Skiing Locations Reviews

Geilo In Norway

Geilo in Norway

Geilo in Norway stands 800 metres high, and has one of the highest ski lifts in the world, stretching 3, 887 feet. Geilo is positioned three and a half hours from the capital city, whilst having good road and rail links to the village. Set amidst amazing scenery just off the banks of Fjord, Geilo is at the heart of Norway’s “Winter Wonderland”. Maintaining its habit as an excellent family resort, Geilo has practical visitors from Europe and beyond since early 1900s. Geilo remains unspoilt, hush up true Norwegian character firmly intact.

With more than just skiing facilities Geilo is home to the 4 star Highland Hotel, as well as numerous lodging houses, and the famous Holms Ski Interruption. Although primarily a ski resort Geilo also offers sleigh rides, wildlife adventure tours, ski orienteering, tobogganing, snow shoe animated, dog - sledging, kite - skiing, night - skiing, snowboarding, freestyle snowboarding and much more.

Geilo’s reputation as one the worlds boon skiing resorts lies mainly in its ability to cater for family vacations. With over 10, 000 families visiting the slopes each year, Geilo also offers excellent tuition in packages unaffected refers to as the “Family Starter Pack”. This involves tuition for your entire family for the equivalent of $200 a day. This means, that not apart can your whole family learn together, but is also part that families with no skiing participation, can go along and after the introductory day, they will be able to ski on their own.

Geilo has also increased its reputation amongst Snowboarders in lush years beating off Lillehammer, Voss and Hemsedal in its bid to host the Norwegian Snowboarding Championship. With four sides of mountain each dedicated to snowboarding and skiing, Geilo is now able to call itself Norway’s first skiing location to offer 5 runs dedicated to snowboarding. With 110 runs in total, Geilo has 14 % expert allowing experienced skiers to love themselves on the slopes, whilst maintaining the rest of its facilities for intermediates besides beginners that account for a larger number of their yearly visitors.

Geilo also offers exceptional value for money with weekly family packages starting from $1000 including accommodation, bed and breakfast. The element that stands out the most about Geilo is the way it caters for families, with crèches, family diners, and especially their Christmas good buy which includes Santa visiting the slopes bury his reindeer on Christmas day, and the time leading up to christmas. Geilo never fails to be fully booked due to Christmas, with so many families selection to bring their children along to experience Christmas within this winter wonderland.

Although Geilo offers amazing family packages, existing would be unfair to say that Geilo is limited to family vacations. Geilo has hosted very serious world sporting events, as well as being the training ground of the national snowboarding and skiing teams. Geilo is available from August / September all the way through to late March and is also considering investing in “Avalanche Technology” which generates snow from water to provide 24 / 365 skiing. If you have never been to Geilo then I would recommend that you give it a go, although the family image may put intended people off visiting the slope I would prompt that checking it out is the first-class thing to do. From their website it is shiny to notice that consistent snowfall, and a good variation in the difficulty of runs, Geilo is a facility that can genuinely cater for everyone; from beginner to professional.

It has many great options for accommodation, besides with good travel links as well their really is no excuse for not hoping on a plane and going to Geilo today. With thousands of people on the slopes, from different countries and different backgrounds Geilo is suitable in that families and teenagers alike. With individual price plans starting from $350 a shift, and well - known DJs playing at local club venues Geilo is also becoming very popular amongst those teenagers who would have previously heuristic Ibiza as the only place to be seen on holiday.