The Skiers' Guide to Obergurgl-Hochgurgl

Great ski resort, easy access to the full mountain making it easy to meet up with friends anywhere. Some of the best mountain restaurants I’ve been at. Great piste variety. Close proximity to Sölden for another excellent resort.

Resort just 1.5hr transfer from innsbruck. 20 minutes from Sölden. Amazing groomed piste with plenty of off piste when snow is good. Friendly small village with really good accommodation and ski schools. Also night skiing once a week from 6:30pm to 9pm and plenty of live music in the apres bar.

Brilliant present ski. Nice gentle skiing but not a huge choice of runs. Skiing same runs each day. Very restricted.

I loved my first ever family ski trip in obergurgl. The conditions were great and ski school instructors were brilliant

Have been to this resort a number of times and love the feel of the place. Traditional and friendly would be the main themes for me.
Plenty of great lunch and drink options on the mountain.
It’s not a party place, but the Nederhutte provides excellent apres a few nights a week.
I am an intermediate skier and there are plenty of lovely runs. Not sure I would like to be a total beginner here as some of the link runs are a little trickier.
Overall a wonderful holiday!

Obergurgl and Hochgurgl are basically two resorts in one, where you can either get the bus between them or a lift which allows you to get a great view of the valley. Your lift pass also allows you to go to Solden. Obergurgl and Hochgurgl have the best of both worlds for skiing, with hard and easy slopes. The resort is high up so the snow is always the best! There’s also fantastic apres ski, for example live music at the Nederhutte in Obergurgl. But for me the best place to go is the Star at the top of Hochgurgl, which provides you with the best views!

Beautiful resort. Town and shopping facilities were fantastic. Plenty of variety in slopes and very picturesque. Amenities for all levels and all very accessible. Recommended

Amazing resort, particularly for families! Best alpine hotels in the world! Genepe is delicious and locally made!!

Great skiing, linked to hochgurl where there are a load of blue runs that my wife loved. Only down side was you have to ski a red run to get to the link over there. Apres ski was limited. Family friendly resort.

Was a great experience and fun time, excellent slopes . Especially great night skiing and overall would 100% recommend

Amazing family friendly resort! Really high quality accomodation and restaurants, great slopes and high altitude so good chance of fresh powder! Apres not amazing but it’s not that type of place and you can still find it it! Expensive resort but not actually too expensive on the mountain, a special place!

best ski holiday ever been on, was quite new to skiing when i went just gave me so much confidence

Obergurgl (IMO) wasn't the best for snowboarders. The Blues were very busy and chapped by mid afternoon. The Reds were quieter but due to the mountains being in shade for the first half of the day, can be quite icy. Hochgurgl is better but just as busy. There’s a lot of tracks which you need to pass along to get onto other runs.
Best option is a 15 min bus down to Soelden, which is much larger and better for boarders. Gurgl village is nice. If you want somewhere with a chilled vibe, it’s for you. The hotel we stayed at was really nice.

Great family friendly resort and good for beginners as well, I’m new to skiing and after picking it up fairly quickly I found obergurgl extremely friendly with plenty of blue runs. Food and accommodation was also amazing

The Hochfirst hotel was one of the best we've ever stayed in and rates 5*+++. Amazing service, fabulous food and perfectly located for the slopes.

The lift system is really good in obergurgl, with virtually no queuing and high speed access.

The slopes, however, were quite busy and there are quite a few paths which get clogged up with skiers. We enjoyed the skiing, but have been to resorts that we prefer.

Overall, a really good holiday, but made that way because of the hotel and great lift system

Absolutely loved this place, was such a good variety of coloured runs meaning it was great for myself as an experienced skier and also my partner who was a beginner. There were never long ques for the lifts and the restaurants and bars up the mountain got were great for food and apres ski. They also provided night skiing which was awesome.

Excellent ski-in ski-out facilities to fast moving and extensive lifts. Quality slopes both on and off the pistes. Excellent hotel facilities including swimming pools, saunas and fantastic meals.

The resort is quite quiet, so didn't really go for the Apres Ski, but there is a bit about if you know where to look!

Getting to Hochgurgl for Obergurgl is straight-forward and takes a few minutes by bus, you can even ski Sölden on the same lift pass, which is a bonus. Sölden is a quite large ski area and if you have booked more that a week you get free entry into the 007 exhibition at the top, which is actually quite good!

The lift between Hochgurgl and Obergurgl is a bit older and stops during high winds, this only affected us twice, this just means you have to ski down to the very bottom and get the bus back, hardly an inconvenience!

The is a nice hut just up at the first lift in Obergurgl that is open late and it is an easy ski down under lights, the live band is great and the atmosphere is something to be experienced!

Overall I rate this resort a 9 out of 10, it lost 1 point because of the lift that connects to Hochgurgl and some of the runs are not pisted very well, especially on the way back into Obergurgl!

Hochgurgl in particular had quiet slopes with few queues so lots of skiing was possible. Lots of options for eating out in Obergurgl. Good range of ski runs for intermediates in this ski area with typical Austrian charm and hospitality.

Very well groomed slopes and some challenging ones. The top hotel restaurant we had lunch there was fantastic.