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Key facts
| Resort | 1450 m |
|---|---|
| Slopes | 1305-2650 m |
| Lifts | 85 |
| Pistes | 276 km |
| Blue | 39 % |
| Red | 50 % |
| Black | 11 % |
| Snowmaking | 59 % |
| Price index | 115 |
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Package operators
Alpine Answers, Alpine Weekends, Crystal, Crystal Finest, Elegant Resorts, Erna Low, Flexiski, Independent Ski Links, Inghams, Interactive Resorts, Jeffersons, Kaluma, Luxury Chalet Collection, Momentum, Oxford Ski Co, Powder Byrne, Powder White, PowderBeds, Scott Dunn, Ski Club Freshtracks, Ski Expectations, Ski Independence, Ski Solutions, Ski Total, Skitracer, Skiworld, Snow Finders, STC, Supertravel, White Roc
LechAustria
The upside
- Picturesque traditional village
- Sunny but quite high slopes with excellent snow record
- Sizeable area of intermediate pistes, plus extensive off-piste
- Easy access by bus to the slopes of St Anton and other Arlberg resorts
- Some very smart hotels
- Lots of lovely heated chairlifts
- Lively après-ski scene
The downside
- Pricey, by Austrian standards
- Surprisingly limited shopping
- Few non-hotel bars or restaurants
- Local traffic intrudes on main street
- Very few challenging pistes
- Nearly all slopes above treeline
- Blue runs back to Lech are rather steep for nervous novices
- Still a few slow, old lifts
Latest user reviews
This is an addition to my 2008 report. I’ve now…
Mark Otway 7 Dec 2010
This was the “Heavens coming down to Earth”…
dustyfog 5 Jul 2009
These comments are mostly specific and add to the overall…
Mark Otway 7 Feb 2008
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Summary
Lech and its higher, linked neighbour Zürs are the most fashionable resorts in Austria, each able to point to a string of celebrity visitors, and to pull in Porsche-borne Germans by the thousand. Don’t worry: we don’t feel out of place here in our VWs, and neither would you.
The real point about Lech is that it offers excellent skiing on and off-piste (with one of the best snow records in the Alps) combined with a village that is a pleasure to inhabit – particularly if you can afford to stay in one of its lovely top hotels. And Zürs? In its bleak setting, it is never going to be a match for Lech; but the real problem is the through-traffic. The road to Lech needs to be buried in a tunnel. A whip-round among the owners of the four 5-star hotels should be enough to raise the necessary.
News – this season 2011/12
A chondola (fast hybrid lift of chairs and gondola cabins) will replace the Weibermahd quad above Oberlech. The hotel Krone will undergo a major refurbishment.
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