Mayrhofen Airport Transfers
An hour from Innsbruck, and rather more from everywhere else
Mayrhofen sits at the closed end of the Zillertal, which is a long, straight valley running south off the Inn. That geography decides almost everything about your transfer: there is one road in, it is a good one, and the only real variable is how far up the motorway you start. From Innsbruck it is about an hour. From Salzburg or Munich you are looking at the better part of a morning by the time you have collected bags and cleared the airport.
We sell these transfers ourselves rather than passing you to a booking site and taking a cut. The vehicles are run by one Austrian operator we hold a contract with, the price you see is our price, and if something goes wrong at two in the morning you are talking to us and not to a call centre in another country. Shared seats from Innsbruck start at €65 per person, one way; the table below has every airport and both services.
Those times are the drive itself in normal winter conditions. Add the walk to the vehicle, and on a Saturday in February add the traffic — the whole of the Zillertal changes over on the same two days, and the last few kilometres into Mayrhofen can crawl. Nobody's transfer beats that queue, ours included, and any company telling you otherwise is quoting you a Tuesday in March.
Every airport we run from, and what each one comes to
The table below is not a sample and it is not last season's. It reads the same rate file our booking system charges from, so what you see here is what the form will quote you. Shared prices are per person, one way. Private prices are per vehicle, one way, for the smallest vehicle we would send — a bigger group moves up a band and the form works that out from your headcount.
| Airport | Shared, per person | Shared runs | Private, per vehicle | Book |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Innsbruck (INN) | €65 | Every day | €283 1–3 seats | Get a price → |
| Salzburg (SZG) | €82 | Every day | €521.50 1–3 seats | Get a price → |
| Munich (MUC) | €119 | Sat & Sun | €730 1–3 seats | Get a price → |
Innsbruck is the obvious answer and usually the cheapest one, and if your flights work from there the decision is already made. The reason the other two exist is that flights are the thing that actually constrains people: Munich has far more of them from the UK and from further afield, Salzburg is a good deal cheaper to fly into on some weekends, and a cheap flight into Munich with a longer drive at the end still beats an expensive one into Innsbruck often enough that we would not tell you to ignore it.
When each route actually runs
This is a shared-seat question only. Private transfers run any day of the year, with no season window at all — if your dates are odd, or early, or long after the lifts have stopped, a private vehicle is still bookable.
Shared seats are the ones that run to a season, because they exist by pooling people onto a schedule and there is nobody to pool with outside it. For Mayrhofen, shared runs from Innsbruck and Munich between 5 December 2026 and 10 April 2027, and from Salzburg over a shorter window, 12 December 2026 to 27 March 2027. The lifts themselves are open from 4 December 2026 to 11 April 2027, so there are days at each end — and a longer stretch at both ends for Salzburg — when the mountain is turning and the shared vehicles are not.
If your dates fall outside a shared window the booking form says so rather than taking the money and working it out later, and it will still price you a private vehicle. So an early-December trip, or a Salzburg arrival in April, is not a dead end — it is a private booking rather than a seat.
Shared seat or private vehicle: which one to book
There is no answer here that is right for everybody, which is why the table above prices both instead of picking one for you. A shared booking is a seat on a vehicle carrying several parties. A private booking is the whole vehicle, yours, door to door. What decides it is how many of you there are, when you land, and what your particular route actually prices at — and on a fair number of routes the answer surprises people.
- Shared is the obvious choice when there are one, two or three of youIt is priced per seat, so a couple or a small family usually pays less. In exchange you go when the schedule goes: you may wait at the airport while other passengers land, and you may call at another village on the way. The vehicle is whatever suits the day's bookings — a minibus, a van or a coach.
- Private is often cheaper from about six people, and sometimes from threeIt is priced per vehicle, so the cost splits across everyone in it. On the routes we sell that carry both, private beats shared most often at six passengers — and on a sizeable minority of routes it wins at three or fewer. That is why we will not give you a blanket rule: put your real headcount into the form and compare the two numbers on your own route.
- Private, if the timing is the thing that mattersNo waiting for strangers, no detour to another resort, no fixed timetable, and no season window — private runs any day of the year. If you are landing late, flying at an awkward hour, or travelling on dates outside the shared season, this is the one that exists.
- Private, if a child seat is essential to youA private transfer for one to eight passengers is normally a minibus, and a minibus is the vehicle a child restraint can actually be fitted to. On a larger shared vehicle a restraint is often not legally required and may not be fittable at all. There is more on this below.
From the booking form to the pick-up point
Five steps, and the only one that needs any real thought is the first. Everything after that is us and the operator doing the work.
- Put in your airport, your dates and your flight numbersFlight numbers matter more than people think. They are how the operator knows you are delayed before you have landed, and they are the difference between a driver waiting and a driver gone. Give us the resort address too, not just “Mayrhofen” — the run is priced to where you are actually sleeping.
- Choose shared or private, and tell us the awkward things nowSki bags, a snowboard, a pushchair, a wheelchair, a dog. None of it is a problem if it is on the booking and all of it is a problem if it is a surprise in the car park at eleven at night. The form has a box; use it.
- We confirm the run with the operatorSome routes and dates confirm instantly. Others go to the operator first, because a vehicle at an odd hour in a busy week is a real thing that has to exist rather than a slot on a website. If yours needs confirming you will be told at the time, and you are not charged for a transfer nobody has agreed to drive.
- You get a booking page of your ownNot a PDF you lose. A link to your own booking, with the pick-up details, the vehicle, the return leg and the driver arrangements on it, updated if anything changes. Amendments and cancellations go through the same page, so you are never hunting for the email you booked with.
- Land, and get metArrivals hall, name board, and a number to ring on the booking page if you cannot see anyone. Departures work the other way round: you are given a pick-up time from your accommodation a day or two before, calculated back from your flight rather than guessed at.
What a transfer day is really like
Nobody enjoys this part of the holiday, so the useful thing we can do is tell you what it is rather than sell you a version of it that does not happen.
A shared transfer waits. That is the whole reason it is cheaper. The vehicle collects several bookings off several flights, and the person who lands first waits for the person who lands last. We cap that wait at two hours, which sounds long written down and is usually far shorter — but two hours is the number we will stand behind rather than a cheerful estimate we cannot. If waiting up to two hours after a flight would ruin your evening, that is the argument for a private vehicle and you should make it to yourself now rather than at the airport.
A private transfer leaves when you are ready. It is your vehicle, it goes when your party is through the doors, and it goes straight to your address. Delays are absorbed rather than negotiated, because there is nobody else in the vehicle whose evening you are eating into.
Skis waiting when you get there
The other thing worth doing in the same sitting. We hold the contract with two rental shops in Mayrhofen, both on Hauptstraße, and booking through us puts your kit aside in your name and your sizes before you land.
- A real discount off each shop's own counter price, applied at checkout.
- A deposit now, the balance paid to the shop when you collect.
- One of them is at the Penkenbahn, so collection and your first lift are the same stop.
Land, get driven in, collect the skis the same evening, and morning one is clipping in rather than queueing.
See Mayrhofen ski hire →
Who is actually driving you, and who took your money
Worth separating those two, because on most transfer websites they are three companies deep and none of them will say so.
You book with us. Monsguide is a small business run from the Alps by two people. This is our own product on our own contract, not an affiliate link to a marketplace — which is why there is no commission disclosure anywhere on this page and why the price is not marked up on the way through. The driving is done by an Austrian operator we work with directly, licensed and insured in Austria, with their own vehicles and their own drivers in the Zillertal all winter.
Ash spent more than a decade with Crystal Ski, finishing as an Area Manager, and worked in Mayrhofen itself as a resort rep. Angie was Crystal's resort manager in Mayrhofen. A large part of both those jobs was standing in an arrivals hall counting heads, which is not a glamorous qualification but is exactly the right one for this page. Three things it taught us:
- The delay is almost never the mountain roadIt is baggage reclaim, it is one passenger who cannot find the meeting point, and on changeover Saturdays it is the last four kilometres into town. Build the slack into your own expectations rather than into the complaint.
- The bookings that go wrong are the ones missing informationNo flight number, no phone that works abroad, an address that is a hotel name and not a street. Every one of those is thirty seconds at the booking stage and half an hour at midnight in a car park.
- Book the return at the same timePeople book the arrival, mean to sort the way back, and then it is Thursday and they are pricing a taxi. The return leg is on the same form and the same booking, and departure pick-up times come to you rather than you chasing them.
The questions people ask before they book a transfer
Which airport is best for Mayrhofen?
Innsbruck, if the flights work. It is the closest by a long way and usually the cheapest transfer. Salzburg and Munich are both perfectly normal ways to get here and we run from both — the drive is roughly twice as long, and the right answer is usually whichever airport gives you the flight you actually want at the price you actually want.
How long is the transfer from Innsbruck to Mayrhofen?
About an hour in normal winter conditions. Salzburg and Munich are both closer to two and a half hours by the time you are moving. Add time on a Saturday in the school holidays, when the whole valley changes over at once and the last stretch into Mayrhofen is slow for everybody.
How much is a transfer to Mayrhofen?
It depends on the airport, whether you take a shared seat or a private vehicle, and how many of you there are. The table on this page carries the current price for each airport, read live from our booking system rather than typed in, and the booking form prices your exact party and dates.
What is the difference between a shared and a private airport transfer to Mayrhofen?
A shared transfer is priced per person and the vehicle collects several bookings, so you may wait for other flights and you will be dropped in sequence. A private transfer is priced per vehicle, leaves when your party is ready, goes straight to your address, and runs any day of the year with no season window. Shared is the obvious choice for one, two or three of you; private is often cheaper from about six people and sometimes from three, so compare both on your own route rather than assuming.
Do shared transfers run from Munich to Mayrhofen?
On Saturdays and Sundays only. Innsbruck and Salzburg run shared seats every day, but Munich is a weekend service, because outside the changeover there are not enough passengers going the same way at the same time. If you are flying into Munich midweek you need a private transfer — and split between three or four people it is closer to the shared fare than most people assume.
How long do I have to wait for a shared transfer to Mayrhofen?
Up to two hours, and that is the figure we will commit to rather than a more flattering guess. In practice most people wait a good deal less. The vehicle waits so that it can carry several bookings off several flights, and that waiting is exactly what makes a shared seat cheaper than a private one.
When do airport transfers to Mayrhofen run?
Private transfers run any day of the year, with no season window. Shared seats are the ones with a season: from Innsbruck and Munich they run 5 December 2026 to 10 April 2027, and from Salzburg over a shorter window, 12 December 2026 to 27 March 2027. The lifts open on 4 December 2026 and close on 11 April 2027, so at each end of the season there are days when a shared seat is not running and a private vehicle still is.
Can you take me to Finkenberg, Zell am Ziller or Kaltenbach?
Yes. The whole of the lower and upper Zillertal is on the same run and books on the same form — Finkenberg, Schwendau, Zell am Ziller and Kaltenbach included. Enter the address you are staying at rather than booking to Mayrhofen and arranging the last stretch yourself, and the price you are quoted is for the actual door.
Do Mayrhofen transfers take ski and snowboard bags?
Yes, and there is no charge for normal ski or board carriage. Say what you are bringing when you book, because it is how the operator sizes the vehicle. A group that turns up with more hard cases than the booking mentioned is the one situation where a vehicle genuinely may not fit everything.
Do you provide child seats on Mayrhofen transfers?
Tell us the age of every child and infant when you book. Where the law requires a child restraint in the vehicle used, one is provided free of charge, as long as the ages you gave us are right. On a larger shared vehicle a restraint is often not legally required and may not be fittable at all, and a seat you bring yourself may not fit either — so if a child seat is essential to you, a private transfer for 1 to 8 passengers is normally a minibus, which is the vehicle a seat can be fitted to. The full position is in our transfer terms at §10.4, and if you are in any doubt, ask us before you book.
What happens if my flight to Innsbruck, Salzburg or Munich is delayed?
Give us your flight number when you book and the delay is tracked, so the operator knows before you have landed. That is the single most useful thing on the whole booking form. If you are badly delayed or diverted, ring the number on your booking page — it goes to us, not to a queue.
Can I change or cancel my Mayrhofen transfer?
Yes, through the booking page you are given when you book, which is also where amendments and the return leg live. Tell us as early as you can: a change made weeks out is straightforward, and one made hours out is a favour we will try to do rather than something we can promise. The cancellation terms that apply to your booking are shown on the booking form before you pay.
Is it cheaper to get the train to Mayrhofen?
For one person travelling light, quite possibly. The Zillertalbahn runs up the valley from Jenbach on the main line, and Austrian trains are good. It is slower, it means changes with skis and bags, and it stops being a bargain fast once there are three of you or a child in the party. We would rather tell you that than sell you a transfer you did not need.
Who am I booking a Mayrhofen airport transfer with?
Monsguide. We are a small business run from the Alps by Ash and Angie, who both worked seasons out here with Crystal Ski before moving out permanently. The transfer is our own product on our own contract with an Austrian operator who runs the vehicles — it is not an affiliate link to a booking site, and there is no third party marking the price up on the way through.
Book the drive, then stop thinking about it
Three airports, a price that comes from the same system that charges you, a booking page of your own for changes, and an Austrian operator we deal with face to face. Shared seats start at €65 per person one way. Put your flight numbers in and the arrival end of the holiday is done.
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