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Just had a call from Esprit that due to a change in the property law in Italy, they're no longer allowed to offer catered chalets in Selva so our holiday is now cancelled!
Apparently only Hotels, B&B or SC apartments are allowed so their entire offering in the resort (several catered chalets with central childcare) is torpedoed!
Anyone else suffered due to this or know anything else about it? no info on their website...
They've offered us alternatives in France but as it was Feb 1/2 term, options are running out and The Dolomites is far and away our preferred destination.
Any more info on the "law change" appreciated but more importantly, any info on how to do a family holiday in The Dolomites (with young kids who need childcare and ski-school) would be very welcome!
Bah!
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Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
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Well, the person's real but it's just a made up name, see?
Well, the person's real but it's just a made up name, see?
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Same happened in Arabba this season with their sister companies Inghams and Ski Total, they had to close the chalets that they had there and send guests elsewhere. Interestingly Ski Total are still showing their catered chalet in Selva on their website. Might be worth a post on their facebook page, see what they say?
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When was the holiday booked? I am amazed that the TO didn't anticipate the change. Usually this sort of changes take time to go through the approval process and are hardly a surprise..
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Anyway, snowHeads is much more fun if you do.
Anyway, snowHeads is much more fun if you do.
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Booked in Jan this year for Feb '15 - so much for planning ahead eh?
Thanks sarah, will have a look...
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jma, there was a couple of posts about this on here towards the middle of last season, I think people expecting to have chalets in Dolomites had been moved elsewhere at short notice.
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Thanks Hells Bells, not a new thing then. A friend knows a hotel owner in the region - will see if they can find out more and will report back...
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jma, Collett's still seem to be operating chalets and chalet hotels in Corvara but are offering serviced apartments with meals in a local restaurant in Arabba.
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albob, that was my assumption too as can find no reference whatsoever anywhere on t'interweb to a law change and, suspiciously, one of their properties is advertised on a site i've never seen before: skieuropeonline.co.uk
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jma, . I wasn't aware it had affected anywhere else but Arabba.
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jma, which one is your chalet? (soldanella is showing on ski-total site)
Ski-europe-online look to be an 'agency' rather than on operator
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You know it makes sense.
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It was Chalet Waldeck - a quick google of Chalet Waldeck Selva brings up skieuropeonline but as you say, it looks like an aggregator or agency...might give them a call anyway
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