 Poster: A snowHead
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Thinking about a long weekend at the end of January- maybe Austria as never been there. Criteria are:
- reasonable transfer time
- decent apres-ski
- OK for 2nd week skier (my mate)
- good chance of low-ish cost accomodation for the weekend
St Anton appeals but does it fit the above? Any other suggestions?
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Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
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wopple, only problem with St Anton is getting weekend accomodation in Jan and Feb. Might have to go out of the village and stay up the road.
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zell am zee
- reasonable transfer time - 1 1/2 hr by train or bus from salzburg
- decent apres-ski - lively mountain bars and town bars too
- OK for 2nd week skier (my mate) - 150 km with kaprun included some great runs as well
- good chance of low-ish cost accomodation for the weekend - i got a place in an adams family style guest house for £10 a night ! through official website!
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Loads of resorts near Salzburg would suit you. Both Obertauern and Schladming meet all of your requirements and it shouldn't be too hard to find accommodation nearer the time.
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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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wopple, you need to come to Ski Amade. Its 45 min transfer from Salzburg, accommodation is very well priced. We have excellent snow, great mountain huts. If you are after apres-ski - look at Flachau - thats the party town. Look at www.skiamade.com accommodation section for somewhere to stay. 
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wopple, best flights are in/out of Munich with BA from H'row in my opinion (don't know where you live tho') or Lufhansa from Manchester. Both have a very late flight out (around 9pm) which means you get a full day sliding on your final day and they're often cheaper than "lo cost" flights into Salzburg. I'd recommend Soll for a week-end simply because there's fab night skiing to be had which will extend your on-snow time. Only 90 mins from Munich (if you hire a car).
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Ryanair flights Stansted to Salzburg are very well timed to maximise your ski time allowing half a day skiing minimum on travel out and full day skiing on travel back day, but shop around as Bode Swiller says.
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wopple, another vote for Ski Amade!!
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Thanks for the advice, all. Will definitely look at those options. Also was reading about Ischgl, which sounds a kinda fun place- any experience?
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wopple, same problem as St Anton with weekend accomodation. We wanted to go in Jan but could'nt find anywhere to stay for less then a full week sat to sat.
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Cant fault a recent weekend ski trip to Ski Amade, Thomsonfly flights from Manchester go friday afternoon, come back Sunday late giving 2 full days skiing for 1/2 day off work, was even considering the very early Saturday flight but maybe next time. Good/great skiing, good snow, dozens of resrots within an hour of the airport and the Austrian level of service was outstanding compared to what we experienced last year in France
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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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With being so low, as long as conditions are good, I would recommend Zell as daveqpr, says.
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wopple, dont go to Seefeld. Apres Ski doesn't exist there. Theres plenty of skiing for all levels, but everything shuts at 5pm and the whole place goes dead, except for one slope which is open for night skiing on two evenings a week. Its a very pretty but disappointing place. 
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You know it makes sense.
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wopple, Ellmau, Soll - the SkiWelt area. Great easy skiing and lively, cheap nightlife. an hour from salzburg where as previous poster says, ryanair flights work well to maximise skiing. I've done many w/ends to that region - arrive late Thurs, leave late Sun - 3 big days skiing 1 day off work, £500 missing from bank account 
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Hugh Jarse, Hence why we're back over a week earlier than planned.  Good to be home. Will try another area next time.
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Poster: A snowHead
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wopple, I've just done exactly what you're after, Austria weekend in Jan, out Weds night back Sun day night, got cheap Ryanair flights to Salzburg and got accomodation in Schadming. Was very easy, used resort website accomodation search and found several places free for weekend in early Jan and gone with that. Also emailed the tourist office with our requirements and we got 5 offers back for accom Weds to Sun so think you should be ok. You can search the lot from the Ski Amade site mentioned above. Good luck 
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Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
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Kitzbuehel, from Salzburg.
Saalbach-Hinterglemm, from Salzburg.
Zell am See, from Salzburg.
Isola 2000, from Nice.
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wopple, I've already done this earlier in the season. It worked out really well.
We fly to Salzburg from Coventry on the 07:25 flight on Friday and flew back 21:30 on the Sunday which gave us 2 1/2days on the slopes. As you can see from the posts above there's plently of resorts within 90mins of Salzburg so you should be fine if you head there.
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For a weekend Obertauern takes some beating.
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Anyway, snowHeads is much more fun if you do.
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Obertauern must be an option, I did it in December and it worked out great, you can order a transfer on their website for 42 Euros return, and thay pick you up from the Salzburg airport and drop off for the hotel, same the other way, no hassle at all and cheap. Only 1h transfer! Resort is nice, compact and snowsure, crazy apre-ski in Edelwaiss hut above the town, and then more bars in the town.... Much better to stay in town centre, around Edelwaiss or Gamstein lift.... We get early morning Ryanair flight (9am in Salzburg) and return flight was at 9pm so we had full day on slopes before heading back and on arriving day I manage to get on the slopes at 11.30 !!
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Tom W, what lift is that Edelwaiss hut off? I just got back from there and though we found a good place for 11pm onwards on New Year's eve we couldn't find any decent apres in town other than those stupid circular plastic things. We were staying by the Gamsleiten lift so tended to ski back in that way but there was no apres happening on that side.
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We're doing a long weekend in a couple of weeks - flight out of Manchester on Friday afternoon with Thomsonfly, Sat, Sun, Mon, Tues skiing, and then 19.30 flight back from Salzburg. 2.5 days of work = 4 days of skiing. The late flight back means we can ski until 4.30ish, and change and drive back to Salzburg for the flight home.
We're going to Dienten in the Hochkonig region, about a 1 hour drive from Salzburg. It is a small village and quiet though. Would recommend Zell Am See, Saalbach or Schladming for convenience for a short break. Also like Obertauern too. Zell and Schladming however have the advantage of being slightly more accessible by train if you don't want a car. Obertauern and Saalbach would involve a bus or taxi. However, we usually get a car for short breaks as it is generally more efficient and gets you more slope time.
Owners are often reluctant to let self-catering places for weekends, as they lose a whole two weeks of rent, but it is fairly low season this month, and is now 'last minute', and I know we are not the only people with a couple of empty weeks left, so you should find something fairly easily.
Happy sliding.
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Zell am See - easy transfer, train direct if you need it or a ski bus. Good slopes for your mate, and enough to keep you challenged.
Obertauern is great but transfer a pain in the bottom. Love the resort.
Ski Amade here http://www.skiamade.com/skigebiete/ a motley collectiuon of resorts.
I'd go (and do for weekends) to Zell. St Anton - where you going to fly to. Friedrichshafen is a pain, and Innsbruck is pricey, it's also not too great for your intermediate friend.
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RichA, I believe its the hut on the right when you're on the way down from the Edelweissbahn lift....it was packed and rocking by 4pm when i was there back in November!
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Mad suggestion?:
Fly straight to Innsbruck with EasyJet, so you can stay in a proper city rather than a little ski resort so good nightlife guaranteed. Get the bus up the Stubai valley every day where there are loads of little resorts and a decent glacier. I think there's even a funicular from the city that goes right to its local slopes.
That's what I'm thinking of doing later in the Spring anyway...
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RichA, Yes, it is on top of Edelweiss lift (the floodlight run), first part is a kind of new glass/umbrella bar, on the back connected to the older wooden hut, the wooden part is where the DJ is and usually is busier with proper Austrian apre-ski atmosphere
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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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RichA, .... and you have to ski down the slope at night which is a fun
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| RichA, ... wooden part is where the DJ is and usually is busier with proper Austrian apre-ski atmosphere |
booger !! ... missed it .. i love all that stuff
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| RichA, .... and you have to ski down the slope at night which is a fun |
even better !!
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You know it makes sense.
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RichA,
Last time I missed some places in Saalbach due to lack of info basically, so I went mad this time and read every single bit I could find on internet about Obertauern, my girlfriend have thought I was there before
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Otherwise you'll just go on seeing the one name:
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Tom W, We kept missing the apre at the top of the Edelweiss because our hotel served afternoon tea at 4.30 pm and the cakes were just so good we couldn't resist - but we go back on 23rd Feb, and we are determined to do some euro pop stomping in the boots stuff!! It's what Austria is all about, and France can't do! 6 weeks and 4 days to go...
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Poster: A snowHead
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wopple, due to a cancellation, we have availability in our apartment in Zell Am See for the rest of this month, and are happy to let for long weekends. Have a look at the website if you're interested.
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