2013 Plans

Make sure you check where your accommodation is located, as not all of it is close to the lifts. The Club Med hotel is a 15min walk from the cable car / gondola station, they and the other hotels that are away from the village centre have mini buses to take guests to the lifts.
There is a fast chair lift roughly where the red arrow points to.



Most of the pistes are very wide so there's plenty of elbow room.

Even in high season there are seldom queues in the Cervinia sector and Valtournenche is usually very quiet, maybe a bit of queuing in the morning to get out of the village if you start late but that's about it.

If it's very windy, very cold or the vis is very bad they don't open the link (getting stuck on the wrong side can be very expensive) the link is more likely to be closed in the early part of the season.

The photos in these trip reports should give you a good overview of the skiing there
http://www.alpinforum.com/forum/viewtopic.php?f=53&t=42488 (scroll down until you get to "3. Teil Breuil-Cervinia"

http://www.alpinforum.com/forum/viewtopic.php?f=48&t=39177&p=4758620&hilit=Cervinia#p4758620 not worth skiing in April?

Cool, interesting photos on that forum.

Cervinia now being researched heavily.