Saalbach Hinterglemm Leogang Fieberbrunn — Hotel in Saalbach-Hinterglemm

🎿 ''click''click'': the sound of your skies coming on and off as you get on to yet another un-apologetically modern gondola. Chairlifts here are in the minority.

👍 The Good: This is an area of modern high-speed ski lifts that connects a multiplicity of towns. The ski resort works hard to maintain the pistes despite difficult weather conditions. 🌨️ The alpine pastures allow for skiing on the smallest of snow bases and provide an interesting aromatic experience (manure). 🏔️

👎 The Bad: The ski lifts do not connect well, and so you can only ski the circuit in certain directions, and at times you will have to walk with your skies across roads and towns. 🚶‍♂️ The ski buses help in this regard, but they are not perfect. 🚌 This is not a ski area in which you can forget that the automobile exists and roads even cross the pistes. 🚗 The pistes are fine for confident intermediates, but a progressing beginner will find the blue runs here challenging, which are often steep, busy, and mogully. ⛷️ Advanced skiers will be able to enjoy some steeper black runs, but the majority of the pistes fall into the red category (even if they are marked otherwise). ⛷️ The lift operators have not yet discovered how to be friendly. 😕 Meanwhile, the skiers here will stop in the middle of the ski run adding to the challenge of navigating the blue runs. 🛑

👶 Beginners, take heed: amidst the sea of challenges, there are no gentle green runs to provide respite or practice. 🟩

🏔️ The Conclusion: I enjoyed...

More than 400km of ski runs included in the Alpin Card. What could possibly go wrong? Absolutely nothing! We were based in Fieberbrunn with less than 5 minutes walk to the bottom of ski runs and the new Streuböden lift base station. Here are some useful tips. You can use the lifts on the day before your lift passes start after 3.00PM - Really useful for late arrivals that want to blow away the cobwebs before hitting the slopes for a full day. If you're staying in Fieberbrunn they have a free Ski show on Tuesday nights from 7.30PM right on the slopes next to the Streuböden lift. Fieberbrunn works really well as a starting point if your looking to cover large distances as you head towards Saalbach and beyond in the morning on south facing slopes and your return journey is on mainly north facing slopes. This worked well for us in February and I would imaging its even better in the spring when the sun's intensity increases. The lift pass includes access to Timoks mountain toboggan which is just above Fieberbrunn. Use the ski circus app to find restaurants and consider booking a table if you've got your heart set on a particular place as the best ones get busy. Considering we were away on the busy school half term we didn't get caught in any long queues for lifts and the pistes were pretty quiet (Red and Black) blue runs looked...

My favorite skiing place! There are so many different slopes, whereby all people are able to find something that they can ski on. My favorite road to take is starting in Saalbach (taking Bernkogel as the first lift), skiing over to Hinterglemm and continue the entire way around so you end up in Leogang and are back in Saalbach again before the slopes are lifts are being closed. Wonderful slopes in both Hinterglemm and Leogang (as well as Saalbach). I'm not the biggest fan of Fieberbrunn but they do have good slopes. Thd Skicircus is very good at renovating each year, upgrading old lifts etc., whereby you almost everywhere have new and comfy lifts. I always live in Saalbach and what a wonderful city. Cars are not allowed, so it's almost just one long pedestrian way. Good to know is that the supermarket next to the church always is closed on Sundays. So if you arrive on a Saturday remember to buy what you need before Sunday. There are a lot of great hotels in Saalbach as well as bars - good for afterski purpose and going out during the evening. I can only recommend visiting The Skicircus - great slopes, cosy cities and restaurants on the mountains and very sweet personnel working at the Skicircus. The only thing is that a lot of the employees only speak German, so it can be difficult sometime when you only...