Skiing Bad Gastein from Brussels
Bad Gastein sits 1100–2686 m in Austria. Driving is cheaper than flying on this route — roughly 763 km each way, about 12.2 hours door to door.
Worth knowing. The town is faded and the skiing is scattered across separate mountains.
Pre-season — snow reliability. There is no meaningful snow on the models yet, so resorts are ranked on how snow-sure they are: altitude adjusted for latitude, glacier cover and the size of the ski area. Live scoring resumes automatically once the snow arrives. How we rank
A week, all in
€1,106
Per person sharing, including travel
Getting there
Drive
About 12.2 hours door to door
Value rank from Brussels
30 of 94
By snow quality against total cost
Snow Value Index
4.88
Snow score per 100 of trip cost
Is it worth it from Brussels?
A week here works out 11% below the median for the 94 resorts we rank from Brussels, and it comes 30th on value.
At 12.2 hours each way this is a week's holiday rather than a weekend. Budget the travel days.
For what it is worth, Bad Gastein is cheapest to reach from Munich, at about €1,038 — roughly €68 less than from Brussels.
What the week costs
| 7 nights, mid-range, sharing | €580 |
| 6-day adult lift pass | €300 |
| 6 days ski and boot hire | €140 |
| Fuel and tolls from Brussels, split four ways | €86 |
| Total per person | €1,106 |
Piste kilometres, lift counts and prices are indicative and compiled from public sources — they have not yet been checked against the resort's own figures for this season. Costs are planning estimates, not quotes. Spotted one that is wrong? Tell us.
Better value from Brussels
More snow for less money, leaving from the same city. We would rather tell you than sell you the page you happen to be on.
- Cervinia — Italy, index 8.04€24 less
- Sestriere — Italy, index 7.73€149 less
- Les Deux Alpes — France, index 7.41€27 less
Who sells Bad Gastein in Belgium
- Visit SnowTrex
SnowTrex
Pan-European operator selling accommodation-plus-lift-pass packages across the Alps and Eastern Europe. Multi-language and multi-market, which suits an English site with pan-European traffic.
- Visit Sunweb Ski
Sunweb Ski
The dominant Dutch and Belgian winter-sports operator, with coach and flight packages to France and Austria.
1 more operator sell Bad Gastein but not into Belgium — see the full directory.
Told when Bad Gastein is about to get snow
Snowvantage sends one email a week through the season, plus powder alerts five to seven days out — while there is still something left to book.