Crystal Introduce Sochi For 2011-12
Crystal Introduce Sochi For 2011-12
Published : 06-Jul-2011 09:24
Crystal, the UK's biggest tour operator, have announced they'll be offering holidays to the 2014 Winter Olympics resort of Sochi for the coming winter 2011-12.Sochi has seen one of the biggest investments in new lifts, resort infrastructure and hotels ever seen over the past few years, and while investment is on-going ahead of the Olympics, several of the new resort bases are largely complete.
Details of the Crystal packages have not yet been officially published but J2ski has been advised that while details have not yet been finally agreed, packages will almost certainly include flights from Heathrow via Istanbul to Adler/Sochi airport with Turkish Airlines, followed by hour long private transfers and include seven nights half board or bed and breakfast in four and five star hotels.
Hotels to choose from will include the five star Grand Hotel Polyana with prices from GBP935 per person and the four star Hotel Park Inn by Radisson in Rosa Khutor with prices expected to be from GBP825 per person.
The last ski holidays to Russia were offered in the early 1990s as 'extreme skiing holidays' to soviet era Russian training bases in the Caucasus. The new Sochi resorts 20 years later are much more like modern North American resort developments and have indeed been designed by companies involved in resort design in Canada and the USA, managed by former Vail executives in some cases and built by Western European companies such as lift-manufacturer Doppelmayr.
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