Alpbach is a small, picturesque village in Austria, with a long time Tyrolean tradition. Located a village on a mountain plateau, at a height of about a kilometer above sea level.
Mass tourism is not observed in this village, this is the usual Austrian village adapted under the ski resort. The village, it is not what arises in our imagination when using this word (dirt, a half-hearted, the complete off-road, in general, the typical view of the post-Soviet village), no, there is not at all. In the Alpbach Valley, primarily a great infrastructure, cozy, well-groomed residential buildings, in the national, Tyrolean style and the mass of family hotels designed for a small number of guests. Going out of this, accommodation in the Alpbach can be safely compared with the rest "in the village of grandmother", where the seeming simplicity is hidden from the outside, a magnificent service and comfort is hidden, plus a beautiful national (not indicative) gloomy residents.
The easiest way to get to this fabulously beautiful village is from the city of Innsbruck. The distance is the slight, approximately 60 kilometers (for our wide Slavic soul is not the distance at all). In general, Austria is a small country, for us (Slavs) distances between cities, even 200 kilometers, not carrying a special "strain". We are accustomed to the endless expanses of our immense homeland, therefore, the distance from Munich is 170 kilometers, or Salzburg 150 kilometers, for us is comparable to the trip "to the black to the neighboring region or the village.
Returning to the beautiful village of Alpbach. You can get to this ski resort of local importance from the above cities using the services of railway transport to the Brixlegg station. Next, a bus transfer or taxi to the resort itself. It should be known that the very height of the riding season here from December to April a month, if you are lucky with weather conditions, you can capture the beginning of May, but not on.
You can visit the ski resort everywhere, the village in its essence is a quiet, cute settlement, and not a commercial ski resort. Small, cozy hotels, private accommodations all here are designed for holidaymakers who prefer comfortable rest, but without excesses and unnecessary elements of luxury, at quite a deocratic prices.
Almost everything is provided here, even the most biased tourist will not find something to "find fault." Special attention at this ski resort is paid to family holidays with children. Built a wonderful mini hotel "Galtenberg",
It was he initially specializes in a children's winter holiday. Among the holidaymakers, the hotel received the uncomplicated name "Kinder Hotel" for the excellent range of services offered for family (mainly child) rest. The main purpose of the hotel is to complete children's employment,
While parents ride ski slopes. This is exactly the situation with which we encountered. At first they just burst between the desire to go skiing and care about children. The hotel is simply perfectly delivered by the system of custody and care for the defector. His children's ski ski school for the children of any age, plus the hotel itself has a private lawn where "little skiing" is honed off their skills under the immediate supervision of caring nanny-instructors. It's like winter mountain skiing, kindergarten skiers if you want.
By the way, it is approximately so translated from the German "Bobo Ski-Kindergarten" a children's school at the hotel.
For us, as parents of a larger service and did not have to be. In the morning we only had breakfast with children together. Further, our Chad, however, carried away to the "skiing children's kindergarten". And there everything is divided with a purely German punctuality in a certain age group. Our kids, to honestly and did not want to leave, were ready to engage in the very evening with teachers, which speaks about the high professionalism of children's school instructors. But how not to twist, the children's school finishes work at exactly 16:30 (it is at that time the lifts to work), children had to take and already continue to have fun together at the slopes of the tracks. But this is the first time, for 3 days, our guys, thanks to the beautiful, vocational training, were quite worked on skis, and on 5 days we even rode together with gentle slopes of the tracks "for beginners."
A distinctive feature of the Austrian ski resort from analogs on the territory of Ukraine (Bukovel), the fact that they do not seek to make money on "every fellow skiing", there are no "wild", thickened overseas prices for any type of service (again Bukovel). Here, first of all, care about the quality of rest. By the way, the children's ski school, beautiful breakfasts from the freshest environmentally friendly products (in the area of the ski resort of about 100 agricultural farms), even ski passes on all, without exception residing (even issued a ski pass to our younger, three sons) Accommodation. It is even incomparably with the same ski resort "Bukovel". With approximately the same price for accommodation and meals, the quality of service in the Alpbach ski resort is an order of magnitude higher.
Two years ago, the Alpbach resort was united with the same resort Wildshönaau in one, a single zone for skiing. The association only gave a certain highlight to the ski resort. An additional ridingways appeared for skiing, built a new lift with eight local cabins, which will deliver anyone who wants to the wonderful tracks.
On all the bohels, the lifts there are a single ski pass "Kitzbueheler Alpenskipass", so it is only possible to replenish points on the passage. It is noteworthy that near each lift, Bugel, an electronic scoreboard is installed at the site of the use of ski pass. It highlights the number of points for using the services of transport, and at the time of use of the magnetic map "Ski-Pass" the balance of points on your card is displayed.
The Tras themselves were about 15. All of them varying degrees of complexity, although it is worth a confess that all the same most trails are of medium complexity.
Some ski slopes are bizarrely intertwined. This is mostly the easiest lightest routes "for beginners". Of course, there is also a para-triple tracks for specialists (high levels of complexity). It is difficult to ride such tracks and appeared only to professionals, there are nothing to do there, for them and the high-difficult tracks abound.
Wonderful ski resort, excellent active leisure with children.