Soll

fannymagee · 22-09-2014 10:35pm

cormee wrote: »

Nice lifestyle, Fanny. I own a website, as well as working a full-time job. I'd love to give up the full-time job and work on the website from some ski resort, however at present the income from the site would really only allow me live in somewhere like Bankso, Bulgaria - which I'd imagine I'd be bored of after a few days. Some day maybe!

Cormee: JFDI!! Start making it happen now, you'll be ready for Winter 2015 ;-)

cormee · 23-09-2014 10:19am

fannymagee wrote: »

Cormee: JFDI!! Start making it happen now, you'll be ready for Winter 2015 ;-)

Two hopes! Bob Hope and no hope. I'd be divorced by week two.

... hmmm

fannymagee · 01-10-2014 9:10am

Attention Sollers: Its looking like the Underground will be closed this season! Booo. We'll have to find somewhere else to get our knees dirty haha ;-)

Rew · 06-10-2014 1:12am

Thinking of Soll for my long weekend trip. Late Jan seems to be good flight prices. Looks like renting a car is the cheapest option to get to resort. Any recommendations on accommodation? Its my wife and my self for 4 days (thurs - sunday). Booking.com have Gasthof Christophorus half board for €350 for the 4 days any idea how that stacks up?

fannymagee · 08-10-2014 10:37am

If you're looking for the cheapest transfer option, that would be the train. Munich-kufstein, taxi/bus from Kufstein to Soll. Trains are hourly, cost about €25ea.

Christopherous is lovely, although is that €350 each or in total for the 4 days? If it's each you could prob get cheaper accommodation in the Schonblick or Mirabelle :-)

Sorry for delay getting back to you. All this info is already in these threads, I'll bump one from last year for you so you've the other details.

Rew · 08-10-2014 10:43am

fannymagee wrote: »

If you're looking for the cheapest transfer option, that would be the train. Munich-kufstein, taxi/bus from Kufstein to Soll. Trains are hourly, cost about €25ea.

Christopherous is lovely, although is that €350 each or in total for the 4 days? If it's each you could prob get cheaper accommodation in the Schonblick or Mirabelle :-)

350 in total half board for 3 nights/4 days. Train sounds good ill look into that.

Looking the map there seems to be a bus system to get from the town to the lift or else about a 15 min walk is that right?

Cheers

Rew · 08-10-2014 10:46am

fannymagee wrote: »

Sorry for delay getting back to you. All this info is already in these threads, I'll bump one from last year for you so you've the other details.

Ahh I should have realised. Ill have a good read of the thread tonight. Main Q I had was about the accommodation quality and price.

fannymagee · 08-10-2014 11:00am

Yes there is a garage under the main gondel station, if you leave your gear in that, the walk is no problem. Otherwise the busses are very frequent and take about three mins- jump on one if you're feeling lazy ;-)

fannymagee · 08-10-2014 11:02am

Ah if it's half boar it's ot bad- although there are plenty of lovely restaurants so no real need for half board. The Postwirt is my favourite hotel, really central and traditional, great food and entertainment- you could look into that ne if you haven't confirmed the Christopherous yet :-)

Rew · 08-10-2014 11:05am

fannymagee wrote: »

Ah if it's half boar it's ot bad- although there are plenty of lovely restaurants so no real need for half board. The Postwirt is my favourite hotel, really central and traditional, great food and entertainment- you could look into that ne if you haven't confirmed the Christopherous yet :-)

Nothing confirmed, I fired Christopherous an email to see what the price was like direct instead of going via booking.com but no reply so far. Ill look into The Postwirt cheers.

Rew · 08-10-2014 11:34am

The Postwirt only do full week stays in winter so no long weekends but they were very quick to reply and were very helpful. Looking at a full week separate to this trip so will keep it in mind.

fannymagee · 08-10-2014 12:25pm

Ah OK sorry actually I'd forgotten that. I know the Mirabelle and the Schonblick both do shorter stays and are both very reasonable and very central, you could try them?

AlternateID · 08-10-2014 12:28pm

Think I'm stating in the Mirabelle for New Years. Sort term memory issues today. Are you sure the underground be closed?

Rew · 08-10-2014 1:03pm

fannymagee wrote: »

Ah OK sorry actually I'd forgotten that. I know the Mirabelle and the Schonblick both do shorter stays and are both very reasonable and very central, you could try them?

Yeah def will. Pitty about Postwirt looked really nice. Their full week packages look very good as well for anyone looking to go longer.

fannymagee · 08-10-2014 1:11pm

AlternateID I'm 99.999% sure, but I'm sure the whole shebang will just be moved to a different venue so I'll let you know when I know more :-)

mahoney_j · 09-10-2014 4:33pm

Rew wrote: »

Thinking of Soll for my long weekend trip. Late Jan seems to be good flight prices. Looks like renting a car is the cheapest option to get to resort. Any recommendations on accommodation? Its my wife and my self for 4 days (thurs - sunday). Booking.com have Gasthof Christophorus half board for €350 for the 4 days any idea how that stacks up?

Check this place out,Guy that owns it is an absolute gent.Place is very centeral,5 minute stroll to slavenstadl,10/15 minute walk to gondola station,Clean,warm,nice breakfast and u can also hire ur ski gear and arrange lift passes from his ski shop and cheap as well.www.sportmayr.info

Rew · 10-10-2014 12:49pm

mahoney_j wrote: »

Check this place out,Guy that owns it is an absolute gent.Place is very centeral,5 minute stroll to slavenstadl,10/15 minute walk to gondola station,Clean,warm,nice breakfast and u can also hire ur ski gear and arrange lift passes from his ski shop and cheap as well.www.sportmayr.info

Fired him an email looks like it would be perfect for us

Rew · 13-10-2014 2:01pm

Rew wrote: »

Fired him an email looks like it would be perfect for us

Only full week rentals unfortunately. Finished booking everything

Aer Lingus to Munich,
Rental Car to Soll
Gasthof Christophorus half board for 3 nights
ill look into passes and skis next but thats the bulk of it sorted... cant wait!

Thanks all for help

fannymagee · 13-10-2014 2:11pm

Good work! If you look at the first post in the Soll 2014/2015 thread, I put details of some rental options in there. If you're only going for 3 days you may as well rent from the Edinger Garage under the main gondel station, save yourselves hoiking them around the place.

I hope the car was cheap, because you prob won;t get much of a chance to use it over there! But it's a straight enough road down from Munich, just make sure you have a vignette for the motorway.

robinph · 13-10-2014 2:18pm

fannymagee wrote: »

I hope the car was cheap, because you prob won;t get much of a chance to use it over there! But it's a straight enough road down from Munich, just make sure you have a vignette for the motorway.

Pretty sure that I didn't have one for the motorways when I drove from Munich to Soll and back for the marathon last year. We came off at the first junction after the border at Kufstein to get to Soll, and it was from that junction on that you needed to vignette. I may have miss-read the signs of course.

fannymagee · 13-10-2014 2:42pm

Yes you can do that too, it's just slightly more effort and can just sometimes be bad with traffic. Much of a muchness though :-)

Rew · 13-10-2014 2:59pm

fannymagee wrote: »

Good work! If you look at the first post in the Soll 2014/2015 thread, I put details of some rental options in there. If you're only going for 3 days you may as well rent from the Edinger Garage under the main gondel station, save yourselves hoiking them around the place.

Will do thanks.

I hope the car was cheap, because you prob won;t get much of a chance to use it over there! But it's a straight enough road down from Munich, just make sure you have a vignette for the motorway.

100 quid (+juice of course) which was the same as the transfer by tirol-taxi.at. Main thing is to try maximise time on piste by minimising transfer times (keeping cost within in reason of course)

After a bit of googling to figure out what a vignette was ill look into that, thanks

Inconspicuous · 14-10-2014 5:30pm

Fannymagee,

Just wondering if you could clear something up for me.

I've been boarding in Soll about 3 or 4 times and have always used the garage at the bottom of the button lift to store my gear. I've always wondered if this is the only garage in town or is there one directly under the gondla?

If there is it'd be a lot handier as the button lift is a pain to use on a snowboard. (hate strapping in and out...)

Cheers

AlternateID · 14-10-2014 5:36pm

Any time I've been in Soll I've board from the home run to as close to the round about as gravity will take me and then into the underground.

Inconspicuous · 14-10-2014 5:42pm

AlternateID wrote: »

Any time I've been in Soll I've board from the home run to as close to the round about as gravity will take me and then into the underground.

Yep! And I'd have no problem with that normally. Unfortunately though, I'm a solitary snowboarder in a large group of skiers who insist on using the garage cos their boots hurt them

So I just end up using it by default too.

Also, last time I was there I stopped into the pub just at the end of the Red run right before the gondla on my very last run of the holiday and really enjoyed it. Wouldn't mind checking it out a bit more this time around and only way I'd convince the skiers to stop here is if they can get out of their boots at a nearby garage

AlternateID · 14-10-2014 5:45pm

Cursed skiers and their fun spoiling boots. I'm sure there is a garage under the gondola. There's also a few in town I think.

AlternateID · 14-10-2014 5:57pm

Thinking about it there must be 2 or 3 bars in that area and I've never been to any of them. I really should drop in for a looksee next time.

fannymagee · 14-10-2014 6:05pm

Yes Inconspicuous, and once you use the one under the gondola you'll never go back to the dungeon at the bottom of the hill again! It's poxy.

The reps like to lead people to believe it's the only one in town, but it's an absolute pain in the arse.

Check out the first post on the Soll 2014/5 thread, the link to it is there, and a demo on how to use it hahaha

Yes there are some fun bars around there, you're prob talking about the Moonlight bar, it's a popular haunt. I like the Talstation as well, it's small but has the best gluhwein around, and lovely Dutch style chips if you fancy a snack

Inconspicuous · 15-10-2014 9:32am

Perfect.

Have already sent the link onto the skiers so they're going to rent their gear and all from there to make life as easy as possible for themselves

Yeah I think it is the Moonlight bar alright. Had a good time there the last time, so hoping for more of the same this year. Will have to check out the other places you suggested too!

Thanks for all the help! Really looking forward to it now

fannymagee · 15-10-2014 10:31am

Inconspicuous wrote: »

Perfect.

Have already sent the link onto the skiers so they're going to rent their gear and all from there to make life as easy as possible for themselves

Yeah I think it is the Moonlight bar alright. Had a good time there the last time, so hoping for more of the same this year. Will have to check out the other places you suggested too!

Thanks for all the help! Really looking forward to it now

When are you going? Changing garages is a good decision. Wait till you see the difference

Inconspicuous · 15-10-2014 10:39am

First week in Feb! There's about 6 or 7 of us in total! Should be great craic. Have boarded all over Europe and in Canada too and Soll is still my favourite place to go!

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