Cheap Ski Holidays in Austria

Austria is one of Europe’s most extensive ski areas, made up of 2 huge ski areas, the Arlberg Ski area with over 20 major ski resorts and 15 smaller ones, resorts such as Kitzbuhel, Saalbach, St Anton, Kaprun and Mayrhofen. Then there's the Ski Welt area with world famous resorts such as Ellmau, Soll, and Zell Am See.

Austria's resorts offer excellent choice of ski areas for people of all abilities, friendly fun away from the slopes, some of Austria's world famous Apres Ski, stunning scenery and picture post card resorts and some of the shortest transfers making it a great choice for families too.

The Arlberg Area - A selection of some of the best all round ski resorts

Lech/Zurs is a high altitude ski resort, guaranteed snow, over 280km of top class piste, a 5 star resort for every level of skier and a snow park for the boarders too, and the only Austrian resort offering heli skiing. Excellent apres ski and non ski opportunities on offer here too.

St Anton is considered as one of Austria's best high alpine resorts, best known for is challenging skiing, stunning scenery and lively Apres Ski. A beautiful pedestrianised village gives easy access into the main ski lift area and a great selection of bars and restaurants on offer too. With over 280km of piste in St Anton and a choice of skiing other areas such as Zurs, Stuben and St Christoph on the Arlberg lift pass too, makes St Anton a Mecca for the intermediate and advanced skier and boarders can enjoy a selection of snow parks too.

The Ski Welt Area - Another choice of top class resorts

Soll is probably Austria’s liveliest ski resort, offering excellent value for money, a pretty village and a recently improved lift system giving access to over 280km of well groomed piste. With a massive selection of piste also available on the Ski Welt lift pass meaning you can ski neighbouring resorts of Ellmau, Scheffau, Westendorf and Going, and boarders can ski in the 5 snow parks on this lift pss too. Soll also offers night skiing and a great selection of off piste activities and even run a full programme of apres ski activities too making it a great all round fun ski resort.

Ellmau and Westendorf are located in the Austrian Tyrol, offering beautiful Tyrolean villages backed by stunning picture postcard scenery and offering excellent piste for all levels of skiers, particularly families with the wide, sunny nursery slopes and fantastic English speaking ski schools. Intermediates and advanced and boarders are very well catered for too, with the Ski Welt area lift pass opening up the choice of runs through out neighbouring resorts of Soll and the St Johann areas.

Apres ski is varied, either lively or traditional and a great choice of non ski activities too.

The variety of ski areas in Austria is vast, and the ski resorts are beautiful, traditional and picturesque. The skiing is varied and exciting, whether you wish to do some serious powder skiing or cruise down a wide tree lined run and Austria is one destination where the queues are always kept to a minimum giving you extra time on the slopes. With cosy mountain huts and traditional bars and cafés give you the perfect end to a perfect days skiing, there's no better place for a ski holiday.

Money

The unit of currency is the Euro (EUR), which is divided into 100 cents. Currency can be exchanged at banks and bureaux de change available in all towns, but it may be easier to use the ATMs. Banks are closed on Saturdays and Sundays, but exchange offices at airports and major city rail terminals are open seven days a week. Major credit and debit cards are widely accepted though some small hotels and restaurants may only accept cash. Travellers cheques are also accepted.

Time

GMT +1 (GMT +2 from the last Sunday in March to the last Sunday in October).

Language

The official language is German.

Climate

Austria enjoys a temperate Central European climate with four distinct seasons. Summers are hot with cool nights. In Vienna and other low-lying cities temperatures during the day can get uncomfortably hot over July and August. Winters are cold, below freezing in January and February. The ski season in the Alps runs from December to April but the mountains are also popular with hikers and climbers over the summer when the weather is usually warm and bright.

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