November 8, 2007

Alpine Adventures Ski and Snow News

European Resort Newswire

Swim Oases on the Kitzbuehel rooftops
The Hotel Schwarzer Adler is reopening in December 2007 with an extraordinary new Spa-Oasis. Guests of Kitzbühel’s only 4 Star Superior Hotel will not only be able to pamper themselves on four floors of beauty salons, saunas and swimming pools, they will also be able to cool off in the rooftop swimming pool, 16m above street level. The 3 Star Flairhotel Kitzbühel will also be reopening in December with a new Well Being Zone with several saunas and a steam room. The newly-built Wellness Zone in the 4 Star Hotel Tiefenbrunner, with its swimming pool and sauna facilities, and the Well-Being Oasis in the Landhotel Tiroler Hof provide for the perfect break.

Feng-shui in the Austrian Alps
Harmonious interior design is guaranteed in Vital-Luxury Suites at the Hotel Tiefenbrunner. The rooms have been arranged in recent months according to Feng-shui principles. Tradition and innovation, wooden and glass all come together in the Flairhotel’s newly-built wing with 40 rooms and new restaurant, which will be reopened in December. Six exclusive, 50 sqm. penthouses in the Hotel Schwarzer Adler will be available for rent from the same time.

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Speed Riding at Chamonix
Speed Riding, a kind of cross between ski kiting, paragliding and skiing, will be available to try out at Le Tour in the Chamonix Valley this winter.

Participants slide “or fly” down a ski slope wearing a small ‘”wing” similar to a paragliding chute but only six-ten metres square.

The idea is not to fly too high, or for too long, but to ride the terrain like a skier, only getting much more air and feeling of much less gravity as you lift out of a turn or jump off a bump.

Speed riding was tested at the resort last year and proved successful enough for the introduction to the public this winter. The paragliding school Les Ailes du Mont-Blanc will also offer supervised speed riding on the snow park of the Grands Montets.

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