 Poster: A snowHead
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Hi all,
Anyone been to Bad Gastein,
thinking of doing a 4 day trip.
Thanks
R.
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Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
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Spent a long weekend there the final weekend of the 2007/8 season. Thought it was absolutely awesome, but that might be because it snowed 20cs the night we arrived, stayed cold and my sister and I basically had the mountain to ourselves! We flew to Salzburg and hired a car but it's super accessible by train too if you need that, with the station literally a stone's throw from the gondola.
Seriously pretty spa town and typical varied Austrian terrain, and you can ski the linked Bad Hofgastein and bus it to the glacier at Sport Gastien, so you're pretty much guaranteed snow.
For what it's worth I'd go back there.
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robin.gray, the snow is amazing there at the moment, it´s pretty high, great off piste but maybe not the best choice if you have beginners with you. What oz5000, about the spas, they are great, laying out in the thermal waters surrounded by snow...magic!
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oz5000, no glacier at Sport Gastein but some brilliant off-piste and a super uncrowded snow bowl. Tends to be very quiet most of the time as many skiers do not want to take the bus or pay the extra toll to get up there.
robin.gray, I can only echo kooky's comments except she forgot to mention that the sauna areas are fabulous but absolutely no swimsuits permitted in the saunas. I love the spas at both Bad Gastein (ski down and cross the road straight into the Felsenbad) and Bad Hofgastein. Perfect way to round off a hard day's skiing.
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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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Samerberg Sue, my bad, the road was closed when we were there so never actually made it up to Sport Gastein. Sorry for the misinformation robin.gray,
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Sport Gastein is indeed awesome. Do not overlook it. Also do not overlook the Graukogel area. It's small, but packs a big punch. Graukogel has a lot of tree cover, so is a good option if the weather is difficult. On the other hand, Sport Gastein is useless in poor visability (having said that, do not ignore the trees at the bottom of the mountain, a lot of people mistakenly seem to stay on the top half of the hill).
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I like Bad Gastein too!!!  
Echo what everyone has said, it's a great place. Sportgastein is one of my favourite places. The only problem with Sportgastein is if the weather's bad in the valley, it can be terrible up there ... but when it's nice, it's a great! However if you like carving big wide turns on rolling reds, i've never been to a better place. When i'm there, I get up to Sportgastein as soon as I can.
Like Ami says, go to the Graukogel too if you like blacks. Often very quite.
robin.gray, I have LOADS of info on the town, skiing, apres ski, recommneded restuarants, etc. Happy to pass on the info if you're interested - PM me with your email.
Cheers
Kersh
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Sweet 
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Kersh, Nice. Will be there in January
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snowHeads are a friendly bunch.
snowHeads are a friendly bunch.
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Also, don't overlook a trip down to Dorfgastein on the ski bus, well worth the trip!
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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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Kersh, how good does that look, reminded me of cat skiing in Canada, It just seems to be one of those places that slips under the radar.
Samerberg Sue, have you skied krippenstein and if so what's the lowdown on that?
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Bad Gastein itself is an awful, well known ( by the Austrians ) ruined town.
If you go there you will see why.....!
Sportgastein is fab as is the skiing at Bad Hofgastein.
I would stay in Bad Hofgastein,great spa centre and good access to pistes.
There are however,much better resorts in the Ski Amade area near Salzburg.
All my humble opinion of course........
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You know it makes sense.
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immer schuss, i'd be interested to know when you last visited the resort as there's been some decent improvements to the town although I admit, short of what's needed. There are loads of old buildings in the centre owned by the same bloke who is refusing to sell .... it's a long story! Nevertheless, 2 new lifts in the last 2 years plus a load of new chalets built near me that, for the cheapest one, you won't get much change out of €2m (and they're all gone!), the place is on the up.
Kersh
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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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Poster: A snowHead
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Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
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Samerberg Sue, this site is indeed full of annoying people, the ones that most annoy me are those who are relentlessly chauvinistic about their favoured resorts/countries.
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Anyway, snowHeads is much more fun if you do.
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I'm in Bad Hofgastein the week of January 8-15. Are any of you going to be there then?
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rich.ll, no but make sure you do runs H1 and H2 from the top of Bad Hofgastein all the way back to the valley. It's the longest run in the Eastern Alps - something like 14km in total!
Oh and don't overlook the spa, it's well worth the visit!
Have fun!
Kersh
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