Snowsure: 3.9
- Occasionally gets enough snow for skiing
- Is often closed due to a lack of snow
- Occasionally suffers from a lack of snow
- Rarely suffers from a lack of snow
- Seefeld is snowsure even in the poorest seasons
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December 24, 2024
Caroline Holder from
United Kingdom
Caroline Holder from
United Kingdom
I’ve been visiting Seefeld yearly for almost 20 years since learning to ski here as a 30 year old. It’s a fabulous resort for beginners with a dedicated slope (Birkenlift & Geigenbühel t-bar drag lifts) that is a lovely area to master those snow plough turns. As it’s purely a beginners area there are no fast skiers flying past you, it feels very safe. It’s in town so you can walk to it and there are loads of ski rental shops a minute away. You can buy lift passes at the drag lift here. After that you move up to the 2 other main areas. Gschwandtkopf slope is a 15 min walk or 5 mins on the free bus, there’s also a free car park if you have a car. It’s a fantastic slope, a chair lift up the front and this slope has numerous ways to come down, you can make this slope as easy or hard as you wish. Straight down the right hand side is pretty much a red run but amble down the left side and it’s a lovely undulating easy blue. A great slope to build your confidence. There are also a couple of blue runs down the back, a bit narrower and great fun but only accessible on a T bar drag lift. Fab lunch stops at the top and bottom of the chair lift. You get the morning sun here but it’s colder and shady from mid afternoon. Next you take on the Rosshütte area. A 10 min free bus ride from town or also has a free car park. This is the largest of the areas in Seefeld. To the right you have a heated chairlift that takes you to a perfect blue run. A little narrow at first then a huge wide blue slope. There is also a great red off this chair. A train takes you to the top or a couple of chair lifts. The reds on this slope are decent easier reds. The blues are all excellent blues, nothing scary and never too busy. There are only 2 black runs. The black at the very top above the train is short and an easy black if it’s not windy. The short black in the trees is nearly always sheet ice and steep, a proper black run! If you’re looking for extensive terrain and tough skiing then there are better resorts. For leisurely fun confidence building this is the perfect resort. We come here every year for a week and then do a week in the 3 valleys for more extensive terrain. It’s also a beautiful town, no real apres ski but a nice place to potter and shop and drink hot chocolate.
January 11, 2016
Bev A from
United Kingdom
Bev A from
United Kingdom
We've been twice to Seefeld, and are about to go again. I can't comment of the downhill facilities, but the cross country ski area is excellent. 150km of well prepared tracks, good changing facilities, friendly instructors and pleasant apres-ski. The ski/bus pass is excellent value, and allows access to all slopes at a very reasonable cost. We tend to do about 10 - 20km a day, so there's plenty for us to do (although slope B2 has yet to be open when we have been there...). Easy reach from Innsbruck, no complaints!
March 07, 2013
DaveH from
United Kingdom
DaveH from
United Kingdom
Just returned from a short ski trip (2.5 days) and used Seefeld as our base.
The town itself is lovely but the pisted ski area is somewhat limited for intermediate skiers (we skied virtually the whole Roshutte area in 3hrs!). However, if you rent a car like we did and travel to some of the other nearby ski areas (can recommend Kuhtai) then I'd say Seefeld is a good location for a base over a long weekend (at most) for intermediate skiers.
Somebody has written that it's also a good location for apres-ski. We found a couple of very nice quiet bars in the centre but could find no real apres-ski as we know it (especially if you're looking for St Anton or Ischgl style entertainment!).
March 03, 2013
Tirolerhund from
United Kingdom
Tirolerhund from
United Kingdom
Just return from my first ski trip (4 days) to Seefeld, having spent many summer holidays there.
Seefeld has a reputation in the UK for being a small ski area with little to attract advanced skiers. For those who believe the tour operator blurb, l suggest you try the off-piste north face of the Haermelekopf to correct that misconception. It's tougher than the back side of Valluga and no Brits have heard of it! Simply awesome and a must but only with a guide!
The ski area is small but there is plenty to keep you from getting bored. The are two hills, firstly the much overlooked Gschwandtkopt which, whilst only having a vertical of 1,000 ft, has fantanstic undulating terrain which can catch you out if you're not concentrating. It's so good the Axel Lund-Swindel uses it for training. The World Cup is in nearby Garmisch. Better still, over half the hill has no artificial snow, so no ice just grippy powder when conditions are right. Ever better the hill is deserted on the Moesern and Reith sides. It really is millionaires skiing!
The Rosshutte is the other ski area and more akin to most Brits idea of the ski mountain with 3,000 ft vertical and a mixture of mostly reds and blues with two short and not to steep blacks.
Subsistance on the mountain is vey good value: Spag bog and half a litre of beer at the charming Hochegg Alm is only 9.70 euros. France take note!
Most people come to Seefeld for the winter walking and cross-country skiing; this makes the alpine skiing so much better as all the slopes are quiet, even at peak times.
We stayed at the excellent Hotel Schoenruh which is a 5 star hotel in all but name and managed by the excellent Christoph Gruber who cannot do enough for the guests. The Hotel is owned by the Kaltschmid family. It is one of a number of first class hotels they own in the resort, and affords exceptional value. Top rooms are exceptional and only 126 euros pp per night for threequarter board. You can only dream of these prices in France!
The town is genteel with apres-ski concentrated around the Fledermaus bar but with such a first class hotel it's largely irrelevant.
For someoine who is an Ischgl fan, Seefeld was a revelation, so much so we will repeat the trip next year.
Meanwhile, Ischgl beckons for a week of hard skiing and even harder apres-ski from 9 March. Haben du Ischgl uberlebt??!
January 08, 2012
Jane from
United Kingdom
Jane from
United Kingdom
I have been visiting Seefeld in both winter and summer since 1970. We love it there although for more challenging skiing we sometimes go to France! I learnt to ski there as did my kids. I am off there again for a long weekend soon, Easyjet flights to Innsbruck make it all - easy. We paid just 70 pounds each return.
December 21, 2011
David W from
United Kingdom
David W from
United Kingdom
Fantastic resort for young kids, it is impossible to loose them on the slopes, you always meet up at the same place (nearly)!
Been going there since 1980, love the apres-ski and the ski school and ski repair and hire are really helpful.
Instructors really good with kids and speak English.
Swimming, skating, skiing, bowling all good options plus good hotel facilities if you spend the extra money.
December 16, 2010
Langford from
United Kingdom
Langford from
United Kingdom
Off to Seefeld for the fourth time in a row and over Christmas again.
Staying at the tremendous Schoneruh - great quiet pool and owned by the same family Kaltschmidt.
Roshutte is good for intermediates and offers some off-piste.
Small and friendly is how I would describe it.
Maybe next year somewhere different, but I hope we will not be disappointed.
March 14, 2010
Reg Roberts from
United Kingdom
Reg Roberts from
United Kingdom
Just returned from a cracking week in Seefeld staying at the Hotel Kaltschmid. Good food, nice size rooms, great service and a pool and spa area that made me finish skiing half an hour earlier every day just to go there!!
I would definitely recommend Seefeld for learning to ski as prices are reasonable in bars and shops and service is with a smile and not a snarl (many French resorts take note please).
Experts may not find a lot there but there a good few flattering cruisers on both the Rosshutte and Schanfkopf areas; lots to do for non skiers.
However there is a "gentleman " based in the Seefeld area called Mario who runs walking tours and whilst on one of these offered my wife a private ski lesson and promised her better tuiton than the official ski school blah blah blah,
but after having made firm arrangements to meet with a time and place confirmed, my wife waited for nearly an hour but not so super Mario never turned up, avoid this guy like the plague but we will be back, we just love the place.
February 27, 2010
Ian Maclean from
United Kingdom
Ian Maclean from
United Kingdom
We have visited Seefeld for the last 3 years during February half-term week. Living in Hereford, we drive to Bristol airport (1.5 hours), fly EasyJet to Innsbruck and then taxi to Seefeld (25 mins). With a 7yr and 2yr old, this easy transfer is a good start to the holiday. However, I would say that fog can prevent landing in Innsbruck and diversion to Munich (3.5hrs away) - which makes the final transfer more difficult. The probability if this happening to you is around 10%.
In Seefeld, we have stayed at the excellent 3* Hotel Schonegg. As it doesn't have it's own swimming pool (all of the 4* hotels do), free tickets are provided to the Olympia swimming complex, which I have found to be a major plus for the holiday. The Olympia swimming complex is quite simply the best of its kind I have seen anywhere, with a level of cleanliness and quality unheard of in the UK. It is brilliant for an end-of-day relaxing dip.
I have high praise for the Hotel Schonegg and the owners, Family Schwenniger, who always make us welcome and have a great team of staff.
Our 7yr old has done 2 years of ski school - from 10am to 4pm each day, Monday to Friday. The children can come from up to 5 different nationalities and the staff are very professional.
To entertain our 2yr old, we have a number of options from winter walks, through tobogganing, to swimming.
My wife and I have enjoyed learning to do cross-country skiing, with the huge network of trails around Seefeld providing variety and increasing challenges as we become more experienced.
February 12, 2010
JP from
United Kingdom
JP from
United Kingdom
First time skiing in Seefeld - Jan 2009. Great ski school and area in centre of town for learning and confidence building. Very nice and pretty town centre. Good transfer from Innsbruck, 30-40 mins.
Having been to other resorts since, would consider going back as Seefeld was nice, good skiing, and not overly stated.
For families and those wanting to learn to ski I would strongly recommend it.
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