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Voted 6th out of 14 reviewed ski resorts in Switzerland
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Christmas in Wengen
Reviewed 2 Jun 2016
Extremely quiet, but it was the first week of the season. Wengen’s quite a sleepy village but it really is picture postcard beautiful. Certainly wouldn’t think twice about coming back!
Absolutely loved it
Reviewed 13 May 2016
I absolutely loved Wengen. It was perfect, we had awesome snow and had a fantastic time. I know that Switzerland is supposed to be an expensive resort, but you get what you pay for. The people were friendly too. I would say that the resort is best for beginner to intermediates… Not really for expert skiers.
Wengen Ski and Getting There
Reviewed 14 Mar 2016
Wengen is expensive £ to Swiss FF that's a fact but the lift pass is about the same price as trip to a Big French Resort. Wengen is a car free zone and the only way up is by the train from Lauterbrunnen. I flew from London to Basel and booked the train to take us from the airport via SBB (Swiss Trains) when you come out the airport its about a ten minute bus drive to the train station you have to get a ticket from the bus stop for about 6FF - but they never checked so you could jump on and nobody would notice. SBB Swiss travel very easy web site and the tickets give you exact information of what train and platform to be on - was very simple and always on time £60 rtn. I takes roughly 3 hrs to get to Wengen very scenic and relaxing journey. Most hotels provide a taxi to take to your destination in the village mainly electric vehicles. ski pass we bought in the shop but there are places online that give you 20% which we did not know about. Ski hire is bit more expensive than French resorts but good quality. The weird thing about Wengen is that there are trains and train stations in the mountains and being to French resorts a lot of the time this was a novelty There are two ways up - the Train takes about 25 minutes from the main train station or the Manchillen cable car - which can get busy. Once you are up there the views are amazing. The snow was fantastic ( March 2016 ) powder most days. The runs are for everyone and the lift system is good lots of covered chairlifts. The Eiger was amazing to see and to ski under it in powder was amazing too. For the Non Skiers they have so many walking paths marked off in purple and the amount of sledges that were available there for hire was incredible. There was a lot of tourists mainly to visit the Highest point in Europe Jungfrajoch - its a winter/summer playground with the highest mountain railway in Europe. A cost of 120 FF for non ski pass holders is a lot of money and for ski pass holders it was 60 FF. Plenty of mountain resorts are dotted around. You can ski all the way down to Grund there is a nice blue run not too flat and quite quick where you can get a train all the way back up to the main Kleine Sheidegg nice if you want to have a sarnie or a rest on the train, takes 25 mins. This is the way to Grindewald as you cant ski there directly - you have to ski to Grund area and get the Free bus which takes about 20 mins and then you are in the centre where you can get the main cable car up - same for the way back. Up here is a lot to do they have the Tissot Cliff Walk, not for the feint hearted. Skiing was good here too. In Wengen there is the famous world cup run, longest ski race in Europe and you can actually ski out the famous ski hut as this is usually open all the time and you can get your picture done. Its an amazing run with signposted names to tell you which part of the course you are on - how they do this in such a speed I do not know. At the finish line there is a podium where you can get your photos taken. You can also get a day to Murren - was another 40 FF this it has a famous revolving restaurant and was where a Bond film was made.This would be amazing on a clear day but was a trek as you had to get the train back down to Lautrabunnen 25mins and then a big lift up and then lots of other lifts across, maybe next time. The village itself has got an ice rink, curling and other events - lots of restaurants some pricey we found a cheap cafe style place and was great.There is a local CO-OP that sells everything for self catering etc.
Why I love Wengen
Reviewed 18 Nov 2015
Situated in the Lauterbrunnen valley, in the Jungfrau this resort offers excellent views and a great train system taking you to Grindlewald and up the mountain etc. A long-time favourite of British skiers including me! Best suited to intermediates and beginners, there is also a fair amount of advanced terrain. It is not possible to ski back to Wengen from all parts of the ski area, so careful planning and keeping an eye on the time can be key. Nightlife is generally quite relaxed, the Blue Monkey is a bar with dancing area and pool table, your best bet for a big night. They put on a great fireworks display for New Year’s Eve. Go to the Hotel Romantik Schoenneg for dinner, Hubert Mayer the chef there is fantastic, he goes out into the forest to pick mushrooms in the autumn and herbs, really probably the best food I have had!
Old Swiss town, good skiing, shame about weather
Reviewed 2 Jul 2014
We didn’t see much of the town as our hotel was all inclusive, but it has some nice shops and is a pretty place – very old fashioned Swiss town. The train is good and it’s well situated. We didn't have a particularly good week with the weather and lost a day and a half of skiing, one day we could only ski 1 run and the other was so windy it became a bit of a bore. Overall it was a good week of skiing, with some excellent off piste - the only downside is that the lifts aren’t very well linked.
Spectacular scenery, lots of skiing
Reviewed 13 May 2014
We like Wengen and have skied in the area several times. There’s a big range of skiing – in a fortnight you would cover quite a lot of the area but for one week it’s excellent. You can go up the Wengen side and ski right under the north face of the Eiger and have that, the Jungfrau and the Mönch as the three big mountains that make up your backdrop – spectacular. On the Murren side, you can go right up to the revolving mountain restaurant where they filmed James Bond. We haven’t eaten there as it’s quite expensive as you can imagine, but it’s worth going up there for the views alone. If you want to ski back down it’s by a tricky black, which if it’s icy or moguly at the top is quite difficult (and it’s a long trail which you have to commit to skiing all the way down!). The other option is to get the cable car down to the middle station where there are some easier runs to take back to the bottom.
Mindblowing - a special place
Reviewed 7 Apr 2014
The landscape is mindblowing - we had two days of sunshine when the scenery was absolutely stunning and it was still quite spectacular even when there was low cloud, it really was rather special.
We really liked Wengen and would definitely go back. It’s nice being basically with no vehicles and is reasonably easy to get to. We took our daughter with us and it’s not a young person resort particularly, there were a few lively bars but no discotheques or that kind of scene. The clientele in general are a little older so it’s probably better for an older family or adult couple as we didn’t see many youngsters or older teens around.
Once you go up, the little railway to Lauterbrunnen runs you all around to the top. We went out with a guide and some of the runs are absolutely fabulous. It can cater pretty much for everyone: for intermediates and upwards it’s brilliant with some very challenging blacks and some very good reds down to intermediate and beginner stuff. It’s more difficult to ski back to the village if you’re a complete beginner as there’s a long traverse at the top that takes ages because you have to pull yourself along for a while, which can be a bit exhausting. You can always get the lift down though, and at the top of the first cable car there are some suitable beginner runs.
On the other side, you can go down the rail to Lauterbrunnen and up the other side to the place where they filmed James Bond. The weather wasn’t very good on the day we went but if it was clear the views would have been incredible and there are a couple of really good red runs on that side.
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