Crazy Spring Snow Safari Tyrol 2016

The chalet is well equipped and has double/twin bedrooms, a kitchen, a living/dining room with sleep couch, and a bathroom. There will be max. 9 people in our group. No smoking in the house. There are around 6 houses in this park – sauna and indoor swimming pool are shared.

Couples

If you are a couple, please understand that you can not behave like a couple here. Subject to availability, you can get a room with a double bed if you want (in general the rooms are allocated through a lottery [faq]) but you are expected to participate in all activities and group life as individuals and not as a couple. So be prepared to sit each at the other extreme of the group table during dinner, and accept that someone else than yourself might be giving a massage to your partner's sour muscles.

Saturday April 2: At the end of the day (18:00) we will gather at our holiday house in the Inn valley, between Landeck and Innsbruck (Tyrol, Austria). If you travel by public transport, we will pick you up at Innsbruck Airport.

Sunday April 3 – Thursday April 7: Every day we'll get up early, we'll have breakfast together and then we'll drive to the resort of the day. We will basically choose from the glaciers of Sölden, Pitztal, Kaunertal and Stubai as well as the best Firn of other resorts that are still open, such as St. Anton/Arlberg, Hochgurgl/Obergurgl and Kühtai. Each of these resorts is at some 45 – 60 minutes driving from our house. We will select the resorts based on snow conditions and interest. At the end of the day we'll drive back to the house, have dinner together, enjoy the sauna and swimming pool, play crazy group games etc.

Friday April 8: Again we'll get up early and drive to one of the resorts; however this day we'll ski/board until 13:00 and then it's farewell time.

If you are a beginner in snow sports, this Crazy Spring Snow Safari probably is not a good choice. The choice in beginners slopes might be a bit limited and we'll be skiing new slopes every day or every second day (as we'll be visiting several resorts).

Basically we will have a minibus at our disposal. We will use this minibus for daily transport between the house and the ski resorts that we will visit and for transfer from/to Innsbruck Airport at the day of arrival cq. departure. If our group is small, we will do all this with a normal sedan and not with a minibus.

I will be driving the minibus (or sedan) from/to The Netherlands. You can drive along for free from/to the Amsterdam area, Utrecht, Arnhem, Duisburg, Köln, Frankfurt/Main, Karlsruhe, Stuttgart or Ulm.

How to get there

We will be in central Tyrol (Austria) at some 30 minutes from Innsbruck (international airport and international train connections). Other nearby airports are Memmingen at 150km (Ryanair, Germanwings, Wizzair etc.) and Munich at 140km. Transfer from/to Innsbruck Airport at the day of arrival cq. departure is included.

The deal

You choose your participation in the cost for these 6 days and nights:

· EUR 465 per person if you sign up and pay the advance payment before January 1st, 2016
· EUR 485 per person if you sign up and pay the advance payment after December 31st, 2015

Or EUR 412 if you are female and you choose to make use of the Gender Pay Gap Compensation [faq]

This includes:
+ Six nights stay in a well equipped holiday house, with shared sauna and shared indoor swimming pool
+ Six dinners in our house. Nothing fancy; but decent food. There will be a vegetarian option as well.
+ Six breakfasts in our house
+ Transfer from/to Innsbruck Airport at the day of arrival cq. departure
+ Daily transport between the house and the ski resorts that we will visit

Not included:
x Local tourist taxes
x Lunch (you will take care of lunch yourself – probably in a restaurant at the slope)
x Skipasses
x Ski/snowboard equipment rental
x Any snacks or alcoholic beverages