{"id":725,"date":"2011-02-24T17:20:22","date_gmt":"2011-02-24T16:20:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.oatridge.co.uk\/nic\/?p=725"},"modified":"2011-02-24T17:25:43","modified_gmt":"2011-02-24T16:25:43","slug":"malbun-ski-liechtenstein","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.oatridge.co.uk\/nic\/eastern-switzerland\/malbun-ski-liechtenstein\/","title":{"rendered":"Malbun &#8211; Ski Liechtenstein"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"_mcePaste\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.oatridge.co.uk\/nic\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/02\/171572_10150392233830441_660050440_17057785_6074286_o.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-medium wp-image-727\" title=\"171572_10150392233830441_660050440_17057785_6074286_o\" src=\"http:\/\/www.oatridge.co.uk\/nic\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/02\/171572_10150392233830441_660050440_17057785_6074286_o-225x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"225\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.oatridge.co.uk\/nic\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/02\/171572_10150392233830441_660050440_17057785_6074286_o-225x300.jpg 225w, https:\/\/www.oatridge.co.uk\/nic\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/02\/171572_10150392233830441_660050440_17057785_6074286_o-768x1024.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.oatridge.co.uk\/nic\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/02\/171572_10150392233830441_660050440_17057785_6074286_o.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 225px) 100vw, 225px\" \/><\/a>Landlocked within the landlocked nations of Switzerland and Austria, Liechtenstein hosts one tiny ski resort, Malbun. It is a spectacular drive from the motorway at Sargans in Switzerland, or about 30 minutes by bus from Valbun, Liechtenstein&#8217;s capital (itself 30 minutes by bus from Sargans station).<\/div>\n<div id=\"_mcePaste\">The resort has just over 20km piste and stands at about 1600m. The highest runs are from 2000m with three modern chairlifts servicing virtually all of the resort. There is a good range of skiing from nursery slopes through runs of increasing difficulty, including one short, steep black and some off-piste. There&#8217;s cross-country skiing in nearby Steg and toboggan runs and winter walking trails in Malbun itself.<\/div>\n<div id=\"_mcePaste\">On the face of it, there would be little to attract skiers and snowboarders to Malbun \u00a0but it is uncrowded and friendly, and in the <a href=\"http:\/\/gorfion.s-hotels.com\/en-gorfion-index.shtml\" target=\"_blank\">Hotel Gorfion<\/a> has an excellent ski-in, ski-out family hotel where you can deposit your kids in the ski school opposite or leave them in the hotel&#8217;s supervised nursery from as early as 7am until 8pm (schedule varies).<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Landlocked within the landlocked nations of Switzerland and Austria, Liechtenstein hosts one tiny ski resort, Malbun. It is a spectacular drive from the motorway at Sargans in Switzerland, or about 30 minutes by bus from Valbun, Liechtenstein&#8217;s capital (itself 30 minutes by bus from Sargans station). The resort has just over 20km piste and stands &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.oatridge.co.uk\/nic\/eastern-switzerland\/malbun-ski-liechtenstein\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Malbun &#8211; Ski Liechtenstein&#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":[83,85],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-725","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-eastern-switzerland","category-features"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.oatridge.co.uk\/nic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/725","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.oatridge.co.uk\/nic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.oatridge.co.uk\/nic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.oatridge.co.uk\/nic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.oatridge.co.uk\/nic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=725"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/www.oatridge.co.uk\/nic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/725\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":733,"href":"https:\/\/www.oatridge.co.uk\/nic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/725\/revisions\/733"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.oatridge.co.uk\/nic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=725"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.oatridge.co.uk\/nic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=725"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.oatridge.co.uk\/nic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=725"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}