.OPPORTUNITIES TO ADVERTISE USING PEAK ACTIVITIES WEB PAGES The owners of this web page are seeking new sponsors and advertisers for our popular web pages. If you run weddings in the Tyrol or have an associated wedding service ( such as wedding dress sales ) and would like to advertise with us, please call Iain on +44 (0)1433-650345. Prices for a simple advertising space on our pages now starts from just 1000 Euros per 12 months for banners & smaller ads and from just 2,500 Euros per year for a full page ad. such as the one below. Romantic weddings in the Alps located in the magical village of Ellmau in Austria's wonderful Tyrolean Alpine scenery.... ...... Ellmau Weddings Perfect weddings in the Austrian Alps organised by the Activ Hotel Hochfilzer... Getting married in the Alps ; Renewal of Vows ; Special Wedding Anniversary Celebrations i n
.OPPORTUNITIES TO ADVERTISE USING PEAK ACTIVITIES WEB PAGES The owners of this web page are seeking new sponsors and advertisers for our popular web pages. If you run weddings in the Tyrol or have an associated wedding service ( such as wedding dress sales ) and would like to advertise with us, please call Iain on +44 (0)1433-650345. Prices for a simple advertising space on our pages now starts from just 1000 Euros per 12 months for banners & smaller ads and from just 2,500 Euros per year for a full page ad. such as the one below.
Romantic weddings in the Alps located in the magical village of Ellmau in Austria's wonderful Tyrolean Alpine scenery.... ...... Ellmau Weddings Perfect weddings in the Austrian Alps organised by the Activ Hotel Hochfilzer... Getting married in the Alps ; Renewal of Vows ; Special Wedding Anniversary Celebrations i n
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www.skiwelt.at Ellmau Village Church - one of several ideal wedding venues for a pefect romantic Alpine Wedding..and only a 90 minute flight away from the UK. If you love mountain scenery and are considering getting married in the Alps you'll just love the village of Ellmau in the Austrian region of Tirol. It's easy to reach from the UK and it is the ideal village for a perfect traditional Tyrolean Wedding and for a family get-together you'll enjoy forever ! The wonderful jagged teeth of the Wilder Kaiser Mountains form the magnificent backdrop to this couple's wonderful album of their wedding photographs shot here in Ellmau in the Tyrolean Alps... Ellmau Weddings... .. . If you're an active couple who like sports such as walking or climbing or skiing, the opportunity to get married in a charming, unspoiled Alpine village with your family & friends alongside you is something well worth looking into. Peak Activities Ltd has now joined forces with one of our favourite hoteliers, Ingrid Hochfilzer and we're pleased to be in a position to help promote her weddings facilities. Staff from Peak Activities have stayed here many years in succession with Ingrid and her team...and our MD often holidays there with his family. We are delightedf to recommend this hotel's staff and services and facilities to people considering marrying in the Alps. It's a hotel which is passionate about delivering what it promises. The family friendly Hochfilzer Hotel, on the quiet main street in very centre of the charming village of Ellmau. The busy main road from Worgl to St Johann passes around the northern edge of this scenic village and so only local traffic passes the hotel. There is ample parking at the side of the hotel and close by. ...... Ingrid offers you a complete wedding experience at her wonderful hotel in Ellmau. Ingrid and her staff can help you arrange everything for your very special day. In the Tirolean village of Ellmau there's a choice of several wonderful traditional wedding churches and alpine chapels surrounded by truly awesome, magnificent scenery. Ingrid ( far right ) with some of her four star hotel's jolly team....almost everyone you meet in Ellmau speaks good English and the staff at the Hotel Hochfilzer are extremely courteous and most helpful. They enjoy arranging wedding parties and will do everything they can to make you feel at home and make your special day a great success. Signing the civil registrar's marriage cetificate. In the Republic of Austria it is the law that everyone should be married in a short civil ceremony before getting married or blessed in a church or chapel ceremony afterwards. There are some other important rules and regulations for UK citizens marrying there that Ingrid's team will be pleased to help clarify for you. It's v. important that key paperwork is properly sorted out for you when you book your wedding with them. You wouldn't want to get the legal paperwork wrong ! CLICK FOR PRICES OF OUR WEDDING PACKAGES IN THE AUSTRIAN ALPS Couples who love the spirituality of the mountains may probably appreciate the idea of getting married with their friends and friends. In the past many members of walking and skiing club members have combined their wedding celebrations and honeymoons with several days of unforgettable mountain experiences for their loved ones. For such couples the Austrian Alps provide all they could possibly wish for....superb surroundings, beautiful churches, first rate sincere hospitality, excellent food and accommodation and a really warm welcoming relaxing atmosphere. A big extra bonus of going to a ski resort are the cable cars to show granny and grandfather the views from the tops of the lovely mountains ! There are loads of things to keep all the family happy and contented throughout their stay ! You may see wild deer in the woods with eagles flying high overhead. Live music often fills the air in and around the hotel and you'll often hear music when you're out walking in the mountains. Looking down a chairlift towards Ellmau. The magnificent mountains are part of the Wilder Kaiser "Wild Emperor" range running from Kufstein and Sank Johann in Tirol, the two nearest towns. It's truly is a most wonderful and exciting place in which to just relax and from which to explore the wonderful surrounding area...and the local chairlifts and mountain railway and bubble lifts run all through the summer to allow even frail people to enjoy the stunning views from charming mountain top restaurants and traditional walkers' mountain refuges and "huts" which are located at regular intervals along many of the mountain walking trails and easier tracks. The ice cream is inexpensive - and the local tradition of eating apple strudel and huge wedges of black forest gateaux and cakes of all kinds is for some of us a good enough reason to travel and holiday there any time of the year. The Austrians are very children friendly - so don't be surprised to find a host of swings and roundabouts and trampolines outside mountain restaurants to keep the little ones happy at the tops of the mountains too. Everybody in the mountains seems to say "hello" ( and mean it ) when you meet them...and the people you may meet walking in the woodlands and forests and hay making fields seem very pleased to welcome you to their mountain home. In the high meadows you'll often hear the musical tinkling of cows with bells around their necks chomping on the lush grass that makes such excellent ice cream. How to say hello when in Tyrol :-) " Gruss Gott ! " = "Hello ! " literally..."God's Greeting" " Servus ! " = " Hi ! " " only usually heard locally. .. Above : there are beautiful lavish Baroque interiors to what, from the outside, appears to be very simple village church in some of the lovely villages of the Wilderkaisergebirge Mountains. Right : Ellmau Church is one of the numerous spectacular venues where marriages can be arranged through Ingrid. Left : inside the lovely ornate village church in the nearby village of Soll. Fancy a really cool wedding in the Austrian Alps ? Why not hold your winter wedding ceremony in an ice chapel on top of a stunning mountain served by a modern cable car ? - and if you wish you can also spend one or more nights of your honeymoon in a surprisingly warm reindeer fur and fleece lined igloo ? " No ice in my Vodka Martini, please Moneypenny ! " Phone Ingrid Hochfilzer or Claudia to book this facility and integrate all the arrangements with the hotel. Click on the photographs above or below for a .pdf information sheet on the igloo facilities. For many years it has been quite popular for some Scots skiiers and mountainers to marry in the Alps and bring along their families and relations for not just a day but a whole week of celebrations in the wonderful mountains of Austria. Above, a newly wedded couple being congratulated by the Austrian "Registrar" who conducts civil marriages in the pleasant civil marriages suite in nearby Soll. Let people like Ingrid and Claudia make all the arrangements - you just supply the documents and information they need in advance of the big day - and then you can RELAX knowing everything will work right first time. Austrian organisation is legendary. reproduced by kind permission of the cartoonist SHARING YOUR SPECIAL DAY WITH YOUR FAMILY & FRIENDS... For some couples, getting married all alone on a fairy tale island beach away from it all is their ideal wedding venue. Even their witnesses may be complete strangers. However, many couples still agree wedding vows are best shared in front of family and friends - so they really want to get married and make their wedding vows ( or renew their vows ) in front of a group of family & close friends in pleasant or spectacular and romantic surroundings. In Ellmau village couples can combine their wedding and honeymoon with a low cost family holiday in the superb scenery of the WilderKaiser Mountains of the Austrian Alps. You will be happily surprised at how unexpensive hotel accommodation is in the Alps in the warmer months when all the skiiers have left. Even though the Euro is stronger now than in the past you can still enjoy several nights or a week of first rate accommodation and marvellous food at a price you'd find hard to match anywhere comparable in the UK. Above Ellmau : Looking towards the Kitzbuehler Horn from the top of Ellmau's Hartkaiser mountain railway. In the winter time Ellmau is packed with Snowboarders and Skiiers. However, in Summertime it is apeaceful and tranquil walker's paradise. Where could be any more spectacular, romantic or photogenic a setting than Ellmau in the beautiful Austrian Alps ? Click on any of the photographs above or below to see some enlargements and see if you agree with us that the beautiful skiing village of Ellmau is perfect for an Alpine Wedding in Austria's wonderful Tyrol. Ellmau is located on the edge of the famous " Skiwelt " skiing and snowboarding area and is a popular holiday destination all year round. In the Summer months when the ski lifts are still running there are far less people around ( mainly walkers ) and so the prices of bedrooms and facilities are significantly cheaper than you might expect. Even the very best hotels which have lots of repeat summer visitors can offer fantastic deals for groups in the summer months if booked in advance. "Weddings in Tyrol" was launched several years ago to offer UK couples and their families really great prices for holding their wedding at the popular Hotel Hochfilzer in the very centre of the lovely village of Ellmau. The Hochfilzer Hotel has a very long and proud family history of offering visitors an especially high level of hospitality and service - and facilities including a beautiful swimming pool, saunas, steam rooms and massage treatment areas, beautiful en suite bedrooms - many with balconies decked with flower boxes in Typical Austrian style. There are fabulous views all around and sports people will enjoy walking, mountain biking ( hire shops right next door ), swimming in the hotel pool and in the huge public pools area nearby. There's access to a 27-hole golf course just a few hundred metres away plus the services of resident walking and climbing guides - and much more. For the more sedate there are lots of lovely shops and cafes and gentle activities such as riding in ponies and traps, riding the scenic cable cars and Ellmau's famous "Seilbahn" mountain railway, reading by the poolside....and exploring local visitor attractions such as watching the marvellous Spanish Riding School's horses being trained at the Stanglewirt riding stables nearby. CLICK FOR PRICES OF OUR WEDDING PACKAGES IN ELLMAU CLICK FOR PRICES OF INGRID'S WEDDING PACKAGES IN AUSTRIAN ALPS All wedding enquiries : please telephone Frau Ingrid Hochfilzer - telephone +43 5358 2501 ( from the UK you dial 0043 5358 2501 ). Ingrid speaks excellent English. She'll more than likely want to know when you want to hold your wedding and how many guests you are wanting to arrnage to be there and how long the guests will wish to stay at te hotel ( many groups will stay there for 4 days or a whole week ). e-mail : ingrid@hotel-hochfilzer.com or write to : Frau Ingrid Hochfilzer Activ Hotel Hochfilzer Dorf 33 A-6352 Ellmau am Wilden Kaiser Tirol, Osterreich, Tyrol, AUSTRIA. Fax : +43 5358 3152 Tel. +43 5358 2501 Website : www.hotel-hochfilzer.com * The hotel website is normally published in German. Please click the English button / UK flag and it will be a little easier to understand. There are current prices and lots of photographs on the hotel's website. When calling do please remember that Austria is one hour ahead of the UK. The hotel reception desk in usually staffed until around 9-30 pm Austrian time. If you hear a recorded message in German and don't understand, don't worry that's you in their musical queue system and your call will usually be answered by a person quite soon afterwards. Please ask them to speak with you in English and mention this Peak Activities Weddings in Tyrol web site when you call and you'll get a special wedding gift from us when your wedding is booked. Ingrid will usually quote you for her rooms, meals, minibus or coach transfers, and so on in Euros. The pound : euro exchange rate varies from time to time and we suggest you check exchange rates carefully using several reliable bank or converter web sites. One such website which tracks changes in the rate is below : - EURO : POUND EXCHANGE RATE FIGURES/GRAPHS from www.x-rates.com Click to go up to the top of this page Happy Bears ! In the alps you can combine your wedding and a great honeymoon with a memorable and unique family reunion & walking holiday ! Ellmau Weddings Getting to Ellmau from the UK is easy by road or air or rail... Ingrid's made-to-measure packages prices can include transfers from either Salzburg or Innsbruck Airport ( both airports are just over one hour's scenic ride away ) but please note our fees do not include air fares from the UK or travel insurance. For flight information from the UK see our flights page. Our flights can be "Carbon Free" if you plant trees as part of your wedding present list. See link below. Munich Airport is just over 90 mins. drive away by motorway via Kufstein. IIn our experience Munchen feels just a little more difficult to reach compared with Salzburg or Innsbruck. CLICK FOR PRICES OF INGRID'S WEDDING PACKAGES IN TYROL ( TIROL ) Click for LOW COST FLIGHTS INFORMATION FROM THE UK "CARBON NEUTRAL" WEDDING FLIGHTS & WEDDING GIFTS If you and your guests are concerned about the environment and global warming and the impact flights may have on the environment you may be interested in our scheme to make weddings in Ellmau "Carbon Neutral" through the planting of trees to help fix or soak up excess Carbon Dioxide created by flights and car journeys. A flight from from Manchester airport creates 0.2 tonne of Carbon Dioxide - but by just one passenger on that flight planting one tree, the tree can live to consume many more times that flight's amount of extra CO2. You can arrange to plant one or more trees to celebrate your wedding and "do your bit" to fight global warming. We can even arrange for your guests to plant trees in "marry me" carbon neutral woodlands as part of their wedding gifts to you. You may also wish to plant a tree yourselves in the Alps. So what do you do if you'd like to have an affordably priced wedding in a very special location with your friends ? You look at our packages in Tyrol...or more specifically, you look at weddings packages in Ellmau at our wonderful preferred suppliers' 3 accommodation venues. All weddings are organised on the ground by Peak Activities' reliable and expert organisers who have worked in Ellmau for years... Ingrid & Claudia (below). We have been doing business with these ladies for over five years now and time and again we have found them amd their co-workers to be totally reliable, calm, efficient...and very friendly to work with ! Claudia is currently offering some very good deals for family weddings for dates in June, July and August next year. Fraulein Claudia Haid - your perfect wedding's organiser in Ellmau. Claudia works with Ingrid and is a 100% reliable local planner. Claudia will look after you and guide you through all the arrangements beforehand and on the day - and help you comply with the legalities of getting married in the Austrian Tyrol. For example only a Civil Marriage at a Standesamt (Registrar's Office) is legal under Austrian Law and so you need to attend a 15 minutes ceremony at a Registrar's Office locally before your traditional Tyrolean church or chapel service. There are, of course, some documentation requirements which you need to check over before your arrival in Austria. Please click here for a summary of the Austrian Law affectng marriages of foreign nationals who are not resident in Austria. This includes a list of the documents you will need to have with you and a description of Austrian legal requirements for couples marrying in Ellmau. CLICK FOR PRICES OF OUR WEDDING PACKAGES IN AUSTRIA. Flying over to Tyrol from major UK airports is now really easy and inexpensive too ! Click for information. A sunny June day in the Austrian Alps above Scheffau and Ellmau. Ingrid and Claudia will do all the hard work to make your wedding in the Alps a unique success, including booking the local church and making civil wedding arrangements. We will also arrange your group's accommodation, meals and even if you wish- puchase or hire of traditional dresses and, of course, the photographer the cake and the flowers. Click here for prices of our weddings packages. Your party's comfortable hotel in the centre of the village... www.hotel-hochfilzer.com If you'd like to arrive at the wedding ceremony in style in a horse drawn sleigh or carriage...or by tandem parapentes - or helicopter just let us know and Ingrid will do her best to fix it for you ! She can arrange hairdressers and live traditional music too. Nothing will be too much trouble for Ingrid and Claudia and their team on the ground. TRAVELLING TO ELLMAU BY COACH IS POSSIBLE TOO... Alternatively, for larger wedding parties from the UK we can organise a relaxing two day coach trip down to Tyrol with a romantic overnight stop en route in a Schloss on the River Rhine or a more affordable hotel with indoor and outdoor pools near Hockenheim by the Rhine. You can travel using our excellent associate coach company which is based near our main offices in Hathersage. Their vehicles are modern comfortable coaches with on board galleys and toilets / H&C washing facilities. ........ ELLMAU WEDDINGS CLICK HERE FOR PACKAGE PRICES It seems silly for family or friends to travel all the way over to the Alps and not relax and stick around for a frew days to enjoy all that Tyrol has to offer...walks and scenic tours for all ages, excellent swimming pools, mountain top restaurants, waterfalls, glaciers, ancient castles and so mch more... ! Relaxing in the wonderful Kaiserbad pool in Ellmau beneath the Wilderkaiser Mountains. For mixed age, mixed fitness parties we can arrange gentle walks with minibus and cable car rides & support from expert local guides, such as "Didi" who is the Hotel Hochfilzer's resident qualified mountain guide. Sightseeing tours can also be arranged to nearby attractions such as the famous spectacular Krimml Waterfalls, walk on the awesome Stubai and Grossglockner Glaciers, the cog driven narrow gauge railway climbing up to Achensee Lakeland, the steam train at nearby Mayerhofen & so much more. JUNE 2007 if bookedbefore Christmas.
www.skiwelt.at Ellmau Village Church - one of several ideal wedding venues for a pefect romantic Alpine Wedding..and only a 90 minute flight away from the UK. If you love mountain scenery and are considering getting married in the Alps you'll just love the village of Ellmau in the Austrian region of Tirol. It's easy to reach from the UK and it is the ideal village for a perfect traditional Tyrolean Wedding and for a family get-together you'll enjoy forever ! The wonderful jagged teeth of the Wilder Kaiser Mountains form the magnificent backdrop to this couple's wonderful album of their wedding photographs shot here in Ellmau in the Tyrolean Alps... Ellmau Weddings... .. . If you're an active couple who like sports such as walking or climbing or skiing, the opportunity to get married in a charming, unspoiled Alpine village with your family & friends alongside you is something well worth looking into. Peak Activities Ltd has now joined forces with one of our favourite hoteliers, Ingrid Hochfilzer and we're pleased to be in a position to help promote her weddings facilities. Staff from Peak Activities have stayed here many years in succession with Ingrid and her team...and our MD often holidays there with his family. We are delightedf to recommend this hotel's staff and services and facilities to people considering marrying in the Alps. It's a hotel which is passionate about delivering what it promises. The family friendly Hochfilzer Hotel, on the quiet main street in very centre of the charming village of Ellmau. The busy main road from Worgl to St Johann passes around the northern edge of this scenic village and so only local traffic passes the hotel. There is ample parking at the side of the hotel and close by. ...... Ingrid offers you a complete wedding experience at her wonderful hotel in Ellmau. Ingrid and her staff can help you arrange everything for your very special day. In the Tirolean village of Ellmau there's a choice of several wonderful traditional wedding churches and alpine chapels surrounded by truly awesome, magnificent scenery. Ingrid ( far right ) with some of her four star hotel's jolly team....almost everyone you meet in Ellmau speaks good English and the staff at the Hotel Hochfilzer are extremely courteous and most helpful. They enjoy arranging wedding parties and will do everything they can to make you feel at home and make your special day a great success. Signing the civil registrar's marriage cetificate. In the Republic of Austria it is the law that everyone should be married in a short civil ceremony before getting married or blessed in a church or chapel ceremony afterwards. There are some other important rules and regulations for UK citizens marrying there that Ingrid's team will be pleased to help clarify for you. It's v. important that key paperwork is properly sorted out for you when you book your wedding with them. You wouldn't want to get the legal paperwork wrong ! CLICK FOR PRICES OF OUR WEDDING PACKAGES IN THE AUSTRIAN ALPS Couples who love the spirituality of the mountains may probably appreciate the idea of getting married with their friends and friends. In the past many members of walking and skiing club members have combined their wedding celebrations and honeymoons with several days of unforgettable mountain experiences for their loved ones. For such couples the Austrian Alps provide all they could possibly wish for....superb surroundings, beautiful churches, first rate sincere hospitality, excellent food and accommodation and a really warm welcoming relaxing atmosphere. A big extra bonus of going to a ski resort are the cable cars to show granny and grandfather the views from the tops of the lovely mountains ! There are loads of things to keep all the family happy and contented throughout their stay ! You may see wild deer in the woods with eagles flying high overhead. Live music often fills the air in and around the hotel and you'll often hear music when you're out walking in the mountains. Looking down a chairlift towards Ellmau. The magnificent mountains are part of the Wilder Kaiser "Wild Emperor" range running from Kufstein and Sank Johann in Tirol, the two nearest towns. It's truly is a most wonderful and exciting place in which to just relax and from which to explore the wonderful surrounding area...and the local chairlifts and mountain railway and bubble lifts run all through the summer to allow even frail people to enjoy the stunning views from charming mountain top restaurants and traditional walkers' mountain refuges and "huts" which are located at regular intervals along many of the mountain walking trails and easier tracks. The ice cream is inexpensive - and the local tradition of eating apple strudel and huge wedges of black forest gateaux and cakes of all kinds is for some of us a good enough reason to travel and holiday there any time of the year. The Austrians are very children friendly - so don't be surprised to find a host of swings and roundabouts and trampolines outside mountain restaurants to keep the little ones happy at the tops of the mountains too. Everybody in the mountains seems to say "hello" ( and mean it ) when you meet them...and the people you may meet walking in the woodlands and forests and hay making fields seem very pleased to welcome you to their mountain home. In the high meadows you'll often hear the musical tinkling of cows with bells around their necks chomping on the lush grass that makes such excellent ice cream. How to say hello when in Tyrol :-) " Gruss Gott ! " = "Hello ! " literally..."God's Greeting"
" Servus ! " = " Hi ! " " only usually heard locally.
.. Above : there are beautiful lavish Baroque interiors to what, from the outside, appears to be very simple village church in some of the lovely villages of the Wilderkaisergebirge Mountains. Right : Ellmau Church is one of the numerous spectacular venues where marriages can be arranged through Ingrid.
Left : inside the lovely ornate village church in the nearby village of Soll. Fancy a really cool wedding in the Austrian Alps ? Why not hold your winter wedding ceremony in an ice chapel on top of a stunning mountain served by a modern cable car ? - and if you wish you can also spend one or more nights of your honeymoon in a surprisingly warm reindeer fur and fleece lined igloo ? " No ice in my Vodka Martini, please Moneypenny ! " Phone Ingrid Hochfilzer or Claudia to book this facility and integrate all the arrangements with the hotel. Click on the photographs above or below for a .pdf information sheet on the igloo facilities. For many years it has been quite popular for some Scots skiiers and mountainers to marry in the Alps and bring along their families and relations for not just a day but a whole week of celebrations in the wonderful mountains of Austria. Above, a newly wedded couple being congratulated by the Austrian "Registrar" who conducts civil marriages in the pleasant civil marriages suite in nearby Soll. Let people like Ingrid and Claudia make all the arrangements - you just supply the documents and information they need in advance of the big day - and then you can RELAX knowing everything will work right first time. Austrian organisation is legendary. reproduced by kind permission of the cartoonist SHARING YOUR SPECIAL DAY WITH YOUR FAMILY & FRIENDS... For some couples, getting married all alone on a fairy tale island beach away from it all is their ideal wedding venue. Even their witnesses may be complete strangers. However, many couples still agree wedding vows are best shared in front of family and friends - so they really want to get married and make their wedding vows ( or renew their vows ) in front of a group of family & close friends in pleasant or spectacular and romantic surroundings. In Ellmau village couples can combine their wedding and honeymoon with a low cost family holiday in the superb scenery of the WilderKaiser Mountains of the Austrian Alps. You will be happily surprised at how unexpensive hotel accommodation is in the Alps in the warmer months when all the skiiers have left. Even though the Euro is stronger now than in the past you can still enjoy several nights or a week of first rate accommodation and marvellous food at a price you'd find hard to match anywhere comparable in the UK. Above Ellmau : Looking towards the Kitzbuehler Horn from the top of Ellmau's Hartkaiser mountain railway. In the winter time Ellmau is packed with Snowboarders and Skiiers. However, in Summertime it is apeaceful and tranquil walker's paradise. Where could be any more spectacular, romantic or photogenic a setting than Ellmau in the beautiful Austrian Alps ? Click on any of the photographs above or below to see some enlargements and see if you agree with us that the beautiful skiing village of Ellmau is perfect for an Alpine Wedding in Austria's wonderful Tyrol. Ellmau is located on the edge of the famous " Skiwelt " skiing and snowboarding area and is a popular holiday destination all year round. In the Summer months when the ski lifts are still running there are far less people around ( mainly walkers ) and so the prices of bedrooms and facilities are significantly cheaper than you might expect. Even the very best hotels which have lots of repeat summer visitors can offer fantastic deals for groups in the summer months if booked in advance. "Weddings in Tyrol" was launched several years ago to offer UK couples and their families really great prices for holding their wedding at the popular Hotel Hochfilzer in the very centre of the lovely village of Ellmau. The Hochfilzer Hotel has a very long and proud family history of offering visitors an especially high level of hospitality and service - and facilities including a beautiful swimming pool, saunas, steam rooms and massage treatment areas, beautiful en suite bedrooms - many with balconies decked with flower boxes in Typical Austrian style. There are fabulous views all around and sports people will enjoy walking, mountain biking ( hire shops right next door ), swimming in the hotel pool and in the huge public pools area nearby. There's access to a 27-hole golf course just a few hundred metres away plus the services of resident walking and climbing guides - and much more. For the more sedate there are lots of lovely shops and cafes and gentle activities such as riding in ponies and traps, riding the scenic cable cars and Ellmau's famous "Seilbahn" mountain railway, reading by the poolside....and exploring local visitor attractions such as watching the marvellous Spanish Riding School's horses being trained at the Stanglewirt riding stables nearby.
Left : inside the lovely ornate village church in the nearby village of Soll. Fancy a really cool wedding in the Austrian Alps ? Why not hold your winter wedding ceremony in an ice chapel on top of a stunning mountain served by a modern cable car ? - and if you wish you can also spend one or more nights of your honeymoon in a surprisingly warm reindeer fur and fleece lined igloo ? " No ice in my Vodka Martini, please Moneypenny ! " Phone Ingrid Hochfilzer or Claudia to book this facility and integrate all the arrangements with the hotel. Click on the photographs above or below for a .pdf information sheet on the igloo facilities. For many years it has been quite popular for some Scots skiiers and mountainers to marry in the Alps and bring along their families and relations for not just a day but a whole week of celebrations in the wonderful mountains of Austria. Above, a newly wedded couple being congratulated by the Austrian "Registrar" who conducts civil marriages in the pleasant civil marriages suite in nearby Soll. Let people like Ingrid and Claudia make all the arrangements - you just supply the documents and information they need in advance of the big day - and then you can RELAX knowing everything will work right first time. Austrian organisation is legendary. reproduced by kind permission of the cartoonist SHARING YOUR SPECIAL DAY WITH YOUR FAMILY & FRIENDS... For some couples, getting married all alone on a fairy tale island beach away from it all is their ideal wedding venue. Even their witnesses may be complete strangers. However, many couples still agree wedding vows are best shared in front of family and friends - so they really want to get married and make their wedding vows ( or renew their vows ) in front of a group of family & close friends in pleasant or spectacular and romantic surroundings. In Ellmau village couples can combine their wedding and honeymoon with a low cost family holiday in the superb scenery of the WilderKaiser Mountains of the Austrian Alps. You will be happily surprised at how unexpensive hotel accommodation is in the Alps in the warmer months when all the skiiers have left. Even though the Euro is stronger now than in the past you can still enjoy several nights or a week of first rate accommodation and marvellous food at a price you'd find hard to match anywhere comparable in the UK.
Above Ellmau : Looking towards the Kitzbuehler Horn from the top of Ellmau's Hartkaiser mountain railway. In the winter time Ellmau is packed with Snowboarders and Skiiers. However, in Summertime it is apeaceful and tranquil walker's paradise.
Where could be any more spectacular, romantic or photogenic a setting than Ellmau in the beautiful Austrian Alps ? Click on any of the photographs above or below to see some enlargements and see if you agree with us that the beautiful skiing village of Ellmau is perfect for an Alpine Wedding in Austria's wonderful Tyrol. Ellmau is located on the edge of the famous " Skiwelt " skiing and snowboarding area and is a popular holiday destination all year round. In the Summer months when the ski lifts are still running there are far less people around ( mainly walkers ) and so the prices of bedrooms and facilities are significantly cheaper than you might expect. Even the very best hotels which have lots of repeat summer visitors can offer fantastic deals for groups in the summer months if booked in advance. "Weddings in Tyrol" was launched several years ago to offer UK couples and their families really great prices for holding their wedding at the popular Hotel Hochfilzer in the very centre of the lovely village of Ellmau. The Hochfilzer Hotel has a very long and proud family history of offering visitors an especially high level of hospitality and service - and facilities including a beautiful swimming pool, saunas, steam rooms and massage treatment areas, beautiful en suite bedrooms - many with balconies decked with flower boxes in Typical Austrian style. There are fabulous views all around and sports people will enjoy walking, mountain biking ( hire shops right next door ), swimming in the hotel pool and in the huge public pools area nearby. There's access to a 27-hole golf course just a few hundred metres away plus the services of resident walking and climbing guides - and much more. For the more sedate there are lots of lovely shops and cafes and gentle activities such as riding in ponies and traps, riding the scenic cable cars and Ellmau's famous "Seilbahn" mountain railway, reading by the poolside....and exploring local visitor attractions such as watching the marvellous Spanish Riding School's horses being trained at the Stanglewirt riding stables nearby.
CLICK FOR PRICES OF OUR WEDDING PACKAGES IN ELLMAU CLICK FOR PRICES OF INGRID'S WEDDING PACKAGES IN AUSTRIAN ALPS All wedding enquiries : please telephone Frau Ingrid Hochfilzer - telephone +43 5358 2501 ( from the UK you dial 0043 5358 2501 ). Ingrid speaks excellent English. She'll more than likely want to know when you want to hold your wedding and how many guests you are wanting to arrnage to be there and how long the guests will wish to stay at te hotel ( many groups will stay there for 4 days or a whole week ). e-mail : ingrid@hotel-hochfilzer.com or write to : Frau Ingrid Hochfilzer Activ Hotel Hochfilzer Dorf 33 A-6352 Ellmau am Wilden Kaiser Tirol, Osterreich, Tyrol, AUSTRIA. Fax : +43 5358 3152 Tel. +43 5358 2501 Website : www.hotel-hochfilzer.com
* The hotel website is normally published in German. Please click the English button / UK flag and it will be a little easier to understand. There are current prices and lots of photographs on the hotel's website.
When calling do please remember that Austria is one hour ahead of the UK. The hotel reception desk in usually staffed until around 9-30 pm Austrian time. If you hear a recorded message in German and don't understand, don't worry that's you in their musical queue system and your call will usually be answered by a person quite soon afterwards. Please ask them to speak with you in English and mention this Peak Activities Weddings in Tyrol web site when you call and you'll get a special wedding gift from us when your wedding is booked. Ingrid will usually quote you for her rooms, meals, minibus or coach transfers, and so on in Euros. The pound : euro exchange rate varies from time to time and we suggest you check exchange rates carefully using several reliable bank or converter web sites. One such website which tracks changes in the rate is below : - EURO : POUND EXCHANGE RATE FIGURES/GRAPHS from www.x-rates.com Click to go up to the top of this page Happy Bears ! In the alps you can combine your wedding and a great honeymoon with a memorable and unique family reunion & walking holiday ! Ellmau Weddings Getting to Ellmau from the UK is easy by road or air or rail... Ingrid's made-to-measure packages prices can include transfers from either Salzburg or Innsbruck Airport ( both airports are just over one hour's scenic ride away ) but please note our fees do not include air fares from the UK or travel insurance. For flight information from the UK see our flights page. Our flights can be "Carbon Free" if you plant trees as part of your wedding present list. See link below. Munich Airport is just over 90 mins. drive away by motorway via Kufstein. IIn our experience Munchen feels just a little more difficult to reach compared with Salzburg or Innsbruck. CLICK FOR PRICES OF INGRID'S WEDDING PACKAGES IN TYROL ( TIROL ) Click for LOW COST FLIGHTS INFORMATION FROM THE UK "CARBON NEUTRAL" WEDDING FLIGHTS & WEDDING GIFTS If you and your guests are concerned about the environment and global warming and the impact flights may have on the environment you may be interested in our scheme to make weddings in Ellmau "Carbon Neutral" through the planting of trees to help fix or soak up excess Carbon Dioxide created by flights and car journeys. A flight from from Manchester airport creates 0.2 tonne of Carbon Dioxide - but by just one passenger on that flight planting one tree, the tree can live to consume many more times that flight's amount of extra CO2. You can arrange to plant one or more trees to celebrate your wedding and "do your bit" to fight global warming. We can even arrange for your guests to plant trees in "marry me" carbon neutral woodlands as part of their wedding gifts to you. You may also wish to plant a tree yourselves in the Alps. So what do you do if you'd like to have an affordably priced wedding in a very special location with your friends ? You look at our packages in Tyrol...or more specifically, you look at weddings packages in Ellmau at our wonderful preferred suppliers' 3 accommodation venues. All weddings are organised on the ground by Peak Activities' reliable and expert organisers who have worked in Ellmau for years... Ingrid & Claudia (below). We have been doing business with these ladies for over five years now and time and again we have found them amd their co-workers to be totally reliable, calm, efficient...and very friendly to work with ! Claudia is currently offering some very good deals for family weddings for dates in June, July and August next year. Fraulein Claudia Haid - your perfect wedding's organiser in Ellmau. Claudia works with Ingrid and is a 100% reliable local planner. Claudia will look after you and guide you through all the arrangements beforehand and on the day - and help you comply with the legalities of getting married in the Austrian Tyrol. For example only a Civil Marriage at a Standesamt (Registrar's Office) is legal under Austrian Law and so you need to attend a 15 minutes ceremony at a Registrar's Office locally before your traditional Tyrolean church or chapel service. There are, of course, some documentation requirements which you need to check over before your arrival in Austria. Please click here for a summary of the Austrian Law affectng marriages of foreign nationals who are not resident in Austria. This includes a list of the documents you will need to have with you and a description of Austrian legal requirements for couples marrying in Ellmau. CLICK FOR PRICES OF OUR WEDDING PACKAGES IN AUSTRIA. Flying over to Tyrol from major UK airports is now really easy and inexpensive too ! Click for information. A sunny June day in the Austrian Alps above Scheffau and Ellmau. Ingrid and Claudia will do all the hard work to make your wedding in the Alps a unique success, including booking the local church and making civil wedding arrangements. We will also arrange your group's accommodation, meals and even if you wish- puchase or hire of traditional dresses and, of course, the photographer the cake and the flowers. Click here for prices of our weddings packages. Your party's comfortable hotel in the centre of the village... www.hotel-hochfilzer.com If you'd like to arrive at the wedding ceremony in style in a horse drawn sleigh or carriage...or by tandem parapentes - or helicopter just let us know and Ingrid will do her best to fix it for you ! She can arrange hairdressers and live traditional music too. Nothing will be too much trouble for Ingrid and Claudia and their team on the ground. TRAVELLING TO ELLMAU BY COACH IS POSSIBLE TOO... Alternatively, for larger wedding parties from the UK we can organise a relaxing two day coach trip down to Tyrol with a romantic overnight stop en route in a Schloss on the River Rhine or a more affordable hotel with indoor and outdoor pools near Hockenheim by the Rhine. You can travel using our excellent associate coach company which is based near our main offices in Hathersage. Their vehicles are modern comfortable coaches with on board galleys and toilets / H&C washing facilities. ........ ELLMAU WEDDINGS CLICK HERE FOR PACKAGE PRICES It seems silly for family or friends to travel all the way over to the Alps and not relax and stick around for a frew days to enjoy all that Tyrol has to offer...walks and scenic tours for all ages, excellent swimming pools, mountain top restaurants, waterfalls, glaciers, ancient castles and so mch more... ! Relaxing in the wonderful Kaiserbad pool in Ellmau beneath the Wilderkaiser Mountains. For mixed age, mixed fitness parties we can arrange gentle walks with minibus and cable car rides & support from expert local guides, such as "Didi" who is the Hotel Hochfilzer's resident qualified mountain guide. Sightseeing tours can also be arranged to nearby attractions such as the famous spectacular Krimml Waterfalls, walk on the awesome Stubai and Grossglockner Glaciers, the cog driven narrow gauge railway climbing up to Achensee Lakeland, the steam train at nearby Mayerhofen & so much more. JUNE 2007 if bookedbefore Christmas.
... -l 01433-650345 for more details. Peak Activities Ltd are currently ofering some really fantastic deals for small groups of up to 25 people staying at selected family run hotels in Ellmau in June 2007. Please phone for more details.
Please call Ingrid Hochfilzer in the first instance on +43 5358 2501. She will qualify your enquiry and then you may wish to travel over to Ellmau ( as many people do ) and meet Ingrid and Claudia to go over your specific requirments and plan things in detail. It is not essential to travel out to Ellmau - but it is hardly a chore to go there and time spent on detailed planning face to face is, in our opinion, always well worth the time and effort invested.
Ellmau Weddings
Why should the young ones have all the fun ? All the wedding facilities and services offered to our weddings guests in Ellmau are also available to older people celebrating special events such as Golden Wedding anniversaries or the renewal of vows or special birthdays. Why not combine your renewal of vows or Silver Wedding with a scenic walking break or a house party sightseeing around the beautiful Tyrol with your friends & family ?
Golden Weddings : Celebrating 50 years of marriage... Ellmau is a great place for the renewal of marriage vows. ...... Please call Ingriod on +43 5358 2501 to discuss arranging a wonderful house-party atmosphere with lots to keep young and old family members happy for a few days or a week of walking or sightseeing in the lovely Alpine village of Ellmau ! Prices for periods such as June next year are now so much lower than you might imagine !
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Below are some larger sized wedding photos we hope will be of interest.... ( copyright )
Click to go up to the top of this page The entrance of the Activ Hotel Hochfilzer is surrounded by vines. The hotel is a perfect location for your magical Alpine Wedding.
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ADVERTISING OPPORTUNITY We are seeking new sponsors and advertisers for pages like this one which ranks highly on Google and other search engines. If you run weddings in the Tyrol or have an associated wedding service such as wedding dress sales and would like to advertise on this popular page please call Iain on +44 (0)1433-650345. Prices for advertising space on this page now starts at 1000 Euros per 12 months for banners & smaller ads and from just 2,500 Euros per year for a full page illustrated feature like the one above.