Poster: A snowHead
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Hi everyone
I've been reading this site for ages for advice and finally have reason to start my own topic - thanks for all the advice I've stolen over the years and passed off as my own knowledge
We are a group of early 30s looking to travel end of Jan/start of Feb 2014. We love Austrian oompah, après skiing early doors and not spending time with brits; we go away to be abroad and lose ourselves in another country rather than spend a week in Little England!
Recently we've done St Anton, Ischgl and Solden. We're looking at Saalbach next but finding it hard to get reasonable digs. We've DIYed it the last couple of trips but finding it hard to locate pensions that will take all 8 of us and the packages seen quite dear - say £900 for half board and very few options for B&B, which we'd prefer for the flexibility as we often don't go home at all until way gone 9pm!
We've discounted other resorts such as Mayrhofen as we want to ski back to resort and Kitzbhuel looks a bit all over the place.
Can anyone suggest reasonable places to stay in Saalbach and/or other resorts that will satisfy 150km plus, few requirements for buses and lively après ski (I don't ask much!!!)
Thanks
BB
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Badbobby, £900 seems a lot. Crystal are showing Sporthotel Berger - half board - inc flights and transfers for £780 (25/1 for one week) - plus they have a 2:1 lift pass deal.
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Can't help much with accommodation but can Saalbach is top resort. You will love it.
Should be plenty of B&B type pensions on their website and I always thought it is cheaper than the resorts you mentioned.
We stayed there, very nice, run by English couple: http://www.pensionenzian.com/en/index.asp
It is fairly easy to DIY with flights to Salzburg and relatively short transfers.
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Bode - thank you, but a lot of the tour operators give a cheap "headline rate" by defaulting the room choice to 4 sharing, which is 2 on a sofa bed and 2 in a bedroom, which isn't ideal for us as it's 2xcouples and 4x single men!
Tom W - thanks for the info. I really do hope it's a good choice! So many pros and cons on t'internet that I'm never sure what to believe!!! I'll try the website properly tonight and email a load more pensions.
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Anyway, snowHeads is much more fun if you do.
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Badbobby, it's not a high season week so get negotiating.
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Badbobby, That Crystal deal is two sharing - and that's a nice hotel in a great position. Obviously, if the single guys want their own room, they will need to pay a SRS.
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Bode Swiller wrote: |
Badbobby, £900 seems a lot. Crystal are showing Sporthotel Berger - half board - inc flights and transfers for £780 (25/1 for one week) - plus they have a 2:1 lift pass deal. |
Where have you seen this 2:1 offer?
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Bode - I'm grateful for your help, but I've been all over this with Crystal - it's 2x double/twin rooms plus a 2-4 room. So it's 4 in the last room. We can get round it by getting an extra single room so it's only 3 in the large room, but that increases the cost by £70 p/p
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FEnoit, it's buy 1 get 1 half price, so it's a 1/4 off, not 2:1.
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Fenoit wrote: |
Bode Swiller wrote: |
Badbobby, £900 seems a lot. Crystal are showing Sporthotel Berger - half board - inc flights and transfers for £780 (25/1 for one week) - plus they have a 2:1 lift pass deal. |
Where have you seen this 2:1 offer? |
Ah, it's a mistake on their site. Says 2 for 1 but when you go to the Ts&Cs Austria isn't even mentioned. Naughty Crystal.
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Aaah ok thanks. That's annoying that this offer was not about last week when I booked for Saalbach (w/c 28th Jan).
Anyone know whether they will offer it retrospectively as we havent purchased our ski passes yet?
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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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Sorry, yeah, not 2:1 - it's BOGOHP
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Fenoit wrote: |
Aaah ok thanks. That's annoying that this offer was not about last week when I booked for Saalbach (w/c 28th Jan).
Anyone know whether they will offer it retrospectively as we havent purchased our ski passes yet? |
Here I mean w/c 25/1
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You know it makes sense.
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Badbobby, have you emailed the tourist office? There are plenty of pensions if you turn right from the Schattberg gondola and walk up the road towards Hinterglemm (lots within 5/10mins walk)
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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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Badbobby wrote: |
We are a group of early 30s looking to travel end of Jan/start of Feb 2014. We love Austrian oompah, après skiing early doors and not spending time with brits; we go away to be abroad and lose ourselves in another country rather than spend a week in Little England!...
...Can anyone suggest reasonable places to stay in Saalbach and/or other resorts that will satisfy 150km plus, few requirements for buses and lively après ski (I don't ask much!!!)
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Whilst we probably don't meet your accommodation needs and we're on the edge of the village, have a look at other accommodation in the Hochkoenig region. Its similar altitude to Saalbach, 150km pistes, lots of new infrastructure, plenty of Apres up on the mountain in all the alms and very, very few Brits. Maria Alm is probably your best bet for Apres, though Dienten has everything right at the bottom of the piste.
www.hochkoenig.at/en
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Poster: A snowHead
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Saalbach - possibly the easiest resort to DIY:
DIY flights to Salzburg. From there, book a VIP minibus from the Holiday Shuttle people ( www.holiday-shuttle.at )
On the assumption that the Enzian is full (but you should contact Kevin and Sarah anyway) Pensions/B&B on the main road:
Norika, Iris, Hotel Konig, Hagar, Gappmeyer all back on to the beginners' slope, so you can ski or stumble down from the après straight into the boot room.
Chalet Michaela, Mulk, Hagleitner, Glemm Lodge, Good Times are all on the road towards Hinterglemm - 10-15 mins stagger along the road, or ski bus or a taxi.
www.saalbach.com is the tourist office website - or just call them and ask for some options.
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Thanks Quinton
I've just emailed about 15 pensions, located by googlemaps... Will see what they say!
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Well, the person's real but it's just a made up name, see?
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So my friends have found a deal in Mayrhofen that they like.
Which resort is honestly better out of Saalbach and Mayrhofen? I've heard a lot of stuff about the queues, busses and not being able to ski back down, which I really would miss. All of that majorly puts me off Mayrhofen...
Can I have your honest feedback before I decide if it's worth fighting for!
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If it helps, my fond memory of S-H is its lift-served, genuine circuit of the mountains meaning that is is easy to ski down to a different snowfront from one day to the next, grab a beer or two and catch a freebie bus to your digs. In that respect, it's all very well connected but you'll probably end up finishing at the goaßstall more often than not.
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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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Got some friends with a guesthouse/BnB in Saalbach. Owned and run by a brit family with a top award on trip adviser... check 'em out...
http://pensionenzian.com/en/
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