 Poster: A snowHead
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I'm posting this mainly because of the crapness of the Cervinia website which is equally as useless as the resort smartphone app.
Here's why. We are off to Zermatt in just over a couple of weeks for a cheeky pre season session ski testing. We should, on past experience, be able to cross over the border into Cervinia and ski to lunch at mid station.
The Zermatt website helpfully gives a map of lifts and pistes open on a daily basis and a page of written info. Kind of what most skiers want from a resort website I would say (or am I just being too demanding?). It only covers the Zermatt side however...
The Cervinia website, by comparison, can only manage to tell you which lifts are open or going to open, but gives absolutely bug all info re pistes. Useless!
Other nominations?
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Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
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Not sure if any of the Cervinia runs are open yet and all the skiing is on the Zermatt side, maybe someone else can confirm.
Just seen your other thread and remembered that the runs on the Cervinia side are only shown on the piste map if they are open, we normally go in January and that is what happens then.
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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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What we want on a skiresort web site
Piste maps + dates of opening/closing
Online accommodation booking
Ski rental shops (+discounts)
Lift pass prices, availability and hopefully online booking
Perhaps a list of restaurants, bars etc.
Weather forecast, snow report and whats open
skischool details (and mountain guides)
Webcams
What we don't want:
Flash
Video
Music
difficult navigation
Sadly almost all ski resort web sites appear to provide a lot of the latter list. They appear to be designed by kids who think a good website looks cool instead of giving you the information you want as quickly as possible. Almost all are bad but try the tignes one, or the Les Arcs one for really aweful.
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I think you're being unfair to kids, who probably wouldn't think flash was a good idea. Well technical kids wouldn't, anyway.
I don't think I've found a decent resort website; I'm always challenged to find the freakin piste mao (duh!), and the "accommodation" link. Trying to find their opening/ closing dates can be a challenge too. They're all marketing fluff - like car websites, where finding the width of the bloody thing can be almost impossible.
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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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| larry1950 wrote: |
Not sure if any of the Cervinia runs are open yet and all the skiing is on the Zermatt side, maybe someone else can confirm.
Just seen your other thread and remembered that the runs on the Cervinia side are only shown on the piste map if they are open, we normally go in January and that is what happens then. |
So why can't they say so on the website! We are not mind readers.
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On a not really related point, why are the Zermatt piste maps so bad? Where are all the names?!
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finestgreen, names are old school. You need numbers like what they've got in lda. Fee4 is so memorable.
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| philwig wrote: |
| I'm always challenged to find the freakin piste mao (duh!) |
yeah, pretty basic stuff but they seem to enjoy hiding it.
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All french websites are equally crap. They just don't get it.
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Perty, on their website, click on 'SKIRAMA' and tah-dah!
I've got a free app on my phone called Ski Trailmaps, and if you want to quickly look at a piste map for a good few hundred resorts, its the business.
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Definitely all French ones. Autoplaying vids and background music  really cheese me off. First rule of visiting a French ski resort website is turn off your speakers first!
Plus every one that insists on having an interactive piste map thingy but no obvious PDF etc. static version. And then some of those interactive ones are now a really small stupid interactive thing in a stupid lightbox! (and lightboxes are all stupid anyway).
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And love to help out and answer questions and of course, read each other's snow reports.
And love to help out and answer questions and of course, read each other's snow reports.
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Never visited a resort website that made me think "yup, that's useful". They are all just varying degrees of frustration.
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You know it makes sense.
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Bode Swiller, Yes, but how do you download the pdf piste map (I do not take my laptop skiing)? My original stab at getting lift pass prices resulted in a blank table. Though not of real importance to me I imagine some people would like to know where the restaurants are on the piste map. But yes it doesn't have annoying video, musak or flash.
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Otherwise you'll just go on seeing the one name:
Otherwise you'll just go on seeing the one name:
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The mobile version of any website, I've yet to use a mobile version that is easier to use than the desktop version on my smartphone....
The worst sites been the ones that ignore my "request desktop site" option in chrome then don't even give you a button to select desktop >.<
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Poster: A snowHead
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Perty, As I said we normally go in January so with the whole resort being open it is probably more obvious, hopefully by the time you go they will have had more snow and have a run down to Cervina open.
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Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
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[quote="Daishan"]The mobile version of any website, I've yet to use a mobile version that is easier to use than the desktop version on my smartphone....
The worst sites been the ones that ignore my "request desktop site" option in chrome then don't even give you a button to select desktop >.</quote> http://www.raintoday.co.uk/mobile is much better. No adverts!!!
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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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French ones are getting slightly better. The Les Arcs one used to be particularly maddening. The homepage had 4 sections, titled with things like "Breathe", "Escape", "Relax" and "Inspire". Very nice, but how much does a lift pass cost?
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Not a resort nomination but an organisation nomination - ESF!! Even in resort they often seem to just be scribbling down information on the back of an envelope and seem confused that people turn up to make bookings!
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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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Best Zermatt piste map Here
and this is a good Cervinia one. (Click on it to enlarge)
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| stevomcd wrote: |
| French ones are getting slightly better. The Les Arcs one used to be particularly maddening. The homepage had 4 sections, titled with things like "Breathe", "Escape", "Relax" and "Inspire". Very nice, but how much does a lift pass cost? |
On it today, still not great.
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Shimmy Alcott, which ESF. It's a franchise with wildly varying customer experiences...
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| Richard_Sideways wrote: |
| Perty, on their website, click on 'SKIRAMA' and tah-dah!. |
Yeah...get that. A map of all the pistes. Not a map or info telling you what is open. Useless.
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You'll get to see more forums and be part of the best ski club on the net.
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johnE, Ski Amadé mobile app designed for smart phones and has route planners, web cams, and all linked via free wifi links at the base stations and the top of every lift as well as in a lot of huts (increasing each season). Shows all the pistes running from a lift. I'm half expecting them to have linked with Google maps this season to give 3D versions! It is an excellent and extremely useful tool particularly if you have the GPS location of your device switched on.
It's been around for at least at least 3, if not 4 seasons and gets better each year.
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| johnE wrote: |
| Bode Swiller, Yes, but how do you download the pdf piste map (I do not take my laptop skiing)? My original stab at getting lift pass prices resulted in a blank table. Though not of real importance to me I imagine some people would like to know where the restaurants are on the piste map. But yes it doesn't have annoying video, musak or flash. |
When I were a lad etc... we didn't know about the snow conditions (or which hotel) until we got off the transfer bus, hopefully in the correct resort, after a relaxing 24 hour delay at Luton followed by the 9 hour transfer in the bus where the heating was turned off so that the engine got more heat. There was a time when you needed a typhoid jab for Austria (seriously) and fall out from Chernobyl turned the marmottes orange. But you tell the kids of today that...
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snowHeads are a friendly bunch.
snowHeads are a friendly bunch.
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And love to help out and answer questions and of course, read each other's snow reports.
And love to help out and answer questions and of course, read each other's snow reports.
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Bode Swiller, next you'll be saying that there was a bleeding lizard in the bidet but never mind cos you found a nice little place that sells Watney's Red Barrel.
+1 for piste maps and PDFs.
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Bode Swiller, 
In doing some research for cheeky late season week April 2014 / family resorts for 2015 near Geneva, not sure if it's the work firewall (not that I am using work pc for snow related browsing..... ) but the La Clusaz website is shocking.
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You know it makes sense.
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Most euro websites rubbish, but ski/resort ones generally real stinkers.
The exception is the Dolomite ski app called DSS Ski Beep or something. Keeps all sorts of stats about Km skied, vertical etc. Empirical data that is good to use when comparing length of wangs, km covered etc at the end of the day and/or week.
The 3D virtual tour of the Dolomite super ski is pure ski porn. Great app but needs a PC to run it.
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Otherwise you'll just go on seeing the one name:
Otherwise you'll just go on seeing the one name:
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Samerberg Sue, + 1 
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