Matterhorn Chalets owner, Ed Mannix recently shared his insider tips with readers of Fall Line Skiing Magazine on their website. Ed shares his thoughts on the best place for a coffee at the start of the day; how to avoid the crowds; the best choice for an apres-ski venue and where to eat lunch on…
How do you choose between a visit to Zermatt to see the Matterhorn and a trip to see the Jungfrau? Both mountains have their merits and an ideal trip might include them both, but if you only have time for one, the obvious choice is the Matterhorn. That’s not to say a visit to the…
Zermatt’s Matterhorn Ski Paradise has been recognised as 2022 winner in the “Five-Star Ski Resort” category by Skiresort.de, the leading German ski website. The awards have been running since 1998. Visitors to the website cast their votes in different categories. The Skiresort.de team comprehensively tested Zermatt across 18 different evaluation criteria. These included the size…
If you’re planning a December ski trip, you need to be confident that snow is guaranteed…and in Zermatt it will be! The snow in Zermatt can come as early as October or as late as the end of November. But in Switzerland’s most famous ski resort – open 365 days per year – there is…
Whatever your politics, we can all agree that a holiday in Zermatt is the perfect destination for relaxation. So perhaps it’s no surprise to learn that former Prime Minister of Britain, Theresa May, has been visiting the resort for over twenty years. She was recently spotted there in August 2022. In 2019, the Valais publication…
This summer has seen record temperatures set around Europe, from the UK to France to Spain, and sadly Switzerland is no exception. Freezing point at highest altitude ever Earlier this week MeteoSwiss reported the highest ever elevation for the zero degree isotherm with the freezing point recorded at 5184m above sea level – 70m higher…
Are you a Swiss expert? Try this quiz, created by Zermatt specialists, Matterhorn Chalets – and challenge your Zermatt-loving friends to beat you! Loading… Zermatt Specialists If you’re looking for accommodation in Zermatt from the people who know all the answers to your Zermatt questions, then please contact Ed and Suzanne from Matterhorn Chalets on +41 79…
How do you choose between Zermatt and Chamonix? We like both resorts and in an ideal world we would visit both, but faced with a choice of one or the other, we would always choose Zermatt. Chamonix is a great ski resort, but there are our top nine reasons why Zermatt is better: Ski Area…
Visitors to Zermatt in the summer of 2022 can enjoy some great events on top of the superb hiking, skiing, mountaineering and mountain biking on offer in this famous Swiss resort. Let’s look at ten great events to look out for in Zermatt this summer… 20th Gornergrat Zermatt Marathon (02 July 2022) There aren’t many…
The new upgraded cabins for the Matterhorn Express lift in Zermatt have arrived! Wrapped up like an early Christmas present, the 154 new state-of-the-art ‘Omega 4’ cabins are built to a higher specification and replace the current ‘Omega 3’ cabins. This will standardise all 260 vehicles of the Matterhorn Express on the Zermatt-Furi-Schwarzsee-Trockener Steg route,…