Friday, May 19, 2006
02/2006: Zermatt: 'bursting and expensive...'
A lovely bright, sunny crisp day. I find all the hotels on my list for today relatively easily. Zermatt is crammed to bursting and it’s going to get worse over the weekend. I thought it would be more picturesque but so far my impression is of a rather characterless resort filled with modern 1970’s 4-5 storey Alpine-style chalets. A small river runs through the centre but is shored up by concrete which makes it look rather man-made and canal like. The mountain range is quite spectacular though, as is the distinctive outline of the Matterhorn.
The resort is very expensive and most of the visitors appear to be well-heeled Swiss, Germans and Americans.
A lovely bright, sunny crisp day. I find all the hotels on my list for today relatively easily. Zermatt is crammed to bursting and it’s going to get worse over the weekend. I thought it would be more picturesque but so far my impression is of a rather characterless resort filled with modern 1970’s 4-5 storey Alpine-style chalets. A small river runs through the centre but is shored up by concrete which makes it look rather man-made and canal like. The mountain range is quite spectacular though, as is the distinctive outline of the Matterhorn.
The resort is very expensive and most of the visitors appear to be well-heeled Swiss, Germans and Americans.
# posted by hotelreviewer @ 11:53 am 
