The Custom-Fit Resort Finder is the jewel in the crown of the skilicious.com web offering. Under the hood there's a whole bunch of state of the art statistical and mathematical algorithms combining with extensive research and experiences from vacation destinations around the globe to help you find your perfect resort.
We hope that using the finder is fairly straightforward - simply fill in each of the fields asked for with as honest a response as possible for the best results. Do it for yourself or on behalf of your group (e.g. you ask for a resort that's great for beginners and expert's if that what your group demands and we'll crunch the data for you). If for some reason your results aren't quite sensible to you you may want to consider one or more of the following hints:
Selecting "disagree" is completely different to dragging the icon to the middle of the scale which is where you should put the icon if you are indifferent. e.g. Putting the icon at the extreme disagree end of the scale for the "advanced skiers option" will actively tell our algorithms to looks for a resort that is 'bad' for advanced skiers. Which may be what you want if you are a beginner and you'd prefer to be in a resort with few experts whooshing past but if you truly don't care you should move the icon to the middle of the scale.
You should find more intuitive results by NOT simply selecting 'completely disagree' or 'completely agree' for everything; the system is designed to work optimally using a continuous sliding scale so to get the most of our powerful system try using the complete range of input options.
The first factor you may want to try tinkering with if your results are unintuitive would be the 'distance away from home' factor as depending on where you currently are in the world in relation to the selection of resorts available your results could possibly be most sensitive to the distance factor
If you still think your results are not quite right and that there may be a bug in the system somewhere, please use our contact page to let us know what inputs you are selecting, what results you are getting and why you don't think these a right and one of our technicians will get right on it in case there is a gremlin somewhere.
More resort options than the quick resort finder, less complicated analysis than the Custom-Fit resort finder, our interactive resort finder lets you select a handful of the most important factors to you and then ranks which of the top resorts in each group you find the most enjoyable. We recommend that you select at least 3 factors for reliable results and remember as these numbers are skilicious' relevative rankings, the lower the better.
remember though the my-skilicious Custom-Fit resort finder is the recommended way to go for a complete personal vacation destination inspiration and optimization (VDIO).
The quickest way for you to find a resort compatible with you more basic requirements our quick resort finder lets you select the one thing most important to you and give you some of the best options for you to consider. We even throw in some of the other best attributes of these resorts for those of you in a hurry to make you mind up.
remember though the my-skilicious Custom-Fit resort finder is the recommended way to go for a complete personal vacation destination inspiration and optimization (VDIO).
Join the PeerSuasion revolution; now not only can you upload reviews for other travelers to read to help them make better informed decisions but your Peersuasion contribution can actually influence which resorts are suggested to users of the My-skilicious Custom-Fit resort finder; you can directly influence where fellow winter sports junkies go and help them have a better time.
The Thikn section is where you will find the buzz words that we think best describe the resort in question - this our way of cutting to the chase saving you the time of reading a full literally review by showing you just the words you need to see first. When you consider this resort these are the words you should thikn.
Weather prediction is infamously unreliable under normal circumstances let alone when there's mountains involved. At skilicious we are also not meteorologists, and the numbers here are not meant to be accurate forecasts of when it will actually snow anywhere, merely projections using historical data of when it has snowed in this location in previous years. As always we recommend that you check with the resort in question when they are likely to have what slopes open based on the latest snowfall information or consider taking the advice of professional weather forecasting companies.
The maps here are intended to give you an idea of the location of the resort in the world on a global scale. We have endeavored to make these map points as accurate as possible but we dont claim them to be completely reliable and we dont recommend anyone uses them for driving directions. As always the most accurate resort specific details can be obtained from the resort themselves.
The skilicious rating is our independent opinion where we try to take everything into account and generalize. As counter as this is to our belief that you should use my-skilicious to find the resort right for you, we appreciate that overall some resorts are better than others and this is how we represent that fact
Each resort has its own flavour, some naturally cater better for families whilst some are setup more for youthful partygoers; ending up in the wrong one could make a serious dent into the overall enjoyment of your vacation - you can use these recommendations to check to see if its the place for you and your group.
At skilicious we think should always consider a multi-destination snowsports vacation, especially if should be travelling a long distance to get to your perfect destination. For this reason we use this section to let you know about what are in our opinion the best possible combination resorts for you to try whilst in the area.
On each resorts page you should find an external link to (in most cases) the official resort homepage where you will be able to find the most up to date and resort specific information. We recommend checking these sites for the latest deals and opening information.