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Going to Munich for a week but want to ski in Switzerland

Where are the best places to ski in Switzerland that would be a 3-5 hour train ride from Munich? Thanks

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Klosters would be a 3-5 hour train ride.
But you should specify the level of skiing i.e Beginner Intermediate Advanced you are looking to do

Posted by
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Are you talking about this season? Austria will be a lot closer and a lot less expensive. Kitzbuehel is 2 hours, Mayrhofen in 2 1/2 hours, St Anton in a bit more than 3 hours. Klosters, at 5+ hours is good if skiing in Switzerland is a bucket list item. There is a cable car station right at the Klosters Platz train station.

You could also take a week end ski bus to Ischgl, Austria, probably in about 3 hours. Take the lift up and ski down the other side and you are in Samnaun, Switzerland. Warning, Ischgl has the reputation of the wildest apres ski scene in Austria, a country already known for its wild apres ski.

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Is there an special reason why you want to go to Switzerland over other places in the alps? What kind of skiing do you want?

Personally, if it were me, I wouldn't bother trekking the extra few hours there just to ski with so many good places in Austria that are much cheaper.

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You don't even need to go as far as Austria (not that it's particuarly far from Munich anyway). Germany's two largest Alpine ski resorts, Garmisch-Partenkirchen and Oberstdorf, are both easy accessible from Munich in under 2 hours.