Category - Ski Resorts

Classic Ski Resorts

The Tonale-Presena Ski School has a good reputation and offers ski, snowboard, freestyle, snowshoeing, race-training and off-piste courses. The other choice is Ponte-Tonale which was founded in the...

Hut Capanna Presena (+39 0463 758299), at the top of the cable-car, is recommended, as are Rifugio Valbiolo (+39 0364 900016), Rifugio Negritella (+39 0364 900661) and Rifugio Bleis (+39 335 708...

The Stats Altitude: 1883m Top Lift: 3069m Ski area: 100km of pistes Adult lift pass: 220-257€ for six days Official Site | Ski Map | Webcam In a Nutshell Good-value village with snowsure skiing from...

Passo Tonale is one of Italy’s highest ski resorts, opening early and closing late, and it also offers year-round skiing on the Presena Glacier. There’s plenty of beginner and...

The central Planai ski area is reached by a gondola that rises from the edge of Schladming. Alternatively, you can drive up an all-weather road to a car park just below the mid-station. A network of...

Schladming centre has a good choice of three- and four-star hotels, but the quiet surrounding villages of Haus, Pichl, Rohrmoos, and Ramsau provide the better budget choices. The four-stars in...

Schladming has ‘the normal lively bars, but there’s not enough going on for a young group where apres comes first,’ commented a reporter, and ‘the nightlife was more than adequate for a geriatric...

The excellent Schladming ski schools meet at Rohrmoos, and the Planai nursery slopes are well-organised with several gentle blue runs. The lower slopes of Rohrmoos are also well suited to learners...

Schladming has an abundance of friendly huts – over 40 of them – scattered across the mountainside. Seiterhutte is a traditional wooden chalet with a glass and aluminium extension. It serves...

Morillon is a traditional Savoyard village and Morillon 1100 Les Esserts is the purpose-built resort above it. Together they offer a small selection of restaurants and bars, a few shops and a mini...