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Gateway City: Zürich
Transfer Time: 3 hours
Via: Motorcoach |
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Beginner/Novice: 20%
Intermediate: 40%
Expert: 40% |
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For those who followed Austria’s first skier, Viktor Sohm and his famous student, Hannes Schneider, St. Anton was the cradle for these founding fathers of modern skiing. Today it is still a small town filled with skiers in the winter months, just a few more, speaking many languages, mixing the old with the new. At a mountain café in late afternoon, a ‘tea dance’ at the Post or one of the many discos going until the wee hours, you, too, can meet the greats, near-greats and the wannabe’s in this true skiers’ resort.
Before coming to the States, Hannes Schneider started the ski school in 1912. Today its 250 instructors still teach his world-famous Arlberg method now adapted to our technologically modified skis. Try it on any of the more than 240 miles of trails or 160 miles of off-piste powder. To enjoy the Arlberg’s variety there are more than 88 lifts and buses linking St Anton with Zürs, Lech, St Christoph, Stuben, and Rauz. Closest to St Anton are Gampen/Kapall for novices and Grand-Kreuz/Gampen for intermediates. In 06-07, they replaced the landmark 1937 Valluga cable car with high-speed gondolas tripling capacity, moved the rail station, built the new Rendl lift complex, and created the new pedestrian town center.
For thousands of years, man trudged over the Arlberg Pass to St Christoph stopping to gain shelter in the tiny hospice. Then they were traders and pilgrims on foot, struggling against the storms of Nature. Today, they are powder pilgrims going over the pass with horses named Mercedes and Beamer. In 600 years, St Christoph’s original tiny chapel hospice has grown to a hand-sized hamlet catering to men and women of winter questing for the perfect run.
A gift to clients from St Anton Tourism plus free entry to their Ski Museum
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Not too many years ago this was Dr Murr’s clinic. Now it’s a small, very cozy 15 room hotel run by the Dr Murr’s wife and her daughter. Because of its previous life, most of the rooms are actually balconied suites. In 2007 they renovated the public areas along with the small pool, sauna, and steam bath so they can fill restorative needs on a higher scale. As a garni hotel, they only serve breakfast and rest assured, in case of need, your every care will be attended to.
A special commission enabling lower prices for our guests
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The ever American-friendly Montjola is always a welcome treat. Perhaps it is because Peter Nohl spent many years of his youth in Vermont. His dry, subtle humor permeates his hotel. The Nohl’s Bauhaus hotel, built in ‘91, has 40 lovely rooms with a sauna, steam bath, and fitness area. The generations-old, antique-filled chalet, just next door, for many decades was their original small inn so intimately run by Peter’s parents. The hotel offers free ski storage at the new Galzigbahn cable car. Their chef Rose Marie Nohl, Peter’s wife, continues to serve some of the Arlberg’s best comfort food to their end-of-day, beat-the-mountain skiers. Ah, yes, the Montjola, truly a family affair!
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The Waldhof could be a hotel marriage made in ski-heaven. Andrea and Michael Ladner met years ago at the Arlberg Hospiz: She was head of reception and he, sous chef. Later after years of planning, in December of 2008 they opened their 18 room Waldhof, and as it should be, to rave reviews! Located on the edge of a forest, it has a wood and stucco exterior and is very green inside. The châlet is thermally heated and the rooms paneled with Swiss stone pine proven to improve one’s health by lowering stress and heart rates. When you stay at the Ladners’ hotel, along with health benefits, you will enjoy Michael’s wonderful culinary offerings where he uses the finest local ingredients and perhaps get to know Lukas, their new son. Add to that the sauna, steam bath, and a ski bus stop at the end of their drive – life is good at the Waldhof!
Stay 7 pay 6 January 8/February11 & March 18/April 30, 2012
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Over the past several years, the Hotel Post re-invested in itself. The bar, restaurant and dining room were redone as were the bedrooms. In 01-02 they added an indoor pool but don’t think its smiling hospitality was tossed out with the proverbial dishwater. Yes, you still get a warm greeting, sparkling service and enjoy more tangible assets: comfortably furnished rooms; terrific cuisine; pool, sauna, hot tub, steam bath, and masseuse; kinder-care for that disco night; and very central right in the pedestrian area. Yes, the Post is a St. Anton landmark because it is big and small, old and new, comfortable and very friendly!
Between March 10 and March 31, 2012 guests get 50% off 6-day ski passes
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| Six centuries ago, a peasant and monk first offered shelter, alms and a chapel to those struggling over the Arlberg pass. Today the Hospiz offers shelter and alms as one of Europe’s finest hotels. In no-man’s land, with its long-standing chapel, welcoming warmth and exquisite service, how can we endure without visiting this winter oasis? It offers gourmet delights from a Gault-Millau kitchen. The 70,000 bottle wine cellar is legendary. Guests can enjoy their dine-around program at a choice of three restaurants. And whose body can’t be lured into their 21,000 square foot spa with an unlimited variety of cures, treatments, saunas, aromatic steam baths, Jacuzzis, and oversized pool! Yes, come to the uniquely wonderful Hospiz and dance ‘till dawn peeks over the Valluga!
Bottle of champagne with strawberries and homemade chocolates
plus a beauty treatment
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For information & reservations:
call (800) 248-2807 in New York or e-mail: Chips@LindenmeyrTravel.com |
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