Kitzbühel Alps ski holidays Skiing & snowboarding holidays around the Kitzbühel Alps
Ski holidays in the Kitzbühel Alps - a wonderful part of the Austria Tyrol, the Kitzbühel Alps are home to over 20 fabulous ski resorts ranging from small family friendly resorts to international resorts such as the world famous historic Kitzbühel. With easy access from either Innsbruck or Salzburg airports, the Kitzbühel Alps are the ideal place for a weeks long ski holiday or a long weekend break. The Kitzbühel Alps provide so much choice with 3 main ski areas to choose from which provide some of the best conditions for a skiing holiday in Tyrol.
Mountain Facts
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20 ski resorts |
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1864 m |
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900 kms |
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The ski holiday accommodation in the villages around the Kitzbühel Alps is superb offering a full range of options from family owned residence apartments to beautiful self-catering ski chalets.
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Family ski holidays in the Kitzbühel Alps
The ski resorts around the Kitzbühel Alps are perfect for family ski holidays especially for families with young children. They offer wide gentle slopes and many of them have fantastic beginner areas with magic carpets and rope lifts.
The best family holiday ski resorts include:
- Ellmau
- Westendorf
- Hopfgarten
- Kirchberg
- Waidring
Ski areas around the Kitzbühel Alps
The skiing in the resorts around the Kitzbühel Alps is suitable for all levels of skier and snowboarder with over 900kms of piste. The three main ski areas are:
There are a few other smaller ski areas within the Kitzbühel Alps that are covered with a single lift pass. St. Johann in Tyrol which links to Oberndorf is a family friendly ski areas with 10 ski lifts and 40 kilometres of pistes. Kirchdorf is another small ski area with a fantastic beginners area that includes a T-bar lift, rope lift and magic carpet and is perfect for beginners.
Beginners
For the complete beginner, there are some excellent nursery slopes around the Kitzbühel Alps especially in the Pillersee Valley and in Kirchberg.
Intermediate
Most of the terrain throughout the SKitzbühel Alps are geared towards intermediates with long open pistes that are great for carving. The slopes around Saalbach and the Kitzski are very popuar as there are many long cruising red psites that are perfect for intermediate skiers and snowboarders.
Advanced
For the advanced skier there is nothing better and more challenging than skiing the famous downhill race course, the Hahnenkamm, in Kitzbühel. However, there are plenty more black pistes and challenging off-piste terrain all around the Kitzbühel Alps - see the ski area map for more details as to where to ski.
Snowboarding
There is plenty for snowboarders in each of the resorts in the Kitzbühel Alps including many snowboard fun parks with table-top and quarter-pipes.
Cross-country
In total there is about 450 km of cross-country skiing tracks from beginner to expert in the Kitzbühel Alps especially around the valley floors such as in St. Johann and St. Ulrich am Pillersee.
Ski resorts in Kitzbühel Alps
Property for sale
If you are looking to buy a chalet or apartment around the Kitzbühel Alps, we have a wide selection of properties for sale to choose from. What better way to spend your ski holiday than in your very own holiday home.
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Our view on ski holidays around the Kitzbühel Alps
The Kitzbühel Alps are known for being one of the best areas in the Tyrol for family ski holidays. With welcoming villages, stunning scenery and home to Kitzbühel, Austria's most famous ski resort, the area earns its reputation as being a fun place for a ski holiday on and off the slopes.
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