A skier on a high ridge with the valley under cloud far below

Private lesson

A whole day on the mountain, built around you

595 chf

630 chf in peak weeks · price per lesson, not per person

Six hours is enough time to do two things a shorter lesson cannot. You can cover real distance — Verbier sits in 400km of linked slopes and most visitors never see half of it — and you can work on something properly: try it, get it wrong, and try it again until it sticks.

Who books it

First-timers who want to be skiing by the end of the day rather than the end of the week
Families, which is why it is our most booked lesson — everyone stays together and the instructor adjusts to whoever needs it most that hour
Confident skiers who want to be shown the parts of the Four Valleys they would never find alone
Anyone stuck at the same level for three seasons running

How it works

We start between 9 and 9.30, break for lunch somewhere worth eating, and finish around 4. That is the usual shape, not a timetable — the point of a private lesson is that your instructor changes the plan when the snow, the weather or your legs suggest something better.

Families

A full day with children works better than people expect, because it is not six hours of drills. Our instructors break it up — a hot chocolate stop, a run they choose themselves, a bit of tree skiing when concentration goes. If you have a nervous child, or two children at different levels, tell us and we will match you to someone who does this constantly rather than occasionally.

What is included

Your instructor. Lift passes, equipment hire and lunch are not included — we will point you at the right pass, and you get 10% off rental at Mountain Air.

Not sure what level you are?

Nobody fits neatly into a box, and you do not need to get this right — your instructor will work you out in the first ten minutes. It is just a starting point.

First timeYou have never skied, or tried it once.BeginnerA few hours on a nursery slope or a snow dome. You can stop in a snowplough and turn, more or less.Low intermediateAbout a week's skiing. You can get down a blue run in control, still snowploughing, using your turns to manage your speed.IntermediateA couple of weeks in. You are heading onto steeper runs and starting to bring your skis parallel at the end of each turn. The snowplough is fading.High intermediateComfortable on steeper terrain, controlling speed with parallel turns rather than a plough. You are starting to feel the ski grip and work underneath you, and venturing off the edges of the piste.AdvancedYou understand what the shape of the ski does and can carve through most of a turn when you want to. You can vary your turn shape, hold an edge on hard snow, and you are exploring bumps and off-piste.ExpertSteep terrain and off-piste are where you go for a challenge. You know your safety equipment, you read the avalanche bulletin, and you ski with your own style rather than someone else's.