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Have flights booked for first weekend in March - arrive Zurich Friday 08:55 depart Monday 20:15.
Have some ideas where to go but opening this up in case something I hadn't considered crops up.
Requirements:
* would like to be on slopes by midday Friday and ski as late as possible on Monday so max 2 hr transfer (could stretch to 2.5 hrs maybe, preferably by public transport but car hire if necessary).
* good skiing for intermediates and advanced skiers and boarders
* all male group, lively apres ski
* minimal walking to/from slopes
* reasonably priced b&b accommodation (to book nearer date)
Am already considering St Anton, Ischgl (having noted recent threads) and Flims ... any other areas we should consider ?
thanks ....
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Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
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Flumserberg if you want to trade off skiing extent for the best possible travel time.
Flims/Laax like you said.
Kloster/Davos. Klosters has best access by train. Or you can stay further down the Valley (e.g. Kueblis) and there are some very long runs that take you back to the village at the end of the day.
Lenzerheide
Engelberg. Although you need to get a bus from the town/station to the Titlis gondola.
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masmith,
I cannot add much to the above though Andermatt is decent but with little apres ski. You will struggle to get to the Arlberg or Ischgl and get much skiing done on the day by the time you have been through the airport and collected your car I would have thought.
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T Bar, thanks but not quite sure how you work that out. Arlberg is approx 2 hrs by car from Zurich so should be there by midday with a good 4 hours plus slope time to be had ?
nessy, thanks, taking a look at Engelberg & Klosters/Davos ...
at the end of the day it could simply come down to where we can find suitable accommodation - it's peak season after all
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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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masmith, check out the CH school hols. Ours are the last 2 weeks in Feb. On the other hand I have done a weekend in March were we just drove towards Klosters and found a hotel a bit down the valley. BTW please don't rely on me to give you any information about lively apres ski 
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masmith,
You are probably right with your timings I have done Zurich St A by train getting up early in the morning and getting an afternoons skiing and once by car to Lech with family including youngish children a few years ago in snow and it seemed to take longer than two hours.I think Ischgl wuld be about 40 minutes longer. Flims in particular seemed a lot closer when i did it but it is slightly impressionistic as I was getting in in the afternoon and not trying to ski the same day. I have skied the same day on a trip to Andermatt.
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St Anton is certainly 2 hours away by car and will meet your Nightlife requirements better than many Swiss Locations, Flims/Laax does have the ability to 'stoke' from time to time - B&B(second b is limited) at the Riders Palace puts you right on top of a bar and nightclub that 'kicks' from time to time. It's a train and bus to get to it, but not too tricky and right at the bottom of the lift.
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So does anyone have any links for booking trains, busses etc from Zurich to Flims?
What time do the trains and busses run till on Friday nights and Sunday afternoons? I'm intending arriving late Friday night into Zurich and will need to get to Flims. Any ideas out there?
Cheers
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SobeUK, wouldn't have thought there was any need to book and you should be able to get a return ticket straight through to Flims/Laax from the airport. The only concern is the time you are arriving. If you aren't landing until say 10 at night, you'll prob need to find somewhere to crash overnight. The link masmith provided should give you the full timetable incl. bus
Oh and welcome to 
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If you need somewhere cheap to stay that night, there's an ETAP next to Hardbrucke station (well five mins walk) which is on one of the lines from the airport to the Hauptbahnhof (not all trains stop there). It's fifteen mins tram or five mins train from the Hauptbahnhof for the next morning and there are some reasonable bars etc just round the corner from it. Do a search on Accor hotels to find it (it shares a complex with a Novotel & an Ibis). Otherwise there are some reasonably priced, but not especially cheap hotels within walking distance of the Hauptbahnhof (eg the Bristol). However if you want to get to Flims on Friday night, you'll need to not land too late as eng_ch says.
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skanky, there's always the Crazy Cow 
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eng_ch, never been so couldn't recommend...  I always quite liked the look of the Happy Otter (I think that's the name, I may have mis-remembered), but never got round to it. For a one-off obviously.
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