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Official Rating - 3* - Half Board [Arrivals and departures only on Saturday]
The family run Hotel Schneeberger offers a warm welcome, excellent home cooking and very comfortable accommodation. The hotel?s bar is a popular meeting place for both locals and holidaymakers.
How to Get There
Closest Airports: INN/SZG/MUC. Niederau can be easily reached from the following airports: Innsbruck (INN) 73 kilometres, Salzburg (SZG) 100 kilometres, Munich (MUC) 152 kilometres. Please note that check in and check out day for this property is only Saturday. Your stay should be either for 7 or 14 nights.
Accommodation and Facilities
The small and friendly Hotel Schneeberger features 31 bedrooms, all of which are individually furnished. The Austrian twin rooms and double rooms can accommodate up to three persons and feature shower, toilet, telephone and satellite television. Safe facilities are also in each bedroom (small local charge). Single rooms are available for a supplement and family rooms, sleeping up to four persons, are also available. Public areas in the Schneeberger include reception, cosy house bar, cafe, restaurant, dining room, children?s playroom, lift, sun terrace and bar. After a hard day on the slopes, one can relax and take advantage of the hotel?s sauna, steam-bath and infrared cabin. Table tennis is also available, as is a whirlpool bath and a solarium (small local cost). The half-board arrangement includes a cold buffet breakfast and a four course evening meal with a choice of main course. A festive meal is included on Christmas Eve and New Year?s Eve.
Location
The Hotel Schneeberger is an approximate 5 minute stroll (600 metres) from the centre of Niederau, and it is about 700 metres from the Markbachjoch gondola station. Conditions and ability permitting, one can ski back to the hotel at the end of the day. The free ski bus to the neighbouring villages of Oberau and Auffach stops about 150 metres from the hotel.
Ski Facts
Niederau lies in the pretty Wildschonau Valley. This relaxed, friendly resort, with its good range of gentle slopes, is an ideal family destination and is also suited to beginners or second/third time skiers who are hoping to build up confidence. Known as The Friendly Skiing Area, the Wildschonau may not be the largest of areas, but the skiing available is varied and it offers something for all standards of skiers. Although not interconnected, the lift pass covers all lifts in Niederau, Oberau and Auffach. The north facing slopes, Lanerkofl and Markbachjoch in Niederau, were first developed into ski slopes in 1947, so the Wildschonau has a long skiing history.
There are some pleasant runs back through the woods and some challenging dark red to deep black runs, suitable only for experienced skiers.
The runs on the Schatzberg in Auffach, the larger Wildschonau ski area, are a little more placid, the terrain is more open and the pistes are wider. Beginners, families and snowboarders feel comfortable here on the sunny skiing-motorways. There is a rather good off piste mogul field and, at a length of 10 kilometres, the red run back to the valley demands good form! In Oberau there are 5 draglifts, mostly for beginners with one short black run on the Riedl slope. In a recent survey conducted by the ADAC Top Ski Resorts in the Alps Guide, the Wildschonau won first prize in the category Small but Excellent! The following information relates to the entire Wildschonau ski region:
Resort altitude: 830 ? 1903 metres
Kilometres of piste: 70
Blue 15 kms / Red 43 kms / Black 12 kms
Number of lifts: 26
Gondola 2 / Chairlifts 3 / Drag lifts 21
Snow Cannons: 72, which cover 30 kilometres of piste
Cross Country Trails: 50 kilometres
Mountain Huts: 8
Snowboarding: The Race-n-Boarder Arena on the Tennladenhang outside Oberau features a speed run, carving zone and a giant slalom course. The Snowboardpark o
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