St Anton for Families

St Anton has pros and cons for families. The pros include a great ski school facility and some excellent après ski offerings including the huge swimming pool complex. Cons can include over crowded slopes that aren’t very family friendly at all at peak times, some long walks if you’re not located centrally and the not-family-friendly sometimes rowdy nightlife.

There’s no pre-ski kindergarten although there are several baby sitting services in the village and some hotels have childcare too. But once children are two and a half years old (and out of nappies) they can join the Arlberg ski school’s excellent Kinderwelt (Children's World) facility which is located centrally and slopeside, opposite the Gampen chairlift at the Nasserein end of the village where there’s a special snow garden for learning, complete with easy to ride conveyor lift, and is open from 9am to 4pm daily with lunchtime cover available on request.

The programme for the youngest children is Bambinis where children have two hours on the snow, the rest playing inside and out. Once aged four or five full day classes begin with two hours in the morning and the afternoon. The weekly programme includes three themed days – Active Day, Snowman Day and the ever popular Crazy Face Day. There’s also a weekly Kids Aprés Ski Party. Increasingly advanced ability classes are available thereafter according to ability, right up to race training and right through childhood years.