Help our to decide the place to spend our HoneyMoon

Felly sgrifennodd Florian Anwander :
What about Gstaad?

I've always discounted Gstaad as an early option because it's not snowsure
(or so I read). There is great skiing there though, especially (IMHO)
to the east around Saanenmoeser and Schoenried area, if the snow is good.

Look at the psite map though:

http://www.gstaad.ch/winter/vbg-pano-wi-1024.jpg

There's hardly anything over 2000m.

Adrian

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mr.andy wrote:
Hi
next 8 December we get married and we decide to spend our Honeymoon on
the Alps.We are italian and we dont want to go in Italy because we have
seen all the italian
skiresort(Gardena,Badia,Campiglio,Cortina,etc).... we need a new
place..a beautiful,romantic,charming place.The our ski level is
Beginners-intermediate and we ski from 12/13 years.
From at least 2 months im trying a place with this characteristics :
- romantic
- small village and alpine characteristic
- snow secure on December
- confortable Hotels (four stars)
- other no-sky attraction (Horse Course,winter path,etc..)
I have ordered brochures,i have visited many web pages of the principal
skiresort in the Alps,I have read the major ski forum on the net....now
i need to decide because i must book the hotel within September.
My serch is concentrated to the followinf ski-resort/village (in
order):
1) Lech (Austria)
2) St.Anton (Austria)
3) Saalbach (Austria)
4) Megeve (France)
5) Zermatt,SaasFee,Samnaun (Switzerland)

I must choose one of this and IMHO the favourite is Lech.
Many suggestion ? Other place ?
Many thanks and excuse me for my english...is very bed :-)

bye Andrea


My vote goes to Zermatt

John

Hi Ace

What about Gstaad? Though it is quite well known it has a lot of "a
beautiful, romantic, charming place".
It also has a lot of 'Oh what a nice fur coat/set of diamonds/Rolls
Royce' etc. And the prices match this image.
I always thought the same. Until is spent a really wonderful week there
three or four years ago.

Large Chalet (ok for 6 persons, perfect for 4) 600 SFr/week.
Good Supermarket. Prices in pubs and inns were usual swiss upper middle
class standard (not(!) skiing resort inns standard).

And if it is your honeymoon: I definitely would spend at least one night
at the hut at the Wasserngrat. It is a little bit more expensive, but
the perfect dinner at night, the rooms and the waking up on the this
beautiful place is definitely worth the money!


And once again about the prices in svizzerland: At least one should
consider, that swiss is not really cheap, but everything you pay the
money for is worth the money.
I am definitely not rich. I cannot afford more than one week lift served
skiing a year, I afford only a few days a year in a hotel. So I go ski
touring, sleep in huts of the alpine clubs, and I do my summer holidays
with a tent on campgrounds. I try to spend not much money. But I know,
that if I have to spend it for holidays, I prefer to do it in
svizzerland, because of the value services that I get for my money.

Florian

On Tue, 28 Jun 2005 11:35:17 +0200, Florian Anwander
wrote:

Hi Ace

What about Gstaad? Though it is quite well known it has a lot of "a
beautiful, romantic, charming place".
It also has a lot of 'Oh what a nice fur coat/set of diamonds/Rolls
Royce' etc. And the prices match this image.

I always thought the same. Until is spent a really wonderful week there
three or four years ago.

snip

And once again about the prices in svizzerland: At least one should
consider, that swiss is not really cheap, but everything you pay the
money for is worth the money.

Oh, I agree. But hotels in Gstaad _are_ more expensive than many other
Swiss resorts, including larger ones like Zermatt et al. Somewhat less
than St. Moritz, I imagine, although I've not stayed in the latter.

We nearly always choose to stay in medium-rate hotels, and mostly take
the demi-pension option which will work out very cheaply. This was not
the case when we stayed in Gstaad, where the evening meal option was
around the same as eating out in a good restaurant. So we did :-)

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