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Three old boys looking to go to Austria late January. Ideal requirements would be:
Roughly 100km of runs
Walk to lifts or easy bus
Several good mountain restaurants
Couple of bars in town for lively apres.
Over the last few years, we've been to Skiwelt (Ellmau and Soll), Kitzbuhel, Corvara (Dolomites), Mayrhofen and Saalbach / Hinterglemm.
We're looking to downsize the resort for cheaper accommodation, lift pass and ski hire prices.
Where would you recommend which would be less glitzy than the above resorts but would have enough interesting skiing for 3 competent intermediates?
Thanks
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Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
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Obertauern,
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Gastein valley.
Hoch König.
Rauris but it fails on the 100km criteria
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Schladming would be worth considering.
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Ooh - nice selection, I'll have a look. Trying to get 5 nights including skiing for £1000 per head, separate rooms. It's a challenge.
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Who has stayed at the Falcon in Lech?
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@TopGooner, you've done Mayrhofen, but you could stay in Kaltenbach or Zell am Ziller. Kaltenbach (Hochfügen) claim 93km of piste, and Zell am Ziller claim 150km. You'll find them both cheaper than Mayrhofen also.
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| swskier wrote: |
| @TopGooner, you've done Mayrhofen, but you could stay in Kaltenbach or Zell am Ziller. Kaltenbach (Hochfügen) claim 93km of piste, and Zell am Ziller claim 150km. You'll find them both cheaper than Mayrhofen also. |
Thanks for the suggestions. Not sure there'd be enough bars / restaurants for the evenings unless things have changed. They seemed pretty quiet when we went through there previously
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@TopGooner, we stayed at the Pension Schachner in Schladming. It wasn't fancy but was decent enough.
Obertauern would be a good option but accommodation can be pricey.
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snowHeads are a friendly bunch.
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Bansko.
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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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Solden. Rather boring but Obergurgl is on the same skipass and free bus. Nederhutte was fun.
Or Kirchberg and repeat Kitz & Westendorf/Brixen
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| TopGooner wrote: |
| swskier wrote: |
| @TopGooner, you've done Mayrhofen, but you could stay in Kaltenbach or Zell am Ziller. Kaltenbach (Hochfügen) claim 93km of piste, and Zell am Ziller claim 150km. You'll find them both cheaper than Mayrhofen also. |
Thanks for the suggestions. Not sure there'd be enough bars / restaurants for the evenings unless things have changed. They seemed pretty quiet when we went through there previously |
Kaltenbach has pretty lively apres-ski at the Postalm at the bottom of the slopes.
As an alternative area suggestion have a look at the Salzburger Sportwelt part of Ski Amadé area. Fellow snowHead @flangesax runs a guesthouse Haus Susanne in Radstadt that has 5 double rooms, so if they have vacancies for your dates then you could all have separate rooms. In addition to the standard B&B he normally also offers a half board option (the food is very good). https://austrian-adventures.com/index.html#booknow
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You know it makes sense.
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We've had a couple of great apres sessions in the Postalm.
Haven't a clue how we managed to get the train back to Mayrhofen afterwards.
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Otherwise you'll just go on seeing the one name:
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Poster: A snowHead
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St Johann in Tirol. Nice town, plenty of restaurants and bars and decent lively umbrella bar at the foot of the run home. Only 50km on the local ski pass but there are another four or so linked areas easily accessed by bus which add another 100km.
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@TopGooner,
So have you binned the Brugerhoff?
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Not yet but the others have asked if I can shave about £300 off the total cost each…. I’m holding it as it may still be the best option as it’s half board.
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| Alastair Pink wrote: |
| TopGooner wrote: |
| swskier wrote: |
| @TopGooner, you've done Mayrhofen, but you could stay in Kaltenbach or Zell am Ziller. Kaltenbach (Hochfügen) claim 93km of piste, and Zell am Ziller claim 150km. You'll find them both cheaper than Mayrhofen also. |
Thanks for the suggestions. Not sure there'd be enough bars / restaurants for the evenings unless things have changed. They seemed pretty quiet when we went through there previously |
Kaltenbach has pretty lively apres-ski at the Postalm at the bottom of the slopes.
As an alternative area suggestion have a look at the Salzburger Sportwelt part of Ski Amadé area. Fellow snowHead @flangesax runs a guesthouse Haus Susanne in Radstadt that has 5 double rooms, so if they have vacancies for your dates then you could all have separate rooms. In addition to the standard B&B he normally also offers a half board option (the food is very good). https://austrian-adventures.com/index.html#booknow |
Is a car necessary to get around the Amadé area? Looks very spread out. More so than the Sella Ronda for example?
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@TopGooner, Schladming above is a good shout, only been the once but liked it and it seemed good value.
Alpbach and the Skijuwel area are also pretty decent, not mega lively but has a few good bars https://www.skijuwel.com/en/winter
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@TopGooner, there are skibus services from Radstadt but having a car does make it easier to get to the different areas.
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Crystal has a BB For 758 each ,three separate rooms , seven night in bad gastain. The hotel seem nice and has sauna and steam room . Never been to the area ,looking at the map you defo need to take buses
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The FIS Races are in Schladming during the days we're planning so that rules there out and also probably Salzburg airport (?), so I'm thinking it would be better flying into Innsbruck
we're looking at 20 - 25 January and the Schladming races are 23/24th
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snowHeads are a friendly bunch.
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@TopGooner, you said you wanted apres 
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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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@TopGooner, The Salzburg airport will be normal...
The race events are amazing (especially the night race!) it only impacts the 2 runs to the valley. There are load of other options in and around Schladming / Amadé to swallow up the loss of that area if you are wanting to avoid it.
Areas are commutable by ski bus etc... a car makes things easier but if you are based centrally within one of the separate 'colours/areas' on the big ski map then you can get around that area very easily... if not just by sliding then by one or 2 busses.
Ski Amadé is a great place to explore.
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@TopGooner, if you do a DIY trip don’t rule out Munich for flights. We’ve done this for Skiwelt and St Johann in Tirol rather than using an Austrian airport and it worked out way cheaper.
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