Whizzing down white slopes, warming up with mulled wine and après ski fun – Design Hotels™ presents five chic ski resorts in Sweden and Switzerland that guarantee a winter in style. Situated on top of Mount Förberget in Åre, Sweden, Copperhill Mountain Lodge (http://designhotels.com/copperhill) is in the largest skiing area of northern Europe, and has [...]
Indie rock band Gossip is to get Ischgl’s winter season off to a high energy start, the resort has announced. The Austrian resort’s legendary opening concert is set to attract a crowd of 20,000 people – numbers more associated with a city stadium than an open-air winter concert in the Alps, such is the popularity [...]
London Luton Airport is offering a selection of flights this winter for the benefit of all ski lovers out there. Working closely with its airline partners there are flights to a multitude of skiing gateways serving literally hundreds of resorts and thousands of kilometres of piste, including the hair-raising ‘Men’s Olympic downhill’ in Val d’Isere [...]
Chamonix ski chalet Maison Jaune has just released its long-range weather forecast for Winter 2010/11 for the French Alps. http://www.maison-jaune.com The latest information appears to predict a “La Nina” and positive “North Atlantic Oscillation” (NAO+) which would forecast a colder than normal start to the season (which is great for freezing the ground so the [...]
Eurostar ski train tickets for this season (2010/2011) are already on sale The Eurostar Ski Train will take you direct from St Pancras International Station in London to Moutiers, Aime La Plagne and Bourg St Maurice. The service starts running on the 19th December 2010. There will be twice weekly departures from London, one day [...]
Post updated for 2010 / 2011 ski season. If like us you’re desperate to put on those skis for the first time this winter then here’s a list of what’s opening when in France so that you can decide where to head to first! Compared to last year it looks like most ski resorts are [...]
If you haven’t got time to take a full week skiing, then why not consider a ski weekend in Meribel. You can often get nearly as much time skiing as you do in a week with only 2 or even 1 days holiday from work. The problem often is that Meribel Ski Weekends can cost [...]
If you haven’t got time to take a full week skiing, then why not consider a La Plagne ski weekend. You can often get nearly as much time skiing a weekend in La Plagne as you do in a week with only 2 or even 1 days holiday from work. The problem often is that [...]
If you haven’t got time to take a full week skiing, then why not consider a ski weekend in Val d’Isere. You can often get nearly as much time skiing as you do in a week with only 2 or even 1 days holiday from work. Val d’Isere’s ski area works brilliantly for any level [...]
If you haven’t got time to take a full week skiing, then why not consider a ski weekend in Tignes. You can often get nearly as much time skiing as you do in a week with only 2 or even 1 days holiday from work. The problem often is that ski weekends in Tignes can [...]
