After too many seasons wading through dirty mounds of Slush Puppie snow in half-melted Alpine resorts, I too had decided to take the plunge and try a ski holiday in supposedly “snow-sure” Norway.
Expecting farmyard troughs of sloppy pizza and chips (like I’d had at other ski buffets), I was blown away by the quality, piling my plate with juicy lamb rump, hot smoked salmon and cod in an indulgent lobster bisque.
While a seven-day lift pass for the Three Valleys in France in February costs €456/£379 (or €582/£484 in Zermatt, Switzerland), you can ski in Trysil for up to eight days for €292/£243.
A seven-night stay in March with direct flights, shared transfers, and half-board accommodation at SkiStar Lodge Trysil costs £1,446pp, based on four adults sharing.
This snowy aviation outpost only opened in 2019 and since then companies have been racing to launch direct flights from London, possibly because there are more and more British skiers who, like me, are looking north for some piste of mind.
