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Go to www.sundaymirror.co.uk/travel/top10A TRADITIONAL, picture-postcard Swiss hideaway with snowsure slopes and car-free streets plus a dramatic glacier for an impossibly scenic backdrop. Apres-ski starts with shots at Nesti's Ski Bar and there is plenty of choice that goes on late into the night.KNOWN for its riotous aprs ski, with a range of bars and clubs second to none, Mayrhofen is a top place to learn to ski or board. Passes cover five extensive intermediate resorts in the Zillertal valley.The traditional village has a nice cow byre feel, with stone and wooden inns and pensions, while the row of modern hotels at the base of the wide mellow slopes offer frills like pools and spas at rock bottom prices. After dinner, parents can have a little flutter in the casino, while experienced nannies watch the kids.The skiing, on both sides of a wide valley, has runs for everyone, ranging from wide motorways to steep and narrow "couloirs".THE DEAL: Direct Ski has seven nights at the two-star centrally located Hotel Arinsal from pounds 319pp halfboard (two sharing) with London-Toulouse flights and transfers. Beginners' ski packages, six- day equipment hire, tuition and lift pass cost pounds 216, intermediates pounds 224.4. SAAS FEE, SWITZERLANDSLOVENIA leading resort in the Julian Alps near the border with Austria is a paradise for beginners and families.SET in the heavily forested Rhodope Mountains, Pamporovo is Bulgaria's friendliest resort. The mountain is ideal for beginners and intermediates, with a ring of welcoming mountain huts on the top. The nightlife, led by Brit Steve Clark in his White Hart pub, is a riot. BJs in the Hotel Perelik comes a close second.THE DEAL: Crystal Ski has the four-star ski-in, ski-out Hotel du Col from pounds 587pp (two sharing), seven nights' half-board, unlimited wine with dinner, flights from Stansted and transfers. Go to www.sundaymirror.co.uk/travel/top10THE DEAL: Family Ski Company offers seven nights at Chalet Hotel La Collina in a family room/double and twin for two adults/two children, from pounds 509pp, pounds 438 child, half-board, including flights to Geneva and transfers. Go to www.sundaymirror.co.uk/ travel/top10THE DEAL: Ski Independence has 2-star Residence Antares from pounds 764, the 3-star Residence Les Balcons du Soleil from pounds 900, seven nights' selfcatering in a two-room apartment for four and FlexiPlus Eurotunnel tickets. Discovery package: ski hire for two adults, pounds 84 each, equipment for two kids free.DUTY free Andorra's ski blueprint has always been cheap and cheerful, and nowhere more so than in Arinsal. Expect hardcore bar action with funky DJs, theme nights and Sky Sports. El Derby is Irish, Cisco's Mexican, El Moli for cocktails, Black Bull for Full English.THE DEAL: First Choice Ski has the four-star Hotel Alpina from pounds 1,312 for seven nights' half board for two adults and two kids, including Gatwick-Salzburg flights and transfers.THE DEAL: Thomson Ski has seven nights at the Mayerhofen Ski Area Guesthouses - B&B from pounds 360, half-board from pounds 466 with Gatwick-Salzburg flights, transfers and two-for-one lift passes in January. Go to www.sundaymirror.co.uk/travel/top10Seven nights' self-catering from pounds 449pp, including flights from Gatwick or Manchester to Innsbruck, transfers, lift pass and equipment hire.A BIG high resort in the north-east near the Swiss border, Livigno's duty-free status makes for great savings, especially when it comes to shopping for cameras and clothes.5. AVORIAZ, FRANCE1. LIVIGNO, ITALYTHE DEAL: Zenith Holidays has seven nights' half-board for two adults and two kids at four-star Hotel Tri Studnicky, from pounds 2,656, or two-star Hotel Ski, from pounds 2,335, including transfers from Krakow airport, six-day lift passes, equipment hire and half- day lessons. Gatwick easyJet flights (www.easyjet.com). Go to www.sundaymirror.co.uk/travel/top1010. COURCHEVEL, FRANCETHE DEAL: Neilson has threestar Galli Apartments, one or two bedrooms, 50 metres from the lifts.7. KRANJSKA GORA, SLOVENIA'SCOSMOPOLITAN Sestriere, venue for the main Alpine ski events in the Turin Olympics in 2006, is a key link in the Milky Way circuit straddling the Franco-Italian border. Ski forever on a single lift pass, exploring everything this fine area has to offer: including rural San Sicario and fun-loving Sauze d'Oulx, or try the Olympic bob run or an afternoon with a team of huskies.Marco's and Daphne's are lively pubs, and the Pick Up club goes on until late, late, late...A SKI-IN, ski-out village in the Three Valleys with a gondola link into the main slopes above Courchevel 1850. The runs back to 1650 are on the easy side of blue - very encouraging for beginners with ambitions to go to faraway places. There's lots going on in the evenings at substantially lower prices than in glitzy 1850.6. SESTRIERE, ITALYWIN A skiing hol next week2. PAMPOROVO, BULGARIAHAILED as the benchmark for purpose-built good value apartments for 40 years, Avoriaz - the best gateway to the huge Franco-Swiss Portes du Soleil ski circuit - is embracing a four-star future for 2011-12.8. MAYRHOFEN, AUSTRIA3. JASNA, SLOVAKIATHOUGH less well known than its eastern European rivals, Slovakia is very much a rising star. Jasna, in the Low Tatras, near the Polish border, is the best resort, a modern Alpine-style complex with varied slopes.9. ARINSAL, ANDORRATHE DEAL: Inghams has seven nights' half-board in the three-star Hotel Perelik, from pounds 289pp (two sharing) with flights Gatwick- Sofia and transfers.
WIN A skiing hol next week
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