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Austria recommendations needed: Zillertal valley vs. SkiWelt?
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Mrs Idlehands and I will be flying in to Innsbruck for a ski trip the week of March 8-15, resort undetermined.

We're strong intermediates, prefer red & black to blue, primarily on-piste skiing - though willing to try off-piste if conditions allow, like a big ski area, and not really bothered about krazy apres.

Trying to keep costs down, so as much as I'd like to try St Anton, we're looking at less expensive options this time. The Zillertal valley appeals from a cost perspective; commuting up and down the valley less so. We'd be staying in Hippach without a car, but would want to ski each area (Kaltenbach, Hochzillertal, Penken, Hintertux). I know about the Zillertalbahn and buses, but still... And the warm weather really seems to have been sticking it to the Ziller valley recently.

Which has gotten me now thinking about SkiWelt. Never been, but the current conditions and historical snow depths suggest we shoud be considering it.

For those who've been to both, which do you think would suit us more? Or other resort suggestions?
Puzzled

Thanks,
IH
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When are you booking? I'll tell you after the 24th if that's any use. FWIW, I think Skiwelt is great although not too many blacks around. It's really nicely connected once you figure your way round and you can have really good days going up and skiing back down to a different base rather than funnelling back to the same one all the time.
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If you are looking for blacks and "dark" reds, there are probably a few more in the Zillertal than the Skiwelt, although both have more blues and "pale" reds.

Remember that in the Zillertal, virtually all the skiing is above the top stations of the base gondolas. You take the gondola up and then further chairs to get into the skiing (so it is quite high), while the SkiWelt slopes mainly start at the level of the gondolas.

Hippach is pretty central - there is a gondola into the main Penken area from Hippach itself, plus a train station to get down to Zell am Ziller or Kaltenbach (And at Kaltenbach, the train station is about 200 yards from the gondola base station).
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alex_heney wrote:
Remember that in the Zillertal, virtually all the skiing is above the top stations of the base gondolas. You take the gondola up and then further chairs to get into the skiing (so it is quite high), while the SkiWelt slopes mainly start at the level of the gondolas.


But even so, there is lots of skiing above the top stations of the SkiWelt gondolas. Later in the season then I reckon it is generally more common to be able to ski back to base in the SkiWelt than in the Zillertal.
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RobW wrote:
alex_heney wrote:
Remember that in the Zillertal, virtually all the skiing is above the top stations of the base gondolas. You take the gondola up and then further chairs to get into the skiing (so it is quite high), while the SkiWelt slopes mainly start at the level of the gondolas.


But even so, there is lots of skiing above the top stations of the SkiWelt gondolas.


Apart from the Hohe Salve, which is rather steep and not that interesting, I'm not aware of much.

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Later in the season then I reckon it is generally more common to be able to ski back to base in the SkiWelt than in the Zillertal.


Agreed. The base in the Zillertal is frequently green and it can be too much effort to keep the few base runs open then. I don't think there even are any base runs in Zell am Ziller or back to Mayrhofen from the Penken area (there is one back to Hippach).
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Thanks gents. You've pretty much confirmed what I'd thought (we'd been leaning toward Zillertal over the SkiWelt). However, we just found some relatively inexpensive accommodation in St Anton, so we're going to pay a bit more and give it a go to see what everyone's raving about...
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