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Having spend quite a lot of time climbing in the Dolomites I notice that there are a lot of ski resorts there, though I have never actually skied there.
From my trips I have noticed that there are 3 really upmarket towns with lots of 4 and 5 star hotels: Cortina (Tofana, Cristallo and Soropis), San Martino di Castrozza (The Pala range) and Madonna di Campiglio (Brenta). Of these the most upmarket appears to be San Martino.
The question is has anyone skied there and what's it like? Judging by the amount of bad weather that hits the Pala it should have lots of good skiing.
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There are three or four separate areas at Cortina. I spent a couple of days in the Tofana sector a couple of years ago. Pretty good, but 2 days is plenty. There's a tasty black underneath Ra Valles, but otherwise it's all quite mild. Langazuio/Hidden Valley/Cinque Torri isn't far away, and that's worth a trip if you're in the area. The town of Cortina is lovely.
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@johnE, I've skiied MdC and it's absolutely first class in every respect. If you want specific info contact campiglio. He'll probably see your message anyway but otherwise you can do a quick search for his username. He runs a travel operation that specialises in MdC. I've travelled with his company and I can heartily recommend them.
AFAIK MdC overtook Cortina a while back as THE upmarket resort. No idea about SMdC.
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I've heard Ortesei is really upmarket too.
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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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Sorry, I wasn't clear. It is San Martino di Castrozza I was interested in. Lovely looking town, but it looks a fair trek to the lift in the morning or a bus up the valley.
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| foxtrotzulu wrote: |
| @johnE, I've skiied MdC and it's absolutely first class in every respect. |
Whereas I would beg to differ somewhat - ok so I've only skied there once and based from Folgarida but I would suggest the pistes are a bit samey (particularly around the pradalago sector), there's some really old lifts, piste maps by the lifts being out of date, hence the initial response by the carabineri to an accident was poor - for me that's not first class in every respect
JohnE Note that the brenta dolomites are on a separate lift pass to the 'dolomiti superski' on which both Cortina and SMdC are part of. Unfortunately I cannot help about SMdC as I haven't skied it - but a quick look at the map suggest that you'd could probably ski all the pistes in 2/3 days
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| madlondoner wrote: |
| I've heard Ortesei is really upmarket too. |
Old money with some nice (expensive) hotels. Ortisei has the feel of an authentic, affluent tyrolean town as opposed to Selva, which is more ski village. 
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I'm surprised you didn't think Cortina was that posh. When I was there previously, I hadn't seen so many real furs since Aspen. Beautiful town but I prefer other parts of the Dolomites for skiing and would give a +1 for Ortisei
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I was trying to avoid the Brenta is the Brenta, not the Dolomites discussion, but I suppose the lift pass forces that upon us.
Now I have looked at the piste map there doesn't appear that much piste skiing in San Martino di Castrozza. In fact there doesn't appear to be any pistes from the main lift up to Rosetta. There are some steep sections on the walk up.
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I guess it depends on what you mean by up-market; both San Cassiano and Corvara have hotel restaurants that are Michelin starred, and both have access to the huge Sella Ronda.
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I saw a pretty basic knitted beanie in a shop window in Corvara for 120€ 
Posh/stupid/a bit of both, who knows?
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I hadn't seen so many real furs since Aspen
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+1. My favourite window-shopping find was a very cool trench coat lined with mink. So vulgar to have it on the outside, don't you think? There was no price on it. Nor on the beautiful works of art, including some stunning carvings, in the shop next door.
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you'd could probably ski all the pistes in 2/3 days
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depends how much time you spend eating and shopping, I suppose, and ensuring you have a sufficiently beautiful outfit in which to be seen at the passegiata.  Che bello!
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