Obergurgl, Austria
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Obergurgl summary
Obergurgl sits at the head of the Otzal Valley, a mere 90 minutes from Innsbruck and just 20 minutes from the larger resort of Sloden. Over 110 km of immaculate pistes offer good intermediate skiing and beginners should also find enough to keep them occupied for a week. Advanced skiers may have to look to the off-piste after a while or make the short journey to Solden after a few days to keep them happy. On the plus side, Obergurgl has an excellent snow record and there are, rarely any lift queues. The village, if you can call it that, is small and quiet. Not the liveliest of resorts but if it is the snow you came for then there is enough to feed and water you in the resort. If you get bored at Obergurgl, get a taxi to Solden which is much busier.
Resorts close to Obergurgl include:
Sölden (12 km),
Val Senales (20 km),
Racines (21 km),
Meran 2000 (25 km),
Pitztal Glacier (26 km),
Obergurgl Chalets, Ski Hotels & Lodging
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Trails (Pistes): 35 |
Halfpipes: 1 |
| Summit: 3080 m |
Toplift: m |
| Beg: 30% Int: 50% Adv: 20% |
Terrain Parks: 1 |
| Vertical Drop: 1280 m |
X-Country: 12 km |
| Lifts: 23 (12 chair lifts, 7 surface lifts, 4 gondolas) |
Snowmaking: 90% |
| Gondolas / Cable Cars: 2 |
Slopeside accom.: Y |
| Restaurants: 28 |
Acres of ski: 272 |
| Bars: 8 |
Nearest Airport: Innsbruck |
| Nearest Train: Sterzing |
Info phone: +435256 6469,
Obergurgl Resort Info Website |
Visitor Reviews of Obergurgl
Back at work too soon! from United Kingdom writes:
Came back on 21st Dec 2008 from a week's skiing in Obergurgl. Wow - talk about too much snow towards the end of the week. On the Sunday even the guy trying to keep the road clear in the resort gave up - I have never seen so many people walking in a resort.
The resort is small and fairly quiet - but that's not to say it's not great fun. It was our first visit to Austria after many years skiing in France - not sure I would go back to France. The Austrian people were amazingly friendly - helpful lift staff, helpful bar staff, helpful skischule staff, friendly skiers and boarders - the list goes on. The runs were a mixture of wonderful long blues and some more challenging reds - but all of them very empty compared to French runs. No queues - seriously - even in the mornings the gondolas and chairs simply swallowed all the people with no queues. It's probably not the most challenging, but with the ability to go off piste very readily I think it has enough to keep most people happy.
Like all the others reviewers, the Nederhutte is definitely the most fun - we took our 3 little ones (6yrs, 5yrs and 3yrs) with us to the Saturday afternoon / evening and they loved it. Dancing on the tables and benches and then, to top it all off, a lift down on a piste machine and in bed by 8:30pm.
Hotel Edelweiss is the hotel in the centre, but the Alpen Wellness is well placed for a quick rope pull and ski to a gondola. All the hotels are of good quality and the ski bus is regular and on time - even in the snow.
Romantica pizzas are truly wonderful and cooked to order very quickly (and you can take them away.)
We took the kids to the barrel bar (at the bottom of the main run near the Spar) - basically looks like a barrel from the outside and they loved this as it does 'kids shots' as well as adult ones. Again, wonderful staff.
So yes, if a friend was asking would I recommend Obergurgl I would wholeheartedly say yes.
2008-12-22 |
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