Weekenders
Articles on the best skiing and snowboarding destinations for weekend ski holidays. The easiest transfers, closest resorts and most snow sure resorts
![Alta Badia Italy Lagazuoi CREDIT Alex Moling](/images/features/weekend-ski-holidays/introimages/Alta%20Badia%20Italy%20Lagazuoi%20CREDIT%20Alex%20Moling.webp)
Having long dreamed of skiing in the Dolomites, Jim Walker was slightly trepidatious heading to the UNESCO World...
![Man coming through large snow dust cloud Verbier CREDIT Tristan Kennedy](/images/features/focus-on/introimages/Man%20coming%20through%20large%20snow%20dust%20cloud_Verbier_CREDIT%20Tristan%20Kennedy.webp)
Verbier’s new ski touring itineraries mean you can now pack a backcountry adventure into a long weekend. Tristan...
![La Grave France powder Skiing Snowboarding Tristan Kennedy CREDIT Dan Medhurst](/images/features/weekend-ski-holidays/introimages/La%20Grave%20France%20powder%20Skiing%20Snowboarding%20Tristan%20Kennedy%20CREDIT%20Dan%20Medhurst.webp)
The freeride Mecca of La Grave has a fearsome reputation. On a pre-pandemic visit, Tristan Kennedy found the key was...
![crans montana ski resort switzerland credit rob stewart](/images/features/weekend-ski-holidays/introimages/crans-montana%20ski%20resort%20switzerland%20credit%20rob%20stewart.webp)
Itching to get back on the slopes, Roger Fulton accepted an invite for an early season weekend at the famous Swiss...
![Powder day Chamonix France CREDIT Mike Walker](/images/features/focus-on/introimages/Powder_day_Chamonix_France_CREDIT_Mike_Walker.webp)
Early season trips are famously risky. Could the oldest resort in the Alps deliver the goods?
![la clusaz short break](/images/features/weekend-ski-holidays/introimages/la-clusaz-short-break.webp)
Looking for a cheeky midweek or weekend short ski trip? Roger Fulton suggests heading for the still unspoilt French...
![city ski ljubljana](/images/features/weekend-ski-holidays/introimages/city-ski-ljubljana.webp)
Oli Lynch heads to Slovenia’s capital, Ljubljana for the perfect long weekend on the mountain pistes and in the city...
![wonderful piste skiing in catalonia mgasch](/images/features/weekend-ski-holidays/introimages/wonderful-piste-skiing-in-catalonia-mgasch.webp)
A foodie break in the Catalonian capital is perfect coupled with a few days on the Pyrenean pistes, finds Daniel Wildey.
![tignes villages](/images/features/weekend-ski-holidays/introimages/tignes-villages.webp)
Sarah Coad discovers that it takes more than a whiteout to put a dampener on the joy of skiing in snow-blessed Tignes.
![skier in morzine web](/images/features/weekend-ski-holidays/introimages/skier-in-morzine-web.webp)
Unable to resist the amazing snow conditions, Daniel Wildey sneaks in a short ski break to Morzine, and proves that a...
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With transfers of minutes not hours, cheap food, ski passes and beer, could Slovenia be the ultimate weekend snow...
3 days in Les 2 Alpes Frills-free French classic Les 2 Alpes gets the party started early with pre-season events...
![mountainous pyrenees](/images/features/weekend-ski-holidays/introimages/mountainous-pyrenees.webp)
Here’s a secret! A ski resort half the price of the French Alps, where the longest queue even in school holidays is a...
![kuhtai](/images/features/weekend-ski-holidays/introimages/kuhtai.webp)
Snow loves resorts that punch above their weight. Robert Stewart picks Kuhtai – the highest resort in Austria – to be...
![tignes solo ski week lift](/images/features/weekend-ski-holidays/introimages/tignes-solo-ski-week-lift.webp)
Love skiing – but have no one to go with? You shall go to the ball, Daniel Elkan discovered, when he joined SnowMeetup.