At the underside of the celebrated Lauberhorn downhill race course proper by the Innerwengen chair raise is arguably one of the best recognized mountain restaurant in Wengen. Its lunchtime speciality is Suppentopf, a soup created from greens, beef and sausage, topped with cheese. The celebrated and aptly named Oh God run (once off-piste) includes snowboarding over a giant camel bump near the top.
- We usually ski down to Wengen from Kleine Scheidegg at the end of the day.
- The local ski school and personal instructors have a great popularity, notably for teaching kids.
- To transfer from the airport to the resort is round two hours half-hour by highway.
- Trains also connect the two valleys of the ski space via the eye-popping excessive pass at Kleine Scheidegg below the Eiger.
- But I wouldn’t rely on having the flexibility to easily get from Wengen to Grindelwald that late within the night in winter.
- Skiers and boarders alike will enjoy the mild blue and pink runs with their incredible views of the Eiger and Monch massif.
The ski space is accessible from both Grindelwald and Wengen with the cog railway or with a cable car (Grindelwald-Männlichen aerial gondola or Wengen-Männlichen aerial cableway respectively). Wengen is situated in Bernese Oberland, a hundred ninety km from Zurich, the nearest worldwide airport. Travel time from Zurich to Wengen is 2.5 hours by automotive and 3.5 hours by train.
Grindelwald is a a lot bigger town that has extra apres-ski prospects and a a lot bigger alternative of lodging. It’s nice for younger people and everybody looking for a extra vigorous ambiance. Whereas Wengen is a smaller car-free village the place everything is inside strolling distance, but there’s little going on at night. It’s nice for households and everybody on the lookout for a quieter winter holiday. There are a lot of fun actions off the slopes too, why not make a journey to the ice rink or go tobogganing on one of many many runs across the resort .
In our Wengen retailers, our renowned skiers and instructors can advise you on tools packs and snow circumstances at Wengen. A cosy household enjoyable historic Hotel, positioned in the heart of the Swiss alps. Doorstep snowboarding with nice scenic views of the mountains and village. Managed by the welcoming Kienzler household, the Sunstar is a well-liked lodge with good services and enjoys a incredible location, simply opposite the raise and nursery slopes.
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Kleine Scheidegg is the hotspot for powderhounds on a transparent powder day, notably up & around the Lauberhorn. Delightful, approachable & enjoyable, without the perilous steeps & intricacy of the Schilthorn. On the other facet, more technical descents are potential on the flanks of the Eiger, skier’s proper of the Eigernordwand chairlift high station. The broad ridge along to the Maennlichen Gipfel also has some broad, alpine freeride terrain and straightforward exits back to the lifts.
Attending To Grindelwald
The town is 55km by street south-east of the de-facto Swiss capital of Bern & only 120km (1½hr) south-west of Zurich. At Wengernalp prepare station, between Wengen and Kleine Scheidegg, there is a small newbies ski area as nicely. It has a t-bar ski carry (see ‘Bumps’ ski carry on the map) and a relatively quick and simple ‘blue’ run.
Wengen is certainly one of our favourite ski resorts in Switzerland and we additionally love this area in summer time. We don’t typically travel to the same place twice, however Wengen is one of those locations that we gladly return to repeatedly. Families will enjoy wandering the pedestrian streets within the snow and doing a spot of buying. You can content hungry tummies with some cake at the cosy Cafe Gruebi or when you want an alternative to skiing then visit the village ice rink.