{"id":1458,"date":"2013-12-28T01:49:07","date_gmt":"2013-12-28T00:49:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.oatridge.co.uk\/nic\/?p=1458"},"modified":"2015-01-07T17:38:42","modified_gmt":"2015-01-07T16:38:42","slug":"cutest-village-ski-resorts","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.oatridge.co.uk\/nic\/best-rated\/cutest-village-ski-resorts\/","title":{"rendered":"The Cutest Village Ski Resorts"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.swisswintersports.co.uk\/images\/zermatt4.jpg\" alt=\"Zermatt\" width=\"500\" \/><br \/>\nThe Daily Telegraph has just identified what it thinks are the <a title=\"Daily Telegraph\" href=\"http:\/\/www.telegraph.co.uk\/travel\/snowandski\/10494269\/The-15-cutest-villages-in-ski-resorts.html\" target=\"_blank\">15 cutest village ski resorts<\/a>, and I have to disagree with their choice. For instance, <a class=\"no-footer-menu-link\" href=\"http:\/\/www.swisswintersports.co.uk\/zermatt.php\">Zermatt<\/a> &#8220;cute&#8221;? Hardly. Car-free, rocking, beautiful, busy&#8230; but cute? And hardly a village. In my opinion most of the cutest villages have limited pistes and antiquated lifts &#8211; which is maybe how they tend to stay cute.<\/p>\n<p>Anyway, for what it&#8217;s worth, here&#8217;s my list of villages in Switzerland that are both cute and have access to plenty of the white stuff, in no particular order (click on the links for more info):<\/p>\n<p><a class=\"no-footer-menu-link\" href=\"http:\/\/www.swisswintersports.co.uk\/adelboden.php\">Adelboden<\/a><br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.swisswintersports.co.uk\/images\/adelboden3.jpg\" alt=\"Adelboden\" width=\"500\" \/><br \/>\n<a class=\"no-footer-menu-link\" href=\"http:\/\/www.swisswintersports.co.uk\/gstaad.php\">Gstaad<\/a><br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.swisswintersports.co.uk\/images\/gstaad.jpg\" alt=\"Gstaad\" width=\"500\" \/><br \/>\n<a class=\"no-footer-menu-link\" href=\"http:\/\/www.swisswintersports.co.uk\/murren.php\">M\u00fcrren<\/a><br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.swisswintersports.co.uk\/images\/murren.jpg\" alt=\"Muerren\" width=\"500\" \/><br \/>\n<a class=\"no-footer-menu-link\" href=\"http:\/\/www.swisswintersports.co.uk\/wengen.php\">Wengen<\/a><br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.swisswintersports.co.uk\/images\/wengen.jpg\" alt=\"Wengen\" width=\"500\" \/><br \/>\n<a class=\"no-footer-menu-link\" href=\"http:\/\/www.swisswintersports.co.uk\/andermatt.php\">Andermatt<\/a><br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.swisswintersports.co.uk\/images\/andermatt2.jpg\" alt=\"Andermatt\" width=\"500\" \/><br \/>\n<a class=\"no-footer-menu-link\" href=\"http:\/\/www.swisswintersports.co.uk\/stoos.php\">Stoos<\/a><br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.swisswintersports.co.uk\/images\/stoos.jpg\" alt=\"Stoos\" width=\"500\" \/><br \/>\n<a class=\"no-footer-menu-link\" href=\"http:\/\/www.swisswintersports.co.uk\/brigels.php\">Briel (Brigels)<\/a><br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.swisswintersports.co.uk\/images\/brigels.jpg\" alt=\"Brigels\" width=\"500\" \/><br \/>\n<a class=\"no-footer-menu-link\" href=\"http:\/\/www.swisswintersports.co.uk\/celerina.php\">Celerina<\/a><br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.swisswintersports.co.uk\/images\/celerina2.jpg\" alt=\"Celerina\" width=\"500\" \/><br \/>\n<a class=\"no-footer-menu-link\" href=\"http:\/\/www.swisswintersports.co.uk\/klosters.php\">Klosters<\/a><br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.swisswintersports.co.uk\/images\/klosters2.jpg\" alt=\"Klosters\" width=\"500\" \/><br \/>\n<a class=\"no-footer-menu-link\" href=\"http:\/\/www.swisswintersports.co.uk\/lenzerheide.php\">Lenzerheide<\/a><br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.swisswintersports.co.uk\/images\/lenzerheide.jpg\" alt=\"Lenzerheide\" width=\"500\" \/><br \/>\n<a class=\"no-footer-menu-link\" href=\"http:\/\/www.swisswintersports.co.uk\/pontresina.php\">Pontresina<\/a><br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.swisswintersports.co.uk\/images\/pontresina.jpg\" alt=\"Pontresina\" width=\"500\" \/><br \/>\n<a class=\"no-footer-menu-link\" href=\"http:\/\/www.swisswintersports.co.uk\/samnaun.php\">Samnaun<\/a><br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.swisswintersports.co.uk\/images\/samnaun.jpg\" alt=\"Samnaun\" width=\"500\" \/><br \/>\n<a class=\"no-footer-menu-link\" href=\"http:\/\/www.swisswintersports.co.uk\/silvaplana.php\">Silvaplana<\/a><br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.swisswintersports.co.uk\/images\/silvaplana.jpg\" alt=\"Silvaplana\" width=\"500\" \/><br \/>\n<a class=\"no-footer-menu-link\" href=\"http:\/\/www.swisswintersports.co.uk\/lesdiablerets.php\">Les Diablerets<\/a><br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.swisswintersports.co.uk\/images\/lesdiablerets2.jpg\" alt=\"Les Diablerets\" width=\"500\" \/><br \/>\n<a class=\"no-footer-menu-link\" href=\"http:\/\/www.swisswintersports.co.uk\/champery-portesdusoleil.php\">Champ\u00e9ry<\/a><br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.swisswintersports.co.uk\/images\/champery-portesdusoleil2.jpg\" alt=\"Champery\" width=\"500\" \/><br \/>\n<a class=\"no-footer-menu-link\" href=\"http:\/\/www.swisswintersports.co.uk\/saas-fee.php\">Saas-Fee<\/a><br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.swisswintersports.co.uk\/images\/saas-fee.jpg\" alt=\"Saas-Fee\" width=\"500\" \/><br \/>\n<a class=\"no-footer-menu-link\" href=\"http:\/\/www.swisswintersports.co.uk\/saint-luc.php\">St Luc\/Chandolin<\/a><br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.swisswintersports.co.uk\/images\/saint-luc.jpg\" alt=\"St Luc\" width=\"500\" \/><br \/>\n<a class=\"no-footer-menu-link\" href=\"http:\/\/www.swisswintersports.co.uk\/grimentz.php\">Grimentz<\/a><br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.swisswintersports.co.uk\/images\/grimentz.jpg\" alt=\"Grimentz\" width=\"500\" 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For instance, Zermatt &#8220;cute&#8221;? Hardly. Car-free, rocking, beautiful, busy&#8230; but cute? And hardly a village. In my opinion most of the cutest villages have limited pistes and antiquated lifts &#8211; which &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.oatridge.co.uk\/nic\/best-rated\/cutest-village-ski-resorts\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;The Cutest Village Ski Resorts&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[18,183,30,172,171,146,176,179,178,29,9,13,175,28,187,150,21,173,174,37,74,180,181,182,177,170,113,40,145,22],"class_list":["post-1458","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-best-rated","tag-adelboden","tag-alpine","tag-andermatt","tag-briel","tag-brigels","tag-celerina","tag-champery","tag-cutest-ski-resorts","tag-grimentz","tag-gstaad","tag-klosters","tag-lenzerheide","tag-les-diablerets","tag-murren","tag-pistes","tag-pontresina","tag-saas-fee","tag-samnaun","tag-silvaplana","tag-ski","tag-ski-resort","tag-ski-resorts","tag-ski-villages","tag-ski-in-ski-out","tag-st-luc","tag-stoos","tag-swiss","tag-switzerland","tag-wengen","tag-zermatt"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.oatridge.co.uk\/nic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1458","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.oatridge.co.uk\/nic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.oatridge.co.uk\/nic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.oatridge.co.uk\/nic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.oatridge.co.uk\/nic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1458"}],"version-history":[{"count":21,"href":"http:\/\/www.oatridge.co.uk\/nic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1458\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1834,"href":"http:\/\/www.oatridge.co.uk\/nic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1458\/revisions\/1834"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.oatridge.co.uk\/nic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1458"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.oatridge.co.uk\/nic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1458"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.oatridge.co.uk\/nic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1458"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}