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Snowboard holidays are great. Getting there sucks. But getting there with young children is the most God-forsaken ball-breakingly difficult hell-on-earth experience that even Beelzebub himself would not wish upon his greatest enemy.

In the process of trying to transport my family to the Alps, I have openly wept in public and used words to describe my children that would make even an Australian prison warden blush.

In the process of trying to transport my family to the Alps, I have openly wept in public, used words to describe my children that would make even an Australian prison warden blush, and broken just about every rule of positive parenting that has ever been committed to print by American people without children who know better than me.

If you are considering taking your oh-so-cute little rosie-cheeked sweetie-pie butter-wouldn’t-melt-in-their-nappies offspring to the mountains this winter, here are some travel options and their pros and cons. Well, mainly cons.

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