Is that for a trip when schools in the country are largely closed for the week? Those weeks tend to be expensive weeks to ski.

The price of just lift tickets, equipment rental and food and a couple of hours of group lessons for a 12-year-old skiing for 7 days at Steamboat, Aspen, Vail, Copper, Snowmass in Colorado will easily cost more than 10k SEK. The cost of the just the lift tickets at Colorado resorts are the reason why multi-resort season passes make so much sense for my relatives. Accommodations during popular domestic school break periods can easily break the bank for a lot of people. Flying into Denver to ski is a bigger pain than flying into Salt Lake City to ski, as the better ski resorts are 90+ minutes from DEN airport while they are less than half as far from SLC.

Åre and Sälen seem to be getting more and more Danish and British skiers than used to be the case several years ago, and there must be a reason for that when ski-related flight options from CPH and UK airports can more easily get to say the Alps. The SCR flights should add to Danes and Brits skiing in Sweden. It will also add to Swedes skiing in Sweden.

Unlike with Åre, Salen doesn’t work so well with the train. The SJ and Veolia/Snalltaget trains go right to Åre C and I’ve taken them a bunch of times to/from Åre. Can’t do that with Salen.

The night trains to Åre work fine on and off paper. The night trains to Åre are one of my staples for a few ski trips each year.

For Salen, the closest a train gets me to there on the Swedish side of the mountains: nearly 2 hours away by road, in Mora. And one of the few times where I’ve taken that drive, I’ve been stuck in “traffic” on the road for nearly two hours due to a disabled vehicle or two. So that was an exceptional nearly four hours of sitting on a bus.

I prefer a train or flight to having a 1+ hour bus trip on top of a train or flight. And so unless I’m late for the night trains to Åre, I try not to fly to OSD for my Åre ski trips.

very true! But you won’t need to fear about me behind a wheel in icy conditions. I‘m German, born to drive!

(but driving in Northern Germany with 1/2“ of snow is about the same as in Skane)

I usually do not do skiing-only vacation but combine it with some hiking, city-trips, good dining, etc. so decent mobility at the location makes it much easier.

For the TRD flights to ski, how is the journey from TRD to Are? I’ve only come from the OSD-side when flying to get there, but TRD would work fine for me from CPH too. It seems to be a longer drive than OSD, but connecting at ARN to get to/from OSD is brutal at times.

The drive from Malmo to St Anton am Arlberg is over 14 hours, and there is no rest when driving, whether or not doing it in one day or over two.

Driving is more dangerous and maybe otherwise more costly than taking a flight or train to ski in Sweden.

The cost for ski rentals and accommodations on the slope are cheaper in Åre and Sälen than in Austria, at least when planned in advance. The costs for ski school are lower (and often free for young kids) at these two Skistar places in Sweden than they are in St Anton in Austria. Food prices? Austria isn’t cheap either. Are the Austrian ski conditions better in December and January? Yes, but I do most of my northern hemisphere skiing in February and March and then it’s more of a wash with weather and lift hours.

The price of just lift tickets, equipment rental and food and a couple of hours of group lessons for a 12-year-old skiing for 7 days at Steamboat, Aspen, Vail, Copper, Snowmass in Colorado will easily cost more than 10k SEK.