Lift Pass Prices

6 day Anniviers Lift ticket is 245 Fr, coming in at £173 today. That's for 220km of marked slopes and endless off piste amongst stunning scenery.

I'm happy

BTW No-one ever comes here, it's way too small, and you can't get a package from a UK Tour Op

LOTA wrote:What this lift pass price list proves is, as in life generally, is that you get what you pay for.
I've not been to Alpbach, and I'm told it's charming, but its mountain is small with a handful of lifts. Given those factors, does the lift pass price represent good value?

Good question, Lota. If you really like skiing, and I mean skiing, and not just sight seeing, and being seen in this years colours and styles, then you can often get more done in a modest sized resort, than in a 500km area. And of course you get to know the locals and the culture.

Alpbach is an interesting place. After WW2, the major of Alpbach was the author of Tirols section of the Marshall plan. Skiing and mountain tourism was set to be a key part of the plan. In 1946, Niederau built the first mountain chairlift in Austria. It was built by Ingenieur Sepp Hochmuth, a really nice guy. I got to ski with him, and sadly later attended his funeral.

I also conversed with a succesor of the Alpbach mayor, Mayor Blechzacher, who helped me with some research into Tirol Alpbach/Wildschönau history.

Next year, the Wildschönau and Alpbachtal will be joined together into the same area. In addition to increasing the range of skiing, it will open up some great off piste runs down from the Schatzberg to Inner Alpbach.

Err, what was the question, again? )

Is that yes or no? )

I like small resorts (I've skied in Hochwang - they don't come much smaller), but was very disappointed when the plans to link one of my favourites, Arosa, with Lenzerheide fell through. Glad to hear Alpbach will be linking with others soon; I most enjoy the sense of travelling into new valleys and from resort to resort or village to village.

As for latest styles and colours, David, that's not for me either.

Hi Andy,

Lovely stuff, you wouldn't have the spreadsheet handy would you? Or is that being too cheeky?

Last year the European Consumer Centres' Network produced a report on the cost skiing in 197 European ski resorts. One of the things they compared was the cost of a ski pass to kilometres of piste.


http://www.europakonsument.at/cs/Satellite?pagename=Europakonsument/MagazinArtikel/Detail&cid=318874161623&pn=4

I am not so sure about the value of this chart Swingbeep, although I can see it is the kind of thing that a European civil servant would deem to be useful! I am happy to spend what it takes, to ski where I want. Having said that, in most years, I do get outstanding value for good quality skiing. Unlikely to manage that this winter though - (

I don't know if anyone here is interested in ski-ing in Australia, but the lift pass price for the Adult SuperSki pass (Thredbo and Perisher combined) for 5 1/2 days was 499 AUD for the season that's just finishing now.

And we got $1.43 to the pound in June, roughly half what we got ten years ago. So the lift tickets are very expensive but mostly I think because of the currency rates.

Ally

I skied in Thredbo, Perisher and Blue Cow back in 1989. The lift pass prices at all three were expensive compared to European lift pass prices, even when taking into account exchange rates etc. The only good value was Perisher/Blue Cow did include parking at Bullocks Flat and return trip on the excellent SkiTube.