 Poster: A snowHead
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Can someone share their recent experience of Cervinia?
Do you need the more expensive ski pass to enjoy a day over to Zermatt?
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Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
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It's a big but relatively mellow ski area. Prone to weather at the top. Yes getting the international pass will cost significantly more. I guess the thinking is that with new gondola connections getting back from Zermatt is more secure (you always had to pay close attention to weather closures before as it's a very expensive cab ride to return) but I have no real experience of that and haven't followed closely.
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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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If you want to ski the more demanding skiing on the Zermatt side you are better off staying there.
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Can the OP please correct the spelling in the title it's doing my (OCD) head in
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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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@GrumpyM, If you are in Cervinia best to download the "Cervino Ski" App. Webcams, snow reports, weather forecast, slope and lift status, all in real time. Best to buy the Cervinia pass and upgrade to International pass when/if the link is open, don't expect the weather/wind to be kind every day, I was in Cervinia earlier this season and the possibility of skiing into Zermatt was 2 out of 6 days.
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Cervinia is great and, whilst the on piste skiing is more intermediate oriented there is some excellent off-piste if conditions allow.
You can buy an extension to your Cervinia pass ‘on spec’ if conditions are good and then ski over to Zermatt which, as others have noted, is a more extensive area and has more challenging skiing on average.
Food is as good as the more culinarily acclaimed Zermatt and about half the price.
What more to say; the village is quite small but has everything you really need.
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Check the prices of multi-day passes vs 1 day at a time. If you buy each day separately, you just buy an International pass if you wake up and decide to go to Zermatt. This is cheaper than paying for a local multi-day and then paying for an International add-on on top. It also means you don't pay for days when the weather prevents skiing at all.
It is perfectly possible to ski right to the far end of Zermatt and back in a day, with a leisurely lunch break.
Next season there should be a new cable car from the top of Zermatt to the top of Cervinia, but I don't think this will reduce the risk of weather closures. The constraint is the cable car and gondola to the top of Zermatt, which will close in high winds. There is a T-bar alternative, but they don't seem run them any more (perhaps for summer only?). Once you've got there, you ski down to the border, so having the alternative of a cable car to the border isn't going to make this last leg of the journey any more windproof.
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Agree with the comments above - i like the description of it being a mellow ski area, I think that fits well. The runs are wide, well maintained but feel a bit samey at times. We went in 2022, and it's a big area but we had a few mornings where the wind got up and the lifts were shut for a few hours, which is a bit frustrating when you just want to get out and ski. It didn't seem to affect other areas and some of our party had the same in the week before, so it felt like wind was a particular issue for Cervinia.
When the weather allowed we went over to Zermatt, and it's a more interesting and varied area, so that was the preference for skiing. However it's much more expensive so can see why people would prefer to stay in Cervinia and ski in Zermatt - if only weather wasn't such a pain at times!
I'd happily go back but in reality the wind issue probably put us off to a point that we'd look at other options first.
I liked the village - some good bars, a good vibe and some really nice restaurants.
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