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The Independent's travel supplement featured an article about going for a break to SnowWorld Landgraaf in Holland. Has anyone gone over there for a weekend ? If so, would they recommend it ? The prices looked pretty good and 520m for an inddor slope is not half bad.
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It's the biggest (read longest) indoor snow piste in the world and I live less than 5 miles from it.
OK, it's NOT the Alps, don't go thinking for one minute that it is, but it's nice to get out, get your gear on and have a bit of fun. There are two long pistes separated by the chairlift with a tow all the way up on the left hand side and a tow from the bottom of the terrain park and cabin about half way up. There is sometimes a slalom course set up and sometimes some bumps. There's also a small area set aside for absolute newbies and kids on tyres.
I tend to hang out in the terrain park before nipping in to the cabin for a hot toddy because realistically unless you've still got a lot to learn then you will get bored quite quickly. On the other hand if you're making a weekend of it - why not wait until the end of November and then you can visit the christmas market in Aachen (Germany) just 10 miles from Landgraaf? Or visit Maastricht - there's not really much in Landgraaf itself. You'd have to be pretty die-hard to spend 16 hours on the slopes there.
The hotel there isn't bad at all although obviously now you're looking at the wrong season for the cheap deals - however all their deals are good - they even do an xmas day package with the hotel. I'd be quite happy skiing, having a few bevvies and then staying in the hotel.
The rental equipment is awful, beyond awful and don't buy anything in the shop there because your wallet will cry. Pair of boots is for example 300 euros there, 200 euros 3 miles down the road at Decathlon. Look, touch and stroke the 800 euro ski jackets, but do not buy!
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Great reply ! Thanks for the info.
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Alexandra wrote:
The rental equipment is awful, beyond awful
this is true, the only good thing about it is trying to break it as quickly as you can.
Firing hockey stops at the restuarant windows never gets boring though, 16 hours is maybe not enough.
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OK, it's NOT the Alps, don't go thinking for one minute that it is, but it's nice to get out, get your gear on and have a bit of fun. There are two long pistes separated by the chairlift with a tow all the way up on the left hand side and a tow from the bottom of the terrain park and cabin about half way up. There is sometimes a slalom course set up and sometimes some bumps. There's also a small area set aside for absolute newbies and kids on tyres.
