Crystal, the UK’s biggest operator with 135 resort destination choices, have also tended to be the company that adds a whole new skiing nation to its destinations list each winter.
In the past they’ve been among the first to offer us Japan and Russia, next winter sees the return of Germany and the resort of Ruhpolding to the list. It’s one of the country’s top resorts, located in the Bavarian Alps in the south of the country and busy year round. Along with some 44km of downhill piste there’s a strong reputation for cross country, and also biathlon – for which it’s one of the main stops on the annual World Cup tour (next season the tour is in town from 12-17 January).
German ski areas were last in the brochures back in the 1990s but tended to have a perception as too expensive when the Deutsch Mark was seen to be as strong as the Swiss Franc.
In the intervening two decades however German prices have been pinned to the Euro and its ski costs have tended to stay pretty much unchanged whilst they’ve risen everywhere else – the result being that many German ski costs are now lower than much of the rest of the Alps.
