Sweden Snowsure from December to May
Unspoilt, beautiful landscape
Uncrowded pistes and lifts
Vibrant aprГЁs-ski and nightlife scene
Good range of non-skiing activities
Limited challenging downhill terrain
Small areas by Alpine standards
Lacks the dramatic peaks and vista of the Alps
Short days during the early season
Sweden’s landscape of forests and lakes and miles of unspoiled wilderness is entirely different from the Alps’ grandeur and traffic-choked roads. Standards of accommodation, food and service are good and the people welcoming, lively and friendly. There are plenty of off-slope activities but most of its downhill areas are limited in size and challenge. Sweden is likely to appeal most to those who want an all-round winter holiday in a different environment and culture from a normal Alpine resort. Don’t be put off by the myths that Sweden is expensive, dark and cold see below. Read the rest of this entry »
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Slovenia Good value for money
Beautiful scenery
Good beginners’ slopes and tuition
Good off-slope diversions and excursions
Limited, easy slopes on the whole
Antiquated lifts
Boring food
Slovenia offers good value for money ‘on the sunny side of the Alps’. A handful of UK tour operators run packages to some of the better-known resorts. An alternative would be to arrange an independent trip to the mountains combined with a break in the vibrant city of Ljubljana.
Kranjska Gora and Bohinj are the best-known resorts, popular with the economy-minded British and Dutch, and with visitors from neighbouring Italy and Austria, giving a cosmopolitan feel to the resorts.
Most of the readers’ reports we get relate to the resorts we cover in detail, but we do get some (and would like more) on resorts that at present are covered only in the directory at the back of the book. These reports help us to decide which resorts we might promote to a proper chapter in a later edition of the book. Here are the key points from some of this year’s reports: Read the rest of this entry »
Switzerland is home to some of our favourite resorts. For sheer charm and spectacular scenery, the ‘traffic-free’ villages of Wengen, Murren, Saas-Fee and Zermatt take some beating. Many resorts have impressive slopes too including some of the biggest, highest and toughest runs in the Alps, as well as a lot of reassuring intermediate terrain. For fast, efficient, queue-free lift networks, Swiss resorts rarely match French standards but the real black spots are gradually disappearing. And there are compensations: the world’s best mountain restaurants, for example. People always seem to associate Switzerland with high prices. Barring some catastrophic accident to the Swiss franc, prices are never going to be low, but usually they are not greatly different from prices in major French resorts; and what you get for your money is first-class. Read the rest of this entry »
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