I'm currently trying to round up people for a trip to Schladming in January. We're not sure whether to DIY or get a package yet, so we're open to suggestions. We don't really want to be too far out from the lifts and the town etc, but a short walk in is fine.
From what I can gather of Schaldiming, the Planai lift is the nearest to the town?
Does anyone have any reccomendations at all? It'll hopefully be a party of 6 20-somethings, budget is around £200pp if DIY - or about £500pp if a package deal. I've had a look on the planai.at website, but I'm lost looking through all those listed on there!
Cheers
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Check out flight prices before you do anything, we're doing a DIY trip end of Jan and the flights this year compared to last are substantially higher, almost to the point where a package deal looks tempting.
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Scottland, I'm sure Waynos will be here any second to dispense his Schladders wisdom. He's got a place there.
FenlandSkier, exactly! At the moment, the only decent place flying Manchester-Salzburg is Thomson and is (for the dates I've interested in) about £150pp incl taxes etc - but that's if I book now. Which is why I'm considering a package deal this year, whereas in previous years I've gone DIY.
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We did a long weekend DIY and stayed here http://www.talbach.at which was good, fairly basic but had everything you need for a B&B and under 10 mins walk to the Planai lift station. Was cheap DIY last year though those Ryanair prices are going up ... The Planai website is good for the property search which I think you can search in English. Another good site is www.Bergfex.com which is a good search engine for Austrian accomodation which gives lots of self catering or B&B options you can't get through the TOs.
Never been to Schladming but we are booked in for next January
We're going to the last week of January as its the Mens World Cup nightrace so cant wait for that!! Bode Miller, Benni Raich etc etc etc.
Should be real good fun as it'll be party week with over 50,000 coming into town on the TUesday night live bands in the town square and a great party atmosphere.
We're staying on a package tour with Crystal staying at the Hotel Kirchenwirt.
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Thanks, we were looking at the deal with Crystal to Kirchenwirt too - what dates are you going, and what week is the nightrace on?
In terms of pricing, and busyness - is it worth avoiding the nightrace?
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Scottland, we have been in Schladming a couple of times for the nightrace and I would say far from being 'worth avoiding', it is worth making an effort to go to!
When we were there, it didn't seem to affect prices at all, but I guess it depends where you stay - I suppose some hotels will put prices up but we didn't see any of that happening. In terms of how busy it is, it didn't seem to make any difference to the slopes at all - most of the 50,000 guests just show up from neighbouring towns etc on the night of the race itself, I don't think the bulk of them are there for the week for a holiday. The night of the race itself is mad busy, but in a nice way, when we were there at least! Stands and stalls etc. are set up a day or two before the event itself and disappear pretty quickly afterwards.
Do it, it's good fun!
The bottom of the black down into town is closed before the race and opens up the next day for regular punters.
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Cheers for that, I wouldn't mind seeing it actually - just didn't want all the prices to double or rooms to go early!
We're not sure whether to book early or wait for a deal, in your experience is it worth waiting or will the hotels fill up?
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Deliaskis wrote:
The bottom of the black down into town is closed before the race and opens up the next day for regular punters.
But it will be icy for the next week after the race, due to the preparation t is given for racing on.
The one time I have been to Schladming, I arrived on the Saturday evenng, when the night slalom had been on the Friday, with a GS (or super-G) run during the day on Saturday.
The bottom part of that run was still pretty hard by the following Friday.
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Scottland wrote:
Thanks, we were looking at the deal with Crystal to Kirchenwirt too - what dates are you going, and what week is the nightrace on?
In terms of pricing, and busyness - is it worth avoiding the nightrace?
We are flying out on saturday 25th and the nightrace is on the following Tuesday i think.
Here's a link to a thread that i posted a while ago with questions about the slopes being too busy etc. Hopefully any questions will be answered here for you. It should be a fun week.
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Try the Appatements Gradwohl email heinz.gradwohl@aon.at, tel, 0043 664 3806472. Decent apartments,spacious and clean and reasonable prices. The apartments are on the edge of the main square abot 100 m from the main planai lift, stayed there last March. Schladming is a good resort,loads of bars and places to eat all fairly cheap (similar to uk prices) local schladminger beer is excellent! The place has an upmarket feel to it without upmarket prices. Decent ski area as well.
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Thanks all, no_snow_in_swindon I'm actually hoping to go the same week.
Jan can't come quick enough!
You know it makes sense.
You know it makes sense.
Just make sure to check the flight prices, there might be some changes.
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Scottland wrote:
Thanks all, no_snow_in_swindon I'm actually hoping to go the same week.
Jan can't come quick enough!
May well see you in The Kirchenwirt then!!!
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I've been looking around at self catering apartments, and it works out about £100-£120 cheaper than a package (incl flights and transfers). One of the things that annoyed me last year in ValT was the price in supermarkets compared to the smaller French resorts I've been to before.
What's the cost of food & drink like in supermarkets, and also the cost of meals in restaurants for the days when I cba cooking?
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Scottland, the great thing about Schladming is that it is actually a town where 'real' Austrians live and work, as well as a ski resort, so consequently supermarket prices are normal.
In terms of eating out, you can have for example pizza and a salad and wine for less than E20 per person, local dishes for about the same, and more upmarket meat and fish meals for up to about E30 for two to three courses and wine. There is also takeaway pizza and a chicken rotisserie where you can buy whole chickens and bags of chips for about £12 for 4 people.
In town there is a range of restaurants, including normal Austrian type cuisine, italian, tex-mex, chinese, and a fab steak restaurant called the Talbachschenke. So something for everyone.
Compared with normal resort prices, Schladming is pretty good value.
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Deliaskis wrote:
Scottland, the great thing about Schladming is that it is actually a town where 'real' Austrians live and work, as well as a ski resort, so consequently supermarket prices are normal.
In terms of eating out, you can have for example pizza and a salad and wine for less than E20 per person, local dishes for about the same, and more upmarket meat and fish meals for up to about E30 for two to three courses and wine. There is also takeaway pizza and a chicken rotisserie where you can buy whole chickens and bags of chips for about £12 for 4 people.
In town there is a range of restaurants, including normal Austrian type cuisine, italian, tex-mex, chinese, and a fab steak restaurant called the Talbachschenke. So something for everyone.
Compared with normal resort prices, Schladming is pretty good value.
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Thats good to know, I've seen a few writeups mention that the prices in the resort are fairly normal which is definately a plus from last year - it's good to get a bit of reassurance!
As far as supermarkets go the cheapest by far is Hofer on the edge of town (near the first exit of the main road as you come in from Salzburg, so heading east). I think Hofer is another name for Aldi. An don't forget to look out for "Hofer's Offers".
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Scottland, glad you're reassured, it's very different from somewhere like Val T which is just a resort, and has a very captive market given the difficulty and cost of getting down the road to a big town, - f Schladming's supermarkets were expensive, all the locals would just shop 5 minutes away in Radstadt!
Aldi will do us just fine, which makes DIY the preffered option I think, based on cost and flexibility as we can try to book an apartment to fit in with when flights are cheapest.
Thanks again
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Has anyone any experience with the schladming-apartments.at website? I've seen a few apartments on there that would suit, but the majority of the website is in German, and I am a little rusty to say the least.
I think I can navigate my way to request a booking, but I'm wonding if I might get some help from them if I email in first?
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Scottland, I haven't used the website as a customer, but have spoken to them a few times when we were thinking of buying there and asking them to manage for us, and they seemed to be very friendly/helpful and most can speak English, so I would try emailing them.
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Thanks (again)
I'll send them a polite email asking for some assistance then, it's now looking like there's going to be 7-8 of us. There seems to be fewer apartments that will sleep 8, so I think we're going to book fairly soon.
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Scottland,
did you ever end up book Schladming?
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No, we ended up changing our minds and going to Saalbach instead for a variety of reasons
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When in Schladming I prefer staying at Rohrmoos. At least 10 reliable appartments can be found overthere.
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