Schwarzer Adler, Kitzbühel

Advantages: Magnificent scenery.
Disadvantages: Not a lot.

...often. The local Casino at the Hotel Goldener Greif offers a good deal, where if you eat in their restaurant they will give you €25 worth of chips for only €21. That is, if you fancy a flutter. I had a look in one evening, (they don’t seem to have a dress code incidentally!) but bottled out of actually gambling when I saw some of the high stakes that were passing over the green baize tables. (Literally thousands of Euros on the turn of a card!) Very glamorous though, and worth a visit if gambling is your thing. And there are two local Internet Cafés. The largest is the ‘Internet Cafe Videothek’ next door to the Hotel Schwarzer Adler, which has six terminals, and the smaller Café Kortschak in the town centre, which has only the one terminal, but which is the cheaper of the two at only about €9 per hour... Read review

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Advantages: Good Slopes, Good Bars, Short airport Transfer
Disadvantages: Dated Ski Lift System

...Ive been heading to the slopes 2/3 weeks a year for the past 20 years and have been all over the world, but until now never to the infamous Kitzbuhel. Booking last minute, I expected big things of this place , so famous for its runs and its village style resort. The slopes did not dissapoint, nor did the weather, skiing in early march is risky and with Kitzbuhel being at 'low-level' I was worried. The amount of snow seemed to suprise even the locals. Pistes of varying degrees of difficulty were well kept, but changed in difficultly with every corner, which made it great fun for the more experienced of us, but hard going for begginers. There were a lot of 'Tracks' which were very flat in places and walking was common, Snowboarders beware! The lift system was also very dated, with one main gongala giving access to the mountain... Read review

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Advantages: Fantastic scenery, good transport links, not too expensive - if you know where to go...
Disadvantages: Too tourist-oriented, expensive shops

...Well, I've never been to Kitzbühel in the snow. But it seems extremely odd to me that, with the very beautiful natural surrounds of Kitzbühel, with the majestic Wilder Kaiser mountain range in the background and the impressive Hahnenkamm and Kitzbüheler Horn on opposite sides of the valley, the only interest some people have in them is throwing themselves down it on one or two small pieces of carbon fibre (or whatever it is they make snowboards and skis out of these days). What's all the hurry? It took us three hours to climb up the Hahnenkamm, and I'm glad to say that for once we were not overtaken by any old German ladies steaming up there on zimmer frames. (It's happened before… far more frequently than I'd like to admit!!), but every second of it was well spent. Going to the cable-car station at the bottom of the Kitzbüheler... Read review

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