Boys weekend - Saalbach, Chamonix or Schladming?

It's that time of year when my other half starts pining for a boys weekend away. They're all boarders, up and out early but always back in time for the apres ski.

Where was/would be your favourite resort for a weekend break?

Its your other half....

He wants a boys weekend away....

Hes a boarder....



Send him to Scunthorpe.

Well yes I like your thinking, especially since I bought him a ski weekend last Xmas which he went on 2 weeks before the gang trip and returned with a broken hand, hence the gang trip included a very depressed boarder with a red plastercast! (He did come in hand to look after the kids though!)

CHamonix, that is if you want him to be surrounded by hot Scadinavian girls :wink:

I've always found the frauleins in Saalbach very friendly!

Of the three, Schladming is a place I would be keenest to go to.

I enjoy skiing with the wife, mainly because I'm faster :twisted:

For a long weekend, Schladming!! you can get cheap flights to Salzburg. There are shuttle buses to the resort but they tend to be timed around the German flights. Its only an hour and quarter ish from Salzburg.
Alternative - Tram or taxi from airport to the staion and hour and a half train trip to Schladming. Cheap as chips.
Tidy and lovely resort, not for the adrenalin junkie, as not that many proper black runs, and not for the Clubbers, Apres is good but as its not that a British or Irish resort not 'Crazy'.
Good value for money. Happy to answer any more questions.
Group of 40 of us going in January for the 5th time so it must have something going for it.
It will be busy for accomadation at the end of January as the world cup night race takes place when the whole 'ski circus' comes to town.

That being said I have heard Saalbach is great and maybe a bit livlier!
But then again we are a group in our 30/40s