Inghams launches luxury ski collection
Skiers looking for the elusive combination of affordability and luxury need look no further than Inghams 2008 - 2009 Ski Luxury collection. Its seventy-one hotels, in forty-three of the world’s finest resorts are as distinctive as they are distinguished. The brochure puts all the elements of a discerning skier’s ideal holiday right at their fingertips. Each page boasts hotels with exceptional quality, individual style, and a unique ambience. With gourmet dining and pampering in opulent spas, the highest possible standards of service are found in these hand picked, minimum four-star hotels. Over 70 years of mountain expertise has enabled us to guarantee the very best experiences on offer at some of the world’s finest ski hotels.
New additions this year include three of the worlds leading resorts including Baqueira-Beret, Spain’s answer to Klosters, where the Spanish Royal family take their luxury holiday breaks. Their hotel of choice, the 5* Hotel La Pleta, is a member of the Small Luxury Hotels of the World group. Exclusive to Inghams, the Austrian resort of Serfaus adds to our range of destinations suitable for intermediate skiers. Its highlight, the 5* Spa Hotel Schalber, combines Gault Millau award winning dining with stunning amenities.
Other accommodation additions in Austria include the totally renovated Schloss Lebenberg in Kitzbühel, once an aristocratic hunting castle, and the recently refurbished 4* Alpine Hotel Wolf in Hinterglemm in the vast interconnecting ski circus of Saalbach Hinterglemm. In the Italian resort of Cervinia, the newly built, 27 bedroom, 4* boutique hotel Principe Delle Nevi offers an enviable ski in-ski out location with a relaxed ambience, superb food and excellent views of Monte Rosa. In Courchevel 1650, one of the resort’s finest hotels, the 4* Hotel Le Manali has been included for the first time.
Litsa Constantinou, Chief Executive, said “Last winter more clients than ever travelled with Inghams to our luxury winter properties. We appreciate that luxury ski holidays are about much, much more than just first class hotels. We put great emphasis on giving a complete service during the booking process all the way through to clients’ return journeys. We offer convenient and flexible flight times from 23 UK airports, relaxing rail options with daytime services to Switzerland, an array of transfer arrangements including Audi 7 private transfers in Austria and bespoke holiday choices.
“Private instructors and mountain guides are also available as part of the highest standard of ski pack options in our market sector. Inghams has built its reputation over 70 years and has found that the combination of these components guarantees the ultimate luxury winter adventure which this winter starts with White Weeks in Obergurgl on 6 December 2008.”
A week’s luxury ski holiday from the Inghams Luxury Collection costs from £579 per person, based on four sharing a room at the 5* Rimrock Resort Hotel in the Canadian resort of Banff, on room only, while luxury at the top end is provided by a week at the 5* Hotel La Palace des Neiges in Courchevel 1850 costing from £4745 per person, based on two sharing a suite. Both prices include return flights and transfers.
For more information log on to Inghams.co.uk.
