Are you planning to take your family skiing this year? Then you have to look for a resort with enough slopes for beginners and lots of entertainment options after the skiing classes. For the past several years, Austria has been the perfect holiday destination for many tourists. If you want to avoid the crowded slopes of the famous resorts of Zell am See, Kaprun and Kitzbuhel, choose lesser known locations that are also family “friendly”. Mariapfarr and Tamsweg - Lungau Region At the heart of Austria, winter feels like home. The Lungau region can be the paradise you are looking for this holiday season. Several mountain towns in the area are known to receive tourists in a fairytale setting. At St. Michael, Mauterndorf Mariapfarr and Tamsweg you will find accommodation at decent prices and ski slopes nearby. In the region, you will discover many hostels with traditional food on offer, which are also environmentally friendly, because they produce their own energy through ecological systems. For a few Euros a day you can find holiday kindergartens and nurseriesin Mariapfarr and Tamsweg, where someone will take care of thetots while the parents are on the slopes. With the ski-pass or the special buses, you can move from one slope to another and from one resort to another. You can enjoy most of the 300 kilometers of slopes. In the area you will find ski schools for children and when you get tired you can also use a sleigh. Hermagor Nassfeld - Carinthia The tourists that visit Carinthia (the border with Italy)go in search of the sunny slopes of Nassfeld. Despite the sun, the snow there reaches eight feet each year. Nassfeld is one of the most beautiful ski areas in Austria and boasts 110 km of ski slopes (30 km only for beginners). Here you will find one of the largest natural ice rinks in the world, on Lake Pressegg, which covers an area of 55 hectares. You can hire the best skiteachers for the tots, and if skiing is not their strong point, you can let them have fun with the dozens of sleighs or snow slides there. Many of the hotels here are equipped with a nursery or kindergarten for children between 3 and 5 years old, where they take care of little ones all day. Alpbach - Tirol Alpback is one of the best travel destinations for families. A picturesque village in which old Austrian traditions will charm you from the first moment you arrive here. Alpbach is a unique location where winter sports have a different charm around the holidays. If you are lucky to go there during a Christmas event, you can hear traditional concerts almost every night and in January you can see the most beautiful hot air balloon race. The resorts seem cut out from the idyllic glossy pictures of magazines and is one of the most appreciated ones by the British tourists, who have been coming here for generations. In the area there are many facilities for children: a free ski pass for those under 15 years old, a slope dedicated to children, where they can practice their moves, and many more areas where children can play. Author Bio: Austria is one of the best and most popular places to spend vacation. For best vacations places to spend your holidays, please read our blog holiday-road.com a travel guide.
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