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Slovenia February half term

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Hello,
We are thinking of trying Slovenia for a Feb half term trip - two adults (advanced ski and intermediate board), two children (second trip) - could anybody offer any experienced advice on travel, resorts, operators, ski schools, general tips please?

Thanks in advance.
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This might be of use in comparing ski areas:

https://www.bergfex.com/slovenia/

Slovenia has quite a few areas but all are limited in extent.

The top 5 areas only have 20-40km.

Costs are a bit lower than other Alpine countries.

The Julian Alps are beautiful with scenery similar to the Dolomites across the border in Italy.

I've only visited in Summer, so hopefully others can help with specific recommendations about the winter offering.
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Good overview here

https://www.skimag.com/ski-resort-life/europe/guide-to-skiing-slovenia
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I did a bit of a nostalgia trip to Slovenia in Feb 20 because I learnt to ski their in the 80's when it was very popular with UK tour operators. I drove there from France and booked airbnb's / booking.com. Was not really busy at all. I only skied Kranjska Gora for various reasons. Great place but totally different experience to a mega french / austrian resort with slopes basically right on edge of town, beautiful scenery. The Bohinj area used to be good and again beautiful scenery but not been there since the 80's. I have never skied the Kanin _SellaNevea area that straddles the Italian border. I was going to go in 2020 but it was closed for a couple of days due to high wind. I think there was lots of good info on the resort websites and english is widely spoken.
Sorry there is not a great depth of information there but my trip in 2020 was during UK / French half term, just before covid rose it's head......
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Thanks all, much appreciated, I'll do some more research.
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@apeman241, I've never been skiing in Slovenia but this summer I visited Slovenia for the first time on a motoring trip, and I went to Mt. Vogel next to Lake Bohinj. It seemed to be quite a reasonably sized ski area from what I could tell. Here's the piste map: https://piste-maps.co.uk/slovenia/vogel
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I would love to visit Slovenia in winter, have been to Lubljana on business a few times in spring / summer, snuck away to the Julian Alps and lakes (Bled and Bohinj). One of these days!

It's funny how few western Europeans seem to have been there given Slovenia's "hidden gem" reputation, which has been out there for a couple of decades.

Slovenians are quite friendly, speak perfect English in tourist areas and are justifiably proud of their country. Can't say the food is comparable to Italy, however...
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Pasigal wrote:
Can't say the food is comparable to Italy, however...


It's more solid Central European style Laughing
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Here's my Slovenia trip report from spring 2014 @apeman241. I don't know why the first two pics have disappeared - but you'll get the gist Smile

https://snowheads.com/ski-forum/viewtopic.php?p=2500578&highlight=krvavec#2500578
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luigi wrote:


The top 5 areas only have 20-40km.


This will be why most Brits don’t choose to go there for their one week a year.
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Warning.

Bovec-Kanin cable car, by far the largest and highest ski area in Slovenia, is closed and will not open anymore.

We went there last summer, I saw the technical state, and fully understand why.

You can better go to Montenegro or Kolasin.
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@Onnem, That's sad, that will not be good for the town of Bovec.
What was the problem with it ?
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@skitow

This was one of the longest cablecars in Europe. Must be about 5 km long, from 500 to 2200 elevation.
Also a VERY old one with happy-colored small eggs.

About 6 years ago the cable car was closed because of an accident.
https://english.sta.si/1846805/two-cable-cars-plunge-to-ground-at-kanin

After Covid, with lot of effort they -just- passed the certification and could re-open again.
Now they have failed -again- safety check.
https://sloveniatimes.com/39937/kanin-cable-car-not-to-run-this-winter

This summer I went camping with my family in Bovec - can only recommend it, beautiful areas.
We also went ziplining - apparently the largest zipline in Europe. This zipline tour ends, at one of the intermediate stations. So we could admire the technical state of the cable car. It is falling to pieces, litterally.


I feel sorry for the very nice people of Bovec. The investment required to re-open the cable-car is too large.
It is unsafe. And it is also very outdated. So even getting it safe again, they would need to replace it anyhow. That is VERY expensive because of the extreme length of the trajectory. And when you get up on the mountain, the ski area itself is quite small.

Our local mountainbike tour guide, told me she would go skiing in winter. But goes to Austria.

Zipline Shocked

http://youtube.com/v/pV1MjjFyJV4?si=i2Q4xnqDHeKtPFVR
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@Onnem, Very interesting, thank you for posting that.
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Thank you all.
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