68 days ago

Laax ski resort hotel accommodation and map – Switzerland

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113 days ago

The Cambrian in Adelboden ski resort voted best

The Cambrian voted one of the ‘Best Luxury Adventure Holidays’

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The Cambrian, Adelboden has been independently voted among the ‘50 Best Luxury Adventure Holidays in the World’ for 2012 by AdventureTemples, an exciting new luxury adventure travel service and online community, with members worldwide.

114 days ago

No spa like a snow spa

Retreat to all 2000 square metres of The Kronenhof Spa

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All too often, people seem to think they have to make a decision between a ski and a spa break, when in reality they can enjoy the best of both worlds in one fell swoop. Aside from cheese and chocolate, Switzerland is as famous for its mountains and its spa resorts making it the perfect location for a winter wellness holiday.

Switzerland country facts

Five things you didn't know about Switzerland

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Switzerland is known more for its yodelling and cheese fondues, but there is more than meets the eye to this picturesque alpine country. Here are five facts about Switzerland you may not have come across before:

Autumn foliage in Switzerland

Head to Switzerland for the autumn foliage

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New England may be famous for the brilliance of its autumn foliage, but it’s not essential to cross the Atlantic to enjoy this annual phenomenon. Head instead to the Grand Hotel Kronenhof in Pontresina, which is located in the heavily wooded Upper Engadine Valley in south-eastSwitzerland.

225 days ago

Andermatt ski resort gets upgrade

Two seasons left to ski the old Andermatt

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The Swiss resort of Andermatt is not especially well known on the UK market, but it’s one of the classics where the first ski lifts were installed back in the 1930s. And in the intervening eight decades it hasn’t changed much. The village and the ski area, although sharing a common lift pass with its neighbours, is fairly unspoilt.

245 days ago

New ski resort for Switzerland

Massive new ski area planned for Swiss Alps

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Two large Swiss ski areas will be joined together with a network of 18 new lifts to create one of the biggest ski regions in the Alps if recently announced plans by an Egyptian billionaire come to fruition. The billionaire, Samih Sawiris, is already mid-way through a project to add half-a-dozen luxury hotels as well as lots of other new property to the resort of Andermatt, but he now wants to make staying in them when they start to open in 2013/14 by joining the skiing at Andermatt to that at nearby Sedrun with the new lifts, creating the second biggest ski area in Switzerland in the process. The total piste kilometres of the two areas is already 250km even before new pistes are added to connect them.

245 days ago

Zermatt ski resort ice slide

Ice slide in Zermatt ski resort

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With two of the three glaciers currently open for snow sports in Switzerland due to close after this weekend, only the year round snow sports destination of Zermatt – of only two in the world – will be open for skiing and boarding in the country as we enter June. Snowsports take place on the glacier beneath the Klein Matterhorn, which is served, in summer only, by Europe’s highest lift, a drag up to 3,899m. But two new attractions have been unveiled for visitors this summer besides the high altitude skiing and boarding.