 Poster: A snowHead
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'I'm a complete beginner, where do I go?'
I thought I'd start this thread in an effort to help those in a similar position to that of mrs Spurs and I last year:
Kirchdorf is a very small village, little apres ski..but we could have cared less, too tired after our day's instruction to do more than have a couple of drinks in the hotel bar before bed.
Resort height. 800m..not good, but we were there for two weeks in Jan last year, the worst part of the worst year in ages for Austra/the Alps and we only missed one day skiing due to high winds/rain...we ski'd the first week and a half at resort. and your all inclusive pass allows your instructor to take you (on the free ski bus) to any of the many nearby higher slopes, we went to Steinplatte on our second week, very high, very white.
Instruction, The ski school is nothing short of brilliant and all ages are catered for. We had a 70 yr old in our group, and they have a separate kiddies area on the nursury slope. You start off on the very gentle slope at the bottom, progressing to the rope tow that takes you up about 5 terrifying metres  Then onto the T-bar that goes to the top of the nursery slope. There is a chair lift that goes higher, but there was not enough snow when I was there for it to be open.
Every morning/afternoon the instructors will say "okay, we're going do this now, watch me" and you stand there and watch, and say to yourself "no way!!" The following session, the instructors will be saying "okay, we're going to try this now, watch me" and you'll be saying to yourself "no way!!" but you'll do it, and the previous session's "no way!!" becomes easy. It sounds scary but it's not, you spend almost as much time being incapable of skiing because of laughter at your own/partner's/groupmate's fall as you do skiing yourself.
Extra plusses, The instructors put on a ski show every Tuesday evening, great fun and you get to see how it CAN be done, and there is a race on the friday with proper starting gates and all. They start the beginners from halfway down the slope, don't worry.
On the friday evening they have the prize presentation disco which is a great time for unwinding before your trip home the following day.
We stayed at the Hotel Marliesenhof which is probably furthest away from the slope, (Alphof is ON the slope and does great lunches..Stiegl beer, hmmmm) but we didn't find it a problem. The ski bus stopped outside the hotel every morning to take us to 'school' and we never bothered waiting for it after lessons...it was only a pleasant 15 minute walk back, and Marlies (the owner) is wonderful, she took us into Kitsbuhl one evening to see the sights, her husband gave us a lift to the ski-hire shop on the first evening so that we didn't have to queue up on the sunday morning, and he also gave us a lift to St Johann on our day off.
This is a personal recommendation, Krchdorf is the only skiing resort I've been to; had I gone somewhere else I might have been just as enthusiastic about there, but I didn't..I went to Kirchdorf...and now mrs Spurs and I are addicted to skiing, so that must say something?
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