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Heading to Foppolo on Friday.
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No reason to post this except perhaps for those who have been in foppolo to let us know what they thought of it.
We are going to arrive early on Friday in Bergamo so an hour and a half later we hope to be on the slopes. Just staying till Monday, so even if there isn't a lot of runs we hope to do a bit of off piste and just mess about on whatever runs there are between the three areas. I have checked the webcams and the snow seems very good. I can't wait.
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Enjoy! I've loved my Foppolo weekends! Ok not a great deal of skiing (I don't ski off piste) but enough for a fun weekend. We've always went when there were the crazy cheap flights (as I mentioned on your earlier post) which helped make it worthwhile. Don't remember it being too busy at weekend either, only the Sundays were more noticeable. Cheap ski pass as well.
We enjoyed the bar at the bottom left (as you look up the slope) of the main slope in Foppolo. It was owned by the daughter if the owner of the hotel we stay in. Always had lots of freebie après ski snacks!
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b]biddpyat[/b] Foppolo is fairly limited but great because it's so near to Bergamo - we had a trolley dash weekend there where we skied arrival (Saturday) afternoon at the nearby (small but good fun) area of San Simone. On the Sunday we parked at Carona - which saves driving up to Foppolo - and got the chair lift up to the Foppolo area from there.
Should ski hire be required (to avoid extortionate Ryanair ski carriage
) it's available at the foot of the slopes at San Simone and at the top of the chair from Carona.
We stayed further down the valley in a sleepy old village whose name escapes me
- easy 10 minute drive up to the slopes from there.
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Ah cheers, we are hiring ski's , it makes it easier to just find a Ryanair flight then look up the maps and find a ski resort. I have learned how to pack enough for two days into our two boot bags, ( don't worry no problems with stinky boots) . So we arrive on Friday and will be at the hotel ( beside the chair lift) by 12.30, the plan is a quick whizz to the ski hire, and the hotel have organised a two and a half day ski pass. In that length of time, I am sure that we will have skied everything in the three areas, but sure it's a bit of fun, and as it will be without the kids, we will be able to race and just bumble about. I will let you all know what we think. ( Mind you sun,snow, skis and Italy sure it's better than home any day)
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) it's available at the foot of the slopes at San Simone and at the top of the chair from Carona.
- easy 10 minute drive up to the slopes from there.