I finally managed to try out Turistrela, the only ski resort(?) in Portugal.
We weren't expecting a lot of snow, and there wasn't. No snow outside of the slopes. Three slopes open; one of them classified as blue, the other two as red. In my personal scale, the slopes would be radioactive green, and yellowish green. So easy the only challenge is in sliding backwards.
There weren't as many people as I had been told. One of the lifts had waiting times of about five minutes, but the other two were virtually empty. Classical Portuguese behaviour, if you ask me. That, and protesting against people who supposedly don't respect the waiting line.
Another interesting behaviour pattern is the enormous ammount of snowboarders. I'd risk a ratio of 1:1 between snowboarders and skiers, which is really uncommon. Usual ratios in the resorts I've visited so far are more like 1:5. I'll have to try out snowboarding sometime, but I really don't see the thrill in downhill snowboarding: less speed, no ability to take advantage of snowboarding tricks, less speed. Did I mention less speed? :-)
Two major negative points:
The price: 25€ for the day forfait is absurd. This is a forfait to support three machines. 5km of slopes, to be generous. Put it into perspective: the Gran Valira forfait covers 500km of slopes, 110 runs with at least that many lifts, and costs 32.5€ .
The employees: We were rudely treated by more than one employee of Turistrela, namely at the restaurant. Portugal is very very far from being an elite destination for tourism. We need to develop the ability to welcome guests and treat them as such, not as consumers.
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O Sr. Ferreira é inteligente suficiente para saber ler também em Inglês?? Aproveite e leia ainda os comentários que se encontram a este post de Sérgio Carvalho (um anónimo praticante de sky)
We weren't expecting a lot of snow, and there wasn't. No snow outside of the slopes. Three slopes open; one of them classified as blue, the other two as red. In my personal scale, the slopes would be radioactive green, and yellowish green. So easy the only challenge is in sliding backwards.
There weren't as many people as I had been told. One of the lifts had waiting times of about five minutes, but the other two were virtually empty. Classical Portuguese behaviour, if you ask me. That, and protesting against people who supposedly don't respect the waiting line.
Another interesting behaviour pattern is the enormous ammount of snowboarders. I'd risk a ratio of 1:1 between snowboarders and skiers, which is really uncommon. Usual ratios in the resorts I've visited so far are more like 1:5. I'll have to try out snowboarding sometime, but I really don't see the thrill in downhill snowboarding: less speed, no ability to take advantage of snowboarding tricks, less speed. Did I mention less speed? :-)
Two major negative points:
The price: 25€ for the day forfait is absurd. This is a forfait to support three machines. 5km of slopes, to be generous. Put it into perspective: the Gran Valira forfait covers 500km of slopes, 110 runs with at least that many lifts, and costs 32.5€ .
The employees: We were rudely treated by more than one employee of Turistrela, namely at the restaurant. Portugal is very very far from being an elite destination for tourism. We need to develop the ability to welcome guests and treat them as such, not as consumers.
(...)
O Sr. Ferreira é inteligente suficiente para saber ler também em Inglês?? Aproveite e leia ainda os comentários que se encontram a este post de Sérgio Carvalho (um anónimo praticante de sky)
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