The Skiers' Guide to Sölden

Really enjoy Solden for the nice wide blue runs, great après both on and off the mountain and for just being an overall friendly resort. The lifts are great too. Definitely will be back.

Nice trails, good grooming I like that the ski resort is so spredded out so you can ski with so many good sceneries. I like the lift effiency a lot and that they are building new stuff all the time Witz also alot of improves

Reliable fresh snow even at the end of March. Went there when electric mountain festival was on, and it was amazing. The 15km run from top to bottom is a must do!

Fantastic place to be both in and off the slopes.
Will be going yearly from this point forward. Huge variety of slopes and skill

A nice moderate ski resort. Obviously great for Apres ski and Partying. If you don’t go in throes season you will many slopes practically empty.

A great resort loads of good restaurant’s, we were late in the season so it seemed very quiet, the 007 experience was well worth a visit and loved seeing all the things used in in one of the films . A must do is jump on the bus to ski the Gurgles and visit the motor bike museum while your there

Solden is a great place for beginner or advanced skiers. Great choice of apres ski and lots of runs to choose from!

Loads of skiing, good lift system and 007 Elements really good. Lots of places to eat and drink, some of it lively.

Love Sölden! Snow is guaranteed, great choice of runs. Would definitely return. Lots of lovely mountain restaurants. Its one of our favourite resorts so far.

More than just skiing. Two glaciers, one with a great restaurant and the 007 experience, well worth a visit, with film props still on the mountain. Other glacier has very good skiing although a bit of a trek to get there. Run back to town from here. Good selection of blue runs and hidden huttes in the area below IceQ, on the piste map. Apres ski mainly on the left hand side of map above town. Day trip to hochgurgl/obergurgl about 40mins by taxi for opening of lifts, walk round car/bike museum , couple of drinks in niderhutte then nack on the bus.. Fab!! (This was feb 2019)

Solden has some great ski areas with wide open easy cruisers to Olympic downhill blacks. Slopes are perfectly prepared daily to help you make the most of your day on the mountain. The glaciers provide safe straight slopes for your confidence building. Word of caution to the timid skiers/boarders, the runs to the resort at the end of day become very mogully and dangerous depending on others around you. My advice is to enjoy the trip down in the gondola and reminisce in the days activities. The resort is spread along a busy road which is quite intrusive to your enjoyment but is made up for with a good selection of shops restaurants and bars. 3rd trip to Solden completed this month and it still holds the enjoyment factor and pretty good facilities. Only other minor negative is for tall skiers as the chairs are lower to the ground than most other resorts and my knees took quite a pounding at the lift stations.

Highly Recommend Solden for snow sure and great mountain huts. Theres long runs from the top of the glacier all the way back to the village. More time skiing and less time in lifts. Cant wait to get back!!

Sölden, friendly feel to the place, much to attract all age a genre groups. Locals friendly and accommodating great value and fun resort with easy access to Hochgurgl and Obergurgl.
5 stars

March 2025: having tried every run in Obergurgl and Hochgurgl in the first two days of our stay we then took the bus to Sölden and were delighted by better snow, quieter and more extensive pistes and open itinerary runs. The 007 James Bond experience was great fun and the mountain restaurants, especially Tiefenbach Gletscher had great character and music. We returned the next day as our children (in their 20s) wanted to try more of the black runs at their speed as opposed to ours. Solden is on our wish list for next season as it deserves more attention than we had time for this visit.

In Brief:
Wide open runs, with a great deal of intermediate and carving potential, competing with huge crowds, and a slightly forced apres scene. Food is cheap and cheerful to gourmet, depending on preference.

The resort features a large range of red runs, dotted with blacks and blues. In honesty I often failed to distinguish between reds and blacks, as all slopes were plowed daily and conditions didnt really allow for moguls to form. For some I'm sure this would be great. For me it reduced the type and range of terrain available. What the resort does offer however are expansively wide and accessible pistes to the majority of levels.

The resort is not of significant size and with a generally outdated (slow and low capacity) and oddly arranged lift system, I felt it extremely difficult to escape the crowds (I visited the 1st week of March). Frequently I would find a quiet slope only to discover it could only be accessed again either by a T-bar or by taking a circuitous route to get back to the top. Ultimately this resulted in either a lot of time spent in queues or a lot of time on slow lifts - or both!

On the lift systems, I also found the lifties to be rather lazy, they rarely got involved in assisting users, and on several occasions I found them sleeping. This isnt a problem with the resort as such, but it resulted in a certain level of chaos within almost all lift queues, to an extent I've not witnessed elsewhere.

Food options on the mountain were reasonable and generally affordable <£20 lunches, <£10 if you skip the beer and favour self service.

Where the value for money falls down is in the ski pass. Its a huge £424 during the peak winter season, for a claimed >300km of piste. The catch is only around 150km of that is in Solden, the rest is dotted about in smaller resort accessible by bus. Yes, Obergurgl is worth a visit, but the other 3-4 resorts are too small for a day of good skiing on the piste.

On the apre. If you like the huge club scene, Solden town can offer this. Fire shooting out of the roof, heavy base, table dancing are all up for grabs.
If you like a calmer apre scene, its more difficult to find.
Personally I struggled to see the Austrian in Solden and it's Austrian Apre I like most. The big hotels and loud club like bars which dominate the town just left generic western taste in my mouth.

End of the day, the place is convenient for access from Innsbruck and wont break the bank with a decent deal (if you can forget about the ski pass). But would I go back? Probably not.

Great location with wonderful glacier boarding. Good ski bus access throughout the resort and to Obergurgl and Hochgurgl as well for a quieter day.

There is great Apres Ski and the James Bond Museum is also worth a visit. Good selection of bars and restaurants on the mountain and very good lift service.

Definitely more of a vibrant resort, may not be the best choice for families though!

Decent on your own. Better to go with a group of friends. Perfect slopes. Not too busy either. Would definitely go again

Absolutely loved my Solden Christmas holiday. Great resort that caters for many skill levels, with lots of terrain to cover serviced by great infrastructure

Went skiing here for the first time last year and it was the BEST trip. The runs are beautiful. Well groomed. Lifts are quick and lines arent usually too bad. A stunning resort. Hope to come back soon! Highly recommend!

Wonderful place! So classy and beautiful. Would highly recommend this ski resort! A large variety of runs.. a skier of any level should be comfortable here!