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Hi - posting for a friend who is after a budget family ski holiday.
She has booked return flights in Feb half term 2025 to Poprad-Tatry in Slovakia. Her initial idea is to go skiing in Jasna.
Does anyone have any suggestions regarding skiing in Slovakia? She's not booked accommodation yet so Jasna is just the initial idea. Maybe there are better resorts? She would be open to a hotel/self catering. It's 2 adults and 2 teenage kids (1 x experienced skier, 2 early intermediates and 1 beginner).
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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I flew to Poprad this summer and toured around the Tatras. Very impressed. Beautiful scenery, historic towns and castles, reasonable prices for everything.
Food is a variation of the Austro-Hungarian offering... soups, dumplings, stews, goulash, potatoes, pork meat, sheeps cheese, etc. Tasty but stodgy!! 
Can't really comment on the ski offering, but saw some of the lifts around the resorts in the High Tatras. Tatranska Lomnica was spaciously laid out, a mixture of Belle Epoque style, communist blocks and newer Alpine chalet style. Strbske Pleso was nice with its lake.
Jasna has the most extensive slopes in Slovakia (24 lifts, 50km) though, so it's probably is the best option for a week. It's in the Low Tatras, a bit further away from the airport. I didn't visit, as it doesn't have much appeal out of ski season.
https://www.bergfex.com/chopok-jasna/
There are SnowHeads who have skied there, I remember it being mentioned before.
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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've skiied in Jasna twice, but it was 10 years ago. Enjoyable for the level we were at then, and we only spent a day there each time as I had driven across the mountains from Zakopane in Poland for the day. Hairy drive back in the snow and dark, though.
The skiing was enjoyable and affordable then. Met some UK groups who were staying for the week and were really enjoying themselves. If you've gotta drive to the slopes every day, then parking was was challenging then.
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There are ~60 ski resorts in Slovakia.
Jasna is the biggest.
Big, for Slovakia. Tiny, by international comparison.
Offpiste is surprisingly good (when it snows).
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