Seefeld (Any good)?

Thinking of sneeking in another holiday this year and was looking at Seefeld.
any opinions ? :D

I have spent a lot of time at Seefeld, and done most of my three seasons skiing there, at all parts of the season, and have given my views elsewhere on this forum. To recap:

One of the closest resorts to Innsbruck, which is a plus (there is a free bus, I drive but car park gets full sometimes, also watch out over drink drive, Saturday the cops were checking people driving out). But with being close to Ibk goes the fact it is relatively low altitude. However, just now the snow is great. Saturday were loads of moguls, yesterday they had groomed most of them out. Both days were good skiing, though we still found a little ice higher up, and I did a bit of skiing on the sides of the piste which was fun (but not to go off piste properly as there have been loads of avalanches in the past couple of weeks or so in Austria).

Also big on langlauf.


A lovely little winter-sport town, with good choice of restaurants and bars, not super-smart and expensive but reasonably smart.
There are two ski areas, Geschwandkopf which I have not visited, so I only speak about the larger one, Rosshuette. Nice self-service restaurant at Rosshuette itself, skialm often with noisy music at the valley station, and three nice huts on the pistes. There are various lifts, but bascially two peaks from the valley station, and two main routes down.

The scenery is absolutely glorious.

Rosshuette is pretty much geared to families and learners, with plenty of blue piste, and equall amount of red, and very little black runs. There is a playground type area for freestyle. There are usually a lot of children out, and a lot of ski teachers. During the week you get parties of local school children, but they are not really a problem, though when I was even less experienced than I am know, I was nervous about colliding with some small child through my own incompetence.

It gets busy, not that I have had to wait for lifts, but pistes can be crouded. A fair number of Russians and Italians come, a few British and Americans, but above all it is a fairly easy drive from Germany so predominantly a mix of Germans and locals.

I have been pulled up before for saying this, but I still think you see a bigger proportion of inexperienced skiiers here than at resorts which are more predominantly used by locals, as Kuhtai & Axamer Lizums. This makes me nervous, turning to see someone overtaking me obviously out of control, and even on the short black there were people who really should not have been there (I was one, entered it by mistake...but there were worse skiers than me trying to pass me, it was a bit icy and one poor guy fell twice and skidded a long way).

One gets the feeling at Rosshuette that everything is well run. I never hired skis but the shop seems good if busy at times.

On the whole a thumbs up.

PS check the forecast if possible (though with Easyjet it is better to book in advance). Yesterday was beautiful weather, but today is horrible. It is supposed to get better next week.

Hi, Seefeld is one of my favourite places, have been 5 times, absolutely love it. Its probably because I go early Jan that the slopes are so peaceful and no lift queues. If there is any-thing specific you would like to know just ask and I will try my best to answer. Where were you thinking of staying?