Innsbruck Airport to Obergurgl taxi

You see the live price above, and booking holds it there. Nothing meters this journey: the Innsbruck tariff is written for the city and stops where the city does, so a run to the head of the Oetztal is agreed with the driver instead. The nearest published benchmark is the airport's guide sheet, which gives Obergurgl at 220 euros, Hochgurgl at 230 euros and Soelden at 200 euros, and cautions that luggage and passenger numbers move the figure. That guide figure is for the whole car, and on recent quotes it has sat close to our price, so compare the two on the day before you choose.

The tourist board puts Obergurgl at 1,930 metres above sea level, ringed by three thousand metre peaks, and Hochgurgl a further 200 metres above that. That altitude is the reason the resort is described as snow sure, and it is also the reason a January transfer is a different proposition from the same journey in July.

Only as far as the valley mouth. The station is Oetztal-Bahnhof, which the tourist board says has daily direct connections, and from there public transport lines run up the valley at 30 minute intervals. Obergurgl itself is at the head of a 65 km side valley and has no railway at all, which is why the last part of the journey is always a road one.

The tourist board gives Innsbruck Airport as around 50 km from the entrance to the Oetztal, and then the valley itself runs 65 km to its head. In practice the drive out of Innsbruck is the quick part and the climb through Soelden and Zwieselstein is the part that decides how long the transfer takes.

Drier than most people expect. The tourist board places the valley in the dry inner alpine area, sheltered by the surrounding ranges, and gives average annual precipitation as around 830 mm at Gurgl and only 675 mm at Vent. The valley carries five separate climatic zones over its length, from orchards at the mouth to glaciers at the top.

Yes. The tourist board lists shuttle services and taxi companies that run from Innsbruck Airport or the railway station directly to hotels in Obergurgl-Hochgurgl, and says the Oetztal Shuttle can be booked from the airport terminal itself. They run on the operator's schedule rather than on your flight, which is the difference between them and what we quote here.

The vehicle does, and a licensed local operator will have the right equipment on it. Austrian law between 1 November and 15 April allows a car in wintry conditions only with winter tyres on all wheels, or with chains on at least two driven wheels where the road is under a continuous layer of snow or ice, and coaches must carry chains through the same period. The rule follows the state of the road rather than the date, which on a climb of this kind can change within the same journey.

Yes. Austria charges for motorway use with a vignette rather than at barriers, and ASFINAG prices a car vignette at 9,60 euros for a day, 12,80 euros for ten days and 106,80 euros for a year. Your fare was agreed before the journey and the toll is not added to it afterwards.

Yes, with notice at booking. Capacities are fixed: saloon three passengers and three standard suitcases, estate four passengers and three suitcases, people carrier five passengers and four suitcases, eight seater eight of each. Ski bags count as luggage, so four adults with full kit for a week at Gurgl is a people carrier rather than a saloon, and telling us at the time of booking is what makes that happen.

We track the flight at no charge and move the pick-up to the real landing time, so book for the scheduled arrival rather than padding it, and the free waiting window included in your fare starts when the aircraft lands. Nothing is charged if you cancel more than 24 hours ahead of pick-up, and the full fare is due inside that window. Payment is online by card at booking and covers the whole vehicle.