The Austrian Resort of Bad Gastein is not the largest city in the country, so if you arrive here you want to combine walks in mountainous terrain and bathing in baths with healing water with a visit to large shopping centers, you will undoubtedly be disappointed. The fact is that the large range of goods of European brands is essentially no.
If you still prefer a detailed shopping, then it is best for one day or two wave into the Vienna or in Salzburg. Well, if you do not want to carry out whole hours for slow, so to speak, the selection of clothes with shoes, then in principle in Bad Gastein, you will find a decent number of various stores with local producers. Mostly it will be food and souvenirs.
The shopping trip is best to exercise in the first half of the day with weekdays. But the whole thing is that all the stores are almost closed in half the seventh announcing, well, and on Sunday days you can buy products, or you can only with memory souvenirs in which prices are very high.
If you want to buy cheap ski equipment in Bad Gastein, it's best to come here immediately after Christmas, and even better during the off-season when you get a real opportunity to purchase things from the last collection almost half of their elementary price, and sometimes below.
In addition to actually branded shops, which offers good range of boards, jackets, skis, masks, gloves, as well as other necessary things for riding, this range can also boast rolling offices. The fact is that within them almost except the hall with equipment, which is rented, there are also separate corners for sale with new things.
By the way, a good gift for all athletes who love skiing and not only, the ointment prepared on the basis of Grillhog fat is "Murmeltier Salbe". It helps perfectly when tensile ligaments and to get rid of muscle pain. Also in the city, tourists usually acquire alpine herbal grades of the highest quality, then shampoos and hair balms, also cooked from natural ingredients.
If you want to buy something like a very unusual and distinctive, then look at the famous Austrian bells for cows. Today, they are no more than souvenirs due to the fact that a few years ago at the legislative level, a constraint was introduced, which publishes domestic cog.
And before that, just a couple of dozen years ago, such bells hung on all alpine cows. Only when you buy pay attention to the place of manufacture of this bell, because today in Bad Gastein, unfortunately, there are products made in China factories.
If a cow bell tape in principle is suitable for some close relative, then the beer mug, for example, with an Austrian coat of arms will be able to please any adult. It will be an ideal souvenir not only for foam foam lovers, but also for collectors of unusual things.
Mugs are the volume of both in a liter and two, but you can also purchase souvenir keyfobs. It is noteworthy that now the mugs are made not only with the modern coat of arms of Austria, but it is also possible to find with the coat of arms of the Austro-Hungarian Empire, that is, with a double-headed eagle.
If you are looking for something beautiful for representatives of the best half of humanity, pay attention to the jewelry from Frey Vail. It can be pretty inexpensive serving, rings, bracelets, pendants and beads that are made of non-precious metals and look great.
And thanks to the fact that a special enamel is applied on them, they are pretty long wearing long. You can also buy jewelry of silver or gold, because in the resort of Bad Gastein there are a huge amount of them, but the prices for them in general are democratic. A good gift will also decorate with a crystal from Swarovski.
If your friends or acquaintances are still smoking, then you can buy them as a gift a phone from Peter Mattshold. It is pretty cheap, souvenir, but it is not distinctly excellent quality and is always manufactured only manually.
The child can be purchased a local wooden doll - there are an incredible amount of them and a wide variety of, from the characters of the fairy tales of the Grimm brothers and the Nutcracker to modern Disney heroes. Fans of piano music can be given a bust or the image of the Great Mozart, well, A sweet tech will undoubtedly delight candy "Mozartkugeln" made of marzipan in a chocolate shell.
If you want to acquire a practical and at the same time an inexpensive souvenir, then pay attention to local cheeses and sausages. And the other in the stores and in the markets of Bad Gastein has a huge amount. You can buy here and solid, and soft cheeses, as well as traditional beef and pork sausages.
In addition to them, you can pay attention to exotic odorous cheeses or sausages, as well as on the stuffed with honey and cheese. A good choice for you will be the local Schnaps. As a rule, this drink is prepared from any fruit, for example, of pears, apples or drain. Local beer and chocolate liquor "Mozart" also are extremely popular with tourists. It happens at once of three species - if black, it is prepared only from chocolate, and if white or gold, then from cream and chocolate.