 Poster: A snowHead
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Hi All,
Off for a weeks skiing in Zermatt in February and looking to purchase a ski pass over the internet through the Zermatt ticket portal.
We are planning to ski across to Cervina once or twice and would welcome peoples recommendations on which skipass is the most appropriate ?
Cheers Jon
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Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
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as a general rule, those who go to Zermatt in Feb are not short of a bob or two, so assuming that's you, just get the International pass and then you can come and go as you please
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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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Jon987, Welcome to snowheads. Zermatt is a great place and you'll love it. I've been a couple of times and have bought the international pass both times. I think I worked out that it was cheaper than day extensions if you make a couple of trips over. Bad weather can close the link however and you could lose out if it lasts for several days.
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Jon987, if you look at the prices for the International vs the Zermatt only pass + the CHF40 add on charge per Cervinia day ( http://www.ski-zermatt.com/skipass.html ), it's better to get the international if you go over to Cervinia more than once in 5 days. If you're there for more than 5 days days and only go over once it's cheaper to get the Zermatt only and 1 add-on - but you've then lost a bit if you decide to go twice. All depends on how much you plan to go over to Cervinia. If you like long cruisy runs, Cervinia is a good place to go. It's not known for its off-piste but from what I saw there the one day I went over it looks like there's a fair bit of quite nice stuff off the edges and between the pistes as well (particularly as there's next to noone over there skiing it).
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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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Jon987, I went last Jan and got the International pass, went over to Cervinia on 4 different days, loved it over there, sunshine, nice food, I'm a bit of an Italophile, probably should have stayed there instead!
Made sense too as the chalet was near the Klein Matterhorn lifts. They also had fresh snow on the Italian side, Zermatt side was a bit hard and icy by comparison. You definitely need to go over once to do the Ventina run from the Klein Matterhorn down to Valtournenche (22km & 2300m vertical), you might get hooked! Had lunch at the lovely Chalet Etoile before playing a bit and heading back over the top by 3pm.
Of course skied the Zermatt side around Trockener Steg too on the way back, did the Gornergrat and Sunegga areas too, nice run off the back of the Rothorn.
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Thanks Guys for all the great advice....International Skipass looks the way to go. Cheers
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