Notes from skiing trips and other random thoughts
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So what does it cost to enjoy the Easter in S?ɬ?lden? This time the total cost per person (we were 4 in total) was a bit under 650 euros, excluding flights to Munchen, lunches, few drinks in bars, some some dinner costs. The main cost items were:
| Food | 77.91 eur |
| Beer and other bewerages | 82.4 eur |
| Car rental + gasoline | 104.17 eur |
| Lodging | 235.00 eur |
| Lift Tickets | 143.00 eur |
After our dissapointment in ?É‚Äìzli, we had to find new place for dinner. After some wandering in village, we found Onkel Tom, which served extremely delicious steaks for very decent prices. The portions were big and high quality meet was perfectly prepared! Just great!
That was definitely one of the best value for money steaks I have ever eaten! Onkel Tom is absolutely recommended place to eat in S?ɬ?lden.
Restaurant Ötzi in Sölden provided us devostatingly bad service experience. The whole behavior of the staff was so impolite that we have only one advice to everyone visiting Sölden – Never eat there!
The whole story started on Friday evening, when we decided to have fondue on saturday evening. We booked a table on Ötzi where they happily accepted our booking, but did not ask at all what we would like to eat.
Then on saturday evening we went to Ötzi hungry and eager to get a good fondue. Our disappointment was huge when the waitress told that the fondue must be ordered beforehand 
How could we have guessed that? The restaurant has huge signs outside advertising fondue and when we ordered the table, they did not mention at all that we should order the fondue beforehand. The staff did not offer any compensation and we decided to change a restaurant.
But we wanted to have fondue on some day anyway; hence, we tried to book a table with fondue for sunday evening. That was the final blow for our experience: first, the waiter challenged us that do really want to come on sunday and when we confirmed couple of times that we really want to have fondue, he finally said that the restaurant is fully booked on sunday!? Why he did not say that immediately when we started the discussion on reservation for sunday?!
The bottom line: really bad service!
The Alpen Hotel served us the best fondue any of us have ever seen. if you go to S?ɬ?lden, you must try their fondue! There was enough of high quality meet, which was accompanied with delicious oven potato and plenty of other stuff. The whole experience was completed with excellent service and awesome interior. And all of this with less than 30 euros per person, including a bottle of good wine (for 4)!
Today we had a party day in S?ɬ?lden. Two runs and time to open sparkling wine bottle 
After we had enjoyed the wine and couple of beers on top of the mountain, it was time to head to middle station where they had staged a really good cover band. We were the only ones who were brave enough to move table closer to the stage and have a good party. After ca. two hours of dancing we took the lift down to the village and continued partying in a very nice afterski place for couple of hours and few beers more. The austrians seems to know how to stage a party…
And after dinner we continued in Fire and Ice until 1:30 am. Not a bad day
Fresh snow over night and it was a good move to wake up early and hit the slopes. The first run of the day was awesome: fresh untracked powder for about 700 meters of vertical. The rest of the run was a bit more exiting; we managed to launch couple of small avalanches. The 5 cm layer of snow from last night rolled really easily down… Luckily nothing bigger happened.
Then we skied few runs of quite nice spring snow and finally had a beers in perfect sunshine. Now its time test the sauna of our accommodation…
That was a great start for Easter holiday. Full day powder skiing in S?ɬ?lden. Much better than I ever imagined. Check the video clip in vimeo… Afterski was a bit lame today, but I am sure that it will be better tomorrow
On our way to S?ɬ?lden. Quite a few kilometers after munchen airport. Luckily I am not driving and we managed to aqcuire some beer from gas station… But no grocery markets on the road. Seems that we will have thin breakfast tomorrow. Hopefully skiing is better. Anyhow, time for another pint before we hit the village.
After some emails to Sölden I was able to reserve a flat for 4 persons for Eastern and also flights to Münich are booked, so its looking that we will have good skiing a head of us also in April We will stay in Appartements Hermann ARNOLD in the middle of the action in village.
If you have been in Sölden before, I would like hear any tips on where to ski and what are the best apres ski places?
After couple of weeks in work, it is time to start thinking next skiing opportunities We have a plan to go to S?ɬ?lden for eastern, but I just got a reply from local tourist office that they don’t have any accomodation for eastern weekend available. Hopefully we can figure out something.
