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	FAMILY SUMMER ALPINE ACTIVITY HOLIDAYS

In July and August we specialise in family activity holidays, both for individual families and groups of families alike. Our family summer alpine holiday programme in Morzine is very popular and well established. Increasingly, we are receiving more and more enquiries from families seeking an alternative to the traditional beach holiday that is active, safe and suitable for the whole family.

Let us take the hassle and stress out of your holiday by tailor-making your stay to your exact requirements. Choose as many or as few of the activities as you wish, according to your interests and budget. We can arrange everything for you, leaving your family to enjoy together all the facilities that Morzine and the surrounding French Alps have to offer. There is so much to do for all ages and interests, with the emphasis on fun and safety.

We have a choice of properties, each unique, to suit individual requirements. Our accommodation ranges from the luxury catered Chalet des Montagnes for either sharing with other like-minded families or for exclusive occupancy, the luxury Chalet Madeleine that can be taken by a private group either catered or self-catered, two self-catered apartments, and the traditional, family-run Chalet-Hotel la Chaumière. All properties run on a weekly or fortnightly basis, with the exception of la Chaumière which has considerable flexibility with holiday dates and length of stay.

Choose as many or as few of the activities below:

The Sports: gentle and medium walking, swimming pools, water parks & lakes, tennis, golf, toboggan run / luge, adventure park & Indiana park, ice-skating, mountainboarding, horse riding, mini-golf, fishing, devil-karting, elastic-fly (bungee swing), mountain donkey rambles, mini-electric cars, pony rides, skateboard park.

The Adventure: Challenging trekking and mountaineering, white-water rafting, white-water hot-dogging, white-water hydrospeeding, canyoning, wakeboarding and waterskiing, gentle - challenging mountain biking, via ferrata, rock climbing, paragliding, bungee jumping, fantasticable, quad biking, hot air ballooning.

The Alps Lake Geneva, Evian, Yvoire, Montreux, Lausanne, Chateau de Chillon, Chamonix-Mont Blanc, Italian Aosta Valley, Samoëns, Sixt-Fer-à-Cheval, Portes du Soleil, Annecy old town and lake, Les Linderets goat village, abbeys at Abondance and St Jean d’Aulps, Devil’s Bridge Gorge, museums, chateaux, vineyards, slate mines, cheese dairies.

We use only fully qualified instructors, mountain guides and top-quality equipment for all main activities. Some activities have minimum height, weight and/or age restrictions. Please contact us if you would like any further information.

A typical fun & action-packed week suitable for the whole family:

Saturday:

Arrival. Discover Morzine. Finish at the water park with its Olympic pool, giant slide, volleyball and bouncy-castle. Pre-dinner drinks and welcome meeting.


	Sunday:	A leisurely day's gentle walking from Morzine to Lake Montriond and back, along alpine trails and forest paths. Enjoy the beautiful flora, rivers and villages of the Portes du Soleil. Time to relax and take in the spectacular mountain scenery. At the lake there are restaurants, a safe swimming area, canoe hire, pony rides and mini electronic cars for young children.

Monday:

Multi choice day. Either stay in Morzine and enjoy all the facilities, such as swimming, tennis, mini-golf, horse riding, ice skating and summer toboggan, or just browse the shops and boutiques. Alternatively choose one or two of the more challenging activities for those with extra adrenaline!

Via Ferrata: sensations of rock climbing, but without the technical difficulty and with the security of being permanently attached to a fixed cable. It's more of a rock traverse, sometimes 200m above the ground at the highest point!

Canyoning: follow a mountain river down stream, abseiling, jumping, swimming crawling and sliding!

Mountainboarding: like snowboarding but on grass! After an initiation from your instructor, it’s fast and furious fun all the way. Gain height using the ski lift but remember to use your brakes!

White water hydrospeeding: you make a one and a half hour decent with an instructor on a specially designed surfboard called a hydrospeed. You are issued with a wetsuit, crash helmet, life jacket and flippers. You actually surf down the rapids!

White water hot-dogging: descend the river at the mercy of the rapids in a two or three-man inflatable kayak!

Paragliding: harnessed to your instructor, descend back to Morzine by parachute from the top of the mountain!

Tuesday:

An enjoyable day’s mountain biking, designed for all ages and abilities. With our mountain leaders we take the Super Morzine cable car and chairlift to an altitude of 1,800m. From here we split into two groups: one taking a medium-level route, the other tackling more difficult terrain. We will aim for the groups to meet at a restaurant or the infamous Fantasticable. Two zip wires, each over 1200m in length, transport you at breathtaking speeds of up to 100km/hour from one mountain peak to another. You can just watch or have go!

After lunch there will be time to explore the ancient goat village of Les Lindarets, before descending back to Morzine via the Ardent waterfall and a swim at Lake Montriond. Whichever route we take, you will see some of the most beautiful scenery imaginable. Downhill most of the way, great fun and a very rewarding day.

Wednesday:

Multi choice day. Perhaps a morning's visit to the Morzine Savoie market, then on to Les Gets for an afternoon of devil karting or at the adventure park! Take the ski lift up with your go-kart or scooter, then free-wheel down the ski slope. At the adventure park, explore in the trees under the guiding eyes of instructors. Great thrills and spills for all the family!

Alternatively, head down to Lake Geneva for unforgettable day out on Lake Geneva wakeboarding or waterskiing, with a superb speedboat and qualified instructor EXCLUSIVE to Simply Morzine. Wakeboarding is similar to waterskiing but on a ‘snowboard’, and is one of Europe’s fastest growing sports. Relax on the beach between boat outings for a day of extreme adrenaline and relaxation in equal measures.

Thursday:

Morning: Half-day white water rafting initiation. A descent down the River Dranse, incorporating some exciting rapids. Your instructor demonstrates basic paddling techniques and issues you with life jackets, paddle, wetsuit and crash helmet. You make the descent in an eight-man raft. Superb fun and very much a team effort. Enjoyable for all the family! Our rafting company, AN Rafting, is one of the most experienced in Europe. Alternatively if you have rafted before, you may wish to try hot-dogging or hydrospeeding instead.

Afternoon: Chill out by the fabulous Evian water park on the stunning shore of Lake Geneva. There's an Olympic pool, lakeside diving boards, inflatable water climbing floats, table tennis and fast flume.

Friday:

Full day’s family mountain experience. Unique to Simply Morzine, this a fun and informative day’s walking above Morzine and les Gets, and includes a traditional lunch (with copious amounts of alcohol for the adults!) at a remote alpine chalet belonging to the parents of our French guide.

The day is aimed at all the family and designed both as an enjoyable walk, and as a discovery of the culture, cuisine, flora and fauna of the local area. At lunch we are welcomed to a chalet d’Alpage, and will be treated to a Savoyard mountain meal, soft drinks/wine and not forgetting the local home-brewed schnapps! On a clear day there are stunning views over to Mont Blanc. A fun, convivial and unforgettable end to the week.

This sample itinerary is very flexible, and activities can be changed to suit your exact requirement and budget.

For detailed information on what's available in and around Morzine, please take a look at 'the Alps', 'the Sports' and 'the Adventure'.

For indicative individual activity prices, please see the Prices page.