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Anyone ever been to Lenzerheide? |
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Hi, always looking for new and off the radar (to us Brits anyway) resorts and have read good things about Lenzerheide. Looking at it for a long weekend. Have flown into Zurich before and went to Flims/Laax which is a great area and Lenzerheide is about the same distance. Anyone have any experience of this resort? Accommodation recommendations? Thanks.
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Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
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No, but there is a memorial bench at Kenwood house which says "He loved Kenwood but loved Lenzerheide better"
And this is my dad with his car there in 1934 
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Well, the person's real but it's just a made up name, see?
Well, the person's real but it's just a made up name, see?
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I went for a weekend in late Feb a few years ago. I've also been to Flims/Laax several times. It's not on the same scale as Flims/Laax - it's a smaller, quieter resort. At the time I went I was happy cruising blues and reds with the odd black if it was on the way somewhere. I didn't ski offpiste at all at the time so I don't know what that aspect is like.
It's a very pretty, pleasant, traditional resort. I stayed at the hotel on the mountain - there are hotel rooms upstairs, and dorm rooms downstairs. Because of the way the sex distribution worked out when we booked I ended up in a dorm whilst my two friends were in a hotel room. The dorms were fine, though with alpine sleeping platforms, but it's definitely worth the not much extra for a pretty nice hotel room upstairs. We were half board so we got a buffet breakfast and a set menu thrown in. We were the only English in the hotel, and quite a novelty to the German/Swiss people staying there, who were fascinated as to why we had come and very friendly.
It's a place where you can have a relaxed few days of skiing interspersed with good local food and beer. The bar adjoined to the hotel was lively pre-dinner, but much quieter after. I think most people headed off to bed around 11 after some post-dinner drinks in the restaurant.
The whole experience is very traditional. I've been to several other similar sized resorts in Germany/Austria/Switzerland, and it has the same kind of traditional feel, but I think Lenzerheide is a particularly nice example. The mountain restaurants were small, serve you at your table with local specialties type places, a world away from the large spag bol and schnitzel cafeterias of Flims/Laax. There was a particularly gorgeous tiny one up in a top corner somewhere - it was packed with ancient skiing equipment and was like stepping back in time.
I've not been back since because people I ski with prefer larger and more lively resorts, and if you're looking for an intense skiing/partying weekend it's not the best place for it. But I would go back, and for a pretty, chilled out, smaller scale/more local mountain experience I would recommend it.
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I've heard its good and i'm sure i've seen it on some ski porn like salomon freeski tv, but I haven't been there. One place i would recommend though is Engelberg. Its an easy weekend through zurich, take the train or drive. The train is more relaxing though and stay at the skiers lodge engelberg a really friendly and great place.
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Anyway, snowHeads is much more fun if you do.
Anyway, snowHeads is much more fun if you do.
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My partner went there 35 years ago and says it's lovely.
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She was 10.
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Then you can post your own questions or snow reports...
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Went there on a day trip from St Moritz. Long resort with runs on opposite side of the valley like Saalbach/Hinterglemm but not very big like annaski said. Should be good for a long week end. The other place on the road is Arosa and Savognin but both are even smaller. Generally there isn't much wrong with a Swiss resort.
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