Ski Resorts

Pas de la Casa, situated on the French border, has Andorra's highest lift served terrain. With a convenient, if charmless resort base, comprising mainly of cheap and plentiful accommodation. The buildings are a collection of concrete box style apartments, which are near the main slopes and boast ...

While the resort of Soldeu has little of what we call 'alpine charm', it is none the less a very modern resort with excellent facilities and a large integrated ski area (19 black runs, 41 red, 55 blue and 24 green). The combined Grandvalira ski area has excellent snowparks, children's snow garden...

With its unique character Alpbach has remained one of the most charming villages in the Austrian Tyrol. There are strict building regulations still in place which ensure that the resort continues to develop in the traditional style of wide overhanging eaves and carved balconies with many charming...

Bad Kleinkirchheim is tucked away on the edge of the Nock Mountain National Park in Carinthia, in the far south-east of Austria, near the Italian and Slovenian borders. The nearest airports are Klagenfurt (around 50 minutes away) and Ljubljana (90 minutes). Salzburg is less than two hours away. ...

Ellmau is a pretty, traditional village directly linked to the large SkiWelt ski circuit (Austria's largest linked ski area) which is particularly good for intermediate and beginner skiers. There are excellent nursery slopes (although a bus ride from resort) and generally the SkiWelt is an unthre...

Until 2016 Fieberbrunn was its own small ski resort. It had a pretty, traditional and charming Tryolean village centre and 4 or 5 ski lifts that accessed the largely north facing home slopes. However, the new Reckmoos Sud gondola then linked the ski area of Fieberbrunn to the much larger interlin...

Gerlos became part of the wider Zillertal Arena ski area when the connecting lifts were installed in 2000. Today the ski area is large by Austria standards (163km) and far ranging. To ski from one end to the other and back would take a good skier all day (with little hanging about) and takes in s...

Hinterglemm is the less glitzy neighbouring resort to Saalbach. Four kilometres away and sharing the same excellent ski area, Hinterglemm offers some great value accommodation. The apres ski scene is fairly lively (as in Saalbach) but there is less noisy nightlife - perfect for families preferrin...

Ischgl is a compact village with predominantly traditional style buildings, excellent intermediate slopes and one of the best lift systems in the Alps, many of the chairlifts and gondolas are actually heated. The car free resort centre comes alive after the day's skiing with lots of apres ski act...

Kaprun is situated at the foot of the Kitzsteinhorn glacier and offers some of Austria's most snowsure skiing, from a traditional Tirolean village base. Ski holidays in Kaprun offer high altitude skiing and the possibility of skiing both the Kaprun and Zell am See areas - there is a wide range of...