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Help please. We've decided to go skiing as a family next year 2005
probably at Easter (end March) & cannot decide on a resort. We parents are complete beginners but intend to take some dry ski lessons first & also at Milton Keynes (real snow). Our sons (aged 16 & 18) will have 4 & 6 weeks experience from school trips & are looking for somewhere with a variety of runs. We've heard that Austria is best for beginner ski instruction but I also like the idea of chalets (mostly in France) or club hotels & am not too keen on the purpose-built resorts (les Arcs etc.) So any suggestions please. We have looked at Cervinia & have now received suggestions of Alpe d'Huez & Serre Chevalier - all good for late snow. The French resorts look a lot larger than the Italian one - is that good or bad? Zed |
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"Puerto Pollensa Travel Guide" wrote in message om... Help please. We've decided to go skiing as a family next year 2005 probably at Easter (end March) & cannot decide on a resort. We parents are complete beginners but intend to take some dry ski lessons first & also at Milton Keynes (real snow). Our sons (aged 16 & 18) will have 4 & 6 weeks experience from school trips & are looking for somewhere with a variety of runs. Andorra is high and has great tuition (mostly English speaking, if you include Australian !) It is cheap. The combined Soldeu/Pas de la Casa resort should have lots of runs for everybody including the teenagers. We took a mixed group there last year and it worked well. Going to the Pyrenees again this year but the French side, Pyrenees 2000. Lots of cheap flights into the area as well ! -- John Owens Fax 44 1509 89 08 22 www.GoodViews.co.uk |
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"Puerto Pollensa Travel Guide" wrote in message
om... Help please. We've decided to go skiing as a family next year 2005 probably at Easter (end March) & cannot decide on a resort. We parents are complete beginners but intend to take some dry ski lessons first & also at Milton Keynes (real snow). Our sons (aged 16 & 18) will have 4 & 6 weeks experience from school trips & are looking for somewhere with a variety of runs. We've heard that Austria is best for beginner ski instruction but I also like the idea of chalets (mostly in France) or club hotels & am not too keen on the purpose-built resorts (les Arcs etc.) So any suggestions please. We have looked at Cervinia & have now received suggestions of Alpe d'Huez & Serre Chevalier - all good for late snow. The French resorts look a lot larger than the Italian one - is that good or bad? Also consider Livigno in Italy. It's a high resort, so should be fine at end-March, it's duty free (thus cheap), and offers a good range of skiing of largely intermediate level runs. I took my family there last year, and we've vowed to return - one of the best ski trips we've had to be honest. Simon |
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Cervinia, absolutely. You'll love it. On sunny days, half the skiers from
Zermatt (like us) will be there to enjoy the easy skiing and great Italian food. Richard |
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I tend to think that the restaurants serving food on the slopes of Cervinia
are inferior to the ones available in Zermatt. In comparisson, they are cheap though. The only good restaurant is the one beneath Plan Maison (on the western side): it is a stone building adjacent to an old chair lift and it has a huge outdoor section with good service. Any other suggestions for good food in Cervinia? regards, Paul Smith "Richard and Barbara" wrote in message . .. Cervinia, absolutely. You'll love it. On sunny days, half the skiers from Zermatt (like us) will be there to enjoy the easy skiing and great Italian food. Richard |
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Chalet Etoile above Plan Maison is a favorite of everyone. On sunny days, a
reservation is essential. Richard |
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"Richard and Barbara" wrote in
: Chalet Etoile above Plan Maison is a favorite of everyone. On sunny days, a reservation is essential. Richard Yes, their "Three different Pasta" lunch is very good, otherwise I found nothing better at the Cervinia slopes than just about anything in Zermatt. Even though they are crazy about having molten cheese on *everything* in Zermatt. About Tignes: Yes, it's correct that the runs down are easier, but you can anyway always (as a beginner) take the lift down at the end of the day. It's not only Face that gets bad in the afternoon. It's pretty much easy skiing to find both in Val, La Daille and Tignes - but evening/night life in Tignes is absymal compared to Val. /Tommy P. |
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On Thu, 5 Feb 2004 21:06:09 +0100, "PSmith"
wrote: I tend to think that the restaurants serving food on the slopes of Cervinia are inferior to the ones available in Zermatt. In comparisson, they are cheap though. The only good restaurant is the one beneath Plan Maison (on the western side): it is a stone building adjacent to an old chair lift and it has a huge outdoor section with good service. Any other suggestions for good food in Cervinia? There's one between the second and third of the new 6-man lifts back up to the top (from the Plan Maison area) which has a self-service on the top level but a rather nice waiter service restaurant tucked away down the stairs at the back, with views out over the hillside. Good food and cheap, but slow service when we were there at the start of December, but it seemed that the whole of Switzerland had descended on Zermatt that weekend (good snow and official opening) so it was probably exceptional. -- Ace (brucedotrogers a.t rochedotcom) Ski Club of Great Britain - http://www.skiclub.co.uk All opinions expressed are personal and in no way represent those of the Ski Club. |
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