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Kitzbuhel Reviews
10 reviews of Kitzbuhel in Austria.
Voted 8th out of 39 reviewed ski resorts in Austria
- Superb(6)
- Good(3)
- O.K.(1)
- Poor(0)
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One of the greatest ski resorts
Reviewed 6 Jan 2021
I love this resort. I was lucky enough to work a ski season in this amazing resort and absolutely loved the 5 months here. The town is beautiful - typically Austrian and colourful, grand buildings. The ski area is vast - it is stretched out across several areas. There is so much to explore here in just 1 week! I recommend going to the large swimming centre in the middle of town and visiting the Eisbar apres bar in Kirchberg one afternoon (get a taxi back after a few flugels). There's a fantastic selection of mountain restaurants with huge sun terraces - one of my favs was PanoramaAlm. For the craziest weekend of your life go to Kitzbuhel during Hahnenkamm. The bars and streets are flooded with people having the time of their lives. The buzz of the town and watching the racing is incredible. It's also really easy to get the train to other resorts or towns if you want to explore the surrounding areas.
Bucket list resort
Reviewed 6 Jan 2021
Having spent a season working in Kitz, this wonderful Austrian town has a special place in my heart. It should be on everyone’s bucket list though: Oozing with authentic Austrian mountain charm, lively après (check out Pavillion or The Londoner), a large and varied ski area and some high-end glitz too. It’s a medieval town so is incredibly pretty and atmospheric but also works great as a ski resort with runs right into the village. If you stay in late Jan you can experience possibly the biggest event in the ski calendar – the Hahnenkamm world cup downhill race. One huge party basically! Skiing-wise there is something for everyone – from wide beginner areas up to some of the most challenging blacks and off-piste in Europe. The lifts are amazing, many of them heated, and you can also get a regional pass that gains you access to dozens of neighbouring resorts.
Quiet in April, good ski facilities
Reviewed 8 Jun 2016
Kitzbühel was dead at the end of the season – I have definitely been to livelier resorts. But for what we saw it’s nice enough, the weather was baking (20 odd degrees) at the beginning of the week, so the first days were beautiful. Then the fog came in and you couldn’t see a metre in front of you, so we didn’t bother going out! The ski facilities here – gondola, lift pass etc – are great. The town itself is quaint and very traditional. It has some lovely antique shops and is a nice place to just wander round.
Pretty Austrian town
Reviewed 20 Apr 2016
Kitzbühel is a really pretty, upmarket town with traditional Austrian medieval buildings. The shops are very posh but not as expensive as Courchevel. We walked into town for the farmers market one day which was lovely.
It’s good for skiing and there’s something for all once you’re up on the top. The conditions were a little slushy on the slopes by the town because we were here at the end of March, but up on the mountain was fine.
Chocolate-box pretty
Reviewed 14 Apr 2016
I’ve been skiing all my life and consider myself a good skier, if you’re a good skier, Kitzbühel is good enough for a week but I wouldn’t stay any longer than this. It has a good variety of skiing with nice steep runs to challenge good skiers, the Austrian ski school are world famous if you want to learn and there is some long off-piste if you want to be adventurous. The ski area is not very high so it’s probably not great late in the season. You’d be taking a bit of a chance going much later than mid March (you’d still be able to ski but probably not all the way back down).
The town itself is a truly chocolate-box pretty town and it was beautiful to be there. It’s a very traditional place, one of those places every keen skier should go to at least once. Some fall in love with it and go back again and again but I’m more of a hungry skier and have a few other places I want to explore first.
Kitzbuhel the week before Christmas
Reviewed 18 Mar 2015
We’d been to Kitzbuhel before and have always thoroughly enjoyed it – this time we had another brilliant holiday. It’s a great place, such a pretty village and everything was so Christmassy on the week before Christmas (the best week to ski!). It’s quite a low resort which was a little concern this season, but it did get the snow it needed and although the area wasn’t all open, we skied and enjoyed all the bits that were. We didn’t eat out as we had a half-board package in our hotel but we did go to a couple of bars: the Londoner and Final Destination - both of which we liked.
Good skiing but not huge if you're advanced level
Reviewed 6 May 2014
The nightlife isn’t too bad, there are some good ski bars on the mountain (although the beer is expensive – it’s a lot cheaper in the supermarket).
The skiing was good, I managed to get over onto the SkiWelt area as I’m quite advanced and the local area wasn’t really enough for me – if you’re an advanced skier I’d definitely recommend skiing the other resorts, I managed to do the whole area in 3 days.
For average skiers who take it steady there’s more than enough in Kitzbühel itself.
One of the world's best ski resorts
Reviewed 24 Apr 2014
Kitzbühel is one of my favourite resorts, I like the town being traditional and Austrian and the après ski is brilliant.
There’s shopping if you want it and some nice restaurants, it’s good all round really!
The snow in February was ok but that was probably the end of it, we’ve been skiing here in March before and it was slushy by 1pm.
I would probably say that it’s best for intermediates and above, as to get to the top is quite difficult unless you’re at an intermediate level.
Good skiing, few queues, great mountain restaurants
Reviewed 20 Mar 2014
I’d highly recommend Kitzbühel.
The skiing is really good, not much queuing and once you're up on the mountain you’re away.
My family are all pretty good skiers and we had a great time.
Kitzbühel has some great on-the-mountain restaurants where you can stop off and have something to eat and do a bit of sunbathing.
The village is nice but more expensive and you end up paying a little more for everything.
We didn’t go out a great deal but what we saw in terms of bars and restaurants was good.
Still can't get enough
Reviewed 28 Jan 2014
I have spent a lot of time in the winter in Kitzbuehel and I still can not get enough of it. Kitzbuehel has so much to offer. There are some fabulous slopes for all abilities and enough to keep you fully occupied year after year. It’s a great town which has kept lots of tradition. A highlight is the World Cup Hahnenkamm races at the end of January. The town is completely booked out and has a buzz day and night, There are also some very good restaurants in Kitzbuehel, such as Rosi's Sonnbergstubn, Casino and the candle light dinner on the Hahnenkamm mountain. The Christmas Market is also worth a visit. It is very Tyrolean and cute with lots of typical foods and Gluehwein. St. Johann is a 10 minute drive/train from Kitzbuehel with some lovely shops and again some great pubs for Apres Ski. Kitzbuehel is a great place, highly recommend a visit!
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