Pragelato 16th Jan

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I have booked my first trip of the season and getting excited.
We went for a quick practice this morning at Chill Factor in Manchester, came out and then booked a very good deal to Italy with the very helpful Crystal staff who were in the loby.
My girlfriend and I are staying at the Pragelato Village Resort and Spa (sounds very grand)

Is anyone else staying there that week?
Would anyone like to meet up to ski with us? (both mid 30's, me Ski hard all day, on and off piste, OH enjoys more relaxed skiing on piste to enjoy the holiday)
Anyone fancy a day hard core off piste?
Does anyone know about buses to Sestriere? Can we jump on an early bus to get up to big cable car to get over to Saux d'oux without it taking all day. Is there buses back later in evening if we stay for some light apres in Sestriere.

Any help advice on the area will of course be greatly received.

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They have just started to run a free night bus that links all the resorts in the milky way throughout the night not sure of the full details but if you go on the milky way website I am sure the details will be there.

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Hi, just back from a week at Pregelato Spa Resort so I'll try to provide some info. There are both free resort buses as well as the public buses running the 15 minutes from Pregelata to Sestriere on a regular basis, I'm sorry but dont know the exact times but they do run pretty much all day, and into the evening. However I still think that the best way to get over to Sd'O will be to get first gondola from the resort at Pregelato (goes from just opposite reception) which takes you direct to mid level of slopes above Sestriere. You can ski down then take a chair to centre of front of town then short poll across to gondola up to Sd'O. Coming back you just need to be at top of Sd'O gondola by aboiut 3-30 to get down to Sestriere then up a chair, across and up again to catch the last pregelato gondola at 4-40.
The Spa resort was very nice with the accomodation being the best part, very spacious new and clean. TV (only English Channel was Bloomberg TV) and DVD in every room and free wi-fi in every room (although it was down for 3 days of our stay). If you are with Crystal I think they only do half board so you will need to manage the evening meal which was the only let down for us. My view was that with 2 kids 10 and 14 after a days skiing all we wanted was a good wholesome meal before crashing out in chalet. However at Spa resort the evening meal is a formal 6 course dinner served starting at 7-30 and which with the slow service can take up to 2 hours to get through. Food was small portions of cold meats and main courses of horse, venison and deer. After 3 nights of this we gave up and ate every night at the excellent pizza restaurant some 100 yards out of the resort gate (opens at 6-15 by 7 there are queues out the door but well worth the wait). Breakfast was a typical buffet meal which we all enjoyed.
Skiing, which of course is the most important bit was great. It was our first time at Milky Way and we all thoroughly enjoyed it. We did have good weather, apart from the day we went to Montgenevre, and conditions on all runs were pretty good, although they could do with some fresh snow.
Please send me a PM if you have any specific questions I could help on.

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Thank you very much, I can't wait

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Pragelato 16th Jan

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