 Poster: A snowHead
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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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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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Skiied lenzerheide and arosa today, the two resors are now linked. Lovely resorts both, lots and lots of km's of pistes, and i'd imagine hard to get more easily reached off piste. Serious investment seems to have gone into the infrastructure this year, lots of new chairs and of course the brilliant new gondola linking the two resorts together.
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We skied over from Arosa the day the high altitude link opened to Lenzerheide last January - we actually prefer to stay local in Arosa, as there is plenty of off piste & snowsure runs for families, intermediates & beginners, but - it has been great for our chalet guests to enjoy skiing two Swiss Ski Resorts connected by a super modern cross valley cable car.
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