Once the day’s skiing is finished there is only one place to end your day; for the true Austrian Apres-Ski experience you have to find The Alm Bar. Tucked away beside the Hotel Bergheim, you’d would barely know it was there, but this is where those in the know go to party from 4pm onwards. Much like the Dohlen nest is a traditionally Austrian hut, but from wood and adorned with old hunting and skiing equipment. Every part of the bar in lined with mini-Jager bottles, like a tally of the damage from earlier in the season. Sadly the last bus to Innsbruck leaves at 5.35, so unless you are willing to pay for the taxi down, you’ll only have 90 minutes to cram in as much Apres-ski as possible!
There are so many things that keep myself, and many others, coming back here every year. The food is fantastic, the drinks are well priced, the views are spectacular, and the city itself embodies everything that there is to love about a modern European city – culture and traditional integrated seamlessly with 21st century life. But, above it all, it is the people that make this city, and the surrounding ski resorts, truly unique. There are very few resorts in the world left where the huts are small enough to be run by a small family, and even fewer where the service is quite as friendly – after a few days you’ll start to feel like a local, and you’ll never want to leave.
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