Zermatt to consumate?

[2nd mate]

Considering a Euro-Moon. Anyone got any first hand info on Zermatt and or surrounding areas? Any info would be greatly appreciated.

[JoeStrummer]

If you are marrying her because you are deeply in love with the most perfect person in the world and she makes all other women look like coyote turds, try the Mont Cervin Palace or Hotel Monte Rosa.

If you knocked her up or are marrying the first person who was ever nice to you, try the upper floor of the Hotel Bahnhof.

[Ireallyliketoski2]

We stayed at the Hotel Julen in Zermatt for our honeymoon and loved it. 5 course dinners every night, insane breakfast spread, awesome staff, just absolutely perfect. We stayed in one of the suite rooms with sweet view of the Matterhorn.

[comish]

All I have to add is Zermatt to me is the most beautiful ski area I have seen including US, Canuckistan, and SA. The town, Matterhorn, enormous glaciers all combine to make the place mind blowingly beautiful. Enjoy!

[edg]

We stayed at the Hotel Julen in Zermatt for our honeymoon and loved it. 5 course dinners every night, insane breakfast spread, awesome staff, just absolutely perfect. We stayed in one of the suite rooms with sweet view of the Matterhorn.

Hotel Julen kicks ass, takes names. Most insanely good meat you'll ever eat (Wahhayyyy). Not really a choice for the vegetarian types, I'd say...

edg

[2nd mate]

FKNA!!! Definitely Zermatt. Thanks for the positive reinforcement. Feeling real good about this, as is the Lady friend.... I mean fiance. No one said anything about the Water-Wonder-World!

[comish]

Most insanely good meat you'll ever eat (Wahhayyyy).
edg

Thread hijack:

You ever been to Argentina???

I can't imagine anything in Switzerland touching Argie Bife de Lomo. Yuuummm.

Now back to your Zermatt is schwanky and beautiful thread. One of the most fun New Years I have ever had was spent crammed into the central square dancing the night away drinking Champagne with hundreds of my closest friends while music blared. Something about those pesky open container laws would have made such a scene impossible in a US ski town.

[verbier61]

if you want to have a memorable moon, do not go to zermatt, a place plagued by tourists. There are small spots in thye alps that are made for sex. La grave, alagna, macugnaga, leukerbad....

[splat]

I'm with verbier here.
If I truly loved a woman, I'd feed her Italian food, French wine and get naked with her on a glacier high in the Alps.
Not that I get high or anything.

[comish]

if you want to have a memorable moon, do not go to zermatt, a place plagued by tourists. There are small spots in thye alps that are made for sex. La grave, alagna, macugnaga, leukerbad....

Says the guy who frequents one of the other Alps major schwanky expensive ski stations that can also be over run with tourists. Nothing wrong with Verb and I'm not comparing it to Zermatt, in fact it clearly has some of the best terrain around.

Ultimately it depends on what the guy wants. There are amazing aspects to the Alps huge ski stations and really cool aspects of the smaller lesser known places, but it depends on what they are looking for.

Pro's
-Zermatt is beautiful.
-The terrain is actually pretty awesome and people don't ski off-piste leaving the goods for us and it doesn't get tracked very fast.
-High elevation making it very snow sure in a fickle alps.
-The setting is freakin amazing with the Matterhorn, glaciers, many 4000m peaks surrounding town, no cars, etc
-If you want a posh great service hotel, there are a bunch to choose from that will be memorable.
-Lunch in Italy doesn't suck.
-Did I mention that the terrain is amazing, especially if you tour...

Cons
-It is also extremely touristy.
-The wind routinely scours everything to a solid hardpacked wind crust/buff -It will be expensive and you will see more furs, watch / jewelry adds than you need to ever again.
-Its not small, tiny, homey like some of the small Alpine resorts.

There is definitely something to places like La Grave, etc. that is really cool I'm going to wager that is not the "typical" couples dream honeymoon place, but again it just depends on the couple. There is no schwanky sweet hotel in La Grave. Town doesn't have the romantic pedestrian only feel of Zermatt. Yes, there aren't a lot of bars/restaurants leaving plenty of time for boning in your hotel room You won't have any wandering eyes since its 98% dudes.

For my honeymoon, if I was going to the Alps, and the lady wasn't a super hard core mtn moma that enjoyed a mtn hut more than a hotel, I would absolutely choose Zermatt.

Mrs. Comish votes for Zermatt for what its worth she definitely digs skiing, camping, etc.

[Ireallyliketoski2]

Yeah, since my wife doesn't ski 50 degree icy faces, La Grave was kind of out of the question.

[verbier61]

comish, I would never suggest verbier for an honeymoon.... the terrain is still pure sex, but I agree the resort itself is no more sex as it used to be some 15 years ago. Small spots in the alps might still have good terrain and a unique, unspoiled climate. Agree that LG has no cozy hotel for what splat suggested, but alagna, macugnaga and leukerbad have them....
in any case, it's really a personal preference issue.....

[TDJ]

-Lunch in Italy doesn't suck.

That's what I thought too.. until I saw Cervina. The contrast with Zermatt couldn't be bigger, the restaurants there looked like deserted trucker-restaurants.

[2nd mate]

thanks for all the advice and info. Sounds as if we will be booking for the 5 course meals. loving the pics of the half naked chicks in the on-line info from the hotels.

[doctapow]

thanks for all the advice and info. Sounds as if we will be booking for the 5 course meals. loving the pics of the half naked chicks in the on-line info from the hotels.

let me get this straight - you are looking for places to go on our honey-moon and the thing that catches your eye are the pics of half-naked chicks...

i predict a long and happy marriage

[iscariot]

thanks for all the advice and info. Sounds as if we will be booking for the 5 course meals. loving the pics of the half naked chicks in the on-line info from the hotels.

Links?

[2nd mate]

Links?

sorry. SHE was in control of the mouse and now SHE cant find them for me!!

[Bzzzt]

If you are marrying her because you are deeply in love with the most perfect person in the world and she makes all other women look like coyote turds, try the Mont Cervin Palace or Hotel Monte Rosa.

May I recommend The Omnia, Sir?

[2nd mate]

May I recommend The Omnia, Sir?

looks pretty nice. any first hand info on the place? their website is a shitload of work.

[2nd mate]

anyone been here? we talked and want to do this for a couple days of touring? wat ya tink?
http://http://www.whitepod.com/

anyone been?

[2nd mate]

bump for new question? see above attachment

[Lonnie]

That's what I thought too.. until I saw Cervina. The contrast with Zermatt couldn't be bigger, the restaurants there looked like deserted trucker-restaurants.

HAHA!! True Dat! Hope your gal enjoys p-ing down a whole in the floor....

[Telski]

I would go to Val d'Isere over Zermatt for $$$fest

Better snow, better terrain, better food, as charming.

Zermatt is such a fur-ridden elderly shit show that it is about the last place I would want to go back to....it's like vacationing in a German retirement community. And the snow is usually shitty until mid/late season. And everything is so damn expensive.

[2nd mate]

Deposit paid for Sass-Fe and Zermatt jan 19-Feb 1. Any more info on places to be drunk and disorderly would be welcome with open arms. Hotel Julen in Zematt and some other fancy spot in sass fe.