Mr. McDonough insisted that at this year's meeting, Governor Whitman would be too busy wooing potential businesses to ski, spa or luge.
Once you are there, the Wyndham Cap Tremblant (888-996-3227; www.captremblant.com) haski spa, spandnd golf package costing $99 per night, per person, based on four-person occupancy, and includes three nights' accommodation in a two-bedroom mountain-view condominium, three-day Tremblant lift tickets for two adults and two children and one hour of virtual golf.
Whether youre coming to ski, spa, or explore the nearby.
At the end of the two-hour ride – great value at £21/382nd/1stst class) – I took a bus to the premier ski and spa resort of Bormio and checked into La Genzianella, a comfortably chic midpriced hotel with warm ambiance and a great restaurant.
Equipped with a ski shop, spa, restaurant and possibly the US' most spectacular outdoor hot tub perched above the gorgeous valley, the lodge is both gloriously located and handily self-contained.
Where there were once elaborate homes, ski lodges, spas, restaurants and boutique hotels, there are now just gigantic scraped rectangles of red earth, with the great shadows of charred and crippled trees falling across them.
Mr. Cichocki suggested several sites in Lower Silesia to visit with a car and guide, including a full day in the Klodzko Valley, an area dotted with castles, ski resorts, spas and and interesting chapels ($126); a half day at St . Jadwiga Monasteryin Trzebnica ($65); and a day to visit Swidnica, with its 17th-century Peace Church, and the 13th-century castle at Ksiaz ($99).
But whether it's opera, skiing or spa-going -- all pricey enterprises, to be sure -- if you cannot avoid emptying the coffers for your particular passion, you can economize in other ways.
The mountains For centuries the Swiss Alps have been a destination for skiing and spa-ing, but gone are the days when a mountain holiday meant stomping around beneath cuckoo clocks and dried flower arrangements.
Rooms start at $279; the resort has spa, ski, summer and winter specials.
5 30 p.m. 8 ANOTHER KIND OF LIFT Whether it's après ski or après spa, Garibaldi Lift Company — G.L.C. to locals — (604-905-2220) is the place.
