Geilo Ski Holidays

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Geilo is Norway's oldest Alpine Resort - the first ski lift was built in Geilo around 1920 and the resort has not looked back since! Situated at 800m above sea level, Geilo is the perfect resort for beginners, aspiring intermediates and families. An excellent snow record, new and efficient lift system, well-groomed pistes and best of all no ski queues at all (even in February half term!).

The actual resort by Alpine standards is quite small which gives it an extremely friendly and welcoming feel. There are wonderful bakeries, some excellent ski shops, après ski pubs and pizza restaurants including Pepes which is now a Norwegian institution and 3 well stocked supermarkets.

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Beginners

Like most Norwegian resorts, Geilo is the perfect place to introduce beginners, especially children to the joys of skiing and snowboarding. The nursery area at Geilo Fjellandsby is perhaps the best one we have found in all our years of skiing – a magic carpet, wide open slope, poma lift, iglu, warm cosy restaurant and a 4-man chair to graduate to. Once the chairlift has been mastered the wide-open slopes of Geilolia beckon. On the Geilo side of the mountain Slaatta is also an excellent nursery area served by 2 drag tows and wide-open nursery slopes. For aspiring beginners the Geilolia side of the ski area is best with quiet gentle wide-open slopes.

Intermediates

While Geilo isn't that big, the area is varied enough to keep intermediate skiers entertained all week. Start over on Geilolia, take the gentle blues to the right and practice carving on Route 66; take a few leaps in the park just off route 52. The Trollheisen chairlift opens up an FIS regulated race piste – a glorious wide sweeping red run.

On the Geilo side take the Havsdalshovda T-bar and enjoy the spectacular views over the Hallingskarvet. Down at Havsdalen there are a couple of cosy restaurants serving hot chocolate and waffles as well as a full menu for lunch. The runs down to Slaatta through the trees are quite demanding but so worth it. The Korken T-bar back into the main system is steep and care is needed on this. Route 26 from the highest Pepes Pizza Restaurant in Norway down to Geiloheisen will test the strength of your thighs! Moving across the system towards Fugleleiken the blues through the trees are wonderfully smooth. Try the black for some adrenaline off the left of Gullsteinhovda. One thing you will notice at Geilo is that while the vertical drop isn't very big you actually do more skiing than if you were in the Alps because you ski straight from the lift - no waiting or queuing!

Advanced

Advanced skiers will find some challenging runs in Geilo such as steep and narrow 58 and 55 on the Geiloloia side, and 59 – a race prepared piste which will test most. Can you keep the carve turns going all the way down? Back over on the Geilo side, Route 11 offers some steep piste skiing as well as some off piste. Route 13 has a timed slalom course, while Route 23 back down to Geiloheisen is a wide but steep black. Piste 33 down to Slaatta gets surprisingly bumpy so if you love mogul skiing, it’s for you. There is some good off-piste to the right of the Havsdalshovda T-bar.

The Parks

Geilo has three big air parks and the largest half pipe in Scandinavia! On the Geilo side the park is just off piste 53 and has some massive kickers. As the piste becomes flatter the kickers are replaced by rails then at the bottom right by the main station and in front of the restaurant terrace a big air jump – leap off the kicker and land in the big air bag! Over near Havsdalen there is 'beginners' (the term is used loosely!) park with slightly smaller jumps allowing you to graduate to the nutty kickers at Fugeleiken or Kikutheisen.

Ski Schools

Geilolia operate an excellent ski school from the base station at Geilolia, though for beginners the ski school at Geilo Fjellandsby is best suited.

Children's ski school is available from ages 3 upwards. Group lessons are for 1.5 hours and operate from 10.45am each day Monday to Friday. Youth group lessons (ages 10 to 14) are again Monday to Friday and generally from 13.15 for 1½ hours. Adult group lessons are available for all levels from 9am.

Specialist courses and lessons are also available for off-piste, expert, race technique and training and park.

Private lessons are an excellent way to progress your skiing. Private lessons can be for 1, 1½ or 2 hours in duration.

Early morning and evening skiing

Breakfast skiing is available at Geiloheisen on a Wednesday from 9th February onwards. Breakfast

skiing costs 200Nkr (which includes breakfast) and gives you two hours of freshly prepared but virtually empty pistes on the Geilo side of the ski area.

Evening skiing is available on every day at some part of the ski area all season and varies from Geilolia, Geiloheisen, Havsdalen and Slaatta.

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