Tag - Ski Resorts

  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...

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...