Getting Around Kitzbühel
Kitzbühel was a walled market town long before it was a ski resort. The old town, Vorderstadt and Hinterstadt, sits on the floor of the Leukental, with the Hahnenkamm lift base a few minutes away on foot and the Kitzbüheler Horn across the valley. Reith, Aurach and Jochberg follow the same valley road, and plenty of what is sold as Kitzbühel is in one of them. Which one your hotel is in decides a lot.
Kitzbühel station is in town, with a second halt, Kitzbühel Hahnenkamm, beside the lift base; from Innsbruck and Vienna you usually change at Wörgl. The awkward part comes after the platform, if the hotel is on the Horn side or out in Aurach and the skis are with you. Give us the train and its arrival time and the car is booked to meet it.
In the old town you walk most of the day. Evenings are different: Kirchberg and St. Johann in Tirol are each around 10 km away, too far to walk back from dinner in January. Booked by the hour, one chauffeur and one vehicle stay with you for the time you reserve, so the drive out and the drive back are one arrangement.
Kitzbühel also keeps a conference calendar. The K3 KitzKongress stands next to the Hahnenkammbahn, and its largest hall seats 750. If the organising falls to you, the programme sits in one account and each guest has their own car and confirmation: speakers from Munich, the team on the Salzburg flight, the board dinner in Kirchberg.
The Hinterstadt is a pedestrian zone that vehicles may enter only between 06:00 and 10:00, so an afternoon arrival at a hotel inside it does not finish at the hotel entrance. Send the full address with your booking; the confirmation then tells you where the car will stop.
Airport Transfers to Kitzbühel
Three airports serve Kitzbühel, and two of them are close contenders. Salzburg is the nearest, about 80 km and a little over an hour by road. Munich Airport, at about 160 km, takes two hours or a little more, and as an international hub it has the widest choice of flights. Innsbruck is 96 km away, about an hour and a quarter, and the natural choice if your flight lands there or the trip takes in more of Tyrol.
Each airport brings you in from a different side. From Salzburg the direct road runs briefly through Bavaria, past Bad Reichenhall and along the B21 to Lofer, before returning to Austria on the B178. From Munich you follow the A8 and leave the motorway at Kufstein Süd. From Innsbruck the A12 takes you as far as Wörgl. All three routes meet at St. Johann in Tirol, the last stretch into town is the B161, and that shared stretch is where a winter Saturday costs time.
Book with your flight number and the rest is handled on our side: your chauffeur checks the flight status and times the pickup to when you actually land, and your booking confirmation shows where to meet the chauffeur. For the flight home, you set the pickup time yourself, and the confirmation shows it.
Long-Distance & Cross-Border Travel from Kitzbühel
A week in Kitzbühel often turns into more than a week in Kitzbühel. Salzburg is about 80 km away, close enough for a day in the city or a last night before the flight, and Innsbruck is 96 km in the other direction. Some guests split the stay between resorts: Zell am See is about 54 km south over the Pass Thurn, and Saalbach-Hinterglemm is a short way on from there. Moving with a week's luggage is one booking, from the hotel you check out of to the one you check into.
Munich lies the other way, about 125 km north, and for many guests it is where the trip begins or ends anyway: a meeting in the city, a train home, a few days before flying out. It is one booking and one chauffeur for the whole route, with no change of car at the frontier.
Germany is in Schengen and in the EU customs union, so there is no customs border to deal with, but Germany currently runs temporary checks on its border with Austria. Everyone in the car should carry the travel documents their nationality and itinerary require, and that includes the Salzburg airport run, since the shortest road passes through Bavaria.
Groups, Ski Equipment & Winter Travel in Kitzbühel
Kitzbühel draws two kinds of group: the ski party with a chalet booked and more equipment than people, and the company or conference group arriving for a few set days. For both, the load decides the vehicle more than the number of seats. A Sprinter van carries up to 12 people with their bags, and bigger groups go by coach, with up to 56 seats. Tell us what is travelling, whether boot bags and skis or sample cases and display material, and the vehicle is matched to the load. When people come in on separate flights, every arrival gets a transfer of its own.
Winter in Kitzbühel is mostly a question of equipment, and that is settled before you arrive. Austrian law requires winter tyres from 1 November to 15 April whenever roads are wintry, and buses are fitted with them for the whole season regardless of the weather. Allowing for fresh snow on the day is the driver's part of the job, not yours.
The dates to secure first are Christmas, New Year and the winter Saturdays, when much of the town changes guests at once and local vehicles and drivers are booked up early. If what you need does not fit a single booking, such as cars for a whole conference group or a programme spread across several venues, speak to support and they will put the arrangement together.
