Skiers/non-skiers & 3x1 year olds.... are there any catered chalets in nice Austria resort centres? Or any lovely Europe resorts with great town centres?

[cityangel]

We are a mixed ability group and after 3 general surgeries this year I need to be in the town centre where I don't have to tackle icy walks.

we like the look of Seefeld and Austria in general but it all seems to be self-catering or hotels? I have trawled the reviews but haven't found the one...or any for that matter...

Can anyone recommend a good central catered chalet with 3 rooms (1 travel cot in each)? Happy to look elsewhere in Europe too and hoping to find a nice resort where there is family friendly stuff for non-skiers too.

[Nettee]

this is quite a good site to search for catered chalets.

Zermatt and Saas Fee (both in Switzerland) are both nice car free villages with non skiing interesting things to do in them.

[Lapsedrunner]

St Anton has loads of catered chalets, a flat, car free main street and a lovely public indoor/outdoor swimming pool. Can't recommend a specific chalet but it is stuffed full of them eg these or these

[Lapsedrunner]

Seefeld is good as you have excellent access to Innsbruck for non skiers.

[MmeLindt]

Cant recommend a chalet but the nicer resorts that I have been to around here are:

Gstaad
Morzine
Chamonix

[Lapsedrunner]

.......why a chalet but not a hotel? Austria has some seriously good family hotels with in house creche etc.

[twolittlekings]

St Anton is very nice as lapsedrunner has already suggested. Went in pre baby days but lovely town centre.

My favourite place is Val D'isere - we went several times with a very good company called Ski beat. Not sure about non skiiers though.

We have also looked at going to Norway since I have heard that is very good for kids and lots of other things to do - but not so good for the skiiers if they want hard skiing and it is quite expensive.

[spicemonster]

For non-skiers, Saas Fee (CH), Morzine (F), St Anton, Saalbach, Obergurgl (all Austria) have quite a lot to do for non-skiers. I think on the whole Austria/Switzerland are better in that respect. French resorts tend to be newer/purpose built so with less stuff to do for non-skiers

[MmeLindt]

Val d'Isere is lovely, lots of development going on there this summer when we were there.

Morzine is really lvoely, and if you have a car you could nip into Geneva for the day.

(come and have tea with me if you do)

[mumoftoomany]

Zell am See in Austria is a lovely lake side town with a nice, old town centre. Great skiing there too, including the glacier at Kaprun.