St Anton Austria
The resort of St Anton Austria is famous for its excellent skiing, thanks largely to a prime location in the Tyrolean Mountains. This beautiful part of Austria is popular not just with skiers in the winter months but also offers excellent trekking and mountaineering opportunities in the summer season.
In St Anton Austria has a resort that combines the very best of winter ski resorts with excellent opportunities in the region for other activities and events, and with a wide choice of St Anton hotels, apartments and guest houses to choose from you will not be spoilt for choice. The available accommodation ranges from the top level hotel to the more affordable guest house, and all are within easy reach of the slopes.
A small village that sits 1300m above sea level, St Anton has held the World Alpine Championships as recently as 2001, confirmation if any were needed that this is a prime skiing location. Well used and highly regarded slopes offer as much as 1500m of skiing while for those looking for a little more extreme adventure there are off-piste runs that can be tackled with the help of a local guide. Chairlifts and tramways take visitors from St Anton to over 2800m and are plentiful and frequent, while the surrounding area also offers further attractions.
The town of St Anton is also home to leisure centres and swimming pools and further activities such as cycling are to be found in the vicinity, while there are impressive bars and cafes, and some very nice après-ski bars next to the slopes.
Getting to and from St Anton Austria is surprisingly easy as the town has a main line railway station that puts Zurich, Innsbruck and Munich within easy reach, and the airport at Innsbruck is the nearest at under an hour and a half from St Anton by car. And Renting ski and snowboard equipment is also at hand in St Anton, but you can ease the burden by booking you ski gear in advance with Skiset and Mountvacation, and you’ll be making huge savings on your reservation.
