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Hey guys,
I was speaking to two of my italian friends asking them to recommend me a ski resort in Italy thats both good for snow conditions and night life, they both recommended cortina... what do you guys think? im thinking of a December trip... im not a beginner but i think i'll need further lessons to try red runs etc...
What was your overal experience of the place like?
Cheers
Hamed
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snow cover is a bit iffy in the Dolomites, especially that early. Cortina is a fun town, certainly, though some of the skiing is not too easy to get at - it's not one easily lift-linked area like many in France. I've only done a very little skiing there, but I enjoyed it. No experience of ski school, but I'm sure it would be fine, and fun. The mountain scenery is beautiful around the region - ours was not really a ski trip and we drove around the region for several days. I'd like to go back, but having bought an apartment in a small French resort we are not likely to be skiing much in Italy in the future.  Different attitude there. You enjoy the whole experience, especially eating, and parading through Cortina apres-ski with the ladies in the mink coats, and have fun. The Italians seemed to holiday as whole multi generational families (at least in the small hotel we stayed in) and all day blasting round the pistes is just not a priority. Not as important as cutting it in your finery on the "passegiata", anyway. With a party of friends, especially if some of them were Italian or spoke Italian, you'd have a ball. I had learnt a few bits of Italian from a BBC tape, before the trip, and despite only speaking a few words was hailed as a great linguist - it's a feel-good place. Not cheap; some of the shops in Cortina a hyper-expensive. Good window shopping though, fantastic clothes, works of art, cakes to die for. And the theatre of the apres ski fashion parade through the streets! We stayed in a very small family hotel some miles south of Cortina, as it was a busy period (March) and all the hotels in Cortina were full. I sent a desperate email to the Cortina ski school asking for recommendations and was put in touch with an amazing little family hotel where they spoke not one word of English and all the other guests were Italian. The proprietor was probably a cousin of one of the ski instructors. My most complicated sentence in spoken Italian, after the proprietor asked me how we had chosen his hotel, was "man in ski school says try this hotel!". Big smiles and laughs - we were their first English visitors. At least, I think that was what they said!
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I would go for Cortina - it's a fabulous place if you're not long off the nursery slopes. You'll have them mostly to yourself and the fur coats are not as all-pervasive as others would have you believe. It's quite inconvenient to get around, but that is compensated for by the many plus points.
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Welcome to snowHeads, robertsnerys 
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thanks guys for your responce  i think i might have to check it out now definatly soon... an idea came to my mind was to possibly take a week to see venice and then go there for a weekend to first get a feel of the place...
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hamed, I think I would do a weekend in Venice and a week in/around Cortina to get the feel for it  Cortina is as described but is only part of a wonderfully scenic part of the world. The Dolomites are just spectacular, apart from Cortina there are some great small areas to ski nearby ( Lagazoui and Cinque Torres for example ) also within strcking distance you have the Sella Ronda circuit and all its satellite resorts - of which I prefer Arabba.
Snow cover of the natural variety can be a problem but there is an awful lot of man made capability which does help.
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take a week to see venice and then go there for a weekend to first get a feel of the place
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good idea, it's a really easy drive
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Anyone got any thoughts about a good hotel to recommend? I like the idea of combining with a weekend in Venice.
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