Where to go in Italy

Having had a truly wonderful trip to the Dolomites this year, I cannot recommend it high enough :wink:

Admittedly, snow conditions were about as perfect as you could get all week :shock: It was also good value and mountain food was excellent and cheap :lol: Got a good deal on accommodation but it was a bit out of the way - the prices tend to match convenience :cry:

I was in Sauze many years ago and really enjoyed it. My memory is of nice varied terrain though I know it is not as snow sure as France or Austria.

Did ski Courmayour on my second ever trip. It was a lovely village but very small ski area (on-piste at any rate) :(. Most fur I have ever seen in one place - very popular with the wealthy matrons of Milan and Turin apparently :roll:

While Chamonix is way of topic :oops:, it seems to me from what I have read that it is a place best suited off-pisters mainly :shock:. The pistes seem to be a bit disjointed compared to most of the big name ski areas.

Courmayeur is small but nice and at times very very quiet on the pistes that is. The town is lovely.
Sauze gives access to a much larger ski area and should be fine in January. The area has a huge amount of snow making these days and is not the rowdy resort it once was. Sestriere gives access to the same areas as Sauze but is a bit more purpose built!
I've been to Madonna de Campiglio in the autumn but not the ski season and it is a nice place.

I had a lot of fun in Cervinia last November. Good food, good wine, good skiers, good weather...

Cervina is on the radar :thumbup:

Juddernaut, where exactly in the valley did you ski because pretty much every resort has an un-comparable run:-
Aguille de Midi:- VB, ski touring, more options than can be noted.
Grand Montets:- Pas De Chevre
Le Tour:- Trient.
Brevant/Flegere:- Run over top to Le Buet.

Massive vertical, can ski N/S/E/W facing slopes in valley. No where can compete with this variety. Now if you want motorway piste skiing, absolutely better places to be. Does not affect statement about best terrain of any ski resort in world though.

Ranchero_1979 wrote:Juddernaut, where exactly in the valley did you ski because pretty much every resort has an un-comparable run:-
Aguille de Midi:- VB, ski touring, more options than can be noted.
Grand Montets:- Pas De Chevre
Le Tour:- Trient.
Brevant/Flegere:- Run over top to Le Buet.

Massive vertical, can ski N/S/E/W facing slopes in valley. No where can compete with this variety. Now if you want motorway piste skiing, absolutely better places to be. Does not affect statement about best terrain of any ski resort in world though.

I have skied Argentiere and La Tour Balme. I haven't skied Flegere or Brevent cuz people rave about Argentiere. It is good, but it is not earth shatteringly better than other places I have skied (I.e. Monte Rosa, Dolomites, ADH, Davos, Verbier). In fact the queue to get up from Argentiere is absurd. Food quite good and reasonably priced for France though.

I'm going to Livigno, its has good range of slopes, apres ski and its tax free resort.
Downside is the 4/5 hour transfer time.

melski wrote:I'm going to Livigno, its has good range of slopes, apres ski and its tax free resort.
Downside is the 4/5 hour transfer time.

If you fly to Innsbruck and hire a car Livigno is an easy 2.5 hour drive and also it is a beautiful drive, well it is when get out Austria :P

Only Joking before "It is the only place to ski Brigade start complaining" -)