TURNING into quite a trip!

There’s a bit of trouble threatening my picture-perfect Christmas in the Swiss Alps. The road to the resort.

I spent hours…. make that days…. searching the web for a resort that is both family and non-expert skier friendly. Luckily, Switzerland rates its family friendly resorts and puts the information online. After doing lots of reading and fussing, I booked our week in Arosa. It isn’t big. Heck, no one has even heard of it.. including a woman I know who is from Switzerland. But it met all my criteria. Family friendly (the kids ski school is affiliated with Disney). Lots of intermediate runs. Picturesque. One of the highest resorts in Switzerland (there’s already snow). Not too expensive. Places to stay on-piste. (In Zermatt… where you ski the Matterhorn… it’s not family or beginner friendly. You also have to take a bus to the lifts no matter where you stay in town. And I read that the buses get very crowded.) Our hotel owner is taking great care of us already, arranging for ski passes and ski school and answering all my questions.

Here’s the thing. The latest answer to a question he sent me has me a little worried. About just getting there. Read what he wrote, and you’ll understand:

Hello Mandy

it’s true. The road leading to Arosa takes 30 km with 360 turns. Some say it
is scary to drive on this road when there’s snow on the road. From Chur to
Arosa it takes about an hour, same as the train.
I recommend you to wait till the last moment to decide driving to Arosa or
leave the car in Chur. If the road conditions are good I would drive with
the car. If not, leave your car in Chur and head up with the train. Normally
the road is being cleaned all day. And there are many cars driving on that
road.

THREE HUNDRED AND SIXTY TURNS. There isn’t a barf bag big enough or a motion sickness pill strong enough.

One Response to “TURNING into quite a trip!”

  1. D.A.D. says:

    Good thing everyone involved likes trains. You’d hate to have your vacation derailed by getting woozy before you even get there. Going skiing can give you a lift, but you don’t want to have a lift from being derailed, saying your vacation is in the bag. Looks like you at least have found Bob Newhart in Arosa. (For those international blog readers, Bob Newhart was a small, very hospitable innkeeper in the USA for years, who sold his business to star in a TV series as a psychiatrist.)

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