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We're driving to Ischgl for 7 nights starting 4 April.
Thinking about skiing all or most of the last day (Sat 11th April) and staying somewhere overnight then returning to UK during Easter sunday (12th).
Any suggestions on where to stay without breaking the bank, to mark the end of our holiday in a way more pleasant than simply crashing out in a Formula 1/Ibis or similar?
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Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
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petem77, You could try staying somewhere on the shores of the Bodensee (Lake Constance in English) ie Bregenz, Lindau or Meersburg with its lovely medieval town centre and castle. Some accomodation in Meersburg is shown here
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We drove to Ischgl last year. On the way we stopped in Baden, Switzerland. We hadn't pre-booked so had to pay top dollar.
In the town centre there is a 'British' bar called The Pickwick Arms! It was packed, unlike the Swiss bars.
The following day we had about a 4 hour drive to Ischgl.
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My experience is Austria accommodation is generally affordable for a several days stay especially with pensions (B&B). Hotel accommodation in Switzerland is always expensive so if you have a car then drive to France (Mulhouse) or Germany (any city) as hotels there are a lot more reasonable and easy to book by the Internet. I normally stay with Ibis everywhere outside the skiing resorts. You can go there as late as you want, have a proper shower, stay any number of nights and specify a parking space too. Formula 1 hotels are OK if you don't want en suite facilities.
I suppose it is a 3 hours drive to pass Switzerland so after a full skiing day coming down the Ischgl mountain at 5pm, one hour to leave Austria you should be in Mulhouse about 9pm. If you tell the hotel you to check in late you have grab a meal before checking in.
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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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Thanks for your replies.
Anyone else have suggestions on where to stay for a Sat night en-route to UK from Ischgl by road after a full day's skiing?
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When we travelled from Ischgl it took us around 3 hours to get out of Austria. The traffic tends to bottleneck at the various tunnels on route. So basically I would suggest getting as far north as possible. When you get pissed off driving just head for the nearest town and find a doss house to stay in. Sorry I can't be more specific. But this is what we do when we do driving holidays. Not knowing what the driving conditions are like we never pre-book hotels and usually stop driving around 7-8pm and find somewhere.
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I agree with Alastair Pink, that staying on the Bodensee would be nice and not too far a drive after a day's skiing.
If you want to do a bit more driving, than Tubingen is just south of Stuttgart and a very nice little historic university city to spend an evening in. It's not far off the motorway, but I guess it will depend on which route you are intending on taking.
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I agree with Alastair Pink, that staying on the Bodensee would be nice and not too far a drive after a day's skiing.
If you want to do a bit more driving, than Tubingen is just south of Stuttgart and a very nice little historic university city to spend an evening in. It's not far off the motorway, but I guess it will depend on which route you are intending on taking.
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Any suggestions on route, Ischgl to Calais?
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You could always drive back in on hit! That's what we ended up doing last year. We live near Oxford. The whole journey took us about 11 hours. When we arrived at the tunnel there was a 2 hour delay due to engineering works. That came in handy for a break. We only stopped to fill the car up and pay tolls!
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petem77, Ah, if you're going back to Calais, then my suggestion of Tubingen is not really suitable, as that is on the more northern rout through Germany that we took to Ostend.
I don't really know the Switzerland/France route so can't help I'm afraid.
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