The prices in the Alps are falling faster than the snowflakes. This Best Buy via Luxury Link offers a great deal: $499 per night per package (a $376 savings) on a stay at a luxury Italian Alps resort from now through May 22, 2006. Situated on a glacier overlooking the Gran Paradiso National Park in…
Many states across the US now have water parks so you can cool off during hot summer days. But one water park in northwest Michigan, a four-hour drive from Detroit, now has something new for winter. It’s called Avalanche Bay Indoor Waterpark at Boyne Mountain–– and it’s the first American park at the base of…
Though the weather outside here in California is in the 80s, Mount Tremblant Resort in Quebec’s Laurentian mountains, 90 miles from Montreal, is now advertising its Ski & Stay Packages with savings of 30% on skiing and lodgings if you book by October 31. This was voted the #1 ski resort in Eastern North America…
A few weeks ago, we wrote about ski jumping on San Francisco’s hills on 200 tons of artificial snow. Now, we’ve got the real thing as the US ski season opened yesterday for the sixth straight year in the Loveland Ski Area, Colorado. The resorts where I ski most in California and Nevada don’t usually…
From The Cool Hunter: What could be more radical than modern designs based on the segments of a snowflake? An oasis in the heart of the Australian Alps, their award for the coolest new place goes to the Huski Boutique Apartments and Day Spa. The apartments have mountain views to the spectacular Spion Kopje range…
Where can you find a 60-meter slope with real snow in the summertime? In the BigAir Fukuoka indoor ski and snowboard park, that’s where. The park is located in downtown Fukuoka, at Bayside Place along the Hakata Pier. It’s a huge three-story structure with quarter-pipes, half-pipes during the off-season, and slopes as steep as 13…
One summer day when I was in college years ago, I arrived in the quaint village of Zermatt in southern Switzerland. Quaint because it had no cars then. And doesn’t even today. The next day, we went skiing… on July 31st! Glaciers provide year-round snow, so we took a few of Europe’s longest aerial trams…