Additional Details:
The rental of this apartment includes the use of the main property garden and a storage room for bicycles etc.
There is a heated ski and boot room for communal use.
There is an excellent restaurant situated at ground floor level of the main property which offers the facility of breakfast, lunch and evening meals by arrangement with the proprietor, Albert Steiner.
The village is just 300m away and has 2 supermarkets, a post office, banks, hotels, bars, restaurants, several shops, and a 'wellness' centre with outdoor swimming pool and leisure facilities.
There is ski and boot hire available in the adjacent village of Bruckdorf, together with ski schools.
The excellent free local ski bus service serves all 4 of the local ski areas, including Obertauern - the bus stop is just 300m away outside the post office from where timetables can be obtained.
Mountain Biking:
Since 2001 the Lungau area has expanded its already substantial mountain bike network. Fifteen newly accessible, continuous, uniformly labelled mountain bike routes, covering a total length of over 560 km on diversified routes in Lungau’s mountains are waiting to be discovered. The quiet valley roads offer less strenuous biking for those who wish to conserve energy!
Amateurs and pros alike have over hundreds of kilometres to challenge the mountains. You will be rewarded for your athletic efforts with the unforgettable experience of the province of Salzburg’s environment.
The climate of Lungau enhances your health! A holiday in Lungau is twice as healthy because of its location at an altitude of over 1,000 m above sea level. Most recent studies have shown that a vacation at this altitude has resulted positively on one’s health: the production of red corpuscles is stimulated and a longer vacation has proven sustained weight loss.
Bikes can be hired locally.
How to get there and other information.:
Budget flights are available from regional UK airports to Salzburg (125 km) and Klagenfurt (133 km), from where cars can be rented. Travel time is 1hour 15 minutes from Salzburg, 1 hour 25 minutes from Klagenfurt. Flights are also available to Munich, Linz, Graz, and Ljubljana. Please note that a 'vignette' is required to travel on the motorways in Austria - these can be bought at petrol stations to cover various time periods. Typical cost is about 7 euros for a week.
Drivers should carry their driving licences in their cars - there is a 20€ fine for not being able to produce a licence on demand to the police!
The location of the property can be found on 'viamichelin' or google maps.
The precise address of the apartment is:
TOP2,
Panorama Gasthof Steiner,
Bergstrasse 144,
A-5571 Mariapfarr,
Austria.
A deposit is required when booking and can be made by sterling cheque or credit transfer in sterling or euros using internet banking.
Smoking is not allowed inside the apartment.
Ski:
The skiing here is an undiscovered gem - there are 4 separate ski areas totaling 300 km of piste runs, all reachable by the free ski bus service within 30 minutes, or 15 minutes by car. Obertauern is the most well known as being the most snow sure resort in Austria with a season extending from late November until early May. The other local areas of Fanningberg, Grosseck-Speiereck, and Aineck-Katschberg provide wonderful skiing on relatively empty slopes with an abundance of welcoming huts.
Cross-country skiing in snow-covered valleys and the sun shining in your face – that’s pure relaxation. And at the same time breathing in clear, healthy air and admiring the frost covered surroundings – that’s cross-country skiing in Ferienregion Lungau. There are also approximately 70 kilometres of skating tracks for skating enthusiasts. All together, the Lungau cross-country network encompasses 150 kilometres of well prepared tracks.
