Buses around Kitzbuehel / also cheap pensions Kitzbuehel, please?

Does anyone know about buses around the Kitzbuehel area? For example, are there buses to Kirchberg or Jochberg, or further places, and are there buses after 6 p.m. and until what time. I'm thinking of a few nights in a budget pension, but enjoying the Kitzbuehel Aquarena mud spa and sauna etc., and wondering if I'd have to take a taxi after 6 p.m. out of Kitzbuehel town>

Also, I've tried quite a lot of pensions in Kitzbuehel, but all seem to be full up for my dates, a few days between Christmas and New Years Day. Does anyone know of any? I know I've heard of more in the years before than I found so far this late autumn.

I was looking to go to Kitzbuhel over new year this year, but couldn't find any accommodation for that time. It's such a popular place that everywhere seems to fill up really quickly. So i'm now going back to Niederau for new year instead.

When I was in Kitzbuhel earlier this year, there seemed to be plenty of buses, that operated on a regular basis.

Number 49 every hour :mrgreen:

blodyn1 wrote:I was looking to go to Kitzbuhel over new year this year, but couldn't find any accommodation for that time. It's such a popular place that everywhere seems to fill up really quickly. So i'm now going back to Niederau for new year instead.

When I was in Kitzbuhel earlier this year, there seemed to be plenty of buses, that operated on a regular basis.

Here is that mention of Niederau again!!

I told my husband last night that we are definately going there for next years ski trip!! By the sounds of it, Kitzbuhel will be sooooo busy this year

Thanks Ian. Though does that bus finish to bring the skiiers home after the lifts close and a while after that? Or does it carry on later, and when - 9 p.m., 11 p.m.? I'm thinking of going to Kitz. by myself so getting taxis back to villages near Kitzbuehel if I stay out would be the least favourite option.



**15 December addition**. A pension hotel in Aurach has alerted me to the times and I found them on the Kitzbuehel resort website.

The buses go all around, to neighbouring villages, but stop around 7 p.m.
Which is pretty bad, especially considering the popularity of Kitzbuehel centre and that it's at times so hard to find accommodation in the town itself. Why, why why? Why not a circular evening bus at around 9 p.m. and another about 11, and, let's be human, another at 12.30 or so?

It's not unusual. The only resort I can remember which had any evening buses was 3 Valleys in France, around Meribel.

I'm surprised at Kitzbuehel not having one night bus anyway.

Some of us aren't going to hire a car, as we have a ski bus for days and at nights we like to drink alcohol drinks. The large Serre Chevalier is busless after 6.30 or so, meaning people wanting to go to Europe's highest city, Briancon, from Villeneuve are unlikely to bother as it's around 30 minutes drive in a taxi. And there will be a strange conflict for people staying in Briancon, St. Chaffrey, maybe Chantemerle who want to go to the new Monetier spa baths, as they may be deciding whether to ski daytime or experience the warm baths and return on the last bus.

I found this old message I posted before I was in Kitzbuehel - I stayed in Kitzbuehel for 5 days between Christmas 2008 and New Year, leaving on New Year's Eve, coming from spending a week in Zell am See.

I got a pretty great place to stay, considering everything, especially value for this quite expensive part of the world, in the little, really picturesque village of Gundahbing, near Kitzbuehel. I really recommend it - Pension Foidl.

http://www.tiscover.com/pension.foidl
http://www.bensbauernhof.com/pensionfoidlaustria.html

The resort bus stops paces from outside the pension, and it's only 4 minutes on the bus to the nearest lift stop Fleckalmbahn - which is as good as or better than the Hahnenkahn lift station if you're not a solid red skiier (I can barely ski after years, but haven't given up).

The Hahnenkahn area is quite tough red skiing, but if you're going to do much of that, it's even a bit more advanced than for solid intermediates.

So, the Fleckalmbahn base station is excellent for getting up to all of the good bits - and it's challenging enough for someone like me to ski down to the bottom anyway, avoiding the really tough central Hahnenkahn trails. Better skiiers would really enjoy it.

Pension Foidl in Gundhabing was a really nice place to stay. The price was about 62 Euros p/n for 1 person in an ensuite double room. The place had a really good sauna, complimentary to guests - though it is for private use, unless other guests say they're willing to share I suppose. So yoguests have to book the sauna (no charge), and the last time to do this is at the end of breakfast. Though on one day, I asked some time after this, early afternoon, if the sauna happened to be reserved, and it wasn't and it was fine for me to use it. Though it ends at about 10.30 or 11, on one night, it was booked until just after 10 and the owners let m go to the sauna, as it was hot, after that until about 11.30, kindly, though it's after the usault time. , And a ski & board room and a heated boot store on the ground, no stairs to climb up for that. The views are a truly awesome. Each bedroom has a balcony - mine were very large (I changed rooms, I had a kind of mini suite first). Gundhabing is really quiet and charming (prefect, really, but there is nowhere to go actually in the village). You can walk about 20 minutes to the nearest restaurants, or get the bus to Kitzbuehel and a taxi back at night.