It’s the United Nations year of the water: seduce yourself with holidays around the wet element, such as bathing in a lake or even in a river, stroll along a murmuring beck, re-discover waterfalls, or indulge yourself in thermal waters and mystical treatments. Today, Crystal Summer is launching the preview programme for 2014 featuring [...]

  Tandem Skydive with the Red Devils in aid of Disability Snowsport UK (DSUK) Where:                    Salisbury and Nottingham Dates:                     Salisbury: 5 and 6 June; 6, 7 and 8 August                               Nottingham: 18 and 19 June; 2 and 3 July; 3, 4 and 5 Sept Cost of Jump:           £299 [...]

  Join the Disability Snowsports UK five-a-side annual football tournament at Goals in Wembley, London, on 8 October 2013, and raise money for the charity at the same time to help transform disabled people’s lives. Held in a competitive spirit, but with the emphasis on fun, players of all abilities are invited to enter a [...]

Are you starting your countdown to the next ski season? Only 32 weeks to go before Crystal Ski’s first flight to the European ski slopes and there are some rather good offers around to tempt you. There is strong evidence of ski companies increasing the numbers of properties for next winter leading to more holidays [...]

  ‘Nearly as good as the Olympics, but definitely more snow’ said Steve Redgrave, and he should know!         The Crystal Ski Fest 2013 held this year for the first time in La Plagne, France, from 16-23 March was another successful event organised by the UK’s no 1 ski operator, Crystal Ski. [...]

One million travellers can’t be wrong – fast flights to the Alps are paying off for skiers A million passengers have now reached the French Alps through Chambéry-Savoie and Grenoble-Isère airport – the fastest way to reach all of the major ski resorts in France. VINCI Airports, which operates the airports on behalf of the local authorities (Councils of [...]

The UK’s number one ski company, Crystal Ski, is reintroducing the most stunningly beautiful ski resorts of Geilo, Hemsedal and Beitostølen in Norway to next winter’s programme. Geilo is a traditional “chocolate-box” village at the heart of Norway’s winterland region with ski areas on both sides of the valley. It offers 40 pistes to suit [...]

The Arlberg has a reputation as the cradle of alpine skiing and a new chapter in the history of the Arlberg will be written in the 2013/14 winter season: the Auenfeldjet, a new cable-car, will be opened. The Auenfeldjet is a two-kilometre long lift starting at the upper station of the Weibermahd chairlift in Lech, [...]

If you have a passion for skiing or snowboarding and crave a mountain lifestyle, a ski or snowboarding instructor course with the British Association of Snowsport Instructors (BASI) could be just the ticket you have been looking for. To make it more attractive, Crystal Ski has teamed up with them and offer a 10% reduction [...]

Several Brits are travelling out to Ischgl next week to carve themselves a place on the ski slopes, not exactly for posterity but at least for a bit of fame as they are taking part in the annual Shapes In White snow sculpture contest in this Tirolean resort. Yorkshiremen Justin Scott and Nigel Summersgill, plus [...]