Falcade/San Pellegrino lift pass choice and ski bus?

A snowHead

We are staying in Falcade in February and trying to decide which lift pass to buy and to work out how much the ski bus is between the areas (or if the bus is included in lift pass prices?)

We were thinking either the Trevalli pass or a 3+3. Its not obvious if 3+3 says 3 days in Trevalli and 3 in the other areas - but does this mean it allows you to ski in Trevalli every day and on 3 days you can also ski in Fiemme/Obereggen or Fassa/Carezza or that you have to ski in the other areas for 3 days?

We are a group of 4 adults, 4 teenagers -mostly intermediate (2 advanced).

A snowHead

I've not skied in Falcade...but it seems the 2 options there are the local pass for Trevalli or the Dolomiti Superski pass which covers all 12 areas spread all across the Dolomites. The 3+3 pass gives you 3 days Trevalli and 3 days Dolomiti Superski which will also let you ski anywhere including the local Trevalli area. I assume you can choose which days you stray outside the local area.

As to buses, there used to be a free Dolomitistars bus from Falcade to Alleghe (for Civetta ski area) & Malga Ciapela (for the Marmolada cablecar), but it looks as if that isn't running as far as Falcade this year and they are charging for the Alleghe-Malga Ciapela sector. Alleghe & the Civetta would be worth visiting if available.

The buses into Val di Fassa are all listed here...

http://www.fassa.com/EN/Skibus-service/

It seems there is a small charge to use these. Obviously you have to ski over the S Pellegrino pass from Falcade to catch these. It seems line no.7 goes as far as Vigo to the Catinaccio ski area. It looks like you would need to change buses to go further to Carezza or Pampeago/Obereggen.

Catinaccio is quite a small area and I don't know if it would be worth the hassle.

If the bus to Alleghe isn't running, I would be tempted to get the Trevalli pass and just enjoy what's available locally.

Well, the person's real but it's just a made up name, see?

Thanks for that full reply

My husband has spent the afternoon poring over maps and came to the same conclusion... that it might not be worth the extra for the hassle involved in getting to the other resorts - we are not superfit so we don't want to be "ski miles" away from home if there is no easy bus option.

Would you say the Trevalli is big enough for a weeks intermediate skiing...? I think its a bit smaller than the french resorts we've been to recently - Grand Massif, Les Sybelles - we went to Grand Bornand a few years ago and just got the local pass that was just enough... although partly thats because some of the reds were a bit hard for us... looks like Trevalli might be a bit easier?

Help!!

Falcade/San Pellegrino lift pass choice and ski bus?

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