recommended ski resorts near Innsbruck

[malumbu]

EDF returning to it's heartlands - not consumer rip offs, social cohesion or geopolitics. Please leave any abuse for me on these threads not this one!

Been to Obergurgl many times - good runs, high, extremely snow sure, pretty and close to Innsbruck. Downsides a bit posh/expensive (excuse my humble roots). Any other recommendations - Albach seems lovely but a bit low (going in early January with my two (youth) kids). Please do include views on accommodation - we stay in 3* guest houses rather than the 5* Hotel Edelweiss.

My next thread will be on Tuscany holiday villas and second homes in Provence.

[rendelharris]

Mayerhofen - excellent range of pistes, especially as you can get up and down the Zillertal valley on the train to other resorts included in the skipass. Glacier at the head of the valley for guaranteed skiing no matter what. Great range of accommodation and eating places for all tastes and pockets, local beer very good.

[malumbu]

Thanks Rendel, Meyhofen was my first ever proper foreign holiday going overnight by coach (summer).

[Quia Differt]

Went to the Winter Olympics in Innsbruck in 1976.

Stayed nearby in Seefeld where The Cross-Country Winter Olympics ( lang lauf ) were held.

Thoroughly pleasant place and Kenneth Cope and Footballer Brian Dear ( West Ham ) were in our group.

[Loz]

Alpbach is very pretty, but unless you are a very slow skier or easily amused, you won't get much more than a couple of days out of it.

St Anton would be my recommendation - you can get the train straight there in just over an hour from memory. Accommodation can be a bit pricey, though.

[Quia Differt]

Loz Wrote: St Anton would be my recommendation - you can get the train straight there in just over an hour fro memory. Accommodation can be a bit pricey,though.

Unless you join me in a Time Machine Loz.

10 Days Half-Board in St.Anton, including fares to London Airport ( can't truthfully remember whether it was Gatwick or Luton ) flight to Geneva then 5 hour Coach Trip to St. Anton and return travel all included...

For ................ ?36 per person.

It was 1974 though :)

[malumbu]

I think it was around ?75 for half board to Meyerhofen in 83 - flight Lydd to Ostend then 20 hours or so by coach. Basic food but you could cash in your tokens to get a better evening meal. Kids nowadays....