Good Ski Guide The Worlds Most Loved Ski Guide

There are hundreds of ski resorts here, and Hokkaido, Japan’s north island, has some of the world’s best powder snow.

If you want to ski away from it all, you can’t do better than Livigno. High and remote at 1,816m, it sits near the Swiss border, a long way from anywhere.

Sheltered by the stunningly beautiful crags of the Dolomites, Cortina d’Ampezzo is hailed as the world’s loveliest winter playground.

Val Cenis is a little-known gem in France’s Haute Maurienne, close to the Italian border.

Ste Foy is a rarity in France - idyllically small with traditional architecture and hardly any crowds.

Montgenèvre is part of the massive 650km Italian border - straddling Via Lattea (Milky Way) ski area. But Montgenèvre, already praised by the Good Ski Guide as the perfect Ski Easy resort, is well worth a visit in its own right.

With its expensive chalet-style architecture, boutique shopping and picturesque snow-covered streets, Megeve is resplendent in an alpine charm that many a purpose built resort will aspire [and fail] to emulate.

If the fur-coat-and-Ferrari glitz of Megève is not your scene then drive a few more miles to find rural French perfection in tiny Les Contamines.

Mountain lovers and extreme skiers flock to Chamonix, the Alps’ most famous mountain town, at the foot of Mont Blanc.

Whistler is unstoppable. The twin peaks of Whistler and Blackcomb are enormous, but the experience keeps getting bigger and better.