Iglu Invites Skiers To Take Part In Easter Customs
An Easter ski holiday is a wonderful way to enjoy the mountains, with warm, sunny weather making the skiing irresistible and the lunch times long and lazy. Easter in 2025 falls on the 20th of April, meaning the likelihood of ideal weather is even higher.
Easter is great fun in a ski resort, especially if you’re with a young family. Here are the top six resorts with Easter customs and traditions.
The Top 6
- La Plagne, France
- Flaine, France
- Tignes, France
- St Anton, Austria
- Kitzbühel, Austria
- Ötztal Valley - Sölden and Obergurgl, Austria
1. La Plagne
A popular French resort for families, La Plagne puts a lot of effort into its Easter Egg Hunt each year (although here you’re technically hunting the Easter bunny, who then rewards you with chocolates!).
There is a meet up on Easter Sunday in a specific location with instructions, before video clues get posted every 20 minutes on Facebook for the next couple of hours. Once you’ve found the bunny, you can then go into the mini disco at 6pm!
Arrive on Easter Saturday at the Les Balcons de Belle Plagne apartments. From £719 per apartment for four. After a hard day skiing in the Paradiski area, you can either relax by the fire or enjoy the wellness centre with its swimming pool, fitness room, saunas, spa and massage rooms. Travel costs are extra.
Brand new for Easter 2025 is the La Mega Bell Course, which runs from 14-19 April and features 5 “completely crazy races”, with bonus points, penalties and shortcuts to “add the spice needed to keep the suspense going right to the end”.
A deal can be had at the 4* Hotel Des Deux Domaines, which offers breakfast, lunch and dinner, and has a swimming pool, wellness area, heated boot rack and specific clubs for babies, kids and teens. From £1,329 per person, departing from Manchester on April 12th, 2025, full board. -£8 London Gatwick; -£40 Edinburgh; -£8 Bristol; +£41 Birmingham.
Alternatively, the L’Eden Des Cimes in Belle Plagne can be secured. Breakfast and dinner is included, as well as its fitness and games rooms and heated boot racks. From £1,172 per person, departing from Manchester or London Gatwick or Bristol or Birmingham on April 12th, 2025, half board. +£122 Glasgow; -£31 Edinburgh.
2. Flaine
One of France’s top family ski resorts, unique Flaine has several attractions over Easter to excite the children. The resort’s closing week (which coincidentally leads up to Easter Sunday in 2025) is full of celebrations.
The various terraces of bars and restaurants will see some live concerts which are generally covers of pop and rock songs, while there is also a giant outdoor slip’n’slide, and a brilliant outdoor laser game.
You can enjoy mass at the top of the ski area at 2,500m with amazing views of the Mont Blanc mountain range, before the easter bunny visits on Easter Monday, with an egg hunt going on “all day, in the form of a mountaineering course”.
Seven nights at the Rockypop in Flaine is from £569 per person, arriving on April 13th, 2025 on bed and breakfast. The RockyPop Flaine Hotel is a colourful and quirky pick. You're just one minute's walk from the town centre and four minutes away from the ski school, so you're right in the heart of the action here. A short break from Good Friday for three nights is just £257 per person. Travel costs are extra.
3. Tignes
Another family favourite, Tignes puts on an egg hunt inside the Lagon, its wellness and aquatic centre in the morning of Easter Sunday.
The main attraction, though, is the huge treasure hunt where you’ll have to solve the riddles across all the Tignes villages, which qualifies you for the draw to win a huge chocolate egg. This draw takes place in the panorama space of the Tignes tourist office.
Seven nights at the 4* Hotel Campanules, Tignes is just £797 per person per week, Bed and Breakfast, arriving on Easter Saturday. Here, guests are offered a range of wellness facilities including sauna, steam room and outdoor heated pool. Those who love to be pampered can also choose from a selection of massages and beauty treatments. Travel costs are extra.
4. St Anton
St Anton is a classic destination for British skiers, and at Easter you’ll likely spot some typical Austrian traditions, such as children carrying decorated palm bouquets through the street on Palm Sunday. The Easter weekend will see colourful easter eggs dotted about and church services.
One special aspect of St Anton are the soup stands which are present in town on Good Friday. As this is a fasting day, various tasty soups with bread are sold around the village, with the money going towards a charitable cause.
To catch Palm Sunday and Good Friday, there are savings to be had at the Hotel Galzig - a bed and breakfast which is right in the centre of town and has a sauna, steam room and lounge with an open fireplace. From £1,444 per person departing from Birmingham or Manchester on April 12th, 2025, B&B. -£1 London Gatwick.
You can also stay at the Hotel Karl Schranz which has an indoor pool, wellness area, fitness area, bar and lounge. It puts on breakfast and dinner and also a private shuttle to and from the slopes in the morning and afternoon. From £949 per person, departing from London Gatwick or Birmingham or Manchester on April 12th, 2025, half board.
Or to take in the Easter weekend itself, choose to arrive on April 19th at the Chalet Alpinum, St. Anton, from £820 per person for a week, catered board with wine and beer. Travel costs are extra.
5. Kitzbühel
Glitzy Kitzbühel has some nice Easter traditions to get involved with, such as Easter egg dyeing, candlemaking and palm bush tying.
The Easter Delight Market in town is a great place to explore all the local customs, while you should also try to see the Palm Sunday procession where the youngsters bring their palm bouquets and palm sticks through the crowds to be blessed.
Be aware of the “Ratsche” - a wooden instrument which replaces church bells and is turned by the children to make plenty of noise.
Easter Sunday sees the Easter bunnies enter town in a special carriage, officially marking the start of the town’s Easter egg hunt. There’ll be plenty to eat, but also keep some for the traditional “tip-to-tap” egg battles, where you bash them against other people’s to see who has the strongest egg.
Catch Palm Sunday by arriving for seven nights at the 5* Kempinski Hotel Das Tirol, Jochberg, Kitzbühel on April 12th, 2025 from £724 per person, bed and breakfast. Arrive Easter Saturday for seven nights from £733 per person. Travel costs are extra.
6. Sölden and Obergurgl
Both Sölden and Obergurgl are part of the Ötztal Valley, which is home to several charming Easter traditions. Apart from the usual easter egg hunts scattered around, you can seek out some Palmlatten pole carrying.
This is when huge poles—sometimes up to 35m long and adorned with ribbons, evergreen branches and other decorations—are carried to church in a procession. The young men of the villages compete to see who can carry the longest and most beautiful pole, although the winner has to successfully erect it in front of the church tower.
Another tradition is the shooting competitions that take place. Known as “Schützen”, they are recreational air rifle tournaments, with the winners receiving coloured easter eggs—which are real, hard boiled eggs.
More specific to Sölden is the Electric Mountain Festival which takes place from March 31st to April 4th, hosting top international acts. Every other year, the resort puts on the Hannibal Glacier show, which is up by the Rettenbach Glacier and features plenty of fire, magnificent ice structures and choreography featuring snow machines and trucks.
Join the Easter fun by booking a room in the 35-person Chalet Ruth, Sölden, arriving on April 19th, 2025, to enjoy catered board, with beer and wine included from £648 per person. This spacious chalet is located in the heart of Sölden with lifts, restaurants, ski schools, shops and various apres-ski venues at your fingertips. Available for the Electric Mountain Festival from £781 per person. Travel costs are extra.
