Anyone been to Seefeld with Crystal

Hi - Just booked with Crystal for Seefeld for next year.

Anyone know which ski school and ski hire shop they use ??

Just so I can get an idea where they are on the map.

btw - any other info on the resort would also be good.

Thanks in advance.
Tom

There are a couple of people here for whom Seefeld is favourite resort. I have written a lot about it here, so maybe search. No idea about Crystal. The ski school with an office at the valley station, with a bit of yellow in their outfit, seem good. Well prepared and mainly relatively easy pistes. Being smaller than the likes of St Anton the pistes are generally a bit quieter, but the town has produced its share of skiing legends.

The main piste area is Rosshuette with a few routes down and two peaks, other side of town (free bus, same pass) is Gshwandkopf and another smaller one. It is a low resort which means fantastic scenery, and woodland, not tiring for alititude but soft snow at end of season. It offers an easy introduction to skiing in woods at both Roshuette and Gshwandkopf. (You might want to take an instructor who will advise whether the snow is fresh enough, depending on your level, at my level I would only ski the woods in fresh snow.)

Nice town, a bit upmarket, not full of young rowdy part-goers, most hotels a short in the town a free bus ride from piste (though it is walkable). There is a hotel near the piste but less near the town. Also in case your hotel is not one of those with a spa, the public baths (Olympiabad) has a fairly swish spa. Also an ice skating rink.

It is a big centre for cross country too.

And with the woodland beside the pistes, a great place to try a little tour (again depending on your experience, but if you are new to touring a good chance to take a ruck sack and rent touring skis one day and spend an hour walking up through the woods to the half-way hut on the way to Rosshuette, before you start the main day's skiing, just to get a taste of why those guys are walking up the side of the piste, it looks daft but once you try is addictive and a base skill for more advanced off piste: but for all I know you may be expert backwoods skiiers already, in which case you know all about that!).

I could go on, I love it there though it is not a big resort. But if you search the site you will find more.

Hi Tom. I think, for what it is worth, that Insbrucker has summed up the resort expertly. Not much to add to his reply, but if the snow is sparse, as it is a fairly low resort, then consider a trip to Innsbruck by train or go to the Stubai and Zugspitze glaciers for guaranteed snow. Lovely town with 'yob free' atmosphere.

I am one of those that Innsbrucker refers to above - a repeat visitor to Seefeld. I can't say that I have experience of many ski resorts to make a comparison, but Seefled seems to suit the bill for us, as next year we will be there for the fourth time in succession. It does tend to attract repeat visitors as we constantly bump into people who are there for their umpteenth time - this trip I skied with people who were on their eighth and tenth year! We have to go during school holidays, and the pistes are quite busy, which is a bit of a nuisance, and I can't comment as to how empty they are the rest of the time.

Nowadays we DIY the holiday because we know the place well enough, but our first visit was with Thomson. We had an apartment a little distance from the centre - perfectly adequate, although I don't think it is offered by Thomson any more.
I always use the Seefeld Schi Schule for lessons - always good. There is another one Sport-Aktiv(?) which I know nothing about.
There are plenty of excellent hotels in Seefeld, and it depends which one you stay in which level of luxury you can expect.

Enjoy yourelves