One thing that you can be sure of when you decide on a skiing holiday and that is you will be absolutely spoilt for choice when it comes to the available accommodation. In your ski resort you will find self catering apartments, hotels, chalets. Because of their popularity, mainly because they can lower the price of a winter sports holiday, there are now more apartments in skiing villages than hotels or chalets. By their very nature, apartments are self catering but this can add to the fun and you will find that ski holiday villages have a supermarket and the ingredients for a good evening meal or breakfast is readily available. Restaurants abound so you will be able to dine out at night if you wish and of course lunches up the mountain are a must!

Chalet holidays are now more popular than ever before and they offer all the advantages that can be found in a hotel ski holiday. Usually the numbers are considerably smaller sometimes as low as 8 or 9, so they make an ideal venue for a group of like minded people. However if you are looking for some luxury, then you should opt for a hotel, you will want for nothing and they offer advantages over apartments for example , because everything is done for you. At the end of a day of hard skiing, nothing beats relaxing in a hot bath, going down to the bar for a drink with family or friends, followed by dinner in restaurant. With the growing popularity of skiing as a winter activity, ski specialists great deals can be found in hotels and chalets in France, Austria and Switzerland.