Crystal Ski Holidays has added the Austrian resort of Hopfgarten and Drei Zinnen in the Italian Dolimites to its programme for winter 2019/20.
PHOTO: SkiWelt-Hopfgarten/Christian Kapfinger
Part of the huge SkiWelt area, one of Austria’s three biggest ski regions with more than 285km of piste, the traditional Austrian village of Hopfgarten is just over an hour’s transfer from Innsbruck and only an hour and a half from Salzburg.
Crystal is offering a choice of two hotels in the village- The Sporthotel Hohe Salve which has a big emphasis on wellbeing, with a huge outdoor pool, sun terrace, sauna, spa and gym and The Familotel, popular with families, which offers half board for adults but children are upgraded to all-inclusive with all bookings.
There are family rooms and kid’s clubs for all ages in The Familotel, which also provides everything children and infants may need such as milk, nappies and pushchairs. The Cinderella spa is popular with both children and adults and there is also a panoramic indoor pool, cinema room. The hotel also offers free ski storage by the lifts and the nursery ski slopes are on the hotel’s doorstep.
Earlier this summer Crystal also announced holiday packages to the Italian ski area of Drei Zinnen, which is German for “Three Peaks” and also known in Italian as the “Tre Cime di Lavaredo” situated in the East of South Tyrol, to the north of Cortina and Venice.
It is a high valley in the Dolomites UNESCO World Heritage park. The Three Peaks are among the most famous peaks in the Alpine region and constitute a major part of Alpine history.
The local ski area can be more than doubled by a direct rail connection, first inaugurated in 2014, with a station connected to the bottom of the Monte Elmo cable car station in The Three Peaks which connects to the neighbouring ski area San Candido and Val Pusteria every 30 minutes. The entire region is also part of the huge Dolomiti Superski pass with its 1200km of piste.
The area has five main resort villages, known by both Italian and German names in this bi-lingual region: Sesto (Sexten), San Candido (Innichen), Dobbiaco (Toblach), Villabassa (Niederdorf) and Braies (Prags). Most of crystal’s accommodation is in san Candido.
The resort can be accessed with Crystal holidays from Birmingham, Bristol, Edinburgh, London Gatwick and Manchester airports.
Chris Logan, Managing Director at Crystal Ski Holidays said: “Our winter 2019/20 ski holidays are now on sale and we are already counting down the days to the slopes reopening. We have already announced new flight routes, new childcare clubs, a new resort and a revamped chalet product, so we are really looking forward to next season.”
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