Ski holidays in Austria
Just back from a weekend in Zauchensee, south of Salzburg and east of the snow capital that is currently the Austrian Tirol. So after leaving all the powder behind in the Innsbruck area and the Zillertal Arena ski region in Tirol we drove straight into masses of the stuff in Zauchensee, Ski Amade. It snowed [...]
One of the themes that we feature on the new Skiing Austria website is the ‘best skiing in Austria’. We think that the best ski holiday resorts in Austria are Lech, St Anton, Stuben, Neustift, Solden, Konigsleiten, Gerlos and Zauchensee. There are some very big names in Austrian skiing clearly missing from this list and [...]
Snow is due all week in the Austrian Alps whilst temperatures on the long term forecast are set to be colder. Tomorrow in the Innsbruck region snow should fall to around 1000m whilst mid-week the snow level is set to fall. The ski areas in the west of Tirol and in Salzburgerland are forecast get [...]
What a job - skiing between mountain huts getting beer and cake prices!
Everyone who has travelled (and I mean everyone) has inevitably been drawn into price comparisons with home prices as well as previous excursions – you hear it in every après ski bar, mountain restaurant, lift ticket office queue, everywhere. I was as shocked [...]
Having sat in an Austrian restaurant and seen German guests tipping the waiting staff all of 40 cents on a bill of €49,60 (and trust me this was not a one off) it comes with unchallenged German authority that the Salzburger Sportwelt has been rated as the best value ski holiday region in the Alps. [...]