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Cross-Channel ferry operator Sea France is offering low cost ski holidays for self-drivers to the exclusive Swiss resort of St. Moritz.

The company provides seven nights' accommodation at this cosy Chesa San Gian apartments, which have open plan living/dining area from £213 per person.

The property, located three kilometres (two miles) from St. Moritz and near to the main road with easy access to shops and restaurants, includes a balcony giving beautiful panoramic views.

The price includes cross-Channel travel for your party and your car with SeaFrance Dover-Calais Ferries, and seven nights' self-catering accommodation, based on four sharing.

With immediate motorway access from Calais you can reach the slopes within the day.   

St. Moritz can claim to be the birth place of winter sports holidays.  The owner of the Kulm hotel bet some English tourists a "free stay" if they dared to spend the winter there in 1864.  They took him up on this proposition and "the rest  is history."  St Moritz was reported in The Times of London a few years later when a guest recorded with surprise the flowers in the hotel window boxes on Christmas Day.  Everybody arrived overland in those days, first in horse drawn carriages in the summer and then by rail, but Charlie Chaplin was one of the first people to manage to drive up to the resort in a specially converted car with tank tracks.  The drive is much easier today, but you will be following in some illustrious tracks.