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As we come to the end of our 1st week in the AliKats chalet, we thought we’d quickly take stock of what’s happened before the Christmas ski season starts in earnest! Our top 3 highlights have been…

When Kat said to me she was going to be offering a 6-course menu for a special AliKats New Year’s Eve dinner, I sarcastically replied: “6 is too easy. Do 7”. So she did.

The start of this season in Avoriaz has been unbelievable for snow and as we started 2012, it was the best snow on New Year’s week since the turn of the century! So, we thought we’d compare it to 4 of Europe’s other big resorts (Meribel, Val d’Isere, Kitzbuhel and…

This week marks the half way point of the season, as well as UK half term which is our busiest week of the year. And with 27 in the chalet this week (and still feeling surprisingly spacious), we thought we’d take a few minutes to summarise the 1st half of…

If you haven’t done it before, spring skiing is something very special and this year, with 270cm of snow still in Avoriaz, is going to be pretty special. Here are some crude maths to prove this:

After two ski seasons of chalet hosting, I was surprised by the number of guests staying each week who were on restricted diets because of food sensitivities or intolerances. It turns out at that I shouldn’t have been surprised at all as research shows that 1-2% of the UK population…

We’re only half way through the season and we’ve got huge amounts of snow but already our thoughts are turning to summer….

After 5 hard months of the winter season with barely a day off, everyone in Morzine shuts up shop for the month of May. And it really does take a full month to recover as well! But now our mind turns to the next challenge – augmenting the AliKats team…