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Hi Snowheads. All plans have been scuppered with Thomson having to pull out of Coventry and my annual short trip to Ski Amade via Salzburg no longer as viable. I am therefore looking at scheduled flights into Zurich from Birmingham and wonder if anyone has any experience of resorts within 2hrs max of Zurich. I am particularly interested to hear from anyone who has skied in Lenzerheide and/or Engelberg. 
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Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
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Drove through it once
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Well, the person's real but it's just a made up name, see?
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I've been to Engelberg, an easy drive from Zurich. It's a great place.
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Checkout: http://www.bergfex.com/schweiz/ for the ski resorts near to Zürich.
You don't say what you are looking for in your skiing trip.
My understanding is that Engelberg is great for off-piste, but is pretty limited otherwise. I haven't been to Lenzerheide, but Flims Laax is a similar distance and that was good over last Christmas.
Why the 2 hours max? That is very limiting and removes many great resorts from the list. Public transport is fantastic in Switzerland and there's a train station in the airport.
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Thanks hbunny. Reason for 2hrs max is that i am only going to manage 4 days so don't want to spend too much time on the road/train. As far as what i want from the resort. Comfortable hotel, varied ski terrain (been falling over for the last 25 years!!), short distance to the lifts and not too busy. Same as everyone else i guess!
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Lots of people from Zurich ski in Davos/Klosters - should be closer and easier to get to than Lenzerheide.
If you like off piste excursions, there's even a neet trip from Davos to Arosa and onwards ending up in Lenzerheide. 45 minute Post Bus ride back to Davos.
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| Levitt wrote: |
| Lots of people from Zurich ski in Davos/Klosters - should be closer and easier to get to than Lenzerheide. |
I think they go there because it's easier to get to on a train - by car Lenzerheide is much quicker imo. IIRC Klosters is an hour off the motorway from Landquart, whereas Lenzerheide is 20 minutes from Chur, which is only 5-10 mins further along the motorway from Landquart
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St. Anton, Lech, Zurs
all should be no more than a couple of hours from Zurich
If you like off-piste and austrian apres then base yourself if St. Anton, if you like piste bashing then base yourself in Lech. Nearness to lifts depends on where you stay really - oberlech is ski-in ski-out
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wib, We did the half term week there a couple of years ago. A long thin village with skiing on both sides of the valley connected by bus. The snow was very thin when we went but very well managed. Quiet for half term (which was why we went). Typically swiss in every way!
Lots of intermediate terrain but the runs were a bit repetitive. Not enough skiing for a week really but ok for a shorter break.
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I don't know Lenzerheide but here is my dad and friends there in the 30s
Engelberg is fantastic if you like off-piste (especially steeper, but not ultra steep off piste) and have good snow - lots of places to ski it, not just the main glacier. However I get the impression that is probably not what you want (?) so, as several people have said it might be a bit limited. You can make an excursion to Andermatt - but it isn't that close. If I'm guessing right about the sort of skiing you like I get the impression from the piste map that Lenzerheide might be more suitable.
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I've been to Lenzerheide-Valbella twice. However, I can't comment on the quality of its skiing as those were the days when I didn't make it off the baby slope. However, this is what I know:
Its a linear town strung out along the valley a bit, it is quite possible for the lift to be a 10 minute car drive or bus ride from where you stay if you are at one end or the other. You can ski on both sides of the valley, and there is nice walking around the frozen lake if you fancy it apres ski. It also has ice skating and a good togoggan run from the top of one of the gondolas - so good if you have someone that doesn't ski in the group. There are several ski hire shops and enough food outlets to be self sufficient if you are in that sort of accommodation. There was also very little difficult driving around loads of hairpin bends in comparison to other areas I've been to when arriving in the resort.
How's that?
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| eng_ch wrote: |
| Levitt wrote: |
| Lots of people from Zurich ski in Davos/Klosters - should be closer and easier to get to than Lenzerheide. |
I think they go there because it's easier to get to on a train - by car Lenzerheide is much quicker imo. IIRC Klosters is an hour off the motorway from Landquart, whereas Lenzerheide is 20 minutes from Chur, which is only 5-10 mins further along the motorway from Landquart |
Klosters isn't more than 1/2 hour from Landquart by car. The train from Landquart to Klosters is only 38 minutes and the RhB isn't exactly the TGV.
From Zurich main station it is 1:48 to Klosters and 2:13 to Davos.
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You know it makes sense.
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No, the RhB isn't the TGV but then the road is hardly a motorway either. Maybe we've just had bad luck but we've never done it in less than an hour (albeit the new Klosters bypass bridge might have reduced the time)
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