Had my first visit to St. Anton and the Arlberg region in general this week just gone - all I can say is WOW!
The slopes are incredible. Fantastic both on- and off-piste skiing and boarding to be had. Wide, long runs, excellent lift system (minimal queues even during half-term!, covered chair lifts for when it gets really cold). Incredible atmosphere in the on-slope apres ski bars.
I am sold. If you've never been, give it a go! Off to Laax in a few weeks time for my 3rd fix of the season. Will let you all know how it compares.
Never been to Cham, but St Anton is good. Did you go to Lech while you were there?
Rob "Michael Bartlett" <me@mydigitalself.net> wrote in message news:1109163563.493343@shiraz...> Hi all,>
Had my first visit to St. Anton and the Arlberg region in general this> week just gone - all I can say is WOW!>
The slopes are incredible. Fantastic both on- and off-piste skiing and> boarding to be had. Wide, long runs, excellent lift system (minimal> queues even during half-term!, covered chair lifts for when it gets> really cold). Incredible atmosphere in the on-slope apres ski bars.>
I am sold. If you've never been, give it a go! Off to Laax in a few> weeks time for my 3rd fix of the season. Will let you all know how it> compares.>
On Wed, 23 Feb 2005 21:13:38 GMT, Steve Haigh <steve_a_haigh@hotmail.com> allegedly wrote:
BTW, did anyone see the Sunday Times article on St Anton. Worth checking > out on line if you missed it (I *think* they keep the Sunday articles > for a week, so still time to check it, it was in the travel section).
Steve Haigh 26 February 2005 00:34:54 [ permanent link ]
nati-spam wrote:> Steve Haigh wrote:>
I trust someone will correct me, but St. Anton strikes me as a much > bigger town than Flaine with many more beds>
No correction, you are right, but when you add all the resorts which link into Flaine (Samoens, Les Carroz, Sixt, etc) I'd say it was *roughly* on the same scale as St Anton. My point wasn't really that the resorts had anything much in common, I was just emphasising that Flaine has a very modern (for the most part) lift system which manages to cut down and even prevent queues even at peak times, where as St Anton (which probably has more beds and hence more income and more crowds) has a less advanced lift system.
