Hochgurgl/Obergurgl

Back home from Hochgurgl and a fantastic week's holiday in the very luxurious Hotel Olymp. Booked a late deal with Thomson/Crystal and what a bargain! Our room had its own sauna, a balcony overlooking the piste and towards Obergurgl, fruit and bottled water in the room, TV, stereo system which you could also listen to in the sauna, chocolates left by the bed each evening, plenty of toiletries in the bathroom and even some shoe polish ) We all weigh quite a bit more due to the enormous breakfasts, teatime soup and cakes and evening meals. All the hotel staff were friendly and helpful, as were the Crystal reps. There is a swimming pool and wellness centre downstairs.
I was going to prebook skis via this site, but one of our party is a SCGB member so managed to get 25% discount (instead of J2 20%) at Scheiber Sport very close to the hotel. Excellent service from Scheiber and we got a free upgrade on the skis (for no apparent reason).
Motorway skiing throughout most of the area with very few narrow pistes. Piste bashers do a great job.
Favourite run was probably Blue 32 in Hochgurgl, but all runs enjoyable. Red 25 down to Pill was good fun with a very friendly and inexpensive 'tent' bar at the bottom. Toboggan run is more or less down this run also and perhaps should be left to the under 21's rather than the over 50/60's of our group :D Anyway, everyone survived in one piece.
The views from the top of the Wormkogl on a clear day are breathtaking, with the Marmolada of the Dolomites clearly visible.
Run 23a which we thought was a steep red due to the piste markers, is actually black on the piste map )
Our favourite huts in Obergurgl were David's Hut and the Nederhutte (in that order) both of which were friendly and good value for lunch. In Hochgurgl, Toni's Hutte is excellent and is part of the Hotel Olymp. We also had coffees in the Riml and tea in the Hochgurgl - both of which are very swanky hotels but very reasonably priced.
The Hohe Mut Alm in Obergurgl is also worth having a drink in before going down Red 16.
Hochgurgl is quiet in the evenings and has no supermarket - we skied down to the Spar in Obergurgl if we needed anything. There is floodlit skiing and tobogganning however and we went on a torchlight walk with one of the hotel staff (accompanied by a bottle of Schnapps and several glasses) followed by gluhwein and music in Toni's Hut.
Would probably return if a similar deal came up, but the ski area is limited. Very friendly area though and we all really enjoyed the week.

So glad you enjoyed it jastem :thumbup:. It sounds extremely luxurious!
My avatar is taken outside David's hut (also my favourite).
caron

Thanks Caron - all due to your glowing description of the ski area! Back to reality today with baked beans on toast for lunch :D

Oh its Caron again now is it?

Does this mean you are coming back but on twinnies this time?

Tony_H wrote:Oh its Caron again now is it?

Does this mean you are coming back but on twinnies this time?

Backwards :D

Pleased you had a great time, Hotel sounds great 8)

bandit wrote:

Tony_H wrote:Oh its Caron again now is it?

Does this mean you are coming back but on twinnies this time?

Backwards :D

I thought I'd better show myself as he was away while I changed my persona :mrgreen:
Still betty at the moment...

jastem wrote:Thanks Caron - all due to your glowing description of the ski area!

which means I'm ten times more delighted that you enjoyed it. phew :-D

Does sound rather pleasant, doesn't it?