Italy : Cortina
 
 
Cortina, known as the Pearl of the Dolomites, is one of the top resorts in the Dolomiti Superski area. It is in a wide, bowl shaped valley surrounded by spectacular mountains whose slopes are guaranteed to be perfectly groomed. The local skiing is extensive and varied and other resorts such as S.Cassiano and Corvara in the Dolomiti Superski area are easily reached from the Falzarego mountain pass. The well known runs of Socrappes and Cristello offer great skiing. The resort offers numerous activities including many for the non skier. The movie "Cliffhanger" starring Sylvester Stallone was filmed here. The centre is lively and the shopping excellent. To ski on different parts of the ski area, it is often necessary to catch the ski bus, as some parts of the ski slopes are not linked to each other.
 
 

Shops - lots of clothing and equipment shops, curios, mini-markets for food and essentials. The banks and ATM machines make life easy.

Night life - try the apres ski bars, pubs and more. For the youngsters there are the many disco's and clubs.

Adventure sports - there is walking, paragliding, indoor pools and X country skiing.

Restaurants abound, with all sorts of diners in town, as well as many mountain restaurants for skiers to enjoy.

If you are bored with skiing we will arrange excursions for you to places like Munich, Salzburg, Innsbruck etc !
  
   

The best is to fly in to Venice airport. Meet us at the place designated in your resort arrival booklet for the transfer to the resort. It should take about 3 hours.

We offer scheduled shuttle transfers and private transfers, depending on your wishes, and your arrival and departure times.

In the village we use central accommodation, so ski buses, taxis and the like are just not needed !
 
 
A beer costs from 3.5 to 5 euros depending where you are

A  pizza costs from 8 to 12 Euro's at a restaurant

A good meal with a steak and wine will be about 25 euro's
 
 
  
   

Village height          1224 metres

Highest lift               2930 metres 

Bottom lift                1330 metres

Vertical drop           1806 metres

Number of Lifts       37

Longest run             11 kms

Marked piste           100  kms

Linked resorts       Santa Cristina

Ski season             Early December to Mid April

Summer skiing     No

Our comment        Upmarket resort - skiers and non-skiers

No of lifts            

   
 
The resort is child friendly, with child classes at Ski School, a kids snow area and menu's all over town designed for kids.

The village is also walkable and its impossible to get lost. Cars are not a danger at all.

There are lots of winter sports for kids like snow discing, games and activities.
    
   
"Hosted packages" - here we provide full entertainment programmes and services of our resort reps. This is aimed at those wanting to sit back and relax whilst we organize things like transfers, ski guiding to places like Zermatt and Valtournenche, Apres ski evenings, fun events and more. For the December period we run our "Polar Kidz Club" program. We take care of the kids while you relax.

"Champagne Lite Packages" caters for the more independent traveller. We will arrange just the essentials like accommodation, transfers, skis and pass (and get you a discount into the bargain !)
 

We select our accommodation for quality (within the category selected), and for good location. Nobody likes walking in heavy ski boots ! We offer

  • Central self catering apartments
  • Central Bed and breakfast hotels
  • Central Half board hotels
  • 3 star and 4 star hotels
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