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Hi everyone.
Me and my brother (17 and 19) are both mad skiers but we can't convince our parents to take it up. We want to go on a family holiday where we can ski and they can do other stuff. I wanted to know if anyone can think of a location in which we can go skiing and they can do other stuff during the day but we eat together and stay in the same hotel at night.
They ideally want to do something different every day so we are looking at around 6 different things they can do. Where possible they don't want to travel great distances (20-30 mins).
I've been racking my brains but I can't think of anywhere where we could do this.
Can any of you?
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Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
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michaelrowland, try doing a search on Wengen, and it might throw up some threads on which this topic has been discussed before, it comes up regularly. Certainly, the Jungfrau region is a great one for non-skiers. Chamonix is also a favourite with some. I have skied both areas with a non-skier and he enjoyed them. In Wengen - which is anyway car-free - he used trains all the time; in and around Chamonix he used a car to get around.
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Well, the person's real but it's just a made up name, see?
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michaelrowland, you might think of a summer holiday, somewhere like Les Deux Alpes. You and your brother could ski up on the glacier (it's limited, and often has a lot of top level racers training, and the most productive way to use the time would be to get some top level ski lessons). The glacier closes down around 1 pm (you get up there very early in the morning..... ).
Down in the valley it's summer - lots of activities on offer. But they could also come up to the glacier one time, there's a trip in a snowcat thing you can do to an ice grotto, the scenery is stunning and it would give them an insight into the world you enjoy.
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michaelrowland, lots of Austrian resorts are based on normal towns - i.e not just purpose built ski resorts. These offer a huge variety of different things for people to choose from.
Just as an example - St Johann im Pongau is on the main rail link to Salzburg in the north (30 minutes on a very comfortable train) and Zell am See towards the south. The town itself has a huge variety of possible excursions, both summer and winter for non-skiers, plus the bonus of easily visiting Salzburg itself and the town of Zell am See, beautiful in both summer and winter. Next town in the direction of Salzburg is Bischofshofen and Werfen, where the Hohenwerfen castle is. You (or your parents) will recognise it as the castle used in "Where Eagels Dare" - fascinating place to visit. The Salt Works (mines) in Hallein are also a good bet and reachable by train.
For skiing you have the whole of the Sportwelt Amadé on your doorstep - definitely more than even the most hard-core skier can ski in a one week holiday. The area also has an extensive network of snowshoeing trails and walker's paths so if they wanted to they could meet you in some of the mountain restaurants for lunch (and of course pay  )
Lots more places where you could do a similar trip in Austria, Switzerland and Italy as well.
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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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Thanks for the help guys. I'm going to look into all of these places and fingers crossed I will get another week in the snow with my family 
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| michaelrowland wrote: |
Hi everyone.
Me and my brother (17 and 19) are both mad skiers but we can't convince our parents to take it up. We want to go on a family holiday where we can ski and they can do other stuff. I wanted to know if anyone can think of a location in which we can go skiing and they can do other stuff during the day but we eat together and stay in the same hotel at night.
They ideally want to do something different every day so we are looking at around 6 different things they can do. Where possible they don't want to travel great distances (20-30 mins).
I've been racking my brains but I can't think of anywhere where we could do this.
Can any of you? |
Innsbruck, AT? - big lively "proper" city, various although slightly far flung ski areas, lots of "normal tourist" stuff to do both in the city and nearby by bus and train.
Sierra Nevada, ES? - skiers go up the hill, non skiers tread the Granada tourist trail.
Or one of the (expensive!) Swiss options that pride themselves on being non skier friendly. Wengen, Zermatt, St Moritz.
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I'd second the Jungfrau area. Apart from the ski resorts there's Lauterbrunnen with easy links to Interlaken by train. there seem to be a lot of non sport activities around there, cultural, artistic, that sort of thing. You can even meet up for lunch with the non skiers taking the train and skiers departing down a black run.
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michaelrowland, I'd also recommend Wengen (although I like the sound of Samerberg Sue's suggestion too!). I've just done a trip report of my week here as a non-skier with other skiers last year, here:
http://snowheads.com/ski-forum/viewtopic.php?t=72442&highlight=
I was probably a bit less active than it sounds like your parents want to be, but there are lots of walking trails, easy trips to places on the mountain like Grindelwald as well as the trip I made to Murren, plus trips down to Interlaken etc as thirty06 suggests.
Hope you get your trip away one way or another!
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