Creme de la Creme Innsbruck Ski Tour
Overview
Explore the best ski resorts & freeride powder zones around Innsbruck in the Austrian Tirol with a professional guide on this fully customised private 7-day tour. Follow the powder, ride on or off-piste, ski-tour & backcountry - your tour, your choice! Get a group together and book in for your best dates & duration. What are you waiting for?
Innsbruck is a fantastic city full of interest & surrounded by an amazing array of ski resorts & alpine terrain within a short drive of the city centre. The Creme de la Creme tour will allow you to experience the very best freeriding or on-piste skiing in the central Tyrol, without traveling any more than 45 minutes from your Innsbruck hotel. Not bound to one specific resort, the tour can explore different ski areas in the region, going where the conditions are best and depending on the group's wants & needs!
The goal of the tour is clear: find the best snow conditions (powder if possible) and do as many runs as the group can muster. All under the supervision and direction of your guides which hold the highest possible Austrian guiding and safety qualifications.
Highlights
Each day you will experience some unforgettable skiing amongst spectacular mountains, plus get a taste of the wonderful local cultural.
• Be met and transferred to your Innsbruck hotel from the train station or airport.
• Stay in a fabulous hotel in the beautiful medieval city centre of Innsbruck.
• Enjoy fantastic breakfasts in the hotel.
• Daily pick-up with minibus shuttle from your hotel.
• Daily lift assisted on & off-piste guiding in different resorts around Innsbruck.
• The best ski resort is chosen based on the snow, weather, the group's ability & wishes.
• Your guide will find the best possible freeride-runs every day.
• Guides are highly experienced locals holding the highest possible qualifications.
• Guides speak fluent English (and German, Italian).
• Lunch breaks are in the best mountain-restaurants every day.
• Enjoy the amazing culture and night life of Innsbruck.
• Guides will provide you with tips for things to do when not skiing (bars, restaurants, concerts, sights, etc.).
• Ski and avalanche safety equipment rental can be arranged with tour operator's assistance (sorted out on the
day before the first ski day).
• The tour will provide ski memories to last a lifetime.
Itinerary
The duration of the tour is customisable depending on your best dates and duration. Pricing is indicated for 5-days skiing but can be adjusted according to duration. Regardless, every day will follow a simple program - after breakfast in the hotel, your group will be picked up by the guide (in the mini-bus). The group will have lunch together at some mountain restaurants and go find the best snow there is in between. After skiing, with some help from the guide, you can experience the fabulous sights & nightlife of Innsbruck.
As for ski resorts, if there is a big dump of snow from the north, resorts like Nordkette or Seefeld can be excellent. If it comes from the south, the group might go to Stubai Glacier, Kühtai, Schlick or Axamer Lizum. Or perhaps you are keen on a ski-tour up to the peaks at Glungezer or Patscherkofel. Near Innsbruck, there is always the perfect option for every day. The guides will help you experience not only the classics, but also very little-known runs that you would never find without a local guide.
To get a sense of how a Crème de la Crème of Innsbruck ski tour will work, see the Itinerary Tab.
Guides
All guides on the tour are full time professionals with the highest Austrian qualifications as ski instructors & off-piste ski guides. All are multilingual in English, German & Italian.
Ski Ability & Customising Your Tour
This tour can be fully customised to meet any of your skiing (or snowboarding/splitboarding) needs and match your group’s ski ability. If skiing off-piste, freeride powder is not your thing, but you want to learn, the guide can slowly introduce you to it, providing advice & skills development, whilst showing you the best ski areas the region has to offer. If you wish to be guided through the local resorts by staying on the groomed pistes, it can done too. All guides are qualified instructors that can easily spend some time on technical improvement if you wish. If you are more into ski-touring away from the ski lifts, the region has an incredible range of quiet valleys to explore, and all are well-known to the guides! Just ask and the guides will try to deliver.
The tour duration can be for longer or shorter than 7 days.
Transport & Group Size
Transport during the tour is by a minibus with 8 passenger seats. Maximum group size is therefore 8 guests.
Getting to Innsbruck
There are several options to get to Innsbruck. If coming from the UK or Europe, one can easily travel by train or fly into Innsbruck. You will be met at the station or airport and transferred to your hotel. Skiers & Snowboarders from other continents will probably need to use Munich (MUC) or even Zurich (ZRH) airport . Both are easily linked to Innsbruck by train. Alternatively, particularly if in a larger group, the tour operator can provide a no-fuss, cost effective and efficient return transfer from Munich airport direct to your Innsbruck hotel. For more detailed information on how to get there, see our Travel to Innsbruck page.
Accommodation & Meals
Accommodation is included in the tour price. Hotel Grauer Bär, in the heart of the old town of Innsbruck, is an example of the lodging style provided . The hotels have wonderful breakfasts included and are close to all the cities best sights, restaurant, & bars.
