Hotel Elisabeth

Features

Directly opposite the gondola station and with skiing to the door, the Elisabeth has a superb location. The hotel is elegantly furnished with a beautiful lounge and open fireplace, and a penthouse pool it is the perfect place to relax with excellent views onto the pistes.

Location · opposite Pardatschgrat gondola station · ski to door · 3 minutes walk to resort centre via internal subway

Features · penthouse indoor swimming pool, sauna and steam room with panoramic views of slopes · après ski 'Schatzi' and 'Ice' bars · fireplace hall lounge and cocktail bar · pizzeria · 58 bedrooms · lift to all floors

Meals · hot and cold buffet breakfast · 5 course evening meals with a choice of main course and daily salad buffet · weekly gala dinner · Christmas and New Year's Eve gala dinners included

Rooms for 2 people on half board sharing a room with Austrian twin beds, private bath, WC and balcony. All rooms can sleep up to 3 people with Austrian twin and sofa bed. All bedrooms have cable TV, safe, minibar, hairdryer, bathrobes, south facing balcony with amazing piste views and been newly renovated to a contemporary style.

Official Rating *****

Ischgl Resort Info

Ischgl, set in the beautiful Paznau Valley, offers some of the best skiing that Austria has. It also provides a link into Switzerland at Samnaun for tax free shopping (take your passport). It is a lovely Tyrolean village that has high altitude and good snow, an excellent lift system and great higher intermediate skiing and boarding. There are 200km of runs, with a bus link to Galtur for a further 65km.

Beginners will have to take a lift up and back to Idalp to access the easier slopes and these can get very busy during the day. Experts also have a few problems with limited challenging stuff, although there is some great powder when the snow is good. Also, while there are two runs back to town, they are both tough reds and do get very cut up in the afternoon. Boarders have been welcomed at Ischgl for over ten years and the terrain is great for them. There is also a big half-pipe and a highly-rated specialist park.

New lifts have markedly reduced lift queues to the slopes, while the village has a largely traffic-free centre. It is an attractive place, although expensive, with a good selection of accommodation, hotels and some lively après-ski, favoured by Germans and Scandinavians. There is a reasonable range of non-skiing opportunities including shopping (see Samnaun).

Overall, Ischgl is one of the best of the Austrian resorts, particularly for better intermediates and boarders. It's expensive, but an ace choice if you want to sample an Austrian holiday at its finest.

More Ischgl resort information