Weekend Skiing!

Hi, has anyone been skiing for the weekend/short break?
If so, where did you go?
We are looking to go the end of March 2009 for 4-5 days, and would like to know the best way to book it and roughly how much it costs.
Any information appreciated, thanks
Isobel

Isobel wrote:Hi, has anyone been skiing for the weekend/short break?
If so, where did you go?
We are looking to go the end of March 2009 for 4-5 days, and would like to know the best way to book it and roughly how much it costs.
Any information appreciated, thanks
Isobel

The last couple of years I have skied La thuile, Passo Tonale and this year Adelboden in Switzerland, in the past I have booked these hols independently of the tour operators, book a flight, Hire a car, Book hotel, possible the hardest part of this operation is finding a hotel not taken up by the TO's but they are there you just need to search them out. Previously these breaks have run Thursday to Sunday, this year we go Sunday to Thursday so the slopes hopefully will be less busy. This year appox cost hotel £500 ( half board ), flights booked with air-miles, car £130 plus lift passes. I hope this helps. :lol:

Thanks for the info Ian.
Isobel

I booked a long weekend to Engelberg in Switzerland a couple of winters ago. Booked everything separately, and found an apartment through Interhome for a short stay.
Flight to Zurich, car hire, couple of hours drive, and good pre-Christmas skiing. The resort is also accessible by train direct from Zurich airport.

As long as its not School holidays see if you can get cheap flights to Salzburg. Within an hourish of Salzburg there is a multitude of resorts. If you are trying to do it on the cheap Salzburg airport is a tram ride to the station and some of the resorts are on the rail system and the fares were always very reasonable.
Some of the resorts, Schladming for intance have transfer coaches to the airport but these tend to be timetabled around the German incoming flights.

Done Engelberg for both three and four day breaks.

Swiss flight to Zurich (free ski carriage and choice of flights makes it so much better than EasyRyan!), train from the airport, change at Lucerne, hotel right next to railway station.

In the throes of booking something similar for Grindelwald leaving on Jan 11th and returning after ski-ing on Jan 16.

Most of the swiss resorts have very good online booking systems for their hotels - and they don't seem tied in to the Sat- Sat regimes of other countries.

Switzerland is the smart option at the minute due to the rate of the euros and they use CHF. Also buy them early incase the rate drops... anyway, Zweisimmen is a great place for weekends.

Fly to Geneva- Get train(from airport) to Montreux, go to platform 3/4 and get train to Zweisimmen...train altogether is around 110CHF=55 pound.

In Zweisimmen there are lots of independent hotels, costing around 40 pound a night for B&B, no need to book until you get there but just search it on google if you wish and its very easy.

Also the skiing(most important thing) is very good, with the pass you get the "Gstaad Super Ski area", which covers transport between resorts and entry to local pools. The Zweisimmen area has direct access to the biggest area in this area and also is a 30 min train ride from Glacier 3000.

The pass is bookable trough the internet, http://www.ticketcorner.com/eventstore/co638/skihome?language=en&setPrevParams=true" target="_new" rel="nofollow"> http://www.ticketcorner.com/eventstore/co638/skihome?language=en&setPrevParams=true

Overall for 5 days I would estimate £350 per person, including everything except flights.

Hope I helped.