Ski Resorts with Chalets Only

Klosters is a comfortable, quiet, picturesque village with a very upmarket image. Klosters hotels tend to be beautiful, traditional and upmarket - the pace of life here is slow and a ski holiday in Klosters is therefore relaxing. The ski area (linked with Davos) provides a wide variety of skiing ...

Laax is one of Switzerland's largest and most snow sure ski areas and includes the skiing above the resorts of Flims and Falera. Laax was one of the first to embrace the freestyle skiing and snowboarding movement and today is considered the Granddaddy of the sport. The old town of Laax is a bu...

In December 2013 the new Hornli-Urdenfurggli gongola/cable car opened which linked the two ski resorts of Lenzerheide (155km) and Arosa (70km). This gives skiers a combined area of 225km making the combined resorts the largest ski area of the Graubunden canton of Switzerland. Lenzerheide is by...

Les Crosets is a very small resort set on the sunny plateau above Champery. At nearly 1,700 metres altitude it has a great snow record and being small just about all the accommodation in this micro-resort gives ski in ski out access to the gentle skiing of the surrounding area. This makes Les Cro...

Les Diablerets is a quiet resort that has not been spoilt by a mass flood of tourism. The village tries to ensure that guests receive a first-class service in all its establishments and attractions. There are two areas of local slopes and there is also a Glacier. The Meilleret side of Les ...

Set high above the Lauterbrunnen valley floor Murren is only accessible by a cable car from Stechelberg, or railway from Lauterbrunnen. The village is small and quaint with paths and narrow lanes. It was in Murren where Sir Arnold Lunn first created the package ski holiday in 1922. He also inven...

Nendaz is an attractive village set on a large plateau above the town of Sion in the Rhone Valley. It is surprisingly large for a ski resort (17,000 holiday beds) that is relatively unknown by the British and its facilities are more in line with those of many much bigger ski stations. The ski...

Pontresina is small and sedate and an excellent base for the extensive cross-country skiing of the Engadine area. It is a sheltered, sunny village with one main street. The skiing is reached by road so unless you are OK with using local buses it's best to have a car in resort. Ski holidays in Pon...

Saas Fee is a charming Swiss village in the Valais area. It is high at 1,800m and surrounded by stunning mountains. The village is picturesque and traffic free, apart from horse-drawn sleighs and small electric vehicles. There are a variety of bars, restaurants and shops in the town. There is...

St Luc and neighbouring Chandolin are just two of the five resorts which make up the beautiful area known as the Val d'Anniviers. Both resorts are easily reached from Geneva in 2 hours (by car) or 2.5 hours by train. The resorts lie above the town of Sierre deep in the Swiss Alps and as yet remai...