 Poster: A snowHead
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I'm thinking of going to go to Arabba again late january for a week. The hope is that my partner, a virtual beginner, could then come out the following week to one of the other resorts in the region more suited to a learner skier where I could join her for a second week ( the sacrifices!) . Can anyone suggest which of the resorts might be suitable for both of us, & any recommendation for modestly priced accommodation or good t/o's for the resort would also be welcome.
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Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
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If I was taking a virtual biginner to the Sella/Ronda area i would go to Colfosco. It has a huge nursery slope with a nice blue run into the village which starts up the mountain at about 2000m. There are a couple of red runs and a very easy black run just above the village if you want to be around.
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Agree with Riverman, but you could go to Covara, swift access to the Colfosco slopes and can strongly recommend Colletts catered chalets in Covara.
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riverman, Ian Kenvyn, thanks both, will look into both colfosco & corvara more deeply now - have either of you been there di y ? if so which is the best airport to fly into ( venice ? innsbruck ?) & what are the transfers like ?
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nickH, As Ian Kenvyn, said Colletts run catered chalets into Corvara, they provide transfers from Venice , Treviso and Insbruck. You arrange your flights. There other people who post on here with good knowledge of transfers from Venice. I have been with Colletts 4 or 5 times and would back up the recmmendation given by Ian Kenvyn,
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nickH, We were at Chalet Verena with Colletts this season (Corvara). Highly recommended and very easy access to Colfosco by chair lift. Colletts transfer from Venice is abut 3 hours
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holidayloverxx, Hi . thanks for that, have just had a quick look at the colletts site - v. interesting, though as yet EJ aren't showing bristol - venice flights for feb, though I could get an innsbruck on a sunday - perhaps I'll ask if they do transfers from there as well.
see you got your apartment - congratulations
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bit premature - still with the lawyer - should have completed last week  so will have to go out again.
Colletts book up early so be ready!
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nickH, Idont think there are any Bristol-Venice flights this year, there were none last year. Collets do Sunday transfers from Insbruck.
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nickH, Innsbruck is probably closer than Venice.
You might also consider the Kronplatz area - unusually, most of the beginner slopes are at the top of the mountain there, so gives much more "mountain experience" for a beginner. There is no dierct link into the Sella Ronda from there, although there are ski buses which connect from the far end of the ski area up to the Alta Badia area if you are desparate to get back into the Sella Ronda.
Transfers from Innsbruck should be quite easy for there (it is the airport used by Neilsen for their packages to Kronplatz).
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holidayloverxx, thanks for the advice about the early booking. hope the completion goes smoothly
riverman, thats good news as Innsbruck is v. convenient for me - thanks for that, saves me asking them the question.
alex_heney, will look into Kronplatz also. I was primarily considering the sella ronda as I'll probably be in arabba the first week & am looking for a suitable resort that I could fairly easily get to from there for the week my partner comes over - any on the ronda circuit I could probably get to skiing there with my backpack if I had to. Experience has shown that getting around by public transport can take forever. Last year I had a week in arabba followed by a week in Maria Alm with my partner. Though no great distance as the crow flies the quickest way was to leave Arabba first thing in the morning with a transfer coach to venice, then an OBB coach to the austrian border, then train and finally taxi, arriving at Maria Alm about 7.oopm ! I'm hoping to avoid the same palaver this year
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And love to help out and answer questions and of course, read each other's snow reports.
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nickH, There is a local bus service from Arabba to Corvara takes about 20 /30 mins
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nickH, also the Colletts venice transfer goes to arabba then onto corvara - you might be able to hook up with that if you book with them
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You know it makes sense.
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riverman, thats great news - makes corvara the front runner so far, time for some more research...
cheers
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Otherwise you'll just go on seeing the one name:
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holidayloverxx, that might work well, now to see if I can sell the whole idea to the OH...
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Poster: A snowHead
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www.mountainsunltd.com/chalet/albergo-frohsinn
Fantastic resort with chalet on the piste - long crusy blue and alternative challenging red run back to the chalet. Easy access to Corvara, Arraba, Hidden Valley, etc. fantastic ski schools ...
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Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
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nickH, Linds and eeyore went to Joanne Mountainsun's place last season and loved it.
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Well, the person's real but it's just a made up name, see?
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San Cassiano has one wonderfull blue slope, from the top of the gondola to the botoom...
however there are not so many red-black slopes around, and generally Alta Badia has MANY flat points....good for novice, but very bad for snowboarders....
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Joanne Mountainsun& holidayloverxx, , yup, am tempted, but how close is the ski school & how easy is the blue for a virtual beginner ( well can snowplough ok but is cautious ) first thing in the morning ?
turms, hoping for a mix of slopes, though a choice of easy ones is priority for the OH as I'll hopefully have had a week before on the more challenging stuff around Arabba. Not worried about the flat - both skiers !!
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Anyway, snowHeads is much more fun if you do.
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well...there are not only blue slopes of course.
Also from Alta Badia its possible to go to Arraba via skiing....if you are good, its piece of cake
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nickH, The ski school is next door to the chalet and the meeting point is at the top of the gondola outside the chalet. The blue is very long and perfect for beginner snowploughers - it has a fairly steep drop in at the top which can be avoided by approaching from the nursery slope via the sledge run. Anyone not confident enough for the long blue home can use the nursery slope and take the gondola home.
turms, Fantastic for snowboarders these days with a brilliant park on the left hand side of red 23. Really not many flats at all, except for blue 7, which can be avoided. In Alta Badia itself there are several challenging red and blacks including the Gran Risa into La Villa (world cup run) and Valon at the top of Corvara which leads on to the very long la villa red making it an extremely long seep run. The red down to the chalet is also pretty challenging. Plus Arraba is very easily accessed from San Cass via Prolongia II then Curtz - or via Corvara, with some very enjoyable skiing (including fab off piste on a powder day) on the way. An advance skier can be in Arabba in less than 30 mins ... the Dolomiti Superski area is almost limitless for the more advanced, even if Alta Badia itself doesn't enjoy masses of black runs.
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Kronplatz is also very good for beginners. I remember we went there because the piste maps seemed more beginner friendly than the other dolomite resorts.
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