I booked a private lesson - a beginner/ practicing how to do paralellel turns ski lesson with snowschool in Meribel, France. The guy on the phone, I think his name was Paul, was friendly and booked me a time slot for the next day: 1.30 - 3.30 pm. I met my ski instructor, an Italian lady called Julia, on Meribel Mottaret, where I was staying. It was already snowing pretty heavily when we met. She suggested skiing down to Meribel, and 5 minutes into our lesson, there was a full blown blizard that she suggested stopping by at the Meribel center, and said she’d call her boss to try to reschedule our lesson because the snow was hurting our faces. When she learned I was leaving the next day, she made a couple of phone calls and said it wasn’t possible to reschedule the next day at a time suitable for me, but I could not cancel the lesson either (they had my card). It was very annoying but we went on, there were only fork lifts under usual operation and only one bubble lift, Rhodes, partially operating (we got stuck after we got in for 10 minutes because of the strong winds; nothing else was operating). Later, Julia basically skied 10-20 meter away from me most of the time, killing time in the awful conditions of the blizzard, only giving me generic advice every now and then. At the end of our lesson, she left me to the bus stop for Mottaret, telling me the bus should arrive in 10 minutes ( it arrived 30 - not exaggerating!- minutes later)... I would not recommend this school to anyone.