Austrian Heaven (Schladming)

Member Name: mr_shagwell23

Product:	Schladming
Date:	15/03/01 (504 review reads)
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Advantages: Great resort, fantastic ski

Disadvantages: the nightclubs - 80's time warp

Schladming is a small ski resort about 1 and a half hours drive from Salzburg airport.
There is about 150 - 200km of pistes at Scladming, ranging over 4 mountains (Hauser Kaibling, Planai, Hochwurzen and Reiteralm)
Everone of these runs is enjoyable and at the top there is some fantastic views of the surrounding mountains.

The Black run on Planai is also one of the world cup runs, which was held there earlier this year, and is certainly a challange as it is quite icy down at the bottom.
There is plenty of life around Schladming as well. Numerous bars provide a good nightlife, and look out for the bar with the pornography on the walls in the toilets! There is also many restaurants and ski hire shops.

There is only one real nightclub, which, I have to be honest, is quite rank. The rest of the bars which have dance floors seem to be stuck in some kind of 80's trance, which is never a good thing.

The is a ski bus that goes to all the ski lift stations, which makes everyone of the mountains easily accessible.
There is also some good apres-ski places, namely Uncle Willis being the best one. There is always some entertainment there, such as drunk germans or comedians. Its a good laugh, and worth going to.

One problem is though is that there isn't much English spoken there. I worked out that Grillwurzen + frites is sausage and chips, so thats all that I ate for a whole week.

Hope you can do better!

(if you havn't skied before, check out my opinion on Skiing in Genral)

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