Another which resort-Kitz or Selva

Majority of the German schoold holidays are earlier in FEb too so all in all doesn't look a bad week.

Grizwald wrote:Majority of the German schoold holidays are earlier in FEb too so all in all doesn't look a bad week.

How about the rest of Europe?

French schools go by sector, pretty much all of Feb on and off?

The French holidays finish 12th March.

Re half term, as we can see with New Year offers, it appears that the recession will have an increasing effect on capacity take-up. You could, if you wish check the national stats by visitor nationality.

On Kitz v the Dolomites, both have totally different aspects. Kitz is traditionally alpine, modified by it's dominance and respect by virtue of the Hahnemkan. The Dolomites are dominated by beautiful vertical rock outcrops ~ they are most impressive as you ski by them on the Sella Ronda. I have skied in Kitz 5 or 6 times, and 3 times in the Dolomites.

My answer is ~ they should both be fairly high on the Euro hit list. So choose what is easy for you this time, and make the other journey when next years special offer comes along!

On the subject of machine snow, I would strongly prefer Kitz. I have skied several times round the Sella Ronda on a 15m wide strip of machine snow, and given the Italian standard of piste discipline.......

On the other hand, thinking about landscape, I have completed several watercolours of the Dolomites, and none of Kitzbuhel.

Cheers DaveMac. Booked Kitz tonight. My OT likes to have a half or full day off the slopes and liked the look of Kitz more as a town. Dolomites will def be on the hit list for another year, so many resorts so little time......

Thats a good shout, Grizwald. A tip for a half day in Kitz is the museum. There is an interesting history of skiing, and I am sad to say that I overlap with some of the timescale!!!! There are also some good paintings. The most famous Kitzbuhel painter is Alfons Walde. He painted in the early 1900s. I was talking to an Austrian gallery owner about 5 years back, she told me of an exhibition of Walde, where you felt that you could "walk into the picture". I just love his extreme of tone and colour, along with the starkness of his people subjects.

Before you go, look at the youtube videos of the Hahnemkahn, particularly of the Franz Klammer era. I met with him last year, and while he is a most unassuming man, he is quietly proud of his contribution to skiing.

There are great views across Tirol and down to the Hohe Tauern.