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The end is near!

Posted 331- Wed 16 Mar 2011 at 07:21GMT By  Matthew Stokes
Related pages: Saalbach - Hinterglem

Hello all, 

Last full week of guests next week and cant believe were the season has gone so quick its insane. Once again we've had a warm end of the season but we really need to thank the lift company for doing such a great job. All the way through December you can hear the snow cannons blasting snow onto the piste trying to give us the best base possible. You can really see the difference now with green fields yet still great skiing on 98% of the runs with still a good half meter base. Morning skiing is great but in the afternoon your better of on a board or in a deck chair, either way still a win win situation.

This years girls Anna Raisin and Yasmin have already booked there flights cant believe there leaving us so soon. Great girls and really fun season with them and a big thanks from Annie and myself for all there hard work.

Update on the new work!

We've had a builder around and half the work is possible and theres a few complications like always but they cant work out were the supports for the roof are until they have taken some plaster off the walls. So we've had a price estimate from the firm and are just waiting to agree a start date for the work. This really depends on when guests stop coming because of the position of the house were always attracting walk in guests that want a simple house so close to everything they need.

 Rite i best crack on!

Mat

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Mid Season and new Plans

Posted 355- Sat 19 Feb 2011 at 12:35GMT By  Matthew Stokes
Related pages: Saalbach - Hinterglem

Afternoon all!

Fresh Snow finally today!!! Not a lot but were take what we can get. Piste skiing is fantastic but if your looking for off piste powder ummmmm.

All is good here at Penhab each week is flying by here and cant believe its nearly March. Record breaking winter for Penhab with more and more guests coming each year and also returning guests which is fantastic. 

Big news so far is the plans to start the long awaited room refurbished too be taking a step in the right direction. We've had a local builder out to see if we can change the 2 single rooms on the top floor to great new fresh clean looking double rooms. This will give us a total capacity of 24. We've spoken to many people about what rooms they would like to stay  in and and have had some great ideas put to us. Next step is pricing up the new bathrooms and new rooms and booking a date for the work to begin. We have a plan like any other business and are very committed to listening to our guests and improving what they want rather than what Annie and myself want. 

Soon as i know more ill let you know.

Exciting times!!

Mat

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Merry Xmas

Posted 409- Mon 27 Dec 2010 at 09:52GMT By  Matthew Stokes
Related pages: Saalbach - Hinterglem

A very Merry Christmas and  a Happy New Year from all of us at Pension Penhab.

 

The Seasons well under way now and its great to be so busy once again!

The snows still great and today is -8 and clear blue skys its perfect.

Mat

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Snow Snow Snow

Posted 426- Fri 10 Dec 2010 at 16:43GMT By  Matthew Stokes
Related pages: Saalbach - Hinterglem

10 th December

Woke up this morning to see it snowing like crazy!!!

I think today weve had almost 2 foot of snow so fantastic base for the season.

Powder day tomorrow!!!!

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Pre season 2011/2012

Posted 430- Mon 06 Dec 2010 at 09:05GMT By  Matthew Stokes
Related pages: Saalbach - Hinterglem

Hello All

We hope your all well and enjoy the xmas season!

Pension Penhab is all ready to rock and roll after many hours of cleaning and painting by Annie and myself. Some great early snow as enabled us to go Skiing the weekend before the offical opening date so great stuff.

Skiing was fantastic and 85% of the lifts open and more snow is on its way!!!

Were all ready for this winter, just cant wait to get it underway. Bookings are up massively and the buisness really seems to be getting better and better each season.

Ive gotta run last bit of cleaning to do before Snow Mobile this weekend!

Cheers 

Annie & Mat

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Been a Long Time Short piece on winter 08/09

Posted 982- Tue 02 Jun 2009 at 16:32GMT By  Matthew Stokes
Related pages: Saalbach - Hinterglem

Hello Mat here

Well its ND June now and another season is under our belt thank you to everyone again. Every season now seams to be getting easier and easier.

We had two girls helping us this year Elin and Lott's they were both fantastic and made mine and Annie's season a lot easier.

We had meters of snow again and many many powder days. Was insane was actually quoted as saying can wait to ride a pisted piste lol.

We had many fantastic guests and this was our first season with Half Board this year which went Down a treat and wasn't to much extra work.

Annie's dad Henky stayed for the normal 2 months again this year its great to have another man about the house and Annie's football talk is very limited but improving lol. Henky great he does all the snow clearing and handy man jobs hes a great help.

We had lots of family and friends out again this winter which is fantastic for myself and Annie really makes us more relaxed with family in the house and its always an awesome week.

We welcomed Annie's Niece baby Juno on her first holiday out here to Penhab, we thourght she enjoyed although shes to young to ski yet we still managed a cheeky bit of quiet apres ski with her.

OK only a quick one today as very very busy but its summer now so will definatly be more updates

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A New Winter!

Posted 1154- Fri 12 Dec 2008 at 15:39GMT By  Matthew Stokes
Related pages: Saalbach - Hinterglem

Finally

After months of waiting and preying for snow its here Its now the 12th December theres a load of fresh snow, everything opened and were on our second weekend of being full.

Last weekend we were full of peeps staying for the Swatch Snow mobile competition which is amazing to see, theres a few clips on you tube if your interested. All went smoothly and new staff are working great. Elin from Sweden and Lotty from the UK and nice little mixture.

Am sitting in the office waiting for more arrivals for The Rave on Snow its carnage out here like Ibiza in the snow. We have had 9 guests arrived already and they arrived at 8 this morning already drinking....

Should be an interesting weekend !!!!

Speak soon Mat

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First summer!

Posted 1154- Fri 12 Dec 2008 at 15:16GMT By  Matthew Stokes
Related pages: Saalbach - Hinterglem

Hay Sorry weve been away for a while! Crazy summer UK and back all the time.

Summer is a bit quiet out here but the weather was lovely and the mountain bike scene is awesome. So after much debating we decided we needed some new Konas for a bit of summer mountain action. Theres great runs for beginners and advanced bikers so every ones happy. The pool is a great way to chill out after and the excellent fish farm supplies you with great fresh food and a cheeky beer or two.

We had some fantastic weekends here including Adidas slope style biking event (one of the biggest in the world) and the Harley Davidson festival (over 4000 bikers in the valley). All in all a great summer but no matter how great it is we still find ourselves counting down the months till the winter.

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Busc (British University Ski Championships)

Posted 1348- Sun 01 Jun 2008 at 14:50GMT By  Matthew Stokes
Related pages: Saalbach - Hinterglem

We started our weekly Saturday change over with not much expectations for the next two weeks as we only had 2 bookings, wasn't looking good at all. We finished the changeover and relaxed only to receive a phone call from the tourist board looking for beds. The big man upstairs was looking down on us that day we then had 12 students staying for 2 weeks and a full house for the second week, what a result. We heard many reports about the behavior of these BUSC students and were a bit nervous. When they arrived it was a breath of fresh air and good to see people are age. We two weeks was full off fun like street partys special djs, big air competions and skiing/boarding over a water pool. They left on the Friday and we were sorry to see them leave as it were like we had a house full of friends staying. It had now been 3 weeks since Mickey had left and we were defiantly missing him around the house he was amazing help last season and hes welcome any time. We defiantly missed him during the changeovers as when the students left on the Friday we had a night changeover as we had more guests arriving the next morning for th Puntigamer Music Festival. Was a great challenge for us with these guests as they spoke no English so this was a great time for us to practice our German. The weekend went quickly and that was it everything shut apart from a couple of lifts. We had sometime of then to ski with our friends Dave and Angela, they're great fun and good friends. Angela was amazed at one point during the day as she saw something moving under the snow only to be told it was a Snow Mole very funny. (it was the tip of her skis!)

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Thank you to all

Posted 1352- Wed 28 May 2008 at 12:15GMT By  Matthew Stokes
Related pages: Saalbach - Hinterglem

Thanks to all that made our first season so very special.

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1st Seaon Over thanks to all

Posted 1353- Wed 28 May 2008 at 00:00GMT By  Matthew Stokes
Related pages: Saalbach - Hinterglem

Hi guys, this is a big thank you to all you guys that helped us with are first season, great friends and awesome guests thank you all. What a season massive snow and what a learning experience.

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Winter Over Thanks to Everyone

Posted 1356- Sun 25 May 2008 at 00:00GMT By  Matthew Stokes
Related pages: Saalbach - Hinterglem

Finally our first winter is over heres a few bits about are first season running a small hotel in Hinterglemm and the ups and the down. Theres always many things going on and fun being had as were very lucky as were both under 25.Read on!

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Long Season!!

Posted 1402- Tue 08 Apr 2008 at 19:02GMT By  Matthew Stokes
Related pages: Saalbach - Hinterglem

Its April the Th and everything is closing and the season is coming to an end. Its been a long tiering season full of story's and fun. Heres just a bit about are season.

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Fresh Snow

Posted 1428- Fri 14 Mar 2008 at 08:15GMT By  Matthew Stokes
Related pages: Saalbach - Hinterglem

Morning of the Th March, much to surprise its dumping it down with powder, guests up nice and early and dying to get out there. Will report back whats it like. Great week this week lots of awesome guests that are all having a great time generally an easy week.

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Our First Season

Posted 1433- Sat 08 Mar 2008 at 12:59GMT By  Matthew Stokes
Related pages: Saalbach - Hinterglem

Our first season!

 

Welcome to our blogs guys here you will hear are experiences during our first season in our new hotel in Hinterglemm. Annie (the boss!), Mickey (novelty scando!) and I are running Penhab this season lots of stories to tell. Pension Penhab was one of the first places to be built in Hinterglemm and if the walls could talk you would all be amazed of the fun there’s been in this place.

We got of to a great start this season, fantastic snow in early November meant great skiing was had by all the locals which was great as we new that busy times were ahead of us. December 1st crazy day our first guests arrived lucky a few mates so very easy going and got us into the swing of things.

We plodded along with a few guests coming and going till the Swatch snowmobile competition, was full for the first time and we know we would only have a handful of English speaking guests. My god we were right it really pushed us to learn more German and try and interact with the guests. All very nice people apart from the normal village idiot that was drunk still at breakfast but i guess this is what we need to get used to.

Dec 22nd

With all the first nerves leaving us we were ready to open for our Christmas guests that were staying for two weeks. This was going to be a special winter for Annie and myself as due to many seasons working for different companies we had forgot to have a Christmas and defiantly forgot what Christmas was like with our own family. This was the first time it really struck home that we were here and ended up having one of the best Christmas and new years ever. One thing did happen that made the neighbors laugh, we celebrated English new year at ten o clock Austrian time as we forgot which way around the clocks were what a waste of fireworks and good champagne was still good fun.

Lots more snow followed in January and we really started to enjoy ourselves and not let the long hours and hard work get us down. Our lives were made easy by all the awesome guests we had, lots of fun had by all. Not going to go on about every month so here were we our now Th March.

Snow situation last week was a bit worrying, very slushy and warm. We were all caught by some guest’s sun bathing topless on the sun terrace! Never a good sight very funny though. I cant believe were in the final month of the season fully relived last week had great snow fall really saved the season for us.

Change over done all in good time every room cleaned every bit of wood polished as many of you know change over’s are defiantly not a peach compared to the rest of the week. All worked hard and was going great till i said (great season so far no smashed glasses or crockery) can’t believe i said it. So decided to clean the oven as normal, took the cooker door of and cleaned it beautifully. Then it all went wrong i got up quick and hit the cupboard down removing some flesh from my head then we couldn't’t get the door on the oven again. Was not fun at all I'm sure you all know what’s going to happen and yes i dropped the oven door flat on the floor the same time as new guests walked in. What a smash glass every were still cant believed it happened but never mind these things happen to make us a better person I'm sure. Okay I'm off to wait for the guests to arrive and check out the football scores on sporting life.  

 

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