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( 603 65 05; www.pohorje.si ; Hočko Pohorje 131; per person half-board €45-75;
) This well-maintained property next to Hotel Bellevue Hotel is an apartment hotel
with 20 suites, some of which are quite grand and have living rooms and fireplaces.
Getting There & Away
Car You can drive or, if ambitious, cycle the 20km from the Old Town in Maribor south
past the Renaissance-style Betnava Castle, turning west at Spodnje Hoče before reaching
a fork in the road at a small waterfall. Go left and you'll reach Hotel Areh after about
5km. A right turn and less than 4km brings you to the upper cable-car station.
Cable Car A much easier - and more exhilarating - way to get to Hotel Bellevue and the
heart of the Maribor Pohorje is to take the cable car from the station in Zgornje Radvanje,
6km southwest of Maribor's Old Town. There are clamps on the outside of each of the
cable car's cabins for mountain bikes and skis.
Bus To reach the lower station from the train station in Maribor take local bus 6 (bus
€1.10, 20 minutes) and get off at the terminus - the cable car station is just behind the bus
stop.
Central Pohorje Region
03 / ELEV TO 1517M
Travellers can easily sample Pohorje's recreational offerings along its eastern edge from
Maribor and its western fringes from Slovenj Gradec and Dravograd in Koroška. But the
pear-shaped massif's highest and most beautiful area is in the centre. And although it's
true that the Pohorje peaks can't exactly compete with those of the Julian and the Kamnik-
Savinja Alps - most here barely clear the 1500m mark - hiking and trekking in the winter
here is as good as it is in the summer.
Zreče , about 40km southwest of Maribor, is the springboard for the central Pohorje re-
gion; indeed, the region is also known as the Zreče Pohorje (Zreško Pohorje). Although
certainly not Slovenia's most attractive town - it's dominated by the tool-manufacturing
company Unior - Zreče has a modest spa and is within easy striking distance of the ski
and sport centre around Rogla (1517m), 16km to the north, where teams - including the
Slovenian Olympic one - train.
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