General Information: Bergbahnen Kühtai

OPERATING HOURS

You can find the current opening hours for the mountain railways here for winter and here for summer.

  • Single-day and multi-day ski passes are available online (www.kuehtai.info/winter/skipass-preise/) or at the ticket offices of the GaisKogelBahn, DreiSeenBahn, HochAlterBahn, and StartBahn from 9:00 a.m. to 4:00 p.m. Annual passes are available only at the StartBahn ticket office. Annual passes are valid during operating hours in winter and the following summer.

  • Advance ticket sales are also available on Wednesdays and Saturdays from 7:00 PM to 9:00 PM at the HochAlterBahn ticket office.

GENERAL TERMS AND CONDITIONS

  • Please note that discounts for children, teenagers, and seniors are only available with valid photo ID
    (showing date of birth). People with a disability of 60% or more (with proof!) are eligible for discounts.
  • All Küh-Cards are issued on contactless cards; a €3.00 deposit is required. You will receive your deposit back if you return the card undamaged to ticket counters, the Kühtai Tourist Information Office, restaurants, hotels, or shops in Kühtai, or at the lift ticket counters in Oetz/Ochsengarten.
  • Purchased ski passes cannot be exchanged, modified, or refunded, and cannot be transferred to other persons.
  • Multi-day ski passes are valid only on consecutive days.

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  • Any misuse of the passes will result in their immediate revocation without replacement.
  • Skiers use the slopes at their own risk.
  • In the event of a ski accident occurring after a multi-day ski pass has been returned, a cash refund for the remaining, unused days of that pass will be issued upon presentation of a doctor’s note.
  • We reserve the right to suspend operations of individual facilities during or at the end of the season due to snow conditions, or to suspend ski bus service at the end of the season.
  • On-slope rescue: Rescue services are provided up to the medical center in Kühtai. A fee of €150.00 will be charged for on-slope rescue!
  • Payment for ski tickets: Cash (euros), debit card (Maestro), and credit cards (MasterCard, Visa, V PAY)
  • No refunds will be issued in the event of inclement weather, early departure, illness, or injury; in the event of the shutdown of individual lifts; road closures; loss of the ski pass; acts of God; or due to official orders (e.g., risk of disease, epidemic, pandemic), etc.
  • Ascending pistes on touring skis is not permitted. Use of the pistes is limited to descending.
  • The agreed-upon venue for disputes arising from this contractual relationship is Silz; Austrian law shall apply exclusively.
  • Note regarding liability in all fare networks: The individual services to which these passes entitle the holder are provided by legally independent businesses. The business that sells the passes acts on behalf of the other businesses solely as their agent. Therefore, only the respective business entity is responsible for providing the individual services and for compensation in the event of any incidents.

Upon conclusion of the contract of carriage, the General Terms and Conditions are deemed to have been agreed upon. We reserve the right to make changes to fares, operating hours, and bus schedules, and we are not liable for typographical errors or other mistakes.