sauze d'oulx

We stayed in the Hermitage about 5 years ago.

No complaints at all. Location was fantastic on the bottom of the piste right in the centre of town. The evening food was good. Breakfast a bit sparse. Small hotel and the staff were nice and friendly. Our room had a massive balcony over looking the piste.

No extra facilities were there when we stayed such as sauna, pool, etc.

It was a good, cheap stay.

Things may have changed in 5 years though.

Cheers

Will let you know....I'm there 17th - 22nd Dec !!!

bald-eagleman wrote:Will let you know....I'm there 17th - 22nd Dec !!!

Would be good

Hopefully, going in a few weeks (19th Dec) Hoping for some serious snow to fall too!

In Sauze at the minute and there is tonnes of snow with all the lifts due to open on Thursday/Friday, but maybe earlier due to the large amount of snow that fell today!

I have just got back from Sauze D'Oulx and thought I might give everyone who is going there soon an update. Resort had 15cms of snow last Friday, 5cms on Saturday and a further (reported) 20cms on Tuesday. Sounds good ...and is in parts. Until last Friday there were only 2 runs available above mid station. All the runs ABOVE Cortes lift are now open with good snow conditions. The area to the left of the Cortes lift is still closed but I was told is due to be opened this weekend. All the area in the bowl to the right of the top lift is open with fab conditions at present. There is only ONE run open down to San Sicario so is not worth doing. There are currently NO runs to Sestriere open due to patchy snow ....wind is blowing it away, but if you download on the Gondala most of the runs in Sestriere are open with excellent conditions there except on the nurseries which are open but a bit bare in places. Snow is reported as excellent up toward Montgenvre but it really is a long flog from Sauze.
The bad news is that it is unlikely that the lower runs will open in the near future. There is only 10-20 cms on them and the base is yet to freeze sufficiently for them to piste bash it. In fact as we left on Thursday at 0800 the temp in resort was plus 6 due to rise to plus 13....yep plus 13. The locals say that temps are likely to be high for the rest of the week and there is no new snow forcast.Temps low down are going to be to high to use the snow cannons and the instructors I talked to say it is the worst conditions thay have started with for nearly 20 years. They dare not use the piste bashers as the pistes will turn to mud and most probably ruin them for most of the season.

So ....ski high on the upper slopes where the conditions are really good and dont be scared to transfer by Gondala to Sestriere.

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Hi, just read the last report and it looks quite depressing, were due there on the 7th Jan has anyone got the latest update please.

cheers