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...
Ski Resorts: An Encyclopaedia of the World’s Ski Resorts
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SKI RESORTS: AN ENCYCLOPAEDIA OF THE WORLD’S SKI RESORTS
If you're planning a ski holiday, it's likely that you already have somewhere in mind. But what if you've never been there before, relying instead on the recommendations of others? How can you know for sure that this resort will meet your specific requirement?
Fear not: we've got you covered. In each of our ski resort guides, you’ll find a whole guidebook of useful information about your favourite resort. Every resort we cover typically comes in a series of six: first, the all-important overview, with supplementary guides on where to eat, stay, learn, party, and a guide to the skiing itself.
Of course, you might have no idea where to begin. If that's the case, a thematic approach to your research might be more helpful. In our where to ski advice section, you'll find advice that recommends ski resorts based on different priorities, such as resorts that represent value for money or the best resorts for beginners. Go check out our where to ski advice now.
Our Most Popular Ski Resort Guides
For any number of reasons, you might prefer to jump straight in and read the resort guides that everyone else enjoys. It's not a bad place to start, as it carries the weight of popular opinion. The following resorts are simply the most popular in our archives - the ones that people keep coming back to time and time again.
LATEST SKI RESORT GUIDES
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...
As with all North American ski resorts, the lift company also owns the ski school – in this case Canyons’ Ski and Snowboard School. We’ve been impressed by the standard of tuition we’ve found there...
Canyons is not one of those ski areas that gives up its secrets easily. As concertina-ed as a a crumpled piece of cardboard, its dense array of ridges, peaks and valleys hides all kinds of surprises...
The quality of both resort and mountain restaurants in Canyons is higher than you’ll find in many American ski resorts. We’re not saying it matches the likes of Zermatt or the Dolomites in the Alps...
The apres-ski in Engelberg is much, much better than you’d expect from a town of 3,600 souls. The inhabitants of nearby Luzern treat Engelberg as their weekend retreat, which has given the...
