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Bad Kleinkirchheim Reviews
2 reviews of Bad Kleinkirchheim in Austria.
Voted 19th out of 39 reviewed ski resorts in Austria
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A beautiful place, would be amazing with good snow
Reviewed 6 May 2015
On the first day it was too foggy to ski, which turned out to be a good thing as we ended up taking the ski bus all over the place to get our bearings. It’s a peculiar place but once you know what you’re doing it’s fine - at first you wonder whether there’s anything more than your hotel and a small chairlift on the road, but after exploring it’s quite a huge area. There isn’t really a centre like normal ski resorts, the village is stretched in a way all along one road.
It’s the most beautiful place, I’ve never seen anywhere as beautiful. There are some really old wooden buildings, decorated with ribbons and pine cones. We’d never been to the south before but it’s such a lovely areas, even the journey from Salzburg passes a lake that’s just spectacular.
There was no snow in the village and there isn’t much to do in the evenings, but we had a lovely stay in the Trattlerhof. A lot of people ended up walking which would have been nice. Bad Kleinkirchheim is a spa town with 2 thermal spas. When it rained on the Thursday we went to one of the spas, but it wasn’t really our cup of tea and we got bored quite quickly. I’m sure many others would have enjoyed it though.
We struggled to find a piste map, and when we eventually did it wasn’t a very good one. However if it had been snowing and the snow had reached the base, it must be the most amazing place to ski as a lot of the pistes came down into the village.
Amazed how all the pistes were open
Reviewed 8 Apr 2015
When we arrived in Bad Kleinkirchheim everything was green but amazingly the resort kept everything open – you looked out onto green fields with snaking lines of white. There were snow cannons up on the mountain but even the cross country course down at the bottom of the valley was open, they must have trucked in lorry loads of snow and built it up because not a single run was closed.
We’re used to skiing in France, where in the purpose built resorts everything’s connected in a very extensive ski area. Here you have pistes on two sides of the valley with the village and main road in between. They could do with investing in the infrastructure as the area only has T Bars rather than button drags (I hadn’t seen a T Bar in years!). There was one connection between the two areas that went under the main road and used a tiny draglift (even this was kept open with snow under the bridge). The pistes include 4 blues (one of which is a tiny link used just to gain height) and 4 blacks and everything else is red, so this is definitely a place for intermediates. One of the blues is 6.7km long – it’s a long forest track in the summer which snakes its way down with hairpin bends (a smooth enough ski that I could hold my camera and film it all the way down) it was an absolutely brilliant piste.
As an Austrian village, I imagined Bad Kleinkirchheim to be really scenic with the typical onion dome church etc., it wasn’t quite like this but it was still a pleasant place. It’s predominantly a spa town with 2 main spas that were open to the public.
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