Flachau, Austria skiing and snowboarding guide. Flachau is part of the excellent Salzburger Sportwelt intermediate ski area. Flachau is lift pass and ski piste linked with numerous local ski areas.

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FLACHAU SKIING

The skiing in Flachau is both expansive and lift linked to neighbouring ski areas to create an impressively large ski area. Lifts connect Flachau to the neighbouring ski areas of Zauchensee, as well as Wagrain and Kleinarl. The skiing in Flachau and the neighbouring ski areas is dominated by intermediate skiing with little on offer for the advanced skier or boarder. There is a beginners ski area in Flachau located close to the village centre and lifts into the main ski area.

Review by Lance Sharman
holiday taken April, 2009

Snowboarding

4 / 5  

Beginner skiing

4 / 5  

Intermediate skiing

4 / 5  

Advanced skiing

3 / 5  

Off-piste skiing

4 / 5  

Terrain Park

3 / 5  

The ski lift system

5 / 5  

Flachua the home village of Hermann Maier, provides the perfect base for intermediate skiers especially, with a short 40 minute transfer from Salzburg Airport (Huber bus/taxi recommended for quick & cost effective transfer), with good hotel accomodation options, we have stayed at the 4* Reslwirt & the 3* Salzburgerhof, both were excellent & good value for the facilities provides.

As well a decent skiing in Flachua itself, with quick access to the slopes via the reliable chairlifts, the long runs to Wagrain are a sheer joy! Utilising the ski bus to venture to Alpendorf is very worthwhile, as is the journey to Flachauwinkle, where the initial cable car may be a little ancient, but provides access to great skiing in Flachauwinkle itself but especially Zauchensee - a must for a days great alternative skiing!!!
without skiing this area.

Apres ski is lively, if you know where to go but the village is rather spread out but not as bad as many, for those seeking fun straight from the slopes the lively bar at the bottom of the chairlift in Flachuar is the place to be, plenty of beer, schnapps!!! - later in the evening the Hoo Ruck and the famous Fire & Ice bar are the places to venture!!!!!!!

Review by Robin Weaver
holiday taken

Beginner skiing

1 / 5  

Intermediate skiing

5 / 5  

Advanced skiing

3 / 5  

Off-piste skiing

2 / 5  

The ski lift system

5 / 5  

Flachau is perfect for intermediate sking as there are plenty of easy reds that are just above blue, there are plenty of other harder reds. however it is not so good for beginners as you can only exit to to the bus pickup via a long steep hard red. a lot of beginners who had only skied blues and the odd bit of red were scared of the final decent some and in fact ended up opting for the cable car to take them back down. if you read this and have already booked dont worry as it is only the final decent that beginners might find hard and there is always the cable car option. Pluss your ski pass will let ski at other resorts down the road, flachau winkle is is about 5 mins away and there are some very easy blues for beginners alturnatively there is a 20 min bus ride to altenmart where you can pick up the free ski bus to zauchensee which has a really nice mix of blues reds and blacks and if want to return the following day they have lockers where you can leave your skis and boots over night.

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FLACHAU SKI INFORMATION

Ski safaris in this region are plentiful and it is easily possible to ski to the outer reaches of the neighbouring ski areas in a day. This makes for interesting and varied terrain. The one downside is that the variation does not extend to the type of skiing; the skiing in Flachau and beyond is somewhat limited to beginner and intermediate skiing, there is little to really test the better skiers or boarders.

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Central location in vast ski region

  We don`t like:
Suits beginners / intermediates, less for advanced

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