 Poster: A snowHead
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As a relatively new user I have in the past sought (and received) lots of advice on this board, particularly about St Anton. I thought it was about time that I did my bit and provided some info so here is a report of my trip in January 2014.
Dates 18 - 25 January 2014
Part y Size
2 Males 37 & 40, both snowboarders.
Travel
Edinburgh to Innsbruck via Frankfurt with Lufthansa
No major issues other than the fact that despite having had them confirmed in advance our boards did not arrive with us. This was obvious when we boarded the peddle powered plane in Frankfurt and saw all the boards and skis stacked up at the side. Didnt cause too many problems. Boards were couriered to us next day and arrived by lunch time, we could have hired and claimed back from Lufthansa but chose to get supplies etc and wait for them.
Did shared Private Transfer organised by Sidney Reilly going out, 35 Euro each and good fast service to door step. Going back got train to Innsbruck (very easy) and stayed overnight before early morning taxc.
Accomodation
Self catering organised through SIdney Reilly. Great central location. Apartment small but adequate for our needs located in attic conversion of a house. Low ceilings but good for the price. Only criticism would be no proper shower, was just bath attachment and ceiling so low couldnt stand under it properly and no shower curtain anyway.
Overhead/Weather Conditions.
Pretty good all in all with several days of sunshine. Two bad light days with snow falling (which gave great last day).
Pistes
All in good nick, bit hard packed in places, sharper edges would have helped. Runs to Stuben and down from Albona were fantastic.
Lift Queues
non existent. The two of us barely ever even had to share an uplift with anyone else. Resort did seem less busy than I was expecting
Parks
Cant comment as never went in any.
Off Piste
Not something we do regularly as only intermediates but did have wee foray under the St Christoph Bahn with some seasonairres who knew the area. Had a great laugh if not necessarily most stylish run. Some powder kicking about.
Apres
Sampled plenty.
Mooserwirt - cheesy euro pop but very funny. Large Beer about 6 Euro
KK - much more our style good mix of rock and singalong music. Large Beer about 5 Euro.
Bascamp. DJ on for apres good mix. Large Beer about 5.50 I think.
Underground. Only in briefly but live music and nice atmosphere. Large Beer about 5.50 again I think.
Piccadily. Was dead quiet, went in once and didnt go back, disappointed as had been in on previous trip and loved it.
Kandahar. This is where we spent most of our time and money, friendly bar staff with good music. Large Beer 5 Euro. "Gunar"plays from about 5pm to about 8pm (bars in resort didnt seem busy until about 5pm, I guess most folk were still up the hill). Very polished and professional set with plenty of well known tunes, U2, Beatles, Tom Petty, Elvis, Snow Patrol, bit of everything really. Later (around 8.15 till about 11pm) Tony Wright plays (6 nights a week). We really liked him, less polished and more acoustic, bit of banter and will do requests if he knows it. Again good sing along stuff and some classics, good mixed set - thoroughly recommend you try to see him if you can.
Food
We self catered most of the time but did have great Pizza in Pompodoro - about 10 Euro for large Pizza. Bobos does good Tex Mex Style too. Portions are generally large and the food we saw in KK would have fed an army let alone one person.
All in all a great week. Back on 8 March for what will be different trip as going with TO to Catered Chalet and other half coming this time too.
Hope this is of some help. Happy to help with queries etc.
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Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
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be interesting to compare DIY with the TO trip...
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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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What time were you in the Piccadilly? I was there a week after you and the Piccadilly was the pick of the night life, live music every night and rammed full of people dancing and enjoying the music, was our go to location. Fairly quiet before 11pm, live music doesnt start until after that and finishes at about 1:30 - 2am. Best barman in town there too (South African guy)
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kb36, glad you had a good time, my son is a seasonaire there this season, you mentioned all the places he goes  we ate at Pompodoro really good value and excellent pizzas.
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