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Winter holidays the valley floor and winding among the trees. For kids, there are fun activities with Valle the snowman, the resort’s mascot, and in bus-linked Lindvallen, the largest of Sälen’s villages, is Experium, a huge indoor water park with slides, spa and surf simulator, plus bowling alley, arcades and restaurants.

Quickly settling into the swing of a family ski holiday in Sweden, we make sure to swim every day in the Lodge’s pool and relax in the large outdoor hot tub, as well as book time on the Lodge’s shuffleboard table, which quickly gets highly competitive.

Chatting with Ben Nyberg, managing director of Ski Scandinavia, which specialises in the region and is the first UK operator to sell holidays to SkiStar Lodge Hundfjället, he says Hundfjället is tailored towards independent ski families with 24-hour support via his team based over the Norwegian border in Trysil. Married to a Swedish woman and raising his family in the country, his love for the whole of Scandinavia is clearly evident as he enthuses about its history, culture and way of life on the incredibly short 10-minute transfer to the Scandinavian Mountains airport from Hundfjället (another huge plus).

We relish our independence in Hundfjället, particularly when it comes to dinner. While the Lodge’s restaurant Potus! is impressive and inventive without being pretentious, it’s our meal at Joängets Våffelstuga, five minutes walk from the Lodge, that becomes a highlight. With it snowing heavily outside, we’re shown to our table in a little wooden cabin, lit only by the flames from the central fire flickering up the chimney. Around the fire five places are set, and we squeeze in to take our seats on the circular bench draped with blankets and cushions lining the cabin’s walls. Served a set menu of savoury waffles, reindeer steak and cloudberries, it’s the perfect end to our stay.

As the snow continues to fall and the temperature stays low, it’s hard to believe it’s late in the season. But it is, and we might just have found our new family favourite Easter getaway.