Category - Ski Resorts

Classic Ski Resorts

The Stats Altitude: 1050m Top Lift: 3028m Ski area: 82km of pistes Adult lift pass: CHF282 for six days Official Site | Ski Map | Webcam In a Nutshell Tall, steep and narrow, Engelberg’s ski...

The Stats Altitude: 1400m Top Lift: 2750m Ski area: 75km of piste Adult lift pass: 150€ for six days Official Site | Ski Map | Webcam In a Nutshell Combining the charm of a traditional village at...

  The Stats Altitude: 1550m Top Lift: 2720m Ski area: 88km of piste Adult lift pass: 277€ for six days Official Site | Ski Map | Webcam In a Nutshell A longstanding favourite with locals –...

The full house of five-stars is headed by the Gstaad Palace, complete with turrets that make it look a bit like Sleeping Beauty’s castle. In addition to the bedrooms and suites are a couple of two...

Post-skiing, there are cafés on the Promenade where you can sit and people-watch. The best-known is Charly’s, by the ice rink, where everybody goes for coffee and cakes. Then head to Hotel Olden for...

For learning and improving, it’s a toss-up between Alpinzentrum Gstaad Snowsports, which offers adult and child ski and snowboard lessons, freestyle, snowshoeing, igloo-building, airboarding...

In Gstaad, a whopping 14 restaurants boast more than a dozen GaultMillau points between them. Topping the list is Robert Speth’s Chesery, built in 1962 by the Aga Khan and serving French cuisine...

By the standards of 21st-century ski resorts, the terrain lacks challenge with almost half of it graded as easy. However, the volume of skiing covered by the regional lift pass – 250km and 62...

Where to Stay in Canyons Resort? That’s easy. Book the Grand Summit Hotel (pictured above). It’s not perfect. The décor is a bit old-fashioned, and the breakfast room needs some more windows. But by...

The bar at the Red Tail Grill – at the bottom of the Orange Bubble Express – is a fun and friendly place to be on a football night. But Canyons is not a party resort to rival Breckenridge...