Getting to Celva (Val Gardena)???

Hi all,
Looking at going here next year & wondered which airport people are using & which budget airlines etc..
We would be going from Sheffield so Manchester East mids & birmingham would be good???

Suggestions welcome

Thank you :-)

I have been looking at flights to the Dolomites for the J2Ski group holiday to Folgarida in 2014.

The airports we're considering are Venice Marco Polo, Verona (VRN), Milan Bergamo and Innsbruck. The closest airport is Bolzano but it doesn't seem to have any direct flights from the U.K.

Here are some of the flights I have found:

Monarch fly from Manchester to Innsbruck and from Manchester to Verona and from Manchester to Venice.
RyanAir fly from East Midlands to Bergamo and Birmingham to Bergamo (but the RyanAir tickets aren't on sale yet).
Inghams fly to Innsbruck from Birmingham and Manchester.
EasyJet fly from Manchester to Venice (but their tickets aren't on sale yet either).

According to J2Ski, your nearest airport after Bolzano, is Innsbruck:
http://www.j2ski.com/ski_resorts/Italy/Selva_Gardena.html

Thanks for that AllyG

Thats really helpful thank you :-)

The only thing that concerns me about the Innsbruck flight is the airport has a habbit of closing quite alot in winter due to its location etc.. so will have a look at Bergamo or one of the others.

If you don't want to go to Innsbruck, then I suppose which one of the other airports you go to will depend on the timing of the flights and what the transfers are like.

We haven't bought any flights yet ourselves, because, as I said, EasyJet and RyanAir aren't on sale yet.

I have found these people who do transfers, and they reckon it would take 3 hours and 50 minutes from Milan Bergamo to Selva. I think it's a bus:

http://www.terravision.eu/dolomite_transfers.html

This website might also help:
http://www.flytovalgardena.com/faq_en.htm

Haven't stayed in Selva itself, we have preferred staying in Kronplatz ski area or Arabba but I think Innsbruck would be closest to Selva too. Unfortunately, as AllyG mentioned there's no direct flights from UK to Bolzano which would be the closest airport to most of the Dolomiti ski resorts.

We've flown very cheaply to Innsbruck with Easyjet from Liverpool, I think Terravision runs a shuttle bus from the airport to Selva (and to the other resorts in the Dolomites). We usually take a train as going only as far as Brunico and area.

Monarch goes to Verona from Manchester, Verona also seems to be used as an airport of choice for TO's.

Ryanair from Manchester and East-Midlands fly to Treviso and Milan Bergamo.

I'd start with Innsbruck first, then Verona and if nothing suitable book cheap Ryanair fares from East-Midlands to Treviso. We managed to get really cheap flights booked last September for Christmas, thus leaving plenty of funds for a private transfer.

As AllyG mentioned above you can also fly to Milan Bergamo and Venice Marco Polo (and maybe spend a day/night In Venice too :)

Another website to try is http://www.valgardena.it

AllyG wrote:I have been looking at flights to the Dolomites for the J2Ski group holiday to Folgarida in 2014.

The airports we're considering are Venice Marco Polo, Verona (VRN), Milan Bergamo and Innsbruck. The closest airport is Bolzano but it doesn't seem to have any direct flights from the U.K.

Hi AllyG
When going to Madonna d. Campiglio I've booked flights to Milano Bergamo or Verona, both airports are about 2.5 hours from the resort, I suppose a little longer for Folgarida. If there's many of you going you could maybe consider a getting a transfer by a private coach - the resort's tourist office/accommodation provider will be able to recommend you a local company.

flat country skier wrote:

Hi AllyG
When going to Madonna d. Campiglio I've booked flights to Milano Bergamo or Verona, both airports are about 2.5 hours from the resort, I suppose a little longer for Folgarida. If there's many of you going you could maybe consider a getting a transfer by a private coach - the resort's tourist office/accommodation provider will be able to recommend you a local company.

Thanks very much for your advice :)
None of us have ever been there before!
The problem is that, like last time when we went to Tignes, we're all coming from different parts of the globe and getting there in different ways.
We will have at least 2 cars driving there, I want to go there on the train (on the sleeper from Paris direct to Verona, and then from Verona to Trento and Male on the train), and CatP will be flying from the U.S.

There is a very good shuttle bus from the nearest airports (Milan Bergamo and Verona Catullo,) to Folgarida, http://flyskishuttle.com/ for only 32 euros return, but it only makes one journey on Sundays which might not suit our flight times. And the bus time-table for next season isn't up yet.

So, I am thinking about hiring a mini-bus, but I won't know if we need one until we've all sorted out how we're getting there and back, and we won't know that until the RyanAir and EasyJet flights come up for sale. But it would be much cheaper to hire one from Verona Catullo rather than from Venice Marco Polo. And I think a taxi could probably do it in just over 2 hours from Verona airport, whereas the bus takes about 3 and a half hours (because it stops in lots of other places as well).

The most promising flight at the moment is BA Gatwick to Verona at £107 return (including luggage), for 2nd and 9th February.

Edit
The shuttle bus doesn't run between Folgarida and Venice Marco Polo, only between Folgarida and Verona Catullo and Milan Bergamo airports.

We used Easyjet Gatwick to Verona. 2 1/2 hour transfer. Its actually much better than Innsbruck as its really quiet. The owner of our Selva hotel even prefers Verona, and the flights are cheaper.
Have a lovely time, the Sellaronda is my favourite place to ski x