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You can see full details on our website here: Guided Walking for Solos and Singles in Austria (europeanwalkingholidays.co.uk)

• Flights from your choice of UK airports
• Magnificent Austrian scenery from high mountain passes and rushing river valleys
• A visit to the Dachstein glacier
• Lovely hotel in the centre of Schladming – a lively town geared up for walkers
• Excellent local food – both in the hotel and in the various mountain huts we lunch in
• High level walking but transport and ski lifts to get you to the higher walks
• Option to visit to the iconic city of Salzburg – home of Mozart and the Sound of Music – a fabulous small city with a real character about it
• Local Austrian guides and UK tour guide
• Our relaxed social approach

This seven night holiday in the mountains of Styria, the beautiful south of Austria- led by local guides and supported by a UK tour guide- is as the title of the holiday suggests – is simply awesome. Rushing rivers, sparkling lakes, and the Dachstein Glacier always as a backdrop to our walks.

Schladming- a bustling town – with ski slopes, a cafe culture centre and where we start most of our walks, is an ideal base to explore this awesome land.

Walking is moderate, with some steep ascending and descending – its is alpine country after all, and you should be walking fit. We walk for five days.

You buy your own flights, and also evening dinner at the hotel, or at a local restaurant.
We pride ourselves on how we create a social feel- so join us on this sociable active holiday where we meet as strangers and depart as friends.

We organise everything for you – from the minute your flight lands to when you arrive back at the airport.

The holiday cost is £1850 with no extra single supplements, and includes your own en-suite room at the three star Zirngast hotel in the centre of Schladming.

Join us on this sociable active holiday where we meet as strangers and depart as friends.

Oh – and the scenery is to die for.

What’s included on a Secret Hills Solos Guided Walking Austrian Holiday

• Transfer from airport to Hotel Zirngast and return
• Half board accommodation, including a three course dinner and breakfast
• Guided walking- five walks
• Any transport needed on the walks including ski and chair lift costs
• The services of a local guide
• The services of a Secret Hills tour guide
• Individual attention
• Our administration and management service
• Advice on flight options when you enquire with us
• Sole occupancy supplement

What’s not included

• Lunch
• Entries to museums
• Any drinks you have in the hotel and out on the walks
• Flights – which you book yourself

Hotel and Meals

We stay close to the centre of Schladming at the four star Hotel Zirngast – https://www.zirngast.at/

Three star comfort, with 30 rooms, excellent cuisine, modern spa facilities and the warm hospitality of the Zirngast team make a holiday in Schladming so special.

The wellness centre – spa – has sauna and steam room facilities

• – see Wellness – Hotel Zirngast, Schladming-Dachstein Holiday Regionzirngast.at

Rooms

All twins and singles rooms are spacious and have the following facilities – bathroom with shower and toilet, mini bars, phone, Satellite TV, and wireless internet

There are two lounges a bar and a large dining area. Free Wi-Fi throughout the hotel

Your Meals

Breakfast is self-service with a wide range of breads, cheeses, hams, yogurt choices, seeds, nuts, six kinds of cereals, excellent fruit and more. Jams honey etc. The usual teas, coffees and fruit juices are also available. There will be a cooked option, mainly scrambled egg and ham and of course the inevitable sausages.

Dinner is pre order from a choice of three starters/mains and sweets – including vegetarian option for mains. There is an extensive salad bar which is excellent. Dinner is served to you.

On one evening it is likely that there will be a hot buffet and if the weather is good we may have a barbeque outside on one night.

Lunch – at one of the superb mountain huts in this area

Facilities at the hotel

These include the following – restaurant, bar and wine cellar, spa and fitness centre, sun terrace and of course reception and lobby. Outside sitting and drinking areas.

Itinerary

Our base in the Schladming/Dachstein region of Styria is one of Austria’s best mountain walking areas. The lakes have water so pure it can be used as drinking water . In the mountain inns, you are usually treated to home-made Austrian delights, regional specialties and sometimes even produce right from the Alpine pastures in front of the hut. Cold plates are popular (such as the famous Austrian “Brettljause”) and breads with all types of spread, but also traditional warm dishes such as Wiener Schnitzel, Schweinsbraten, Käsespätzle or Kaiserschmarren.

Most regions offer summer cable cars or chairlifts to get up the mountains and to enable all hikers access to the most panoramic trails and to visit the most scenic summit platforms without hours of strenuous ascent on foot.

Hiking has a long tradition in Austria and is the country’s unofficial national pastime. There are many villages in the Austrian Alps that really dedicate themselves to hiking or mountaineering. Austria’s Hiking Villages are a perfect base for a hiking vacation with easy to difficult day hikes. Austria offers a huge variety of different hiking options and themed walks. Climbing up one of the countless mountain peaks, hiking from pasture to pasture, following a long distance hiking trail or just enjoying a leisurely day hike – all of this is part of the Austrian hiking experience!

It is an awesome place !