Some beginner ski holiday advise please

Thanks again guys

I'm really grateful for the advice, you're telling me all the stuff that the websites don't.

I know we’ll love it, I’ve always avoided it in the past due to other hobbies and activity holidays and basically don’t have the time or cash to find another sport I love. However this is more for my son who doesn’t share my passion for some of my other hobbies (e.g. windsurfing). So obviously I want what’s going to best suit him and I know he’ll love it.

Narrowing down actual resorts, hotels, travel agent etc is a great help so keep the views coming.

Hi, I skied for the first time this year with my family, and would really reccomend Filzmoos, I was advised to go there and its excellent, but as one other wrote stay in the centre, you can then crawl home from Happy Filzmoos.Ski schools are good and all speak english. I went down the e bay route for clothing,very cheap especially out of season as people are selling stuff they want to replace and youcan pick up bargains,any further info just mail me

Gary

Filzmoos doesn't appear as an Austrian resort option on either Neilson or Thomson site, is it an area of another resort with a different name or do I need to try other agents?

RJS wrote:Filzmoos doesn't appear as an Austrian resort option on either Neilson or Thomson site, is it an area of another resort with a different name or do I need to try other agents?

Inghams all the way.

Obergurgl is VERY expensive, beware!

RJS

Just one more thing - I talked for about 10 years "I would love to have a go at skiing" - oh how I wish I started 20 years ago! And hubby as well - when I booked our first skiing holiday he was like "oh I'll just go to amuse her indoors because I'm not all that sporty/keen/like summer hols/sun/heat etc... etc...." When we left Niederau after our first experience of skiing I swear he had the "ski blues" for about a month afterwards! :-) Much worse than I was! Please consider Niederau in Austria - it really is a lovely place to learn to ski. You can ski quite happily down the ski slopes in the village before and after your ski lessons without going near the gondola.

Another thing - the Inghams ski reps are really helpful - the first two years we went to Niederau we had the same rep and then this year in Niederau we had a rep who lived nearby (who spoke German) and when we went to Mayrhofen the Inghams rep lived there and also spoke German - makes a difference I think.

Helen

Just thought of something else - I was speaking to my cousin today who would love to try skiing (she's nearly 40) - she and her hubby love Bulgaria as a summer holiday but I've told her to check the reviews and not go there for a ski holiday - Austria has some of the best ski schools in the world.

Thanks again people for the advice.

We’ve been looking at the Inghams site at Filzmoos which all looks good, which hotel would you recommend for location?

SkiGirl there is absolutely no doubt that I will love it and will be keen to get on the snow every waking minute. The reason I’ve avoided it is so that I don’t get the bug and the post snow blues, I suffer from post windsurfing blues, in fact post any holiday blues, well actually more like back to work blues………

So I’ll look into Niederau, hotel recommendations?

How about the last week of December (27 Dec- 3 Jan) or is this risky for snow, busy and expensive?

RJS

Avoid school holidays if you can. I always find early to mid Jan the best time to go, very cheap prices, quiet slopes, and its usually cold and plenty of snow.
However, the best snow I ski'd in was 2 weeks ago in Verbier, so who knows when the best time to go is. Austria in Jan is usually pretty reliable.

Xmas and New Year week I would avoid because of cost and its always much busier. If you can go out of school holiday times of course....