mont Chery (moments from the hotel Chamois) offer excellent beginner powder opportunitiesas well as more challenging stuff for when you get good! See Snowboarding Les Gets

Les Arcs

Hot on the heels of Les Gets for beginner suitability, Les Arcs has firm roots in snowboarding history, (home to the famous Regis Roland A Boards team), and thus a firm grip on its snowboard facilities and beginner suitability. Our chalets in Les Arcs 2000 have doorstep access to a network of easy slopes and powder fields to suit novice riders and those cutting their teeth on freeriding. See Snowboarding Les Arcs