Poster: A snowHead
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Group of four 45 year old blokes. Good piste skiers. Like a reasonable km (100 ?). Primarily reds and blacks. B&B type accommodation preferred. Ideally close to a lift. Nice to have a bit of gentle Apres and some half decent food. Not much accommodation coming up on standard sites. Tourist offices also not replying no doubt as it is a part week. All ideas welcome.
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Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
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@Blastfromthepast, I'd suggest the Zillertal resorts. Easy to get to from Munich airport (either hire car or train from airport to Jenbach in Austria where you change onto the narrow gauge Zillertalbahn railway that goes up the valley from Jenbach all the way as far as Mayrhofen). Mayrhofen is the best known resort, but there is also great skiing if you are based in Zell am Ziller (Arena ski area) or Kaltenbach (for the Hochzillertal ski area).
Apart from the accommodation enquiry facility on the Zillertal weblink above, you can often find part week availability on www.tiscover.com
Hope this helps.
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Well, the person's real but it's just a made up name, see?
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You have hit the busy period unfortunately so short breaks are harder to find. Try also Kitzbuheler Alpen. Not Kitz itself but the local villages. Westendorf, Brixen and Kirchberg have links into both Kitzbuhel and skiwelt either of which would be a good bet, skiwelt is a bit more cruisy, there are more tough options on the Kitzbuhel side. the local tourist office http://www.kitzbueheler-alpen.com/en/ does a search function. Many of the smaller pensions are not on major search sites so you should find something.
travel is either hire car or train. You can get a train right through to the Brixental villages but it might be quicker to book a taxi from Worgl. (four of you can get to Worgl on a Bayern group ticket from Munich so much cheaper than transfers)
Another possible is Garmisch. Very easy transfer, direct train from Munich. Probably a bit smaller than you are looking for but has the benefit of a decnt sized town so you might find short term accommodation easier. (Be warned the glacier is a separate ski area with a separate pass even though it is linked by the rack railway to the "classic", weird in this day and age!)
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travel is either hire car or train. You can get a train right through to the Brixental villages but it might be quicker to book a taxi from Worgl. (four of you can get to Worgl on a Bayern group ticket from Munich so much cheaper than transfers)
Im sure its only as far as Kufstein on the Bayern ticket.
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Anyway, snowHeads is much more fun if you do.
Anyway, snowHeads is much more fun if you do.
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Bayern Ticket is only valid as far as Kufstein or Salzburg - I use them regularly so know the limitations very well. Been using one today, I travelled(anywhere in Bavaria, there and back again) for 25 Euro and the 2 children with me travelled for free!
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Sorry folks, I am glad to be corrected about the Bayern ticket, the website/machines are not at all clear. Used it last year to Kufstein and someone (the infamous man in a pub!) said we could have gone to Worgl but I didn't try thank goodness. Nevertheless it is a great trick to know for transfers from Munich
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The Bayern ticket is also valid on the Garmisch-Ehrwald-Lermoos-Reutte line which might be of some use to folks on the way down from Munich.
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You can get as far as Ehrwald, but not as far as Reutte I think. Basically it is only valid to the stations nearest the Bavarian border. At Salzburg for example there used to be (pre-Schengen Agreement) a border control at the end of the platform the Munich trains arrived at, I had my passport stamped there once (I asked for the stamp) and I know it was still there in 1995 when I spent the summer studying German in the city.
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@Blastfromthepast, I'd second Alastair Pink's suggestion of the Zillertal. Specifically I'd recommend Zell am Ziller. The ski area there is mostly reds and great for a few day's of fast blasting around. Hotel Tirolerhof has very small rooms but a good bar and decent food. Ski bus takes about 5 minutes to get to the gondola and there's very little queuing, unlike Mayrhofen. Kaltenbach is also one of my favourite areas and worth a look. The Zillertal ski pass gets you access to all the ski areas in the valley so you could do a day in Zell and another in Kaltenbach. The train between the two areas is free if you're wearing your ski kit.
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snowHeads are a friendly bunch.
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Thanks all. Zell am Ziller looks ideal so will put it to the group.
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