Schladming
Not bad at all.
Thu 12 January 2012 by Gazzagee
We travelled to Schladming the week before xmas, and on the whole thought the resort was good, not a huge amount of night life but enough, they are hosting the Ski World Cub in 2013 and you can tell they are making the effort to make it as good as possible, we stayed at the Aqi Hotel which is right next to the main Planai Gondola, 2mins walk in the morning then on the new Gondola system which can move a lot of people up that mountain, the runs where well looked after, however the locals are BIG into their Slalom and found that they made the main runs look like mogul runs by early afternoon on the weekends, week days were not as bad, one to look out for is called Paradise which was just a complete powder run when we were there 2foot deep, even says "welcome to Paradise" as you enter the run :) the only thing is that the prices will go up as the World Cup gets closer.
Lovely town
Wed 8 October 2008 by Ari
Four nice little-ish hills mostly linked together. Get up high and you can find some nice bowl and trees off-piste. Move around to a different mountain on the bus each day and you won't get bored. Accomodation was bargain-priced but nightlife pretty dull. Get up to the Dachstein Glacier and do the Austrian National Ski Tour over to Krippendorf or Hall - they featured in Warren Millers "Off the grid" so you know they're good. It'll take you about four hours and feature a few gentle uphill climbs but the views, the mountain refuges and the cruisy off-piste along the way make this a brilliant 20km+ run. You can buy bus tickets from the base station at Dachstein for the ride back. I'd definately go back.