Ski Resorts for Beginners

Adelboden is a classic Swiss mountain village where old chalets line the quiet main street. The skiing is unhurried and the atmosphere relaxed which makes it perfect for intermediates and those looking for a quiet and relaxed ski holiday. The nightlife is fairly low key but there are good restaur...

The resort of Alpbach with its narrow streets, wooden chalets and beautiful tree-lined settings remains one of the most charming villages in the Austrian Tyrol. There are lots of family-run hotels and B&Bs offering traditional Austrian accommodation, but just be aware that you will need to ca...

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 après ski scene is fairly lively (as in Saalbach) but there is less noisy nightlife - perfect for families preferrin...

Lech is arguably the smartest ski resort in Austria. With a delightful, fair sized, prestigious and picturesque Alpine village with a largely intermediate piste network. For experts the off-piste is the main attraction and for beginners there are lots of good, easy slopes to cruise. The lift syst...

Set in a long, forested valley called the Glemmtal, Saalbach (and neighbouring Hinterglemm) offers a vast circuit of steepish, intermediate-friendly pistes, which are also linked to the Tirolean resort of Fieberbrunn, creating a total 270km of piste. Fieberbrunn is more of a family resort in comp...

We think Schladming is a hidden gem of a resort. With four linked mountains providing skiing for all levels and an impressive 167km of piste. A bus ride away opens up the wider Schladming Dachstein region which also encompasses a number of smaller areas, including the Dachstein Glacier. In 201...

The combined ski area of Serfaus, Fiss and Ladis (which is at the lowest and most easterly end of the ski system) makes for a sizable ski area with well over 200kms of pisted slopes and vast areas of largely untracked off piste. Yet these resorts which are hugely popular with German, Dutch and lo...

The interlinked Austrian resorts of Flachau, Wagrain and Alpendorf belong to the wider Salzburger Sportwelt area and together form the largest of the five ski regions making up the total Ski Amadé (with a total of 760km of slopes). In 2013 the G Link modern gondola opened dramatically increas...

Westendorf is a small, traditional village with many older buildings and excellent nursery slopes. This small but lively village has a lot of Austrian charm and character. Westendorf is separated slightly from the main ski area but frequent buses to the lifts and to neighbouring resorts mean that...