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Passports and children's ski passes at Les Arcs resort, France
 Poster: A snowHead
Poster: A snowHead

Dear All

Do you have to show a scanned copy of your child's passport when buying the Les Arcs/Peisey-Vallandry classic ski pass? Or do you scan your passport when picking up from the self-service machines in the lift pass offices at Les Arcs?
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 Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person

Sorry that I cannot answer your question. In the past we have simply bought our lift passes on line and I cannot recall a request for a passport scan for our senior lift passes but as they were for season passes they did ask for photographs. These pop up at the lift base station screens when you pass through them.

This year as I am after a "free" lift pass they say I must buy it in the office in person with my passort.

So the simple answer is to just walk into the lift pass office and buy the child's lift pass in person with their passport in your pocket just in case. In Arc 1600 they have not gone very far down the kiosk route and most of the sales are either online or with a real person who will advise on the best purchase.
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 Well, the person's real but it's just a made up name, see?
Well, the person's real but it's just a made up name, see?

@sportybarbara, as per @johnE in recent years we have bought online, no age verification required.

Back in the day I am fairly sure we showed a passport when buying in the office.

My daughter was checked a couple of times at lifts. We didn't have a passport so I can't remember what we did. May have just been a verbal what's your DOB.
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The only checks I can recall were when kids were just short of 16 and periodically got queried at lifts if attendant though they looked too old for child pass.
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 Anyway, snowHeads is much more fun if you do.
Anyway, snowHeads is much more fun if you do.

We buy ours online and didn't need to show anything other than our booking email when we collected them from the pass office.

They are hot on checking at the lift that a child's pass is being used legitimately. Our eldest was stopped multiple times last year at the age of 13 as he's tall. Be a relief to have him on a Youth pass this year to stop that.
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