Switzerland or Austria for first Europe visit?

A guided day around Andermatt would be fun, as it’s considered the freeride mecca of the Swiss Alps.

JasonWx wrote

Mountain Biking is my thing...Would love to MTB for a day..

Benny Profane wrote

Well, if you can figure it out, try to get up into the Dolomites, specifically around Arraba and Cortina. You could do it moving from Venice to Como, or, even Garda, not far from there. I was up there for a few days on this last trip. Unreal scenery. Prettiest mountains I've ever been in. MTB isn't my thing, but, there's plenty of it there, and it must be really cool. I'm pretty sure there's rentals, too.

There's an event in June, I think, called The Hero, which is, basically a weekend long mtb festival with a 65 mile race/ride as a centerpiece.

http://www.herodolomites.bike/en/race/sellaronda-hero-marathon

Cinque Terre is awesome - was there a couple years ago.  Didn't MTB, but did some hiking...come to find out after the fact, there's alot of MTB in the area.  Not in Cinque Terre but sorta nearby, google Finale Ligure.  EWS stops there, I think it's a very MTB influenced area.

And as Benny pointed out, Dolomites has the Hero which is around the Sella Group Sellaronda route.  Val Gardena is the base for this...we were there for a couple days, as part of a larger Italy trip, really wanted to MTB part of the sellaronda, but got rained out

Italy was awesome, great weather , nice people and of course the food!!!!

Any resort skiing in Europe in April, when the schools have break? If so where, if so is it any good?  

April can get a bit risky to book this far in advance.  Look for higher altidtude resorts.  Switzerland has many of these but it’s much more expensive.  We had done Easter week at Davos and it was great and not that busy.  Also look for northern facing resorts.  

Chamonix is really good in April as it has multiple exposures where you could ski on one side of the valley then take a bus to the other side and do the other exposure. The issue there is how strong of skiers your group is.  This is a serious expert area that advanced intermediates could get themselves in deep doo doo.  Sno w conditions off piste could be all over the map and you better be able to ski 3000 Vert of mank should that corn over cook.