 Poster: A snowHead
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I'm staying at hotel il caminetto which looks to be just outside Canazei for a week from 9th March. Really excited as I've never skied in Italy before but it also means I would love any hints or tips from more experienced snowheads.
In particular I'm looking at ski hire, normally I'm lazy and opt for delivery, does anyone have any experience with www.fassaskirentaldelivery.com or any other delivery company? Or alternatively some of our group have booked with La Zondra who I think are near the lifts, anyone used them before and are they any good?
Also does anyone have any recommendations for good piste-maps to get a sense of how the various areas link? I like to familiarise myself with key lifts before I visit a new resort, to avoid any 'trapped in wrong valley' situations but I think this area is so big that I'm struggling to take it all in.
Thanks in advance!
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Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
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I can't help with ski hire in Canazei.
For map familiarisation, use the 3D map on the superski website. https://www.dolomitisuperski.com/en/Live-info/Cartina-sciistica/Val-di-Fassa
From Canazei, the key lifts will be the SellaRonda both clockwise and anti-clockwise. They are well signed and colour coded.
There's loads you can do from Canazei:
- Marmaronda (Marmolada plus Sella Ronda).
- Day at Alta Badia with hidden valley or Santa Croce trip. Quite gentle but great for carving. Slope 27 from Sponata to the valley is great.
- Ski Panorama to Buffaure (ski the red and black in Pozza a couple of times).
- Ski Panorama to Buffaure and ski the Pera side.
- Grande Guerra tour both ways. I prefer clockwise as it is quieter. (requires a couple of buses but easy enough if you don't faff)
- Day at Arabba's reds and blacks.
- Day at Val Gardena - you can leave the area quite late
- Slope 2 of the Gardena 8 from Dantercepies right down to Ciampac hut is a great run with a great hut and views at the bottom. The final part is often very quite. There's an excellent restaurant close to there, Ciastel De Val.
- Slope 5 of the Gardena 8 from Piz Seteur is brilliant, usually very quite but a tad short. Hotel Sella just before the Piz Seteur serves the finest Bombardino in the world. An enormous glass mug of the best tasting gear.
- The Dantercepies run down from Panorama Bar is excellent.
- Slope 4 of the Gardena 8 and the parallel black at Monte Pana are worth a visit. Don't eat over there though.
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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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Thanks - that's really helpful (particularly the Bombardino recommendation as I'm looking forward to enjoying a few of those over the week)
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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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Thanks I'll check them out
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We stayed at il caminetto two years ago.if I was going again I would keep my skis with me. This gives you the option of 1) bus to Canazei 2) bus to Alba 3) bus to Campitello each morning. If your skis are in a locker in Canazei then that’s where you go each morning. I personally think the access at Alba is best (straight up to Belvedere -nice and high; or Pozza di Fassa), followed by Campitello (access Col de Rodella) followed by Canazei ( an access gondola then transfer to another to access the skiing). The hotel also has a shuttle bus to the slopes but we didn’t use it. Might be worth checking out.
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Thanks, good point re starting the day from other points
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| nogoodwillcomeofthis wrote: |
| Thanks, good point re starting the day from other points |
Yep, probably a better suggestion than mine (I was staying 5 mins walk to the Gondola station, so made sense to leave my skis there..)
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@nogoodwillcomeofthis, I used La Zondra a couple of years ago, found them very good, had a nice pair of Rossis, which were stolen/taken by mistake on the first day while I had a drink before down loading to Alba, I took the only pair of Rossis left on the stand which were same colour but lesser quality which were also hire skis, thinking they would get re patriated to the correct shop. La Zondra were great, they gave me another pair of skis and held on to the Rossis, they still hadn’t had any contact when I finished the week, but told me all was OK and not to worry. I kept my skis in my hotel ( Alba ).
It’s really easy to get around, the Sella routes are clearly marked Orange or Green plus the direction of the areas around it. I wouldn’t get too hung up on doing the Sella, use it to get to different areas and enjoy the skiing off the circuit as it will be less busy and slopes in better condition particularly later in the day.
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Thanks that's good to know, think I'll join the rest of my group at La Zondra
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Looking at options - there are various towns/villages in val di fassa - Pozza and Vigo - which are not linked to the main Sella Ronda. DO they have good bus links to Campitello?
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And love to help out and answer questions and of course, read each other's snow reports.
And love to help out and answer questions and of course, read each other's snow reports.
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@countryman, Fairly reasonable when I was there a few years ago (based in Pozza).
2 things to bear in mind: unlike other ski resorts you have to pay for the bus, although it was only something like 6 eur for the week we were there.
Secondly, the bus back from Canazei to Pozza at the end of the day got very full and I think only went every 30 minutes. It sounds like this may not affect you as you will be coming back the other way or can download from the SR straight to Campitello.
This is only the experience of one week in early March several years ago so things might have changed a little since then..
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Thanks very much - helpful as found a few options for a potential trip in a couple of weeks - as ever there are other factors impacting on whether I can take the time away
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You know it makes sense.
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9 euro for a week (make sure you are buying a Ski Bus Pass - other ones are available !) ; and yes, the ski bus covers the whole valley
Inspectors were very visibile in January
https://www.skibusvaldifassa.it/en/lines
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Otherwise you'll just go on seeing the one name:
Otherwise you'll just go on seeing the one name:
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@countryman, no issue with busses staying in Pozza on 3 occasions.
If you time your day well, you can always ski back even when doing Sella Ronda, cable car down to Alba and back up again and over to Pozza
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Poster: A snowHead
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My advice would be to stay in Selva next time. Val di Fassa is Val Gardena on the cheap. Everything is just a bit better in Selva. 
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Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
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This is a great thread, thank you everyone for adding I’ll be using the info from Saturday.
One further question, I’m going with my wife and 5-year old who are both first timers. Has anyone tried ski schools in Canazei they could recommend?
I’m going to try hire through Zondra given info above.
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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 are taking lessons it might be a good idea to hire from the same place ?
I hired my skis from https://www.scuolascicanazei.com/en/shop-and-rental/
Very efficient and top quality gear - they also do lessons (didn't use them, so cannot comment)
Based in Canazei and a 3-4 minute walk to gondola : beginners area is just behind the building over the river
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Following on from my query on recommendations for lessons, I arranged lessons with the Ski School Italiano Canazei and they’ve been wonderful so far. My wife, a terrified beginner, is already skiing blues on day 3 while my beginner 5 year old just had a day skiing reds. The teachers are pushing them on while not breaking their fragile confidence.
Completed the sella Ronda anti clockwise this morning, a nice tour but soft conditions at times were a real leg burner, worth a try if you’re here but piste skiing at higher altitude is top notch even into late afternoon.
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