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Top Ski Resorts - International: Editor's Top 10

Our Editor's Top 10 list for Top Ski Resorts - International helps you decide where you want to go. Editor's Top 10 lists offer selections from our editors that help you plan your travel based on your lifestyle, entertainment, sightseeing, or recreation options.

North America snow is just fine. But for a real ski adventure, check out these around-the-world ski resorts
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1. Hotel Mont-Blanc Add to eGuidebook
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$256-$600 
Built: 1843 
Renovated: 2001 
62 Allee du Majestic, Chamonix, France
Near the casino, this well-rounded 19th century hotel is in the heart of town. This six-story chalet-hotel brims with unpretentious style from its garden pool and creaky lounge floors right to the fire escape, which spirals gracefully down the six-story exterior. The period look is relatively new ye... Read Entire Review »
2. Miramonti Majestic Hotel Add to eGuidebook
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$181-$610 
Built: 1892 
Renovated: 1992 
Via Pezi 103, Cortina d'Ampezzo, Italy
This century-old resort, the grande dame of Cortina, continues to indulge travelers in all four seasons. The vastness of its turn-of-the-century building, the timeworn quality of its accommodations, and the abundance of its facilities attract a varied international, though largely Italian, clientele... Read Entire Review »
3. Riffelalp Resort 2222m Add to eGuidebook
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$181-$1,990 
Built: 1988 
Renovated: 2000 
Zermatt, Switzerland
At 2,222 m, this is the highest Alpine resort in Europe and the most exotic deluxe hotel in the Zermatt area. Most visitors to the area do not even know it is here. To reach this gracious and expensive chateau-resort, guests must travel via old-fashioned cogwheel train from Gornergrat Station in Zer... Read Entire Review »
4. Park Hyatt Mendoza Add to eGuidebook
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$215-$1,400 
Renovated: 2001 
Chile 1124, Mendoza, Argentina
In the heart of Mendoza, facing the city's Plaza Indepencia, this is the most luxurious urban hotel outside of Buenos Aires and delivers service and cuisine on par with top international hotels. The impressive white historic facade, a 19th-century Spanish colonial structure, sports grand columns and... Read Entire Review »
5. The George Add to eGuidebook
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$281-$537 
Built: 1987 
Renovated: 1998 
50 Park Terrace, Christchurch, New Zealand
Opposite Hagley Park and a lovely willow-shaded stretch of the Avon River, 500 m from the casino, this hotel lies a pleasant 10-minute walk northwest from Cathedral Square and the art gallery. Purpose-built 30 years ago, this unique boutique-hotel is considered to be the watermark of style an... Read Entire Review »
6. Royal Plaza Add to eGuidebook
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$359-$1,338 
Built: 1982 
Renovated: 2002 
97 Grand Rue, Montreux, Switzerland
This hotels sits next door to the convention center and the Stravinsky concert hall, the home of the Montreux Jazz Festival. Consequently, it appeals to both tourists and business travelers, especially those who prefer standardized modern hotels with more than a few American touches. Formerly an Int... Read Entire Review »
7. Hotel Portillo Add to eGuidebook
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$550-$4,900 
Built: 1949 
Renovated: 2004 
Ruta 60, Km 62, Los Andes, Chile
At an altitude of 2,850 meters, at the foot of Argentina's 6,962-meter Cerro Aconcagua, this is perhaps Chile's most celebrated ski resort-but it is by no means its finest. Opened in 1949, the featureless, though brightly painted, six-story rectangular main building sits along the stunningly blue La... Read Entire Review »
8. Hotel Post Add to eGuidebook
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$111-$286 
Built: 1929 
Renovated: 2001 
Walter-Schuler-Weg 2, St Anton am Arlberg, Austria
This huge, century-old five-story chalet with a white facade and dark wood trim sits on the principal square in the pedestrian center, 200 m west of the main lifts. It competes with the St. Antoner Hof for title of most prestigious address in town. The Post, however, enjoys more space, more energy,... Read Entire Review »
9. Badrutt's Palace Hotel Add to eGuidebook
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$212-$727 
Built: 1896 
Renovated: 2003 
Via Serlas 27, St Moritz, Switzerland
This is the most famous hotel in St. Moritz, a beacon of hospitality around which the rest of this storybook village seems to have been built. Probably no hotel in Europe has facilities to rival the ones here, but it is the legendary service and genteel nature of this deluxe palace that keep guests... Read Entire Review »
10. Grand Hotel Add to eGuidebook
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$144-$396 
Built: 1984 
Renovated: 1990 
Esplanade 4, Zell am See, Austria
Located 70 km southwest of Salzburg, at one end of the pedestrian center, 600 m from the Zeller Bergbahn ski lift, this evocative hotel is set on a promontory between the village center and the lake. A small railway crossing provides a prosaic entrance into a front parking lot crammed with cars. Sli... Read Entire Review »