Ski Arlberg (St. Anton, St. Christoph, Stuben)

Short: Ski Arlberg is my favorite skiing area of all time, it also offers a beatiful and versatile mountain Panorama. Over the course of 3 years, I was skiing here more than 30 days from December to the last days of April I have quite a lot of experience Long: I want to address some criticism I've read in some other reviews here. It's expensive: Yes, even taking into account it's size it's still a little overpriced I'd say Slopes are not well maintained: Wrong, they prepare the slopes every day and they stay in good condition over the course of the day. Only if there's a dramatic lack of snow, the slopes get icy really fast. Bad for beginners: Yes, do not go there as beginner. Ski Arlberg gives you so many options to go, and if you like to ski outside of slopes they offer more than 200km of so called "Skirouten". For advanced skiers this Area is the dream, it'll never get boring and is just realy beatiful.

Great slopes but they got super skied off. That can be good or bad- meant most of the blues became pretty fun and challenging. I ended up thinking most of the reds and black slopes were comparable to navigating down the moguls of the blues. So many different slopes made the resort very interesting for every level of skier. Plus there were so many opportunities to go off piste

Absolutely the best skiing resort visited so far. Amazing views , modern lifts, wide slopes, well prepared, not crowded , practically no queues. We have mostly skied in Lech and Warth, but its true that St.Anton side was much worse , crowded and slopes were ruined afternoon. It was great to travel from one resort to another on skis or using free bus running full day every 10 min.

Very beautiful and big resort giving a lot of opportunities. Prices are high (ski pass, food and drinks on the slopes) but this is well known. Slops are medium difficult in general but good maintained. Some signs on the slopes could be improved a little bit. Villages around the resort are amazing and each of them are giving different look. No problem with parking anywhere. All slopes were open in February.

Spectacular skiing. The resort is absolutely massive, we could barely make it from one side to the other in one day, if you spent a week here you would hardly be able to get to all of the pistes. The abundance of high speed lifts and gondolas also ensured that we essentially never had to wait to get in some wonderful skiing in a gorgeous location.

Have skied 5 days here in mid Jan and found it to be an overall great resort but with some big issues First off, it’s an advanced ski area. If you are a beginner I highly recommend NOT coming here. I would classify myself as advanced and still found some aspects challenging as a lot of the runs are steep and very narrow. This can create problems as I observed the local skiers to tend to blitz straight down the slopes, even the easy ones. It can feel very claustrophobic and at times dangerous as there are a few “thoroughfare” pistes that you must take to get anywhere. I also observed it being very busy every day, so seems like it will always be crowded. Arlberg is also a large area but I found the layout to be highly confusing (worst ski map I have ever used) and not nearly as connected as you would think. You can hypothetically ski to the other villages, but you must take a single-way route, and it may be challenging to use pending conditions (more on that later). This can make it more effort than it is worth to leave your area, which limits your ability to explore. The biggest issue with my stay was the lack of snow and the associated slope quality. There was a drought leading up and during my stay. Obviously this is not in the resort’s control, but I was not impressed by their snowmaking ability. In fact, I only observed them being turned on for the first time on my fourth day for some reason. They do groom the slopes overnight, but they were typically skied out by noon and icy like a skating rink. The worst though is that several slopes were absolutely littered with rocks. Yet for some reason, Arlberg doesn’t create more snow! This was especially bad on the “white ring” - which connects the different villages / ski areas. Two runs on this were rocky as hell snd damaged my skis (even after doing my best to avoid them). As a result, I refrained from doing the route again and was more restricted in where I could ski. It is absurd that Arlberg does not service their slopes to an adequate degree, especially those on the white ring. I had to get my skis serviced twice while visiting with how beaten down they were by the conditions! Overall I wanted to really like Arlberg, but their slope maintenance is not up to par considering their reputation and price. Perhaps it is a bit unfair to judge them for something that is out of their control, but droughts like this are unfortunately only becoming more common with climate change. I skied the Dolomites prior to Arlberg and it was night and day, so I know that if they put the effort in that they could resolve these issue. I enjoyed my time here overall but would go to other European ski spots instead in the future

Great place to Ski! It was fairly different to find parking tho

The skireaort itself is really good, but the service, particularly the policy that ski passes are non-refundable is appalling. I had a personal emergency where i had to head back hone a day early with my wife and kids, the ticket office at the Galzigbahn at St Anton refused to support in any way (no refund, or pushing out the remaining tickets to a later date), despite a manager escalation. The manager was completely uninterested and said he couldn't do anything to help. Given the price of the tickets this lack of customer obsession is very disappointing. I am truly irritated and said at this clear display of understanding and empathy with customers.