Best in Austria Best Ski Rental in Ski amadé: 6 Shops Ranked
As of September 2026, INTERSPORT Rent is the default choice for ski rental in Ski amadé: it is the region's official rental partner with 26 shops across Salzburg and Styria, and gear can be swapped or returned at any of them. SPORT 2000 rent covers all five ski regions through independent partner shops. Snowboarders are better served at Blue Tomato in Schladming, which also rents splitboards.
Best Ski Rental in Ski amadé: 6 Shops Ranked, ranked
INTERSPORT Rent
The official Ski amadé rental partner runs 26 shops from Altenmarkt and Flachau through to Bad Gastein and Radstadt, so equipment picked up in one village can be swapped or dropped off in another. Premium class and above allows free changes inside the model class, including a switch from skis to a snowboard, and Superior skis get a free daily tune. Children under 10 hire free when both parents rent.
Best for: Multi-village ski trips
Official website See full factsSPORT 2000 rent
SPORT 2000 rent lists partner shops in all five Ski amadé regions, including Perner in Flachau, Ski Rental Berglift on the Bundesstrasse in Bad Hofgastein and outlets in Schladming and Kleinarl. Each shop is an independent business under a common booking front end. Ranges go past alpine skis to cross-country sets, snowboards, snowblades and toboggans, and poles come with every ski hire.
Best for: Independent shops with chain backup
Official website See full factsINTERSPORT Kerschbaumer
Two of the family's rental counters sit inside Alpendorf hotels, at Alpendorf 8 (Sporthotel Alpina) and Alpendorf 10 (Haven Mountain Retreat), which puts boots and skis a few steps from the gondola. Equipment can be collected from 3 p.m. the day before, so day one starts on the first lift. The town shop in St. Johann sells but does not hire. Ski school lessons with Skischule Alpendorf are bookable at the counter.
Visitor note (Google Maps) "I bought ski boots and skis for my son and me."
Best for: Ski-in, ski-out hotel guests in Alpendorf
Official website See full factsINTERSPORT Schneider
Schneider covers the Flachau, Flachauwinkl, Altenmarkt and Zauchensee corner of the Salzburger Sportwelt, with a counter at the Flachauwinkl cable car valley station and further shops at Altenmarkt Zentrum and the Rosskopf lift. Rental skis are machine tuned in house. Flachauwinkl is the access point for Absolut Park and for the floodlit evening piste, which makes freestyle boards and late swaps easy to arrange.
Visitor note (Google Maps) "Found a pair of skis and ski boots for my wife, received top advice."
Best for: Flachau and Zauchensee valley stations
Official website See full factsBlue Tomato Rent Your Ride Schladming
Blue Tomato is headquartered in Schladming and its Rent Your Ride counter there is the one address in Ski amadé built around boards rather than skis. The fleet covers kids, teens and adults, plus splitboards for touring, and the shop runs wax, edge and base work under Service your Ride. The rental programme started in 2021 across 14 stores in Austria, Germany and the Netherlands.
Best for: Snowboarders and splitboarders
Official website See full factsSport FLEISS
Gastein's official rental directory lists seven outlets, and three of them belong to Sport FLEISS: two in Bad Hofgastein (Schlossalmbahn and Schlossalm park) and one in Bad Gastein. The Schlossalmbahn counter sits at the valley station of the main lift into the Schlossalm area, which tops out at 2,300 m. Rental and workshop service run from the same premises.
Best for: Gastein valley lift-base pickup
Official website See full factsHow does ski rental work across Ski amadé's five regions?
Ski amadé is a single lift pass over five regions in Salzburg and Styria: Salzburger Sportwelt, Schladming-Dachstein, Gastein, Hochkönig and the Grossarl valley, covering roughly 760 km of piste. Rental is not centralised. You book with a shop or with a franchise network, and the network you pick decides how much freedom you have once the week starts.
INTERSPORT Rent is the region's named rental partner and operates 26 shops inside Ski amadé, listed by village from Altenmarkt and Zauchensee to Flachau, Wagrain, Kleinarl, Filzmoos, Radstadt, Alpendorf and Bad Gastein. Gear rented at one of those shops can be exchanged or returned at any other. SPORT 2000 rent takes a different route, signing independent shops in the same villages under one booking site.
What is included in a Ski amadé rental package, and what costs extra?
Rates are set shop by shop, so treat any single quoted price with suspicion and check the shop page for your dates. What is comparable is the terms attached to each equipment class. At INTERSPORT Rent, hires from the Premium class upward can be exchanged free of charge within that class during the rental period, and that includes swapping skis for a snowboard mid-week.
Superior skis add a free daily service, which matters in March when wet snow blunts edges fast. The family term is the one to check before booking: when both parents rent skis or a board, children under 10 get their equipment free for the same period. Clothing is now rentable too. Schöffel jackets and trousers for adults and children are offered at 26 shops in Ski amadé and more than 170 INTERSPORT Rent shops across Austria.
How do you choose between a network and a village shop?
Map your week before you book
Ski amadé's regions are not all linked by lift. If your week runs Flachau on day one, Zauchensee on day three and Schladming at the weekend, the ability to hand equipment back in a different valley is worth more than a small discount. That is the case for INTERSPORT Rent and its 26 Ski amadé shops. If you are staying put in one village for six days, a local shop is fine.
Check the walk from bed to boots
Hotel-based counters remove the morning queue. INTERSPORT Kerschbaumer runs two of them in Alpendorf, at Alpendorf 8 and Alpendorf 10, while INTERSPORT Schneider sits at the Flachauwinkl cable car valley station and Sport FLEISS at the Schlossalmbahn in Bad Hofgastein.
Match the fleet to the sport
Board-led trips are better served by a specialist. Blue Tomato's Schladming shop rents snowboards, bindings and splitboards for kids, teens and adults. SPORT 2000 rent partners such as Perner in Flachau stock cross-country sets, snowblades and toboggans alongside alpine skis, with poles included in the ski price.
Reserve online, then collect the evening before
Both big networks take online reservations, which is how you secure specific models rather than whatever is left on 27 December. Several shops release equipment from 3 p.m. on the day before the first ski day, including the Kerschbaumer counters in Alpendorf.
Where can you pick up equipment closest to the lifts?
Flachau has the densest cluster in Ski amadé. The village alone carries four INTERSPORT Rent addresses, including counters at the 8er Jet valley station and at the Starjet, plus Sport am Jet and Schneider. Flachau, Wagrain and St. Johann Alpendorf are linked, which gives over 120 km of piste before you touch a shuttle bus.
In Alpendorf, the two Kerschbaumer counters are inside hotels at the base of the gondola, and the separate Kerschbaumer shop in St. Johann town centre sells equipment but does not hire it. In the Gastein valley, the official directory lists seven rental outlets, among them Sport FLEISS at the Schlossalmbahn, Top Rent Angertal, Sport Schober and Lederer in Bad Gastein and Sport Egger in Dorfgastein. Bad Hofgastein's Schlossalm and Stubnerkogel slopes reach 2,300 m.
Which shops suit snowboarders and freeriders?
Skis dominate most Austrian rental walls, and boards often sit at the back in one or two sizes. Schladming is the exception. Blue Tomato has its head office in the town and opened its Rent Your Ride counter there, with a fleet spanning children's boards through to splitboards, plus wax, edge and base work in the same shop. The rental programme launched in 2021 across 14 stores in Austria, Germany and the Netherlands.
Blue Tomato is also Ski amadé's partner for the RIDE Ski amadé freestyle brand. On the Salzburg side, Flachauwinkl is the freestyle base: Absolut Park sits at the cable car, where INTERSPORT Schneider hires from the valley station and tunes rental skis on its own machines.
What mistakes cost skiers time in Ski amadé rental shops?
Three recur. The first is arriving on the morning of day one during a peak changeover Saturday. Where a shop offers collection from 3 p.m. the previous afternoon, as the Alpendorf Kerschbaumer counters do, use it. The second is booking the cheapest class then discovering that free exchanges and daily servicing only start at the Premium and Superior tiers in the INTERSPORT Rent range.
The third is assuming any shop can absorb a mid-week switch. Cross-village return works inside the 26 shop INTERSPORT Rent network in Ski amadé. A one-off independent shop in Kleinarl or Dorfgastein has no obligation to accept gear from another business, so confirm before you drive over the Tauern.
How is this ranking computed?
- Shop coverage across Ski amadé: 25%
- Cross-location exchange and return: 20%
- Pickup distance to the lifts: 20%
- Equipment breadth: 20%
- Family and child terms: 15%
Entity references
Full factual profiles for each entity on this page:
- INTERSPORT Rent
- SPORT 2000 rent
- INTERSPORT Kerschbaumer
- INTERSPORT Schneider
- Blue Tomato Rent Your Ride Schladming
- Sport FLEISS
Official sources
- https://www.skiamade.com/en/activities-experiences/skiing-snowboarding/ski-rental
- https://www.skiamade.com/en/Winter/Service/Ski-rentals
- https://www.skiamade.com/en/Ski-resorts/Ski-amade/Partner
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