Ski Europe: Best Skiing and Snowboarding at Europe's Top Resorts

USA Today, Nov. 8, 1996
"Explores ski areas from Austria to Italy and includes basics such as lodging, dining and lift-ticket prices."


Gannett Newspapers, Nov 30, 1997
"Provides all the information you need to make intelligent choices, plus tips on getting the best deals."


New Haven Register December 18, 1999
"...find out which resorts are geared for singles, lacking nightlife, good for beginners or perfect all-around."


Book Description
Ski Europe is the most up-to-date resource for information about planning a ski vacation in Europe’s Alps. For more than a decade it has been American skiers’ top choice for a guide to skiing in the top resorts of Austria, Switzerland, France, Italy and Spain. Charles Leocha and his team of prize-winning journalists present an unparalleled guidebook for any skier planning to ski in the Alps. This guide, as it has for the past 15 years, provides the most comprehensive information available about Europe’s biggest and best destination ski resorts for downhill and cross-country skiers and snowboarders. Ski Europe provide unflinchingly honest evaluations of the trails and difficulty of ski terrain at each resort. Plus explains the flavor of each resort that creates the real magical experience of skiing. These ski journalists ski hundreds of trails, visit hundreds of hotel rooms, wander through scores of restaurants and bars and dance in dozens of discos to bring readers the real scoop about every major resort in Europe.


About the Author
In the mid-70s Leocha started a leisure magazine in Europe for Americans living abroad. His Travel Tips radio program was syndicated nationwide on hundreds of stations and he has appeared on TV across the country. He is the creator of the Escape Manual Travel Guides, Ski America & Canada, Ski Europe and Eastern Germany. He has written about travel for scores of newspapers and magazines ranging from Esquire, Newsweek and Travel and Leisure, to the top magazines serving the travel industry. He knows major international airlines from the inside, has led tour groups, written vacation brochures, produced travel videos and crafted speeches for airline presidents. For more than two years, his column, Cheap Charlie, a combination of online and offline bargains, and consumer advocacy, has appears on Ticked! Charles Leocha has been traveling since the age of two when his family moved from Alabama to Virginia. He is an Air Force Brat who has spent half his life abroad. He had the measles crossing the Atlantic in a troop ship, started school in Naples wearing a smock and bow, sang "If I Had a Hammer" on Red Square in ’68, criss-crossed Europe in a camper van, skied black diamond trails at every major resort in America and the Alps, did basic training in the fields of Kansas, rafted in Costa Rica, walked through the rubble of the Berlin Wall, rode horseback through Utah, caroused with flight attendants, and still runs the bulls every July in Pamplona religiously. Leocha is best known for his guidebooks to mountain resorts, Ski America & Canada and Ski Europe. He is recognized as the expert on travel to European ski resorts and North American resorts. He also authored the Escape Manal travel book series covering most major countries in Europe. His guidebook content is licensed and cobranded by some of the top names in the Internet travel industry. He also writes and speaks about the passenger rights. Since Travel Rights was first published five years ago, Leocha has become a national source of information about passenger travel rights. His outdoor recreation Internet site, Resortspace.com, is focused on skiing in the USA and Canada and eventually expand to cover Europe and other international outdoor recreation opportunities.


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