Top 5 resorts for a traditional Christmas
Artcile updated every 6 months. Last updated: 11th November 2008
Author: Sean Newsom (Travel expert) Ask me a question.
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Sean Newsom loves skiing so much that he has made it his job, writing for The Sunday Times as their ski editor. He is also founder of welove2ski.com, the UK's leading specialist ski website.
"Skiing fast in the sunshine with your friends is one of the purest and brightest pleasures I know," he says. "Absolutely everyone should give it a go. If it were up to me they'd be giving ski and snowboard holidays away on the National Health. It would improve Britain's winter well-being in an instant!"
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Looking for somwehere to have a fairytale Christmas with stunning scenery and cosy log fires?
Here's our top five ski resorts where you can guarantee yourself a traditional Christmas...
It's one of the cutest villages in the Alps - a chocolate-box confection of barns, traditional houses and low-rise hotels, surrounded by a Sound-of-Music landscape. The skiing is limited in scope - but for a relaxing, family-friendly Christmas holiday it's hard to beat.
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In many ways Klosters is as posh as Courchevel. But it doesn't show it, and offers a satisfying blend of quiet prosperity and Alpine charm. The super-snowy microclimate usually delivers the white stuff by December 24, too.
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The snowiest of all the big ski areas in the Alps, the neighbouring villages of Lech and Zürs are how most non-skiers imagine ski resorts to be. As with all Alpine resorts, celebrations focus on the evening of December 24, but will put you right in the mood for your own private day of festivities on December 25.
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Saas Fee is a low-stress Christmas option - quiet, remote and car-free. By way of contrast, the towering, 4000m peaks provide plenty of visual drama, and just in case winter is getting off to a slow start, there's always snow, 365 days a year, on the glacier.
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The Jungfrau region of Switzerland is one of the most stunning mountain environments in all the Alps, and Wengen sits slap-bang in the middle of it. The unhurried pace and old infrastructure of mountain railways means this is not the place for the “go-go-go” style of skiing holiday, but over Christmas that should suit your mood perfectly.
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