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It appears likely that I can add a forth weeks skiing next year in February (the week after half term). It will be just me and my other half, she's a pretty decent intermediate IMO having skied for about 3 years, she's strictly likes to keep to the piste though which is maybe why we've never skied together much when it's just been the two of us.
I might wait until the last minute to see what deals are around and where has the best snow but I'm really fixed to that week. Budget around £1.5-2k, with as much food and drink included in that as possible. She's only ever skied in France.
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Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
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She's only ever skied in France.
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Then maybe that week would be a good time to try somewhere else, as French resorts will be at their busiest (French winter holidays, and I think that's one of the Paris weeks).
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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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Livigno perhaps ? Miles of intermediate on piste. Italian food and bev
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Courmayeur. Good for intermediate skiing, some pretty tree lined runs. Nice mountain restaurants.
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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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It is no different to any other choice of resort. Assess what it is you want to do together and find a resort and facilities to cater for it.
If you want great food and spa facilities then a hotel would probably be better than a chalet. If you like meeting other people on your hols then a chalet might be better. If you want to cruise at a reasonable rate and cover distance without just doing the same run then you need lots of piste (>100km). Etc etc.
My recommendation is the Alpine Palace hotel in Hinterglemm. Fantastic food, fantastic spa, loads of mileage to ski. Might be a little tight on budget though.
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| My recommendation is the Alpine Palace hotel in Hinterglemm. Fantastic food, fantastic spa |
+1. Best ski hotel I've stayed at.
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Vail
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Saas Fee or Wagrain spring to mind. This season Saas Fee could be a touch punitive pricewise.
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+1 for Wagrain - beautiful village with loads of intermediate skiing. That kind of money would easily get you a nice room and half board at the Panorama Sport just opposite the Graffenberg lifts. Plenty of spa facilities as well. Or the Schnatner more in the centre of the village.
Like most of the Amadé resorts about an hour from Salzburg airport.
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Here is another vote for Courmayeur!
Its has enough varied terrain to keep an intermediate happy, and a few bits of good off-piste up top if you want a bit of play time
You can hop a short bus to Pila, La Thuile, and through the tunnel to Chamonix if you need to broaden your piste horizons in the week.
and Aperitivo!!!! Basically you go round to various bars (Bar Roma is one hotspot) and for the price is slightly more expensive drinks, there is plenty of free food (antipasti). and then great restaurants and pizzeria.
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snowHeads are a friendly bunch.
snowHeads are a friendly bunch.
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Courmayeur won't keep an intermediate happy for more than 2 days because half of the entire resort is just one infinitely wide red piste, masquerading as several separate runs on the map. You'll ski every piste in 1 day.
And the piste grooming was absolutely atrocious when I was last there, the run(s) were covered in massive bricks made from compressed snow and ice. Un-fun.
I hate Courmayeur.
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