It has been one of the most pleasant weekends of this year so far! 3 girls, no men, snow, sun and plenty of fun.
My Brussels friend took me and one of her friends to a ramshackle socialist hotel straight on the ski slope in Jasna ski resort in Slovak regior on Liptov. My first skiing experience happend right in this place and that is the reason why this trip meant so much for me. I've seen the place I haven't seen for 15 years and it has changed so much! Good? Bad? Both.
The hotel actually hasn't changed at all - if I hadn't had my mobile phone on the table right next to me, I wouldn't have noticed that it is 2011. Even the music was of 1980s. Deja vu. The resort itself improved a lot - well prepared slopes, new ski lifts and a gondola, fast food stands. Shitloads of money has been invested to improve the conditions in order to attract more skiers but what hasn't changed is the approach of the owner/operater. One toilet in a tiny hut to cover a demand of one valley? Really. You must be kidding me.
Once I pay full rate for a day skipass, I expect all possible lifts to work so that I can ski anywhere I like (well, actually so that I can ski on the only good skislope in the area). The wind started on Saturday around noon, which meant three main lifts were closed and we had to ski at Záhradky slopes, which we didn't like much. But better than nothing because on Sunday they closed also Otupné gondola. And the cashier were still sellling full rate skipasses. Really? We sold ours for a decent price to some Hungarian people who have just arrived. And I am not even mentioning that a lift to Chopok has not been working at all for like weeks.
A great place to go to see, so many things to see there but really NOT worth the money. For the same price I can have 200 km of slopes in Austria, not only 36 km and 3 operating lifts. This kind of disappointment was replaced by a great company I had and by so much fun with nice people I met. And to be hones, the skiing was not that bad at all. Thank you, Lyd.
My Brussels friend took me and one of her friends to a ramshackle socialist hotel straight on the ski slope in Jasna ski resort in Slovak regior on Liptov. My first skiing experience happend right in this place and that is the reason why this trip meant so much for me. I've seen the place I haven't seen for 15 years and it has changed so much! Good? Bad? Both.
The hotel actually hasn't changed at all - if I hadn't had my mobile phone on the table right next to me, I wouldn't have noticed that it is 2011. Even the music was of 1980s. Deja vu. The resort itself improved a lot - well prepared slopes, new ski lifts and a gondola, fast food stands. Shitloads of money has been invested to improve the conditions in order to attract more skiers but what hasn't changed is the approach of the owner/operater. One toilet in a tiny hut to cover a demand of one valley? Really. You must be kidding me.
Once I pay full rate for a day skipass, I expect all possible lifts to work so that I can ski anywhere I like (well, actually so that I can ski on the only good skislope in the area). The wind started on Saturday around noon, which meant three main lifts were closed and we had to ski at Záhradky slopes, which we didn't like much. But better than nothing because on Sunday they closed also Otupné gondola. And the cashier were still sellling full rate skipasses. Really? We sold ours for a decent price to some Hungarian people who have just arrived. And I am not even mentioning that a lift to Chopok has not been working at all for like weeks.
A great place to go to see, so many things to see there but really NOT worth the money. For the same price I can have 200 km of slopes in Austria, not only 36 km and 3 operating lifts. This kind of disappointment was replaced by a great company I had and by so much fun with nice people I met. And to be hones, the skiing was not that bad at all. Thank you, Lyd.
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