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I stayed at Thomson's Club Hotel Vicky in Niederau at the beginning of March this year. This was my second visit to the Wildschonau Valley as I had learnt to ski in Oberau several years earlier.
The staff at the Vicky were welcoming & helpful. The room was clean & comfortable but basic. Evening meals were superb with a healthy & appetising vegetarian option. Breakfasts were not nearly as good.Waiting times for cooked breakfasts were long, even if ordered when the kitchen first opened.Coffee was weak & got worse as the week passed by. I can recommend The Hotel Austria for a decent cup of coffee.
The Vicky generally offers good value for money & is a great base for those travelling with children. It is fairly centrally located in the compact village of Niederau.It's about 5 minutes walk to the gondola accross the field & just under 10 minutes by the road in normal shoes. The Margarite Hire Shop, at the bottom of the gondola, offers ski & boot storage for a cost of 10 Euros per person per week, but their boot racks are not heated.
Red ski school offers a very good standard of teaching & a fun, end of week slalom race. Ladies, be warned; Toni (an instructor) is very, very friendly!
Snow conditions up the mountain in Niederau & Auffach were satisfactory but snow was absent in the villages. Red 19 was open for most of the week, making it possible to ski back to the bottom gondola station in Niederau.
Buses to Oberau & Auffach were frequent but could be packed in the mornings & after ski scool finished in the afternoons. There were long queues at the bottom gondola station in Auffach most mornings.
I have had two great holidays in the reasonably priced Wildschonau Valley & would recommend it to those learning to ski & to early intermediates. I would have been a bit bored, this year, if red 19 had not been open. Next year, I am going to Soll in search of a wider variety of red runs.
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