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Well known for the high profile blood-pumping, adrenaline-rushing, pulse-racing sports events that they hold worldwide, Red Bull are now gearing up for their eighth edition of the international free ski event, Red Bull Playstreets, held in the beautiful, healing surroundings of Bad Gastein. So if anyone falls off their skis, they are probably in the perfect place.
For two days the streets of Bad Gastein and their surrounding Heilstollen ('healing tunnels') and famous thermal spring trails (once frequented by German Emperor Wilhelm I and Iran's last king Mohammad Reza Pahlavi) will be turned in to a free skiers paradise, as ramps and mountains of snow are set up to accommodate the world’s very best in free skiing hosted by Red Bull.
This year will see 19 free ski champions from 10 different nations fly over Bad Gastein’s picturesque bridges and narrowly miss the roofs of its ancient Belle Époque houses.
A fun interlude on your Austrian ski holiday, this would be a great event to watch and even possibly get some tips from (double split-legged backflips on skis, anyone?).
Found in a beautiful National Park in the Austrian Alpine region of Salzburg, Bad Gastein is a fabulous place to stay and enjoy skiing, sun and some healingly fresh mountainside air.
Our two favourite hotels in Bad Gastein are without a doubt the Miramonte Design Hotel and Boutique Hotel Haus Hirt, pleasingly owned by stylish husband and wife duo, Ike and Evelyn Ikrath. Evelyn runs the stunningly designed Haus Hirt, while Ike runs the effervescently cool Hotel Miramonte, just bit further up the hill. Stylish, cool, and with beautiful aesthetics and design throughout, both are a wonder to stay at and will leave you enchantingly calm and inspired.
Four cute bastions of style and snuggle up in the duvet sentiments for winter, none of which are in France.
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Bordering Germany, Liechtenstein and Switzerland, Austria’s western Vorarlberg region is famous for its incredible skiing prowess, fantastic alpine views and also for holding the oldest and most influential ski club in the world.
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With a chill in the air as October comes to a slow close we are looking forward to officially entering November and with it, the opening of ski season. For a head start on the celebrations head to joyful Gurgl in Tirol for a start to the 2024-2025 season that goes off with a bang.
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Bad Gastein is renowned as a centre for incredible Austrian skiing - as well as being a beautiful valley full of age-old healing springs - but did you know it also holds the biggest art festival in the Alps, too? From the January 31 January to 6 February, 2026, Bad Gastein’s famed ski areas and picturesque town centres will come alive to the sound of ice being expertly chiselled.
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Part of Austria’s Ski amadé, Mühlbach am Hochkönig blends altitude, architecture and adrenaline across 120 kilometres of sculpted snow, six peaks and the legendary Königstour – the Alps in pure motion.
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Located in the Hohe Tauern National Park in the heart of the Salzburgerland province, Bad Gastein’s ski playground is made up of 200km of groomed pistes scattered over four different mountains, part of the Ski Amadé area, with over 1,000 metres of altitude which offers superb long downhill runs.
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Lech is best known for its skiing and when you include the other Arlberg resorts of St. Anton, St. Christof, Warth-Schröcken and Stuben, which can be reached by Lech-Zürs, there are 340 km of piste and 190 km of off-piste, accessed by 94 lifts.
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Skiing in Leogang, part of Skicircus Saalbach - Hinterglemm -Leogang - Fieberbrunn as it is officially known is quite the ride, encompassing high mountain passes, over 270kms of thrilling runs, seven snow parks and five toboggan runs.
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Austria's Vienna is an age-old hotspot for Christmas markets. A magical city of nostalgia, romance and old-time glamour, Advent glamour started here.
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Close to the Tirol mountains of the Tux and Zillertal Alps, this design hotel of chilled style and nostalgic tradition, steps away from the chocolate-box picture-postcard image with creative art installations and a casual approach to life in the alps.
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Ullrhaus is a hotel of muted luxury, where cool design marries Alpine soul and a minimalist edge. Located in the resort of St. Anton in the Tyrolean Alps, home to some of the Alps’ most exhilarating skiing.
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Affectionately known as the Monte Carlo of the Alps and the playground of the royals and the Habsburgs, Austria's Bad Gastein is a Wunderkammer of faded Belle-Époque glamour and energetic creativity.
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