Weekenders
Articles on the best skiing and snowboarding destinations for weekend ski holidays. The easiest transfers, closest resorts and most snow sure resorts

Having long dreamed of skiing in the Dolomites, Jim Walker was slightly trepidatious heading to the UNESCO World...

Verbier’s new ski touring itineraries mean you can now pack a backcountry adventure into a long weekend. Tristan...

The freeride Mecca of La Grave has a fearsome reputation. On a pre-pandemic visit, Tristan Kennedy found the key was...

Itching to get back on the slopes, Roger Fulton accepted an invite for an early season weekend at the famous Swiss...

Early season trips are famously risky. Could the oldest resort in the Alps deliver the goods?

Looking for a cheeky midweek or weekend short ski trip? Roger Fulton suggests heading for the still unspoilt French...

Oli Lynch heads to Slovenia’s capital, Ljubljana for the perfect long weekend on the mountain pistes and in the city...

A foodie break in the Catalonian capital is perfect coupled with a few days on the Pyrenean pistes, finds Daniel Wildey.

Sarah Coad discovers that it takes more than a whiteout to put a dampener on the joy of skiing in snow-blessed Tignes.

Unable to resist the amazing snow conditions, Daniel Wildey sneaks in a short ski break to Morzine, and proves that a...

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...

Here’s a secret! A ski resort half the price of the French Alps, where the longest queue even in school holidays is a...

Snow loves resorts that punch above their weight. Robert Stewart picks Kuhtai – the highest resort in Austria – to be...

Love skiing – but have no one to go with? You shall go to the ball, Daniel Elkan discovered, when he joined SnowMeetup.