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Handholding by a team of professionals and a state of the art chalet with its own chef to look after the family is the secret of a good ski experience, says Catherine Shanahan.

I’D DONE the self catering. I’d done the half board. I’d done the straight-from-the-slopes-have-you-no-homes-to-go-to après ski.

I’d given each and every ski trip I ever went on both barrels on and off the piste because that’s what you do when you come from a country where it never snows.