Is a long weekend possible.....

Vegeta

Hey folks, so I've already done a week skiing this year (brining my total to 3 weeks) and would like to go for another long weekend, 3-4 days skiing.
I am struggling a bit logistically to make this work and would appreciate some advice.

Ideally would fly out early Friday morning (or late Thursday after work) and ski on the Friday, Saturday and Sunday. Fly home late Sunday night or any time Monday. This is where I seem to hit a brick wall though. My only real requirements are a relatively short transfer from the airport to the resort and the resort is not super expensive for accommodation and food.

I am not picky about resort, I'd go Italian, French, Austrian, Swiss etc. I don't drink so apres doesn't matter at all and I will be skiing on piste all the time so even if it is a resort aimed at beginners that's cool.

So it's pretty much flights which are causing the most problems to me. I see Swiss and Aer Lingus have flights to Zurich nearly daily. Are they my only options realistically?

Would appreciate any advice you guys have for me.

cormee

We always go to Chamonix for short trips, it's only an hour or so from Geneva Airport, and if you get the early Aer Lingus flight you can be on the slopes in Brevent for about 2:30pm.

Am hopefully going for the weekend of the 2nd April.

istaunton

Huge amount of options if you fly to Munich. Garmish is less than an hour on the train and you have a glacier there. Then you could go that extra bit further and head to Soll been snowing today and conditions are amazing. Get the early flight on Friday and you can be on the slopes by 1 plus there is night skiing so you can ski until 10.30. The
n the late flight home on Monday and you ski till about 3 or 4 before you get the train back to Munich

a148pro

I have not been on a week long trip in at least eight years, and have been on three plus trips a year some of those years so it is definitely workable. The key, for me, is an evening flight out, night flight back. This means you only have to take a few hours off on way out and get most of a full day's skiing on way back. Options that are compatible with this include Aer Lingus to Zurich or Munich, Milan, or Ryanair to Bergamo. There are a bunch of resorts within an hour an half of munich, and within two and a half hours of Zurich or any of the Milan options.

You can also do Geneva but the flights aren't great times. There is a red eye flight which gives you half a day skiing on way out but most flights back, with the exception of Saturday I think, are morning flights, so there's no skiing on day back and you will have an early rise on way back.

In my experience, given prevailing snow conditions, Zurich St Anton is hard to beat, or Milan and whatever Italian area has fresh snow. Chamonix has gotten hit over and over again this year so it is also a good option via Geneva (a little over one hour).

iroced

If you fly to Geneva, Saint Gervais-Megève, La Clusaz, Morzine-Avoriaz-Les Gêts (Porte du Soleil skiing area) and Flaine-Samoens are good options too. La Clusaz the best ratio price/skiing area size and possibilities.
All resorts between 1h-1h15 min drive from Geneva.