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Zermat
Thinking about going in Feb. (2 wks.) . Looking for cheap room w/ breakfast.
Any tips or faves ? Thanks ! |
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On 15/09/2010 01:32, Dynastarian wrote:
Thinking about going in Feb. (2 wks.) . Looking for cheap room w/ breakfast. Any tips or faves ? Yes, go somewhere else - see my recent post on Z. |
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On Fri, 17 Sep 2010 11:43:21 +0200, BrritSki
wrote: On 15/09/2010 01:32, Dynastarian wrote: Thinking about going in Feb. (2 wks.) . Looking for cheap room w/ breakfast. Any tips or faves ? Yes, go somewhere else - see my recent post on Z. Never tried it myself, but apparently there is a youth hostel on the edge of town. Not my idea of decent accomodation, but there you go. We did once stay in a cheapish place in the middle of town, but it's probab;ly changed by now. In any event, what you need to look for is somewhere branded a "Hotel Garni". Very little facilities, and sometimes needing a revamp and just killnig time until someone gets round to it, but usually possible, even somewhere like Zermatt, to find a room for two for around 80 francs/night. -- Ace Ski Club of Great Britain http://www.skiclub.co.uk/ All opinions expressed are those of the poster and in no way reflect those of the Ski Club or its members |
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On Fri, 17 Sep 2010 11:43:21 +0200, BrritSki
wrote: On 15/09/2010 01:32, Dynastarian wrote: Thinking about going in Feb. (2 wks.) . Looking for cheap room w/ breakfast. Any tips or faves ? Yes, go somewhere else - see my recent post on Z. I sem to have missed your post and lost my Google mojo. What was the upshot of it? I was vaguely toying with the idea of going there next year for a week. I went in my first couple of years of skiiing on real snow and as a result, was only able to ski about half the resort. I always intended to go back when I was a better skier. -- -Pip |
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On 17/09/2010 23:15, Pip Luscher wrote:
On Fri, 17 Sep 2010 11:43:21 +0200, wrote: On 15/09/2010 01:32, Dynastarian wrote: Thinking about going in Feb. (2 wks.) . Looking for cheap room w/ breakfast. Any tips or faves ? Yes, go somewhere else - see my recent post on Z. I sem to have missed your post and lost my Google mojo. What was the upshot of it? I was vaguely toying with the idea of going there next year for a week. I went in my first couple of years of skiiing on real snow and as a result, was only able to ski about half the resort. I always intended to go back when I was a better skier. Ooops, it was posted in rec.skiing.alpine, but here's the question and my reply: On 06/09/2010 18:50, BrritSki wrote: On 06/09/2010 18:27, Chile Ski wrote: My friends and I are planning a late Feb ski trip to either Zermatt or Val D'Isere. The original idea was to take advantage of the low Euro now before it gets up again, but as Switzerland is not on the Euro, we are curious as to relative prices as well as ski experience, food experience, recommended hotels, recommended guides. Please, if anyone has comment, please let me know Zermatt is the sort of place that everyone should ski once. The tradition, Matterhorn backdrop, ice caves, mountain railway and height alone make it a must for some people. Having said that I won't be going back - I didn't think the actual skiing was that great - even the off-piste with a guide (but then I'm not thgat good at off-piste skiing) and the lift system really REALLY sucks, taking up to 2 hours to get from the base to the very top on 3 different lifts. Val d'Isere/Tignes is far better organised and there is a much bigger range of skiing. Still not my favourite though, which is the 3V, Courchevel in particular, but not in January when it's crawling with Russians. |
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"BrritSki" wrote in message
... and the lift system really REALLY sucks, taking up to 2 hours to get from the base to the very top on 3 different lifts. Not sure what you mean by that, but I would point out that the Furi to Riffelberg lift which was built a few years ago did make it much easier to get between the various areas. You can now get to Rothorn and back quite easily from Cervinia. -- Michael Chare |
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"Michael Chare" wrote: "BrritSki" wrote in message ... and the lift system really REALLY sucks, taking up to 2 hours to get from the base to the very top on 3 different lifts. Not sure what you mean by that, but I would point out that the Furi to Riffelberg lift which was built a few years ago did make it much easier to get between the various areas. You can now get to Rothorn and back quite easily from Cervinia. I've been skiing in Zermat twice, once last year April 2009 and once about 10 years earlier. Both were as a result of completing Haute Route style ski-tours in Zermat. It has some excellent off-piste routes and also some accessible mountain tours (the Breithorn is a reasonable 4000m tick) but I wouldn't want to spend too much time there for on piste skiing. Part of the problem is the clientele that the resort attracts. I spent too long standing in queues surrounded by fur clad, loud speaking, americans, discussing their recent investments, corporate takeovers, paychecks, tax bills, filmshoots etc etc. -- o/ \\ // |\ ,_ o Mike Clark \__,\\ // __o | \ / /\, "A mountain climbing, cycling, skiing, " || _`\,_ |__\ \ | caving, antibody engineer and ` || (_)/ (_) | \corn computer user" http://www.antibody.me.uk/ |
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