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Advice for ski trip to Dolomites or elsewhere in Italy (?Alta Badia/San Cassiano)
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My husband and I are starting to plan a ski trip (mostly downhill, but possibly also some cross country) to the Dolomites in February. We had a delightful trip to the Trois Vallees a few years ago, where we stayed in the lovely town of Saint Martin de Belleville. Things we loved most about that trip: the charming atmosphere of Saint Martin, easy access to the slopes from the lift in the center of town which in turn was easily accessible by foot from our pension, not needing a car (we took the ski bus from Geneva), and the huge ski area where we could ski a different area each day of our trip. We're hoping to replicate much of the feel this time around.

We're looking for a village full of charm and that's laid back. We don't need or want an big apres ski scene. We'd like to stay in a cozy chalet/inn for a reasonable price (since we'll pretty much just be conking out there at the end of the day) which is walkable to a lift. We don't need a spa. Good food is really important to us, which is one reason we're looking at San Cassiano for its Michelin starred restaurants, but we also revel in well done and down-to-earth traditional farm-to-table type places. However, I've read that San Cassiano is a bit spread out which makes me somewhat wary (see request for easy assess to lifts above).

Looking for any recommendations for a destination and specific hotel recommendations, please!
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Just as an FYI, we're planning on staying a week, February 14-22nd.
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@AlisaAAM, Welcome to snowHeads! snowHead

The Dolomites are a lovely area Very Happy , and the mountain restaurants do excellent food (the cuisine includes both Italian and Austrian style dishes) at very reasonable prices (I think you'll notice the difference in prices compared to some of the places in the Trois Vallees Laughing )
As you mentioned possibly doing some cross country skiing you might care to consider staying in the resort of Ortisei/St Ulrich in Val Gardena/Grödental. Ortisei is the prettiest of the towns in the Val Gardena valley in my view and as well as having good downhill skiing on the Seceda side of town (including the lovely Red 2 run which is 10.5km long and takes you past a frozen waterfall) also has more gentle downhill ski runs and cross country ski runs on the Alpi di Siusi/Seiseralm plateau on the other side of town.
From Ortisei you can alpine ski via Seceda down to St Christina (with its SassLong World Cup downhill course and its famous "camel bumps") and on to Selva/Wolkenstein which is on the famous Sella Ronda circuit. There's also a frequent bus service linking Ortisei/St Ulrich, St Christina and Selva/Wolkenstein if you want to get a head start for doing the Sella Ronda, or don't fancy skiing back after completing the circuit. Madeye-Smiley

Edit: Ortisei/St Ulrich is also the easiest of the Val Gardena resorts to access from airports. You can either fly into Innsbruck or Verona. Terravision usually do transfers in the winter season from these airports to Ortisei, alternatively you can use http://www.viaggigardena.com/
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To give advice it would be nice to know a bit about your ski-abilities and the age of the male skier. However catered chalets a la France are rare to find in the Dolomites. I agree Ortisei/st. Ulrich is the most charming place, but at one end of the area.

If you are a ok skiesr consider a overnight stay at either Refuge Lagazuoi or for more luxury Refuge Averau, if you deside for Val Gardena.

http://www.rifugiolagazuoi.com/

http://www.dolomiti.org/dengl/Cortina/laga5torri/ospitalita/Averau/brochureAverauENGweb.pdf
http://www.dolomiti.org/dengl/Cortina/laga5torri/ospitalita/Averau/index.html
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We're both in our mid-30, advanced intermediate skiiers, prefer to stay on piste.
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So you can get around. For nice town Ortsei is best, can't comment on the food - but i see St. Hubertus in San Cassiano looks nice. However if you can do with one star there is one in Ortisei (Anna Stuben).

But it will not be like Saint Martin de Belleville, but he mountains are very nice around Sella!

For Cross country the best area is the Seiser Alm just south of Ortisei:

http://www.seiseralm.it/de/aktiv-winter/langlauf/langlauftickets.html

http://www.seiseralm.it/media/6210ca27-3c1e-4231-b799-f54e6eb7bcbe/10-seiseralm-groeden.pdf

The area is wast and a skisafari with overnight stay up in the mountains is worth trying.

This site tells about the area east off Sella (not everything works anymore)

http://www.altabadiaski.info/pages/mp.php?getpage=skitouren&se=E
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there is a good amount of Cross Country in San Cas (40k)

On the good eating side, read this article !

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/travel/snowandski/9815551/Skiing-Haute-cuisine-in-the-Italian-Dolomites.html
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