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Austria's Saalbach Hinterglemm, which claims to have the country's second highest annual visitor numbers after capital Vienna, has an Easter Bonus offer for families - children ski free.

The special offer, valid from 14 March means children aged up to 16 (born in 1993 or later) receive a free pass when their parents purchase a ski pass valid for three days or more.

Whilst their parents are amusing themselves on the piste, the children can make their first turns and jumps at Saalbach Hinterglemm's highly acclaimed ski kindergarten.

Children aged six and younger (born 2002 or later) can travel on the lifts free of charge all season with the Montelino ski pass.

The whole family can make best use of their ski passes as floodlighting means Saalbach Hinterglemm offers a long ski day from 08.30 to 22.00 - whether on the piste, in the funparks, or on the illuminated toboggan runs and the floodlit piste.

Saalbach Hinterglemm offers over 200 kilometres (125 miles) of piste and 55 modern lifts. The huge area also has 90 per cent snow making coverage of the pistes, provided by more than 450 snow cannons and eight reservoirs. More than €155 million has been invested in lifts, pistes and snow cannons since 2000.

The area has everything from gentle slopes over the wide carving pistes to the black World Cup descent, from funparks, over the racecourses to the mogul fields.