 Poster: A snowHead
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1st post of the "winter"....exciting stuff
This year I'm planning a trip before Christmas, for the first time. Ideally a Weds-Weds 16th-23 Dec. Go out on my own for 2 days and GF come out on the Fri to meet me for rest of trip.
I'm thinking Swissair to Geneva then train to Crans Montana(good reviews/fairly snowsure and suits both our ability levels, plus I liked Nendaz/Verbier last year). And from what I can surmise the train journey should be fairly painless, thanks to the Swiss).
Anyone got any suggestions on accommodation options in CM? I'm struggling with hotels as the reasonably priced are full already. (Or rather the nice one that was fairly cheap with good reviews on tripadvisor.com is full!).
Alternatively if someone has any suggestions on variations to my plan I am all ears(or is that eyes?)
cheers
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Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
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geofferson,
My only suggestion is you are going early and low season why not wait and see if Crans has snow? If it does great, if not there may be somewhere else accessible from Geneva that does, then you could go there instead.
PS, I think you need to get the train to Sierre then the bus up, usually easy in Switzerland as they connect up and you can get a through ticket.
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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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geofferson,
Typically south facing is Crans M... although the Glacier is around 3000m if open.
St Luc the other side of the valley is the same sort of skiing as CM...
Train to Sierre is 2hrs or so.
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geofferson, There's a funiculaire from Sierre to Montana. They may not open all the domaine until Sat 19th. Hotel Olympic and Central in Montana are good value, simple but not too expensive and only 5 mins walk from lifts.
Last edited by You need to Login to know who's really who. on Fri 9-10-09 7:57; edited 1 time in total
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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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the dates you are proposing cut into the Christmas week (which for Sat/Sat institutions will be 19/26th Dec). So you will probably find hotels reluctant to do that, unless and until they are sure they won't get bookings for the whole week.
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