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Skiing the Dolomites

Posted by (Monterey County, CA (formerly Verbania Italy-Lago Maggiore)) on

For those skiers out there, a ski trip mixed with a European vacation is very economical compared to any major ski resort in US.

This week planned a 4 night 3 days skiing at Alpe di Siusi. 90% intermediate well groomed runs.

Ski in/ski out hotel with breakfast and 5 course dinner included. Spring ski special was €425/night- 4th night free.

Lift tickets -€48 per day/person (senior)
Ski rentals - €50/day per person
$80 total for drinks and wine at hotel.

Took train from Milan, bus, the gondola up to base (no car rental needed)

Still did carry on from home but our backpacks are stuffed with ski pants, accessories. We will ship back home from Innsbruck to lighten the load for next 4 weeks.

We did this trip when we lived in Italy and just had to ski here again.

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We are in the middle of the same trip but skied 4 weeks. Last ski day was April 8th in St.Moritz, then drove to Bolzano and caught train to Rome yesterday. We are doing a “boot” tour until May 1st.

We started our trip by flying in to Venice then spent a week getting over jet-lag from Japan (did 1 day trip to Alpe di Siusi). How easy/hard was it flying in to Milan?

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Milan is an easy airport, we took the train to Verbania first for 4 nights, then spent a night in Milan. 10am train to Bolzano, connection in Verona, then bus to Gondola in Suise, and hotel picked us up at the top. 5 hours door to door.

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My favorite European ski region. And the Dolomiti Superski Pass gives you access to something like 600 ski lifts.

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Interesting. Just yesterday, a friend who skied in the Dolomites this year for the first time told me she will never go back: "It was like Disneyland on skis." Too crowded, too much reckless skiing. Maybe she went to the wrong area...

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Janet- there’s just so much skiing and so many different places to do it. When I first spent time in Italy October 99-April 2000 we went skiing a lot. They lived in Lecco so driving across the border to the lakes region of Switzerland to ski was easy. Cross country, not downhill. Hundreds of kilometers of trails and switchbacks

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We’ve skied Alpi di Suise twice and no crowds, no lines, and had runs to ourselves with a handful of other people. We did not ski weekends

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