J2Ski Forum Posts and Replies by pennyqss

ellmau is low as a town, so who knows what the snow will be like, but they have great snow making facilities and the nursery slopes are northfacing. If it's good, then you're onto a winner as you're beginners as the nursery slopes are a dream - the most fab place. However, it's very easy to get higher up and when you're there, they'll point you in the right direction up the road. Can't quite remember the name of the towns, but it's very easy and your lift pass will cover all.

Hope you have a good time.

try this site.

http://www.flexiblebreaks.com/

found it useful but in the end found something else. looked good though so kept it in my favourites.

If you decide to take 2 days to get there, as we did last year, then stay:
night one - Arras in France. It's the most fantastic town. One hour from the other side of the tunnel only. Book a room/hotel or whatever using hoteldirect.com or laterooms.com etc. Very easy.
Night two - stay in Chamberey or just outside. We stayed in a type of castle which is now a hotel. Fantastic. Also then you only have one day driving a long way. Get to Chamberey and then it's only 40 mins to the slopes the next morning. Also, you get to your destination in plenty of time to book ski school/lift passes, have lunch and a few beers and aren't tired.
Again, the final day of the holiday you can then ski all day (we came down at 5pm), left and drove just 40 mins to the same hotel in reverse. 7 days skiing, but could have skiied the first day too.

Sounds a long way and a lot of time, but we had two kids in the car and they loved the journey. Helped by having twin DVD players in the back (they watched 5 DVDs each, each way!!) and the adults got to watch one too whilst sharing the driving. Fab fun and the journey made the holiday. Wasn't a drag at all.