Schladming or Serre Chevalier?

Update - Serre Che has just had a big dump 50cms - 210cms at the top, 160cms at mid mountain and 35cms in the villages. :wink:

Minor matter I know but when you are paying 3.50 Euros for a large beer on the mountain as well as the food being lovely and reasonably priced it swings it for Schladming.

Scarlet Fez wrote:Minor matter I know but when you are paying 3.50 Euros for a large beer on the mountain as well as the food being lovely and reasonably priced it swings it for Schladming.

I love Austria and it will be my first time skiing in France at Serre Che in March. I will be better placed following this to report the costs etc however, I have been informed that Serre Che is slightly cheaper for running costs than many other French resorts. I am not a big beer drinker during the day and run on hot drinks most of the time. I would agree with you that Austria takes a lot of beating for all the creature comforts from accomodation through to food and drink. I will be going to Schladming, hopefully next season because I enjoy tree skiing and the Austrian hospitality however, I am also looking forward to skiing Serre Che because it comes highly recommended and two thirds of the ski area is made up of tree runs. Skiing will always take priority over other considerations :wink:

Correct on all fronts Al. Austria will always in general be cheaper than France, but as far as France goes Serre Che is cheaper. And I found it much more chilled than the 3 valleys for example.
As far as the skiing goes, you should really enjoy SC. I would like to try Schladming as well.

Because its on a lot of peoples wish list perhaps we should explore the possibilty of a J2ski Rally in Schladming in January 2012. If nice Mr Admin :wink: can pull a few strings he may be able to get us some discount for a block booking and have some T shirts made. :)

AlistairS wrote:Because its on a lot of peoples wish list perhaps we should explore the possibilty of a J2ski Rally in Schladming in January 2012. If nice Mr Admin :wink: can pull a few strings he may be able to get us some discount for a block booking and have some T shirts made. :)

T Shirts???
January ?????
Do you know something about the long term weather forecast??

:lol: Andy, I wish I could predict the snow conditions. The T-shirts would be for the apres ski. We could then recognise the J2skiers in amongst the very serious party animals. :wink:

sounds good to me, i would be up for that!!