Swap the Alps for Slovakia’s Tatras mountains – with £20 lift passes and a champagne lunch for £13
It’s usually the ultra-rich who touch down at 10am to be on the slopes by 11am. But skiing in Slovakia is so affordable that the rest of us can feel part of the jet set too.
True, the new, twice-weekly flights from London Stansted to Poprad-Tatry are on Ryanair, not Learjets. But this is hardly mass tourism – the new route has doubled the number of flights to the tiny airport (the only others being the long-standing twice-weekly Wizz Air flights from Luton).
In just 15 minutes my husband and I were in ’s second biggest resort, . It has just nine lifts and 7.5 miles of pistes, but is high, stretching up to 2,200m. The rides are mostly fast, and modern lifts cost from €24 (£20) a day, not the usual €50 (£43). So, with snowcapped peaks behind us and a dramatic view of the vast plain below, we swooshed down the blue and red runs that were so flattering of our technique.
