St Moritz

Anyone been?
I am looking ahead to next season, and considering a Club Med holiday - all in package including lift pass and lessons, and one of the resorts available is glitzy St Moritz, which is not somewhere I have previously considered due to normally extortionate prices. However, I can go with club med for around £100 more than the French resorts such as Les Arcs (which are not top of my list to ski TBH).
I was wondering if anyone has been, what the skiing is like (most important) and whether I should go this once in a lifetime whilst it is "affordable"?

TVM

Unfortunately I have only been in the summer, so not much help there then, but I can confirm that St Moritz is a very nice place but a little spread out but certainly worth a visit in the winter 8)

i have been to Les Arcs and its a wounderfull resort

The town is over rated, but the Engadin valley in general is an amazing area. The smaller towns around St. Moritz (Silvaplana, Pontrasina, Celerina etc.) all have a much more unique Swiss feel to them and allow you access to the same skiing areas.

The skiiing is great, you have loads of terrain on various mountains. The two main areas are Corviglia and Corvatsch. Corviglia is the area over St. Moritz itself and has some nice wide open pistes and some good off piste too. Corvatsch is a bus ride up the valley a little bit and in my opinion is a little steeper, but also offers great terrain with stunning views of the frozen lakes in the valley and the surrounding peaks and glaciers.

If you get bored of the two main areas you can always check out Lagalp and Diavolezza or take a day on the Bernina Express train to visit Poschiavo.

I'm heading up there again this weekend. I love the mountains up there summer and winter.

ir12daveor wrote:The town is over rated, but the Engadin valley in general is an amazing area. The smaller towns around St. Moritz (Silvaplana, Pontrasina, Celerina etc.) all have a much more unique Swiss feel to them and allow you access to the same skiing areas.

The skiiing is great, you have loads of terrain on various mountains. The two main areas are Corviglia and Corvatsch. Corviglia is the area over St. Moritz itself and has some nice wide open pistes and some good off piste too. Corvatsch is a bus ride up the valley a little bit and in my opinion is a little steeper, but also offers great terrain with stunning views of the frozen lakes in the valley and the surrounding peaks and glaciers.

Now you're talking.....I only picked St Moritz out because if you're going to consider club med, you might as well go somewhere like that than the usual suspects (including Les Arcs) which you could do anytime if you wanted to. St Moritz is usually really expensive.
I was really only kind of interested in it as a ski area, so thanks for covering that off.

I dont want to go to France next season. I am all France'd out.

Tony,
I can see why you like the look of this :D

The Club Med deal does sound quite good - £1169 p.p. for a week in St Moritz in January. And it includes all food and drink, as well as the flight, transfers, lessons and ski-passes. They have two mountain restaurants where you can have free lunch. So, in theory, as long as you bring your own skis and boots you could manage without spending anything more all week.

Even February half-term isn't as outrageously expensive as some places (£3,174-00 for 2 adults) and the same all-inclusive deal. And the ski lessons are all day for 5 days.

I'm a bit confused about the different ski areas though. Are they piste-linked, or do you have to get a ski-bus between them?

The Ski club of Great Britain does an additional 5% discount to members for Club Med holidays.

Ally

Here you go Ally have a look at the piste map........

http://www.snow-forecast.com/resorts/St-Moritz/pistemap

Thanks Ian,
That makes it much clearer. I can see what you mean now by saying St Moritz is a little spread out. I wish ski resorts would give a separate figure for the length of piste/lift linked pistes, as compared with those you need to go on a ski bus to get to. Those runs over on the far left look like they're a very long way away from the centre of St Moritz.

I like my pistes to be all linked up by lift or piste. I don't like having to get a bus. I expect if I was going there I'd just stay in the main area.

Oh well, I'm sure Tony will have a great time.

Ally