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Zakopane is a great way to spend a budget holiday in the snow. The prices aren't yet as high as in France, Switzerland or even Austria. The pistes are more for beginners then for experts, so don't expect pistes like in the alps, but still good enough to have lots of fun. Zakopane is great for familys large or small, eating out and shopping drinking is so reasonable, everything is a stones throw away,hire of gear and instruction, lifts taxis likewise.

If you want to be high in the Alps, just between Chamonix, France and Zermatt, Switzerland, and also be off the huge ski stations like Verbier, it is the place; calm, not many visitors, great off-piste from the top of the single t-bar in town (in fact three but two coming up the glacier in the same direction, leading to the small mountain restaurant, just one on the slopes!; great heli-skiing also! Mind the mountain guides - not easy to find better.

Skiers can enjoy the well groomed, tree lined inter-linked pistes down to Morillon, Les Carroz and Sixt, and with north facing slopes heavy snowfall attracts off piste skiers to the areas above Samoens, Les Molliets and Vernant. Immediately above Samoens at the top of the new cable car, lies the purpose-built satellite, Samoens 1600, with its own small ski area beneath the 2120m Tete des Saix. Perfect for beginners there is a sizeable area of nursery slopes and some pleasant reds, and…