Holidays in Old Smokowce (High Tatrah)
Smoke - The most famous Tourist Centre of the High Tart. All four of them are the Old, New, Mountain and Farm. It's practically one town, floating one into another. The old Smokowitz is in the middle of all the Smokows, and west of it, New, two kilometres east, Gorn, and two kilometres south, Dolny. Old Smokov's the oldest. The first khats were built in 1793. The current Grand Hotel was built in 1904. The old Smokowitz is at the Slavkov peak at an altitude of 1010 m, 14 kilometres north-west of Popprad.
There are many private two or three-story hotels in Smokovc. Service everywhere at the highest level. Except for the night, all hotels offer breakfast (mainly the Swedish table). Some are also dinner, or they're full of boarding. Every room is all comfortable, TV, phone.
In Old Smokowcz, the ski track is near the Park Hotel. And there's three of them on the grief of Grabiano: for pros, for ordinary tourists and for the first time in life, on mountain skis. If you follow the rule that the key to the downing is not the speed and height of the mountain, but the pleasure from the downing, the mountain skis are friends of any tourist. And if you climb up on the top floor and try whatever happens, you'll have to move down, then there's a way they say.
The Old Smokowitz is a mountain of Grabieenok for those who don't feel very confident about mountain skis. The pleasure is given to both children and adults, and it's all steamed in the same vials. Adults remember years of childhood and fever with stains on the corners. Impressive. This sanitary track is about 2 kilometres long. Sewing of san (dried, light, strong and convenient) near (the passport is required on deposit). There's a founcle on the top of the mountain. You can walk, of course. The sanitary latrine does not deviate the normal road (this track is used as a normal road to night and summer time for the import of products to a hotel situated on the top of the mountain). The new Smokowce has a climatic resort, which refers to the oldest climatic sites in the middle of Europe.
The weather.
Season rolling from December to April.
Inclinations, trads, lifts
Extreme point - 1,480 m. Overrun
7 km of prepared tracks: 60 per cent for starters, 25 per cent of average complexity, 15 per cent complex.
The longest track is 2 km.
10 lifts.
Prepared skis are raised on a founculler wagon on Grebenok (1285 m). There are black tracks that will be happy and professional. On the so-called Gorn Luge on the Slava pick slope, one of the finest slang down in Slovakia. From Grebenka to the Old Smokowitz, a wide, well-trained tourist launch with a length of about 2 km.
Prices
1 euro = 42 SK.
One-day SK for adults, 290 SK for children; 1,940 SK and 1480 SK for 6 days.