Cheap skiing in Austria

Hello

I'm planning a ski trip along with 7 or 8 of my friends this winter. We were planning on going from the 15th February and staying in Austria for 1 week.

There are a lot of ski offers in Austria, all very beautiful and appealing, but there is a small problem-we are students and we live 600 km from Austria. So, we need to ski on a budget.

My first question is: is there going to be enough snow in the mountains in that period of year?

My second question: do you know a place where we could go, stay and ski for a week for under 250 euro? We are looking for 6-7 day skipass and accommodation.

Thank you in advance!

Welcome to J2ski :D The 15th of February is peak week in some European resorts, because of school holiday, so prices are at their highest. I think your budget is too low as €250 will get you a basic room for a week, and a lift ticket will almost certainly cost over €100.

Avoid that week at all costs!!!!

I may be wrong, but I would say it's very hard to find anywhere under a grand total of around £500 per person, for flights, insurance, transfers, accommodation, skis and boot hire, and ski passes, unless you either get a fantastic last minute offer, or go early in December. And lessons make it more expensive again.

I should think it's very unlikely you could get flights for less than £100 return, transfers and accommodation for less than £200 each, skis and boots cost around £100 (unless maybe beginners ones are cheaper), and lift passes between £100 and £200 each.

And you need money to spend when you're on holiday - it's amazing how it all adds up.

Most ski holidays go Saturday to Saturday, although some do Sunday to Sunday. Saturday half-term is 13th February for us, and prices practically double for it. The cheapest week is usually the beginning of January, after the New Year, which will be Saturday January 2nd 2010, because most of the kids go back to school on Monday 4th January.

Students from my daughter's Uni went ski-ing at Val Thorens in early December, because it was so cheap, but I don't know what the total cost was.

Best of luck with finding a ski holiday you can afford, and I hope you have a great time,

Ally

Correction to the above,
I'm sorry I didn't read the original post very carefully. I have now re-read it.

Dani.dulfu - are you and your friends intending to drive from Baia Mare in Romania to a ski resort in Austria? If that's what you are planning on doing then you will be able to go to loads of Austrian resorts that we can't normally get to, because we normally fly to Austria from the U.K. and are limited to resorts with easy transfers from the airport or train station.

And, if you are driving, presumably you will be looking for resorts in the eastern half of Austria closer to Romania. I'm very sorry but I don't know enough about these resorts, other than what I can see on the internet, like for example the resort of Schladming is in the eastern part of Austria and has cheap apartments available on europe-mountains.com

And I suppose you will be bringing skis and boots with you in two cars, so as you said, all you need is accommodation and lift passes.

Sorry I can't help, but maybe someone else here can be more useful.

Ally

Ally, brilliant. Massive hug. 14 lines and then "Sorry I cant help"

Make that 2 hugs.

Tony,
Thanks for the hugs.

What about you? Haven't you driven in Austria to ski resorts?

I just feel very guilty about not being any help to these poor students, looking for a cheap ski holiday in Austria.

Ally

I drove from Munich Airport to Niederau, Auffach and over to Mayrhofen. I dont know about driving from Romania, or where might be particularly cheap, but I do know I would avoid that week because it will be higher prices and much busier.

Admin - can we have a HUG smiley please?