Kitzbuhel At Night
The Kitzbühel Alps region – which has offered an ever larger amount of ski lifts and runs on one pass since last winter – is seeking to highlight just how big it is by promoting a 50km long 'tour' of the area that can be made over one or two days by anyone staying in one of the many resorts that now participate in the pass.
The 'TransKITZalp' route takes skiers or boarders through the Wilder Kaiser-Brixental ski world and Kitzbühel ski resorts beginning in the village of Itter in Tyrol and ending up at Mittersill in the Pinzgau region of Salzburg, taking in the two provinces and the ski areas of seven resorts en route.
Instead of skiing down the same slope several times a day, the tour takes skiers over 12,000 metres of altitude and across 50km (31 miles) of pistes. At the end of the day you can take the ski bus back or there's an option of staying the night in Pass Thurn then returning along the same route on skis next day.
The Kitzbüheler Alpen AllStarCard lift ticket in question covers more nearly 1,100km of piste in 10 ski areas in the wider ski association area. This includes the ski areas of Kitzbühel, the Wilder Kaiser-Brixental region of the SkiWelt – the largest single area with 250km of lift-linked piste, the Saalbach-Hinterglemm-Leogang ski circus – Austria's most popular ski area, Zell am See and the neighbouring Kitzsteinhorn glacier above Kaprun, at the St. Johann in Tirol/ Oberndorf ski resort, in Waidring and Fieberbrunn, the Wildschönau and the Alpbachtal.
Altogether 350 cable cars and lifts are included and just over 250 mountain restaurants. The pass costs 217 euros for 6 days (children 108 euros).