Obertauern reviews

Keeps snow quality better than most European areas, due to position in the Taurean all and altitude. Great terrain daily accessable from lifts.

Lovely place

Fantastic ski resort for family and for those who want to go out and run off-piste.
Plenty of restaurants and slopes to plow through and terribly snow-sure.

Spent a week here at the turn of the year 2019-2020 and got a very positive impression. The resort is located at high latitudes and is therefore very snow-sure. I have long dissed Austria in favor of the French and Swiss Alps but was pleasantly surprised. Well-composed system with good lifts, well-maintained slopes, the possibility of off-piste near the piste (which is our tune) and not least a very nice village with many good restaurants.

Like Branäs stuck with Austrians, which is not positive. The Alps may be the flatest experience in general, both in terms of skiing but also as a village.
+ it snows a lot (but the skiing is very short and very flat), fun with skiweek. There are other good places quite close to you can go to from Obertauern
- really most of the time.

Go somewhere else.

Snow-secure, compact system and many hotels with ski-in / ski-out make Obertauern a good family resort where ski logistics become as simple as in Sweden and Norway. However, there are no flat slopes with button lifts where small children can learn to plow and swing - choose another place if the children cannot already go down for a blue hill themselves. Otherwise, the nature of skiing is much like in Åre, albeit larger and so clear with more snow. From Skåne an attractive alternative to Trysil and Hemsedal.

I have been to obertauern for 5 days and have had some of my best rides in my life. During my 5 days I did not go for a single piste. There were toopist scratches impresively over everything completely untouched! Not really long too bad, but full enough! At lower elevations, I recommend forest rides, under the 8-seat / cabin from the village! Easily accessible pillows!
5/5

I have personally been there 5 years in a row and go there tomorrow for 6 years. Looks like it's a terrific place offering everything from cruising skiing (and snowboarding I'm underneath) to great après ski! It is a lovely atmosphere in the village and, in my experience, there are very nice people who live there.

Plus, I want to give to the offpiste that I think is awesome! There has always been a lot of snow when we have been there and the offpiste is easily accessible. In many places, just go ahead and take the shortest pisted slopes and find a nice place to go!

Too bad is that there is so expensive, so unfortunately for a semi-low season, it's hard to live here.

Very snow proof but also the right windy place. A nice city, however, does not have so much options for the poor bummer as it is largely the only hotel in the world. Maybe a little low fall height, but it is good enough. In the sensation season there is one of Europe's best puckelists in the area, Gamsliten 2.

Were there during the Christmas week and it started with sunshine and some snow, but at the end came a huge dump that made the perfect skiing possible.

Perhaps not the absolute best resort in Europe but it definitely keeps to be at the top!

Take the local mail bus (free) to Mauterndorf, when the queues get too long and the beer for animals in Obertauern. There is a small ski area, if compared to obertaurn, but big if you think of Sweden. The village itself originates from the Roman empire with a castle and nice old streets and houses. It's as genuine as it gets.