J2Ski Forum Posts and Replies by jastem

We stayed in Scheffau in early January a couple of years ago so skied in Soll also and encountered a fair bit of fog! Not sure if this is typical for January? We also found the piste map confusing. The ski bus service seemed to be good, but I think you need to decide where to stay in Soll - ie near the lifts or near the town.

I'm sitting here on the beach in sunny Southwold having just booked our pre-Christmas trip to Lech. :-) :-)

We stayed in Prato Nevoso about 7 years ago as part of a tour op deal in the Hotel Mondole. It is a very small but very friendly village and great for beginners or - our reason for going there - for someone trying to gain confidence when progressing from snow ploughing to parallel and blues onto reds. I can't remember a bus service but most of the accommodation was either very close to or actually on the two main runs. The nursery slope had a moving carpet and then the two main village runs were a red and a blue, with a café at the top. These two runs - with a snowboard fun park in the middle - were floodlit on three evenings each week. We spent most of our time skiing over to the neighbouring village of Artesina. Everywhere was typically Italian (friendly and somewhat chaotic!) and the local hostelries were very good value. There were several ski hire places but not with particularly well maintained equipment we thought. Things may well have improved though.
As a ski holiday, we had great fun and thoroughly enjoyed the night skiing and the local hospitality.

Difficult to tell as you can only see the skeleton :D

Excellent choice - we have skied in Lech pre-Christmas for the past few years and it never disappoints! The link over to Warth now makes it an even larger ski area. My personal favourite runs are the red run off the Rotschrofen chair and the fantastic long blue down to Zurs off the Rufikopf cable car. My least favourite has to be the red itinerary route from Zurs to Zug - but it has never been in particularly good condition for us so I am relieved when I finally reach the chair at the bottom of the run!
We often lunch at the Burgwald in Oberlech - great terrace when it is sunny - or over at Warth where there are some nices places. On the whole, we find it good value compared with some of the French resorts now but there are a couple of supermarkets in Lech if you are self-catering? As we come off the slopes, we either have a noisy (as in thumping but very good music) drink at the Krone Bar or a more sedate tea/coffee/cake in the Strolz café.
The buses seem to run to time and there is a post bus service which you pay for but might be worth taking over to St. Anton if you find the ski buses too crowded!

Take a few minutes to look in the church in Lech as it has some 'interesting' relics.

Well done you :-) Ski school should be good fun with lots of banter amongst people all going through the same thing. However, if you find the group is just too big and you are always the one at the back and therefore getting very little out of the lessons, treat yourself to a private lesson as it could make all the difference to whether you enjoy the whole ski experience and actually want to go again in the future. I would echo what others have said about just feeling what is it like to wear ski boots, etc.

Excellent choice of resort - Monetier is my personal favourite of the Serre Chevalier villages. The Peyra Juana is one of the friendliest mountain pitstops I have ever come across. Depending on how close to the slopes you are staying, there is a consigne by the chairlift where you can store your skis and boots for the week - about 20 euros I think.

We found sand on the slopes of Serre Chevalier a few years ago - again from the Sahara.