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sbooker wrote:
The main thing is I need to know that cards are accepted most places. I don’t want to be hauling around loads of cash if I can help it.

Yes, they are.
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I for one am keen to see how this trip plays out.

Sounds like you'll have a great time and I'm really quite excited for you!
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Layne wrote:
sbooker wrote:
The main thing is I need to know that cards are accepted most places. I don’t want to be hauling around loads of cash if I can help it.

Yes, they are.


Except in Austria where card machines will quite often "break down" or not exist at some family run places.
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Dave of the Marmottes wrote:
Layne wrote:
sbooker wrote:
The main thing is I need to know that cards are accepted most places. I don’t want to be hauling around loads of cash if I can help it.

Yes, they are.


Except in Austria where card machines will quite often "break down" or not exist at some family run places.


If that happens in say the Zillertal valley is it likely I’ll be able to find a cash machine somewhere pretty easily? Surely (what I’m picturing as) larger villages like Mayrhofen will have an ATM?
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Cards were happily accepted in Kaltenbach (isnt that where you are going?). There was definitely a cash machine near the petrol station there. The only things we didnt use cards for were the apartment incidentals, the odd taxi and the train back to Innsbruck and that may have been because I didnt ask as had some folding to get through.
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Oh yes. And paid cash for lesson as couldnt be arsed to get to the office and wanted to make sure the instructor got the tip.
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@sbooker, no problem with ATMs.
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After all it is free Go on u know u want to!
I have memories being left as a deposit ( as I happened to have enough cash for my share) while the rest of my crew went on a rally up the valley to find a working cash point once. And yes they took sufficiently long I wondered whether they'd pulled a fast one and just gone skiing.
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Thanks all. Sounds fine.
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@sbooker, you wrote "I get the impression the Dolomites is as much about traveling between different villages checking things out as it is skiing? Sounds fun." But the travelling between villages is what you do when you ski (at least in the Sella Ronda area). It is the skiing. I am not sure of your standard but the Dolomites (except a few runs at Arabba) are easy skiing, covering long distances (but spectacular scenery). There is also challenging off piste, but you'd need a guide for that.
Bourg St Maurice is not really a ski town but OK if you want to do things cheap or visit several resorts in one week (Val d'sere, Les Arcs, St Foy, La Plagne, La Rosierre). 99.9% of Europeans stay in a ski resort, by the lifts.
By the way, you might have problems in some places booking one or two nights in one place. Most hotels want to let for a Saturday-Saturday week, because they can.
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snowball wrote:
@sbooker, you wrote "I get the impression the Dolomites is as much about traveling between different villages checking things out as it is skiing? Sounds fun." But the travelling between villages is what you do when you ski (at least in the Sella Ronda area). It is the skiing. I am not sure of your standard but the Dolomites (except a few runs at Arabba) are easy skiing, covering long distances (but spectacular scenery). There is also challenging off piste, but you'd need a guide for that.
Bourg St Maurice is not really a ski town but OK if you want to do things cheap or visit several resorts in one week (Val d'sere, Les Arcs, St Foy, La Plagne, La Rosierre). 99.9% of Europeans stay in a ski resort, by the lifts.
By the way, you might have problems in some places booking one or two nights in one place. Most hotels want to let for a Saturday-Saturday week, because they can.


We’ve got it pretty sorted now with the short stays in cities only. We’re not going to France - Aosta is as far west as we’ll get. I suppose we might get a day to La Thuile if conditions are right (that way we may just have lunch in France) Smile .
I don’t know what standard we are either as we’ve never had lessons but we can ski black/double black ungroomed runs in North America (albeit not super stylishly).
Because we’re skiing early season it is unlikely we’ll have a chance to ski off piste but if the opportunity arises we will hire a guide.
Incidentally we’ve managed to book Kaltenbach for 5 nights and Aosta for 6 nights. We’ve secured the accomodation through booking.com. Dolomites we went straight to the Portavescovo Hotel booking page.
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Oops, I hadn't looked how many pages your thread has had. There are not many people who ski off piste in the Dolomites (so not many guides) so if there is enough snow it can be really good for quite a while. But you are right: unlike the pistes, which are mostly on gentle meadows, the off piste steep gullies are rocky and need lots of snow, which you may not get so early.
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