Skating trip

A skating holiday at the Austrian Weissensee is an experience not to be missed. Skating between snow-covered mountains. Travel and lifestyle platform dionvacation offers ice-cold inspiration for skating enthusiasts.

A skating blog and travel blog for holidaymakers who bring their skates

Our travel blog covers news, facts and background about the Weissensee. We look at the preparation, clothing tips and the state of the ice. We also keep an eye on the current ice thickness.

Skating holiday: feel the zest for life

Sharpen your blades. Feel the zest for life. Carinthia is more than up to it: this Austrian state tempts holidaymakers with beautiful nature in mountainous surroundings. You are going to enjoy this.

The chill around the ice feels good. It is a ‘different cold’ from the one at home, a cold you can dress for.
A vast mountain lake is waiting for you. Clock up the kilometres on the Weissensee, with the occasional Austrian village as a backdrop.
Take on beautiful, demanding mountain walks with steep rock faces, characterful mountain huts and fine viewpoints.
And you can unwind completely: as a ‘spa resort’, the Weissensee nature park has the calm and the space for it. Wellness included.
Be bold and take part in the Alternative Dutch 11-City Tour. You can join even if you are not a competitive athlete: there is a tour version for recreational skaters. Great to try.

Enchanting frozen mountain lakes (Sweden and Austria)

This online travel magazine covers enchanting frozen mountain lakes with inviting skating ice. The skating trips may just as well go to Sweden, where there are lakes just like them with glorious sheets of ice. Sweden or Austria: either way you come home with memories for life.

Hotel, apartment or guesthouse

Kaiserwetter, mountains, ice. Sauna! Travel blog dionvacation stays in all sorts of places, one more luxurious than the other. That does not matter. But does the price match what you actually get? Which hotel, apartment or guesthouse deserves a good word? Read about our own experiences and see in the reviews whether, and how, a place ‘scores’.

Travel advice for a skating holiday, corona

The Dutch Ministry of Foreign Affairs and authorities abroad sometimes issue negative travel advice for certain holiday trips. Because of disasters, unrest in the region or an outbreak of a virus, for instance.

We keep track of the travel advice for the skating areas we love. The blog theme ‘Travel advice’ has everything on the current advisories for your skating holiday.