Ski holidays in Austria
Freezing, windy and snowing here in Innsbruck with wind burn more likely than sun burn. The snow is falling intermittently at the moment but there is forecast a good fall over the next 2 days and snow right through next week. Salzburg is looking at epic snow falls this weekend with severe weather warnings in [...]
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 [...]
The case for suggesting Axamer Lizum, Innsbruck has the best skiing in Austria might be professional suicide – we pride ourselves in offering the very best information we (as a company) can give – to suggest Axamer Lizum ranks with the best skiing in Austria is fanciful. St Anton am Arlberg, Lech am Arlberg, Gerlos, [...]
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 [...]
The Austrian Alps are currently getting hit with the first real snow of the winter and around Innsbruck today there was endless and heavy snowfall. Down in Innsbruck at 575m there was cold air and very heavy rain. The freezing level was around 1200m and for the ski areas of the tirol and the glaciers [...]
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. [...]