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On the slopes in Silvretta Montafon & paying for a ski holiday with cattle

admin — Wed, 04 Jan 2012 12:47:48 +0000

Amid fears of ‘no snow Europe’ and scaremongering in certain newspapers, our colleague Suzie Nott visited Silvretta Montafon in Austria at the beginning of last month and tells us, how even in the second week of December, the skiing in the Montafon…

Ski season summary part 1: ‘Our survey said…’

admin — Fri, 13 May 2011 15:16:10 +0000

Well, we have wound up the ski season once again, our winter woolies are relegated to the back of the wardrobe. But don’t fear, we’re not done for the summer just yet. We’ve been putting together the best bits

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Easter skiing – Ski Club GB stats part 2

admin — Fri, 11 Mar 2011 13:40:40 +0000

Easter Sunday falls late this year on 24th April – making the ski season unusually long. Following from the great feedback we received from our earlier post on late…

Top 5 ski-to-door hotels in USA and Canada

admin — Mon, 28 Feb 2011 11:47:18 +0000

The ease of ski-in/ski-out is as popular across the pond as it is in Europe – here’s the pick of the best slopeside accommodation throughout the USA and Canada put together by our North American Senior Product Manager, which…

Top 5 hideouts in Sauze d’Oulx for the real Italian deal

admin — Wed, 23 Feb 2011 15:48:04 +0000

In the previous decade, the sunny resort of Sauze d’Oulx, Italy was nick-named ‘The Benidorm of the Alps’, after years of British package deals providing bargain boozy holidays, with a bit of skiing thrown in. I still remember working a…

Summer skiing coming to an end

Jameski — Thu, 26 Aug 2010 08:55:14 +0000

The two open Swiss glacier ski areas of Sass Fee and neighbouring Zermatt continue to offer the best conditions on the continent at present. Both received more than a foot of fresh snow a few weeks ago. Snow depths…

Club Med opens in China’s top resort

Jameski — Wed, 25 Aug 2010 13:30:48 +0000

The famous French holiday village group Club Med has announced it will open its first resort in China this winter, at the country’s top resort of Yabuli.

Club Med has run ski holiday villages at resorts around the world…

New Gondola in Saalbach Hinterglemm

Jameski — Wed, 25 Aug 2010 08:00:31 +0000

Saalbach Hinterglemmm Leogang in Austria, one of the country’s largest resorts with 200 kilometres of piste and 55 modern lifts, will add a new gondola this winter.

The T-bar lift located near to the Funpark will be dramatically upgraded…

Teton Pass ski area reborn

Jameski — Sun, 22 Aug 2010 08:30:28 +0000

The sound of chainsaws can be heard in the woods west of Choteau in Montana, USA where three investors, one from New Zealand and two Americans, purchased ski area a few weeks ago.

The trio plan to invest…

New chairlifts at Pralognan

Jameski — Tue, 17 Aug 2010 11:00:30 +0000

Pralognan La Vanoise in the French Savoie region will see one of the biggest infrastructure upgrades in the country this winter when the resort installs new quad and six-seater chairlifts.

Pralognan will replace the old Edelweiss chair with a…