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Hello, I'm looking for advice on affordable shared transfer from Innsbruck airport to Ischgl in December from Saturday to Saturday. Something similar to Ben's Bus in France. I could only find Ski-Lifts, and even then it's about £100 per person. Alps2Alps don't operate on the weekends. Many thanks in advance!
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Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
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Just one person, or more in your party?
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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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Just two, my husband and I. Thank you
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Bus to train station
train to Landeck
bus to Ischgl
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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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I really rate the Innsbruck airport (official?) taxis, book online in advance.
Imho their tariffs, I just checked, are reasonable. Far better value for the time taken than similar taxi journeys in the French Alps for example.
With no hanging around for trains etc.
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As a halfway house take the train to Landeck (regular trains from Innsbruck) and book a transfer from there it will be a lot less than from Innsbruck. The bus from Landeck is rather slow.
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Transfers in and out of INNS are notoriously expensive. We travel in the other direction to the Val Gardena valley. Whether we try a Selva based company, or an Innsbruck based company, they all come in around the same. There's a whiff of cartel about it.
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| Mollerski wrote: |
| Transfers in and out of INNS are notoriously expensive. We travel in the other direction to the Val Gardena valley. Whether we try a Selva based company, or an Innsbruck based company, they all come in around the same. There's a whiff of cartel about it. |
I've often thought this. Perhaps I should buy a big minibus and get a license! Four Seasons are charging €95 each way for a shared transfer from Innsbruck to Mayrhofen for January next year! 
It's €18.80 on bus/train and only takes 50 minutes longer.
Sandhofer are charging €218 one way for up to 4 people!
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@swskier, try Taxi Olly - booked the other week for €165 each way for 3 people
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You just don't get cheap transfers in Austria, I'd assume it must be down to their regulations - but public transport tends to be very good. One of our guys has done the Airport->taxi->station->train to Landeck->bus to Ischgl option a couple of times and with a morning flight out of the UK arrived around lunch time and been skiing in the afternoon. Always said it was really easy.
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| munich_irish wrote: |
| As a halfway house take the train to Landeck (regular trains from Innsbruck) and book a transfer from there it will be a lot less than from Innsbruck. The bus from Landeck is rather slow. |
This would be my plan if I was doing it. Looks like you'd be paying 70 Euros ish each way for the Landeck to Ischgl taxi. If the bus from Landeck is conveniently timed for your arrival I'd be tempted to take that and save the 70 Euros for the sake of 30mins.
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And love to help out and answer questions and of course, read each other's snow reports.
And love to help out and answer questions and of course, read each other's snow reports.
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| michebiche wrote: |
| @swskier, try Taxi Olly - booked the other week for €165 each way for 3 people |
For an at quickest 80 minutes journey, £138.
Decent value.
How much would a journey for that time, cost in the UK? Or French Alps?
Last edited by And love to help out and answer questions and of course, read each other's snow reports. on Tue 15-10-24 11:06; edited 1 time in total
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You know it makes sense.
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| Snow&skifan wrote: |
| michebiche wrote: |
| @swskier, try Taxi Olly - booked the other week for €165 each way for 3 people |
For an at quickest 80 minutes journey, £138.
Decent value.
How much would a journey for that time cost in the UK? Or French Alps? |
It's only a 60 minute drive, unless there happens to be a load of traffic.
But as a comparison, Geneva airprot to Morzine is a 90 minute drive and that's available with Alpybus for €41.48/£34.60. So for 3 people £103.80. When you compare the need for more fuel useage as well on that journey due to the elevation difference between Geneva and Morzine, which is far greater than Innsbruck to Mayrhofen, then it makes it seem even worse. Fuel efficiency on the Innsbruck to Mayrhofen route is way better than Geneva to Morzine, and only 66% of the journey time.
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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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| Mjit wrote: |
| You just don't get cheap transfers in Austria, I'd assume it must be down to their regulations - . |
That's not accurate.
It's not about regulations.
E.g. the shared Arlberg Express from Zürich to the Arlberg villages. And I think there is also something shared to the Zillertal
Likely reason why it exists in France is the large English market that comes by plane, whilst Austria is still mostly reliant on the German and Dutch markets that come by car mostly.
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Poster: A snowHead
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looks like these guys run a shuttle transfer service from INN to Ischgl @ 9 am, 1 pm, 6 pm if that works with your flight. I've not used it myself as I tend to use a taxi or car hire. €60 per person each way seems pretty good. If not Landeck/Zams by train then bus #260 which runs every 30 mins is probably the cheapest.
https://www.alpentaxi.at/fileadmin/pdf/Presie-Shuttleservice.pdf
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Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
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@munich_irish, Taxi from Landeck is €100.
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Well, the person's real but it's just a made up name, see?
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| swskier wrote: |
| Snow&skifan wrote: |
| michebiche wrote: |
| @swskier, try Taxi Olly - booked the other week for €165 each way for 3 people |
For an at quickest 80 minutes journey, £138.
Decent value.
How much would a journey for that time cost in the UK? Or French Alps? |
It's only a 60 minute drive, unless there happens to be a load of traffic.
But as a comparison, Geneva airprot to Morzine is a 90 minute drive and that's available with Alpybus for €41.48/£34.60. So for 3 people £103.80. When you compare the need for more fuel useage as well on that journey due to the elevation difference between Geneva and Morzine, which is far greater than Innsbruck to Mayrhofen, then it makes it seem even worse. Fuel efficiency on the Innsbruck to Mayrhofen route is way better than Geneva to Morzine, and only 66% of the journey time. |
Innsbruck Airport to Ischgl is a minimum 80 minutes taxi journey in normal transfer days traffic, we’ve done it many times.
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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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@Snow&skifan, we're referring to Innsbruck - Mayrhofen.
More generally, I'd imagine any shared transfer service would struggle to compete with public transport on frequency and price in an area like this which is well served. Compared to Geneva-Morzine where you can get a couple of very slow TERs to Cluses and you're still 40 mins away - or the Tarentaise which is not well set up for train access from any airport that's not Chambéry. Even then there's often a train only every 2h.
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@anitahall,
Have you asked your hotel for a price on a taxi ?
Whenever we've had a taxi from Innsbruck we've asked our hotel to organise someone local to do it, prices to Seefeld were not much more than taking the train.
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| Bob wrote: |
looks like these guys run a shuttle transfer service from INN to Ischgl @ 9 am, 1 pm, 6 pm if that works with your flight. I've not used it myself as I tend to use a taxi or car hire. €60 per person each way seems pretty good. If not Landeck/Zams by train then bus #260 which runs every 30 mins is probably the cheapest.
https://www.alpentaxi.at/fileadmin/pdf/Presie-Shuttleservice.pdf |
Thank you. Their ad is a bit misleading, when I went on to check the price for booking, for 2 people return it actually costs 430 euros. I think 60 euros is based on more than 2 person booking/car as they use minivans.
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| musher wrote: |
@anitahall,
Have you asked your hotel for a price on a taxi ?
Whenever we've had a taxi from Innsbruck we've asked our hotel to organise someone local to do it, prices to Seefeld were not much more than taking the train. |
Thank you for the advice, I will check with our accommodation. The cheapest I can find for 2 people return for a private car transfer is 330 euros at the moment.
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| anitahall wrote: |
Thank you for the advice, I will check with our accommodation. The cheapest I can find for 2 people return for a private car transfer is 330 euros at the moment. |
I would suggest that is about the going rate for Innsbruck - Ischgl return its a 75 to 90 minute journey each way. If you want cheaper then you will have to use the train
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