Kids (3-6) Mini Mountaineers – Group Ski Lessons

Mini Mountaineers meet at 10:00 am at the Myoko Snowsports Kids Centre inside the Gondola Station building at Arai Snow Resort.

Your child’s instructor will check their ability and then match each day’s program to give them the best possible experience, together with the other children in the group. If you have any special requests please let your child’s instructor know and they will be glad to accommodate. Supervised lunch is included each day from 12:45pm to 1:45pm in our Kids Center.

Yes. All children must be toilet trained to participate in the Mini Mountaineers program. Please contact the Lotte Arai Resort hotel team for information about child care options for any children not yet toilet trained. Otherwise, we may be able to accommodate private lessons for your child. Come chat to our team for more details.

We try to offer as much consistency as possible by keeping the same instructor with the same group each day. It is possible occasional changes may occur due to our weekly roster change-over, or if your child progresses at a rate different to the rest of the group.

Mini Mountaineers is run throughout Arai Snow Resort, according to their ability level.

A valid Arai Snow Resort lift pass is required for all participants. Lift tickets are free for children aged 3 to 6 years, and are available for purchase for children aged 7 years and up. Please collect your child’s lift pass prior to dropping them at our Kids Centre.

Our team of instructors will welcome children inside our Children’s Centre and check their general skiing ability level. They will then join children into the most appropriate group to join from Level 1 (first time) to Level 5 (advanced). If children seem to be in an incorrect group, our instructing team will communicate with each other to ensure they are in a group most suitable to allow them to progress. Mini Mountaineers has a maximum group size of 4 children per instructor.

For the best experience we recommend all children going into the appropriate level group, even if this means being apart from their friends or siblings, however if two children would like to stay together in the same group may do so. In this case they will be placed into a group of the ability level of the lower child. The stronger level child may find the group a little slow, but their instructor will give them more challenging things to try to continue having fun and improving.

For the best learning experience, 6-year-old children should generally go in the 3-6-year-old Mini Mountaineers program. The reason for the age group separations is that older children have more muscle and cognitive development, and skiing speed is different to younger children.

Program bookings of 5 days or more may include one rest day of your choosing if you would like. This can be done when you make your reservation online, or by speaking to a Front Desk team member. Please make sure to talk to someone in the office, as we want to ensure that we have sufficient space for rearranging your child’s lessons.

Almost all dietary requirements can be catered for. Please advise the Mini Mountaineers check-in team of the details at the morning 9:30 am meeting time and provide any relevant information to them. Epi-Pens should be labelled with your child’s name and placed in a zipped pocket on your child for the duration of the program. To make things simpler for nut allergies, our facility is a NUT-FREE zone!

Both group and private lessons can be great depending on your goals and budget.

Group programs are a great way to meet other skiers of a similar ability level during your programs and are at a lower price but lesson goals must consider all participants’ goals.

Private lessons are the best for the quickest skill improvement and for meeting your personal goals but are at a higher price. Please see the Private Lessons page of our website for additional information.

Yes. All our guides and instructors are either native or fluent in English and all lessons are run in English. We have a large number of instructors from around the world, as well as from Japan.

If you have a request for a lesson in another language (Korean, Dutch, Spanish, French, Danish, Czech) please check with us for availability for private lessons.

If you are interested in programs run in Japanese please let our reservations team know and they can recommend another local Japanese snowsports school to you.

We recommend booking well before your arrival to ensure availability, particularly from the 20th of December to mid-February. Please contact our team at arai@myokosnowsports.com if you have any questions.