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Hi all,
Got some great advice on here last year regarding Mayerhofen. We are hoping to get a group together (8-12) to go to St Anton in Feb 2014. We are all mid twenty's (mainly couples) and are looking for our own private chalet, ideally with a hot tub, ipod dock (etc) so we can have fun nights in rather than always going out.
Does anyone have any recommendations for either chalets or good sites to use for this?
Many Thanks,
J
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Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
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I sense the "Apostrophe prefect" swooping in early course - that aside I presume you have trawled through the Iglu etc webpages? 
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Well, the person's real but it's just a made up name, see?
Well, the person's real but it's just a made up name, see?
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Hi Simonmj66, yeah been on Iglu and catered ski chalets, was just wondering what other sources people use / if they had any specific chalet recommendations.
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Daleybou1234, Supertravel's Chalet Narnia is very nice - you will need a good budget for a that level of chalet in St Anton but it is fab.
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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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Hi, Give our website a look through, if you have any questions give us a call, but St Anton is probably your best bet for a chalet in Austria, plenty of good looking properties and a top resort.
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That is one hell of a sweeping statement paulthesnowfinder,
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Really? What part of the statement do you find controversial?
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Because you are pimping may be? 
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hahaha... point taken!
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More than two thirdsthe resorts you have listed for Austria do not have any chalets according to your web site. Plus most of the chalets you do offer are only chalets in that they are built in the local "chalet" style. To my mind anything with a capacity of more than 15 to 20 people no longer comes into the realm of what I understand by the term "chalet holiday" as opposed to "ski holiday". The vast majority of what you offer are actually Gasthofs and/or hotels! Hardly offering the original poster what they are wanting.
I'd say that you need to up your game a wee bit before offering your opinion one way or the other about Austria in general and St anton in particular. 
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snowHeads are a friendly bunch.
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| paulthesnowfinder wrote: |
| St Anton is probably your best bet for a chalet in Austria. |
Sweeping and misleading.
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And love to help out and answer questions and of course, read each other's snow reports.
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Blimey! I have been told!
Apologies for the gratuitious marketing, I shall not do it again!
(BUT I'd still recommend St Anton!  )
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You know it makes sense.
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Why would you go to st Anton if you plan and spending your post skiing time in the chalet? You're missing half the fun if you miss out on the st Anton après. I'm not trying to take anything away from the amazing skiing on offer but you'll only have half the fun if you want to après in the chalet.
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Otherwise you'll just go on seeing the one name:
Otherwise you'll just go on seeing the one name:
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Well said boabski,
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Poster: A snowHead
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To come to Paul's defence here, I think what he's trying to say is that St Anton is the best resort in Austria for a chalet holiday. He's right, in terms of catered chalets there's no resort in Austria with more choice than St Anton.
It's also important to note the difference between a chalet and a gasthof/penison/hotel. Chalets are run by tour operators who put their own staff (normally UK) in there and fill it with UK customers. Gasthofs/pensions/hotels are run by locals and are sold through various different tour operators and take bookings/walk-ups locally.
It does depend what you're specifically after but if it's a catered chalet in Austria then it makes perfect sense to start off with St Anton as every major chalet operator is there.
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Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
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Could try Rosa Canina. Neighbour was there last year and said food was excellent but a bit of a treck from town.
Last edited by Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person on Thu 22-08-13 14:41; edited 1 time in total
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Well, the person's real but it's just a made up name, see?
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froomie, quality post, spot on IMO.
Of course there are alternate places ( ) to consider but as far as tour-op led British based chalet (package/indie) holidays go it is a good place to start.
...tell you what though... you really pay for it!
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Thanks all for the responses. We definitely want good Apres (I'm much better at apres than skiing) that's why we chose St Anton, We went to Mayerhofen last and loved it. However we wanted the option of being able to grab a few cold beers / wine out of the fridge and jump in the hot tub if we want to. Just to mix it up a bit!
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Anyway, snowHeads is much more fun if you do.
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Whatever your budget was for Mayrhofen Daleybou1234, triple it
My group has done St Anton on three occasions now and on each one I think we've just about crawled in in time for dinner. In other resorts we've had hot tubs in the chalet, but I honestly don't think it would be worth the extra outlay for us to use it maybe 1 or 2 times on the trip.
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What's the apostrophe for?  (oh no, I'm a perfect, sorry, prefect)
What aboot the Japanese Loft or whatever it's called owned by the Anton Hotel, not sure about hot tub but private sauna/steamroom and wrap around balcony, always looked cool to me.
Sel catering (ie keep local restaurants in business).
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