Ischgl Ski Resort Guide
Lifestyle island for winter sportsmen: The Tyrolean ski resort of Ischgl is an alpine lifestyle skiing location. The famous Ischgl winter enraptures its guests with uninhibited holiday flair, offering everything from skiing in the very finest style to concerts with international stars, entertainment, events and the highest quality of shopping all the way to outstanding culinary creations. In Ischgl, in Tyrolean Paznaun, we live and breathe superlatives. In winter the area offers a perfect mix of excellent winter sports and incomparable entertainment. It's not for nothing that the village, with a population of 1,500, is known as a perfect winter sports Eldarado, which has received multiple awards from both national and international media and offers round the clock entertainment. The service at the Silvretta Arena is improved every year, so that in Ischgl even skiing is a real experience. 'Top of the Mountain' concerts with international stars, held in the middle of the ski piste, represent a unique form of entertainment, gourmet huts offer avant-garde architecture and exclusive ski cuisine. Of course Ischgl is a perfect resort for skiing – incidentally, the largest connected one in the Tyrol – with the most modern equipment and guaranteed snow until the beginning of May. In the Silvretta Arena, more than 235 kilometres of piste lead to a height of almost 3,000 metres, then back down into the Swiss tax haven of Samnaun. As a ski resort with entertainment value, Ischgl is unique: there's an excellent après-ski atmosphere in the establishments along the Ischgl promenade. Shopping boutiques or restaurants as good as in any big city, cigar lounges or clubs, even after the day's skiing there are plenty of possibilities to suit every taste. Apart from the three 'Top of the Mountain' concerts, the Ischgl events calendar is filled with events such as the snow sculptures competition with international artists, numerous sports events like for example the Frejins Snowboard Freeride Inferno. The winter season in Ischgl starts with the opening on 27th November 2010 and finishes with the legendary 'Top of the Mountain' concert on 30th April 2011.
Resorts close to Ischgl include:
Samnaun (1 km),
Silvapark (9 km),
Kappl (9 km),
St Anton (13 km),
St Christoph (15 km),
Ischgl Chalets, Ski Hotels & Lodging
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(Also see our detailed Weather Map around Ischgl, which will give you visual overview of current and future snow conditions)
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Trails (Pistes): 65 |
Halfpipes: 1 |
| Summit: 2873 m |
Toplift: m |
| Beg: 21% Int: 66% Adv: 13% |
Terrain Parks: 1 |
| Vertical Drop: 1495 m |
X-Country: 74 km |
| Lifts: 40 (5 gondolas, 23 chair lifts, 12 surface lifts) |
Snowmaking: 80% |
| Gondolas / Cable Cars: 5 |
Slopeside accommodation: Y |
| Restaurants: 38 |
Acres of ski: 704 |
| Bars: 22 |
Nearest Airport: Innsbruck |
| Nearest Train: Landeck |
Tourist Info Phone:: +43 (0)50990 100,
Ischgl Tourist Office Website |
Visitor Reviews of Ischgl
Victor from Estonia writes:
Went to Ischgl the week of 21 Jan. I had read a lot about it and mostly good things but I have to say that I expected more. I was by no means disappointed, though. In fact it is a good resort with lots of pistes and good facilities.
Some comments compare it to Val D'Isere and Tignes. You have to be joking. Val/Tignes are on a completely different level. Why? Plenty of reasons:
1. In Ischgl some of the pistes are marked in a funny way. They are marked read but in fact it is a ski road in most parts. This can be very annoying given that it happens rather often.
2. Overall, Val/Tignes (especially Tignes) is much sportier - pistes are wider, harder (some blues in Val/Tignes are like Ischgl reds) and longer.
3. The quality of skiers - oh my god. Ischgl is a freak show in that respects. Idiots who barely manage wedge turns go down on blacks or hard reds is a beautiful sight. On one occasion I got hit by someone coming from behind and all he said was "I was going straight, it is your fault". No comment. We were a group of 15 and everyone said that this is the worst resort in terms of quality of skiers they have ever been to. And none of us had seen so many bad accidents in one week.
4. I really do not understand why Ishgl has a reputation of a party town. If your idea of partying is 50-year olds drinking snapps with beer all afternoon/night then you have to get a life. But this is a minor point for me since I go skiing....(surprise) - for the skiing.
5. Overall, Val d'Isere/Tignes or Val Thorens (again especially Tignes) just feel that people are there for the skiing and for the sport in general. Yes, Tignes is an ugly purpose built resort but it is so practical. You go out of your ugly concrete appartment block on skis and 5 minutes later you are on the top of the mountain. No nonsense, no car or bus ride to get to the lifts, no distractions, no waste of time.
Ischgl has of course some positives too, even if it is more expensive that other ski resorts in Austria food and drinks on the pistes remain much cheaper than in France where you can easily pay 7 euros for a coke or 20 euros for some miserable burger. The lift system is indeed rather new. The facilities (piste restaurants, toilets etc) look amazing. But come on - is this enough? What do we really go skiing for? For the "accessories" (like cheap goulash soup and beer, good toilets and heated lift seats) or for the real stuff (pistes, snow, off-piste, beautiful mountains)? Val/Tignes beat Ischgl hands down in those departments. Whoever says the opposite goes skiing for a different (not necessarily wrong) reason than me.
So about Ischgl - decent resort but if you really want to ski there is way way way better (not just Val/Tignes). Would I go there again? I do not see a reason why I would.
2012-01-31 |
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- Season opens: 25 Nov 2011
- Season closes: 1 May 2012
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27.11.2010 Top of the Mountain Opening Concert
05.12.2010 8th Ischgl "Devils Run"
26.12.2010 Ischgl Mountain Christmas
31.12.2010 New Year’s Eve
January 2011 Shapes in White
30.4.2011 Top of the Mountain Concert
Information supplied 8 Jun 2010
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