 Poster: A snowHead
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what do folk prefer then, to visit as many diffefrent resorts as possible, or find a one they like and revisit many times. i have enjoyed winterpark so much i feel i could go there year after year
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Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
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To many resorts out there to sample to bother returning year after year!!
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Well, the person's real but it's just a made up name, see?
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ROAD TRIP!
not always doable or a success but I do prefer a multi-stop road trip dealie
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I like to try new places.... Though I have returned to a few on away days (La Plagne when in Les Arcs and vice versa, Serre Che from Montgenevre). I can see the appeal of going to a resort several times and getting to know it well but that doesn't satisfy my travel bug.
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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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agreed, but you could say the same with beer/wine/alcohol/women. If you find one you like why not keep going back. That doesn't of course stop you trying other things as well. But if you only get one shot at it what's wrong with going where you know.
look at the upsides, if you are somewhere you know you don't have to spend any time looking at piste maps or finding restaurants. You get to spend more time on the slopes and also potentially in the bar afterwards.
we've been back to vail (and associated resorts) several time (including honeymoon skiing). 3 valleys, Zell am see a few times. plus lot's of others.
my 2p duly inserted into thread!
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When you're travelling as a family it's easier in a resort you all know - lunch meets, timing to get to school rendezvous and so on are easier when you know the terrain.
If you're young free and single I'd be trying a new place each time.
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Different requirements for different people
We have been to the same resort for the last 5-years as it suits. Over that time all 3-kids have learnt to ski, so I have been confident as to where I could take them as I know the resort. The apartments we have stayed in, well we know what we will get and that they are fine for us. We also know what there is there, where to shop and that it is a quiet family friendly resort. Therefore it has been ideal - why would we go anywhere else.
I suspect this year will be the last year as kids are now more confident than us so we can explore further.
Vallandry has been the resort concerned in case anyone cares
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Bit of both. I've been to Tignes the last 3 years in December and will be at LDA again at Easter for the 5th year running. However at half term I'm going to St Anton where I haven't been before and generally go somewhere new then.
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Agree with MazDave, If you have young family it's easier to go to resorts you know. Also if you are limited to times of the year such as late april or early december its better to go to resorts that high (unless you can book last minute).
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I'm sure for many people it's a case of "we know and like xxxx", so place "yyyy" has to be 20% better to be the same or better. I used to go to same place every time. Then I went on some bashes to do something different. But now going back to the same place for the 3rd time (and contemplating a possible 4th next month  )
For a quick bunk of work early on a Friday, and get 2 days of slides in, then I'll choose somewhere I know, mainly for parking, getting up on the mountain etc. without faff. Would rather explore some more resorts though.
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And love to help out and answer questions and of course, read each other's snow reports.
And love to help out and answer questions and of course, read each other's snow reports.
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for me it's all about the snow, i usually book a couple of days before i go. so if that means i end up in the same place twice then so be it.
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Both, but then I get enough ski time to do both. Exploring somewhere new is always cool, but I also really like it when I know all the secret pow stashes and can find my way top to bottom without touching a piste - and I'll be going to Westendorf at least a few days a season for this reason. I also like to go back to Saalbach for at least a week a season - it's easy for me to get work in a really nice ski school, but mainly I have lots of mates who also go back every year.
Last edited by So if you're just off somewhere snowy come back and post a snow report of your own and we'll all love you very much  on Thu 3-02-11 0:26; edited 1 time in total
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You know it makes sense.
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for me it's all about the snow, i usually book a couple of days before i go. so if that means i end up in the same place twice then so be it.
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mugen, I do same as U,, its all about the snow 
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Otherwise you'll just go on seeing the one name:
Otherwise you'll just go on seeing the one name:
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It's an interesting question. We come back here because we have an apartment here - simple enough, it's infinitely cheaper, we have a season pass, etc etc. There are other places within easy reach for a day, and I enjoy going somewhere different, but it's expensive - petrol, lift pass, lunch (when on home ground we often eat at the apartment). Runs are different each time - weather and snow conditions make a big difference - and I don't have to put my specs on to read a map. 
Having a regular holiday haunt with young kids can be great - they love rediscovering old favourite bits. Not just on ski holidays, but beaches, campsites etc too. when we lived in Scotland there was one particular campsite my daughter always wanted to go to because there was a tree where she rigged up a swing for her doll! She talked about it for years as though it was some kind of magic spot. And if you have found a winning formula which everyone enjoys, then there's no argument to change, really - holidays with kids can be tricky. But kids grow up, their ideas change, they might want somewhere new too. When we were doing annual ski hols (could never afford more than one, and that not every year) we went twice to La Rosiere, twice to Les Gets, but we also did 2 Austria trips, Serbia (Kapaonik), La Plagne, Mottaret, Les Houches - and maybe others that don't spring to mind right now.
I don't think we could easily have found somewhere we knew we would be happy to return to again and again, without that experience. We did think hard about whether it was a good idea, as it would mean the bulk of future holidays (not just ski hols) would be in the French Alps. As it happens, 9 years down the line, we like it more than ever and enjoy the late spring/summer/autumn visits as much as the skiing. But we're retired - and in our time we travelled a lot (for work) so we've lived all over the world and we do feel we've "done" our travelling. When you've had access to deserted beaches in the Caribbean and the Pacific the thought of a beach holiday in Spain or similar is just not remotely attractive - I'd rather sit up my Alp. Actually we rarely had expensive summer holidays because we could only afford one a year and it had to be skiing. I've only ever been to Spain once. But if we hadn't done all that travelling, and if we were younger, I don't think a fixed point like an apartment abroad would be nearly as good an idea.
At different stages in life I guess people want different things. I do think it's a shame when young people close down their options too quickly and won't try something new - or when people go to an interesting foreign country then spend all their time in a tourist "enclave" seeing nothing of the local scene. They might have gone to a whole swathe of countries, but done exactly the same thing in all of them. Our ski holidays were often like that - the only bit of local colour I got in Serbia was when we found the only shop in the resort was closed on New Year's Day (the day after we arrived late at night, self-catering) and I had to go exploring and buying some very local foodstuffs from some Serbian farmers in old raincoats tied up with string. The 50 words of Serbo-Croat I had learned for a sailing holiday in Croatia the previous year (quite unnecessarily as everyone on the coast spoke German) came in useful. It was actually one of the highlights of the holiday for me - and them, probably, as I no doubt paid 3 times the going rate.
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Poster: A snowHead
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You pays your money and takes your choice. I enjoy seeing different places, but have been back to many. If I could work out how to own somewhere I'm sure I'd enjoy going there every year. If's not difficult to enjoy yourself in the mountains and what suits one is not for everyone.
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Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
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I prefer to go somewhere different each year. One life, so many resorts to ski. However, this season I am going back to Kitzbühel having been there 3 years ago. A couple of reasons for this. Firstly, I loved Kitzbühel the first time round. Secondly I was far from being fully fit and healthy when I went in 2008 (only a matter of months after my cancer treatment and only 10 weeks after breaking my arm) so I didn't ski as much as I'd have liked to. And thirdly, the lengthy list of resort requirements for my group of ski buddies is such that we're really struggling to find new places to go. We're already having email conversations about where to go next season as it's essential to book early to bag those all important single rooms.
However, I'm still hoping we might find somewhere new to try next season.
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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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I'm fortunate to be able to try new places as well as return to places I know well. If I had to make a choice I'd rather return to places I know, not to have the same holiday time and time again but to get to know the area better and make the most of what's on offer. I've skied Les Arcs a lot and still don't feel I know the place well enough to make the most of it. Resorts that I visit once I feel like I only get the headlines and I miss so much.
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There is simple pleasure to be had from returning to the old favourite (Soll) where I know the runs, the mountain restaurants and my way round the village. However it's also nice to be able to visit new resorts never seen before - to see if they live up to their reputation. One resort I've not visited but fancy trying is St Anton - heard so much about it that I would like to ski there - maybe later this season.
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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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As I say, for the most time its depends about the snow,, but there is one resort,, I have skiing alot of time, make 2 season in, try to come to at least 1 week every winter, its not the best resort in europe, and I love and hate the place in the same time  Chamonix
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i tend to go to all the big resorts once or twice. my family (me included) dont really like smaller resorts.
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The luxury of both ideally. Done a huge road trip and one good one in the past and generally prefer different places but . . . the more you know a place, the more you know exactly where to go when and what the 1 weekers don't.
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It depends. Having only 6 says skiing on a trip makes me tempted to go with an option I know so when (if) the pow arrives I know where to be however I usually end up going somewhere new. It does depend on the resort though for example I know someone who stayed a winter in St Anton and will still skiing new lines he didn't know existed when he left! Local knowledge and secret stashes are rather handy to have. Conversely the only resort I have actually gone back to is Les Arcs (totally by fluke, filled up a group with some friends) and by day 2 of the second trip I was a bit bored I have to say.
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I have my favourites but always try somewhere new every season. For example this season I have been to Verbier (an old favourite) and have just been to, er, Bulgaria for the first time! 
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The only resort I've been to twice is Alpe d'Huez, and that wasn't for any reason other than extraordinarily low cost. With approximately a zwillion ski areas in the world, going to any of them more than once seems perverse.
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And love to help out and answer questions and of course, read each other's snow reports.
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Nowhere more than twice in a 3 year period. If we can feel like we've done Espace Killy enough by doing two trips in two years, then we will feel that way about any resort or ski area.
Plus variety is interesting and fun. Some people will stick to the same beach in Lanzagrottey every year, drink in the same bar, eat in the same restaurant, no doubt shag the same slappers from the same pikey town. I am not one of those people. If you stick with places you know and trust you will never find the Holy Grail of ski resorts for you. When you find that holidays start getting compared to "that great week we had" somewhere like some ex-girlfriend you look at with rose tinted specs then you might want to stick with it and go back. But I find it is very rarely as good as you remembered it, for whatever reason.
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Bit of both. I've been to Wengen 5 times now - but was looking forward to the Dolomites as something new.
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You know it makes sense.
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Current policy is Megève and somewhere new each year.
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If we can feel like we've done Espace Killy enough by doing two trips in two years
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Espace Killy exhausted in 2 weeks? You must have a very low boredom threshold, Monium.
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Poster: A snowHead
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We started driving to Flaine 11 years ago and have returned every year since (apart from last year) with a couple of other trips elsewhere. We chose it initially because a) it is the nearest large area by road from Calais b) the SC apartments are (or were) comparatively cheap for a family and c) friends were also going. I guess we got to know the GM but there are still many pistes we haven't done. Sure, it's a concrete jungle in the town but we know our way around. We will go elsewhere sometime in the future (I want to ski in the USA) but we're returning at HT again. I like the fact it's not full of hooray Henries also. And the view of Mont Blanc from the top is fabulous.
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Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
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I like to try resorts/areas new to me. I also have several favourites which draw you back and are like old friends. You can overdo it but with large linked areas you can stay at a different resort to get a different vibe.
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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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what ever is convenient/cheap to get to with the airlines and whatever has the best chance of better snow, so not bothered if it is the same resort that I have been to before or a new resort, but not really in to this 'I like what I know and I know what I like' attitude expecially if I only had one ski holiday a year. One thing for sure though is that I have never lost any time on the mountain because I was at a new resort and I am not going to beat myself up over the issue of catching the odd dodgy restaurant either at a new resort.
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Espace Killy enough by doing two trips in two years,
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Monium, I was in one season in Espace Killy, Val d Isere, 1987, and still after that try to go there at least 2 weeks every season, and Im still find it exiting, U must be a hell of a skier
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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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Of the 6 weeks i have had on the snow 4 of them have been in the Poretes Du Soleil. I have stayed in Morzine, Ardent and Chatel and i love the place but next year i am trying somewhere different. The other 2 weeks are Les Deux Alpes and Killington - somewhere i wont be returning to in a hurry!!!
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This is only my third season but the pattern so far is a different resort each winter coupled with several trips to Chamonix each winter because that place is a magnet I can't resist.
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This is my first year for ages where I am not going somewhere new. Usually go to at least one new place a year. Good to mix it up a bit - but returning to a place you know can be easier for holidays with a young family.
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My aim is to try at least one new resort per year. I have my favourites though (Val D'Isere, Portes du Soleil, St Anton, Chamonix..) and will also aim for a week in one of these each season. I will return to a particular resort if there is an instructor that I particularly like to learn from.
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| The only resort I've been to twice is Alpe d'Huez, and that wasn't for any reason other than extraordinarily low cost. With approximately a zwillion ski areas in the world, going to any of them more than once seems perverse. |
Perverse? No, I don't think so.
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I aim for both new and known. Past 5 or 6 years I've gone to one of either 3V or ESK + one or two other new places. 3V/ESK because I go with a regular group of mixed ability who like going to large areas with a variety of runs, and I know them very well so I can either guide or just blast around knowing exactly where I'm going without having to use a map. I go to a new place or two each year with another mate of the same standard so we can go adventuring together, also got a mate at work who's got a place in Schladming so that's going to become a regular pre-Xmas quick trip.
Nothing wrong whatsoever in going back to the same place. With the majority of recreational skiers going only 1 week a year time is precious. If you know the slopes it significantly reduces time getting to the best/favorite runs, it allows you to relax and work on technique if you don't have to worry about navigation and, most importantly, you know where the best lunches are. I don't buy the 'travel bug' argument for going to as many different resorts as possible. With so many resorts only a few miles away from each other you're not exactly channeling the spirit of Phileas Fogg by going to Les Arcs one year and Sainte-Foy the next (prepared to be shot down in flames).
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) as it's like a second home, the kids are happy cos they know it like the back of their hand and I'm happy cos I get to go skiing. I also try to sneak in some variation if budget and time allow, as I like to experiment. )We are still talking about skiing, right? 