J2Ski Forum Posts and Replies by AllyG

Felthorpe and her husband, dressed up as bacon and eggs, standing in front of the hotel bar:

Bald-eagleman organized a fancy dress night for Thursday evening, and several of us dressed up. The deal was, that we also had to eat wearing our costumes!
This is Brooksy :)

The stethoscope is mine, because I was dressed up as a doctor, in scrubs.
(Photo J2Skier friend Edmond)

I thought the Sauze hotel was pretty good, much better than I was expecting!

I'm sure they have been modernizing it. I reckon they had a heated boot rack in the boot room (coming on at night), and I didn't put my boots on the pegs just in case, as Profeet told me they damage the special insoles I have. There is a separate ski locker room.

Here are a few more photos, taken from Trip Advisor where they say these photos were taken by the hotel management.

My bedroom looked exactly like this one, except that mine had a nice wooden floor which looked like it was real wooden planks, not laminate. However, the manager, Francesco, did say he'd given me the best room! I think the others had slightly less space in their rooms.

If you wanted to be picky you could say it could have done with more power sockets, radiators you could turn off, and better sound proofing. But the beds were comfy, the patio doors were double ones so the room stayed warm, and you could go out on the balcony if you wanted to.



My bathroom looked just like this one. The shower is in the corner to the left, although you can't see it in the photo. And again, I think the others had smaller bathrooms.



This is the huge sitting room. You can only see half the room in this photo. There's also a pool table and another seating area. I think they could do with re-designing this area because it was very little used when we were there. Most people sat in the bar area.



http://www.tripadvisor.co.uk/Hotel_Review-g194891-d3301609-Reviews-Hotel_Sauze-Sauze_d_Oulx_Province_of_Turin_Piedmont.html

Here are a couple of photos of the Sauze bar and the seating area next to it. They're management photos taken from Trip Advisor.





There was also a huge separate sitting area but most people in the group stayed by the bar.

http://www.tripadvisor.co.uk/Hotel_Review-g194891-d3301609-Reviews-Hotel_Sauze-Sauze_d_Oulx_Province_of_Turin_Piedmont.html#photos

Have you got your own boots or are you hiring them?

I have orthotic insoles in my ski boots, but they were made specially for me when I bought my ski boots. I'm not sure that you can put insoles made for shoes straight into ski boots.

Here's a photo of all 28 of us at supper in the Sauze hotel. (The photo is Felthorpe's taken by Alessandra who is one of the very helpful staff)



I don't know what Ian's laughing about - I was at the other end of the table so I couldn't hear!

One of the hired car group (a J2Skier friend), who went to Orelle on Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday, used the phone app 'ski tracks' to record how far and fast he went. This is what he did on Tuesday. As you can see his maximum speed was 58 mph doing 11 complete downhill runs, he skied 24 miles, and he went up 21 miles of lift - and all in 6 hours with a short break for lunch :)




Some of the car group on Wednesday. Apparently the boarder Ade73 is sitting down because he had to wait for ages for the skiers to catch up with him, as they were struggling in the powder! (Their photo).

Here's the Sleeps List updated to today Saturday 31st Jan 2015. If you want to go on it, or you see any mistakes please post up on here.
There are several people off to the snow today :)

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