The Destination Zermatt – Matterhorn marketplace is THE central place where guests can immerse themselves in a world full of offers and experiences with just a few clicks and put together their dream holiday in our destination. For the guest, it feels like walking through a large market. They can collect products such as hotel rooms or holiday flats, ski passes and ski lessons, as well as climbing courses, mountain tours, fondue evenings, gourmet hikes, various package deals and much more in a single shopping basket and pay for them at the checkout.
The development of the marketplace (new destination website) is progressing rapidly. We would be pleased to inform you about the current developments and ask for your help today to ensure a successful go-live.
When we were planning our first year of travel, we knew we wanted to ski in February and March. We’d spent one week in Zermatt, Switzerland a few years ago and loved it, so it was one of the first places we committed to going. We decided that the second month of skiing would be in the French Alps, including two weeks each in Chamonix and Megève before ending in Saint Gervais.
rain ride from Zurich, the town is tiny and pretty isolated. But it’s also amazing because you can walk everywhere and always look up and see the majestic Matterhorn! There’s great shopping and eating and it’s a pretty social location with everyone outside enjoying a meal or cocktail at the end of the day.
We chose an apartment with an incredible balcony view of the Matterhorn and town, as well as a great fireplace. We thought it would be the perfect place to take advantage of the 360 kilometers of pistes we’d have outside our door in the areas of Zermatt-Matterhorn and Breuil-Cervinia-Valtournenche (Italy) and be a nice place to come home to after a day on the slopes
We’d decided to get a season pass that included both Zermatt and Italy ski areas so we wouldn’t have to decide how many, or which, days to ski – we could just ski as much as we wanted! So that’s what we did, for a total of 475 miles (765 km), and 409k vertical feet (124,663 meters) during our month there. We ventured over to Italy a bunch and enjoyed pizza and panini, recalling how to order in Italian – the sun on that side of the ski area is wonderful. The lifts in Zermatt are very modern – all high-speed chairs, trams, and gondolas, but in Italy the infrastructure is, well, charmingly Italian.
While there are great restaurants on the mountain on the Italian side, we were once again confounded by the Italian approach to restrooms, especially in the gondola station, where the women’s room consisted of basically a porcelain hole in the ground! And we thought the lack of toilet seats in Florence was perplexing… this was next level crazy!
While the grooming of the trails everywhere was great, there was very little snow the entire month, although we did get about 5 inches toward the end of our stay. In fact, it was snowing so much that day we had to stop skiing because we couldn’t see the trails in front of us! The rest of the time the sun was warm and bright and the sky a brilliant blue. Perfect for sitting outdoors to enjoy live music and lunch on the
The Destination Zermatt – Matterhorn marketplace is THE central place where guests can immerse themselves in a world full of offers and experiences with just a few clicks and put together their dream holiday in our destination. For the guest, it feels like walking through a large market. They can collect products such as hotel rooms or holiday flats, ski passes and ski lessons, as well as climbing courses, mountain tours, fondue evenings, gourmet hikes, various package deals and much more in a single shopping basket and pay for them at the checkout.
The development of the marketplace (new destination website) is progressing rapidly. We would be pleased to inform you about the current developments and ask for your help today to ensure a successful go-live.
When we were planning our first year of travel, we knew we wanted to ski in February and March. We’d spent one week in Zermatt, Switzerland a few years ago and loved it, so it was one of the first places we committed to going. We decided that the second month of skiing would be in the French Alps, including two weeks each in Chamonix and Megève before ending in Saint Gervais.
rain ride from Zurich, the town is tiny and pretty isolated. But it’s also amazing because you can walk everywhere and always look up and see the majestic Matterhorn! There’s great shopping and eating and it’s a pretty social location with everyone outside enjoying a meal or cocktail at the end of the day.
We chose an apartment with an incredible balcony view of the Matterhorn and town, as well as a great fireplace. We thought it would be the perfect place to take advantage of the 360 kilometers of pistes we’d have outside our door in the areas of Zermatt-Matterhorn and Breuil-Cervinia-Valtournenche (Italy) and be a nice place to come home to after a day on the slopes
We’d decided to get a season pass that included both Zermatt and Italy ski areas so we wouldn’t have to decide how many, or which, days to ski – we could just ski as much as we wanted! So that’s what we did, for a total of 475 miles (765 km), and 409k vertical feet (124,663 meters) during our month there. We ventured over to Italy a bunch and enjoyed pizza and panini, recalling how to order in Italian – the sun on that side of the ski area is wonderful. The lifts in Zermatt are very modern – all high-speed chairs, trams, and gondolas, but in Italy the infrastructure is, well, charmingly Italian.
While there are great restaurants on the mountain on the Italian side, we were once again confounded by the Italian approach to restrooms, especially in the gondola station, where the women’s room consisted of basically a porcelain hole in the ground! And we thought the lack of toilet seats in Florence was perplexing… this was next level crazy!
While the grooming of the trails everywhere was great, there was very little snow the entire month, although we did get about 5 inches toward the end of our stay. In fact, it was snowing so much that day we had to stop skiing because we couldn’t see the trails in front of us! The rest of the time the sun was warm and bright and the sky a brilliant blue. Perfect for sitting outdoors to enjoy live music and lunch on the
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