St Anton

The Arlberg region comprises several linked resorts and offers some of the best skiing in Austria. St Anton is the largest and least elitist of these resorts, but even here budget travelers can kiss their savings goodbye amid the easy-going atmosphere and vigorous nightlife.

St Anton has good, medium-to-advanced runs as well as nursery slopes on Gampen and Kapall. The resort went down in skiing history as the place where Hannes Schneider pioneered the ‘Arlberg method’ (basically just having your legs glued together) in the early 20th century.