Well I've been back 2 weeks from Italy and just booked our next trip but this time with my kids too. We booked NYC/Milan for February 2020. We will spend 2-3 days in Milan then take the train to St. Moritz and go skiing in Switzerland before returning back to Milan. We are hoping to catch a soccer game in Milan as our kids love soccer.
Any hotel suggestions in Milan? Kids will be 9 and 7 if that helps. Looks like Starwood hotels a lot are already sold out!
For a better experience in Switzerland, stay in nearby Pontresina with it’s charming buildings and a short train shuttle collection to St- Mortiz( which is not very attractive, lots of concrete.) We stayed in Hotel La Collina in Pontresina and were very happy there.
In Milan we our second time , we stayed at Antica Locanda Leonardo, near The Last Supper snd Cadorna Station. Teams or walk to Duomo area.
Pontresina is not very convenient for downhill skiing though - if you're after downhill, then Celerina and to a lesser extent Sils Maria are good alternatives to St Moritz.
Thank you, we will be doing downhill skiing, that is correct.
Balso those ski areas are not far from St. Moritz. Do they have ski villages like here in the states or is it not like that there?
If we land in Milan does it make sense to have a few days in Milan or Lake Como? It will be February but the cold temps won't bother us coming from NY any way.
As far as skiing, "it's not like that there." US ski villages are often like a Disney reproduction of European ski towns that are actually towns. St Mortitz is a good sized town with ski lifts at a couple of locations in town and outside of town. You will pass through Diavolezza on the way from Italy at the top of the Bernina Pass. Give it a go. It has a couple of cable cars to mountain peaks with groomed pistes down to the train station with a drag lift connecting them so you don't have to walk the flats.
If you go a bit further on the rail line, with a train change at Filisur, there is Davos, "the highest city in Switzerland". I like the skiing there more than St Mortitz. Several interconnected ski areas.
Varenna on Lake Como is likely pretty dead in February.
