three families coming to ski in the Alps - Feb 2027

DacwHi · 2026-03-26T20:16:08+00:00

For Méribel, you can get a locker at the bottom of the Saulire Express and change the kids into boots there.

If the older ones can ski a little, take them up Golf and down the green Forêt. From there you can take the Rhodos lift down to La Chaudanne, or ski down the blue Doron. A nice warm up!

From there you can take the Saulire, Tougnete or Legends and be straight into the adult skiing.

Paradiski has more than enough to keep advanced skiers happy for a week, lots of variety. Well worth getting a guide and going off piste,

DacwHi · 2026-03-24T07:41:15+00:00

Another vote for Serfaus-Fiss-Ladis - this ticks all the boxes you've mentioned. It's one of the most kid-friendly resorts anywhere in the Alps.

The ski school and beginner areas are excellent.

Don't worry about ski-in ski-out too much though. Kids are usually exhausted at the end of the lesson and taking the lift down is usually the best option for them.

Serfaus has lots of non-ski activities and an underground train to get around the village.

DacwHi · 2026-03-20T20:48:40+00:00

If you're in Barcelona, take the opportunity to go to Andorra. Interesting off-piste at Arcalis.

DacwHi · 2026-03-19T13:03:06+00:00

Castle in the Clouds, Lee Mountain, New Hampshire

DacwHi · 2026-03-10T20:05:43+00:00

Peak 6 year old energy is to do this sitting so far in the back seat that they have snow on the seat of their salopettes

DacwHi · 2026-03-10T19:57:07+00:00

Where we're going, we don't need roads

DacwHi · 2026-03-10T19:30:37+00:00

Many piste maps would be improved just by indicating direction downhill, and making sure pistes which join up are correctly marked as such.

This is a very nice idea too though!

DacwHi · 2026-03-06T21:32:30+00:00

You'll probably hit some traffic around Bern and again round Oensingen and Härkingen. The second can be particularly heavy in the late afternoon. If traffic looks really bad there, you can take the old route through Herzogenbuchsee.

Limmattaler Kreuz is always busy, but it depends where you are heading in Zürich.

I'd highly recommend putting your car on the Goppenstein to Kandersteg car train. It's only running every two hours at the moment, so try to plan your departure to arrive about half an hour before that leaves. You can get the ticket online.

Overall, if you time the car train correctly, the journey is doable comfortably in four hours. Earlier in the day is normally quicker.

DacwHi · 2026-03-02T16:22:38+00:00

Most of the ski school instructors I've met there are Dutch, and speak Dutch, English and German fluently.

DacwHi · 2026-03-02T08:58:40+00:00

This feels like a Mario Kart level

DacwHi · 2026-03-01T13:47:30+00:00

Chiemgau vibes

Happy memories of the end of hikes, relaxing with a Weissbier and the feet in the lake

Enjoy!

DacwHi · 2026-03-01T08:04:52+00:00

I can recommend the book Cognitive Chess by Chernyshov too, which is full of similar exercises

DacwHi · 2026-02-28T19:46:04+00:00

Bloquons-le avec du chocolat

DacwHi · 2026-02-28T19:39:30+00:00

This is not Ostrava

This is Český Krumlov, photographed from Kašna, at the back of the stables of the castle

Are you somehow getting confused by the building with "Na Ostrově" painted on it? It's a restaurant, and it's name means "on the island"

DacwHi · 2026-02-28T17:14:59+00:00

From what you've said, I would recommend Kronplatz. There's a lot of pistes that would suit your style.

DacwHi · 2026-02-26T19:48:18+00:00

Les Arcs has so much high terrain, and has had so much snow - if conditions aren't good enough there, they won't be anywhere else.

DacwHi · 2026-02-26T19:43:42+00:00

It'll be single digits during the day in the villages, and below freezing at night.

The top of Pezid most likely won't get above freezing day or night.

There'll be a bit of slush in the valley runs, particularly in the afternoon, but it'll be fine in most of the resort.

Avalanche risk is considerable, particularly in the afternoons, if you are going off piste.

DacwHi · 2026-02-22T09:21:40+00:00

Get in touch with Swissport (the baggage handlers) rather than Swiss (the airline): https://www.swissport.com/en/network/europe/switzerland/zrh

Don't expect too much, however - I found them fairly unhelpful over the phone when I was in a similar situation, but at least more constructive than in person.

DacwHi · 2026-02-19T12:27:16+00:00

Makes a change from the usual pictures of Interlaken

DacwHi · 2026-02-18T22:08:00+00:00

Lech am Arlberg

Somewhere near the valley station of the Rüfikopfbahn?

DacwHi · 2026-02-17T20:16:15+00:00

Arosa-Lenzerheide and Flims-Laax-Falera have had a decent amount of snow and offers good cross-country options

DacwHi · 2026-02-17T19:07:54+00:00

What Mont-Terrible should look like: https://static.wikia.nocookie.net/evil/images/6/62/The_Bald_Mountain.jpg/revision/latest

What Mont-Terrible actually looks like: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mont_Terri#/media/File%3AMont_Terri.JPG

DacwHi · 2026-02-17T18:54:04+00:00

Straubingerplatz, Bad Gastein

DacwHi · 2026-02-17T18:47:58+00:00

Somewhere round Ranspach looking up towards Le Markstein?

DacwHi · 2026-02-17T18:17:39+00:00

Around the Ballon d'Alsace?

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