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Pragelato - Via Lattea
 Poster: A snowHead
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Having a hell of a job finding accommodation over the New Year and have been offered the Club Med in Pragelato.

I've never been skiing in Italy. Does anyone know this area? It looks pretty good and as far as I can tell it is all linked together to give a huge amount of skiing.

We've previously skied in the three valleys and St Anton.

Any tips would be appreciated.
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I don't know it though I've skied much of the area - mostly off-piste. Looks like a small place right out on the edge of the total (stretched out) ski area with just a cable car access. I don't see a piste going back so you need to check there is one.
I know the French (Montgenevre) end which I love (and staying at Pragelato would be a big slog to get to - so you might never get there).
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We stayed there a few years ago in the olympic village just at the side of the cable car. It's linked quite well to the Milky Way, fabulous place to ski and one of our favorites.

There is one main cable car to and from the village to the main ski area (although it does have its own little hill on the opposite side of the valley) and as you start the day there is a 200m walk/skate to the first chair.

There is no way to ski down at the end of the day unless you know the secret cut through the trees, however looking down from the cable car you'll probably end up dead down a hole or eaten by a bear if you try it Laughing

Equipment hire and storage is about 30m away from the cable car.

Food, as with all of Italy is about 25% cheaper than other alpine nations.

Kids under a certain age get a free lift pass.

Dont bother forcing your way over to Montgenevre, there is more than enough skiing in Sestriere, Sauze and Sansicario.

A few pics:-

There is a snowmobile trek company that charge about 80e for a 90 minute taster. Get used to the sled on a small track then head up the valley to Sestriere.



Olympic village:-



Little feller under the chair in Sestirere:-



Top of the mens olympic piste in Sestriere:-



Random shot:-



This is taken just after getting off the cable car out of Pragelato.



Would I stay there again, maybe but I prefer Sauze.

Would I ski the Milky Way again, deffinatly!
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Seems like a big waste of ski time having to take the lift down.
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Seems like a big waste of ski time having to take the lift down.


Not really. There are plenty of good resorts where you take a cable car down. At the end of a long hard day, what's wrong with that? It looks a lovely area.
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snowball wrote:
Seems like a big waste of ski time having to take the lift down.


Do some people not read? You can't ski down.


Pragelato village was developed for the 2006 Turin winter olympics and the gondola linking it to the milky was was built afterwards.

There was talk in the bar that someone had overheard that their sisters brother in law had heard about a text message someone sent about a run might be cut into the forest down to the resort.
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pam w wrote:
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Seems like a big waste of ski time having to take the lift down.


Not really. There are plenty of good resorts where you take a cable car down. At the end of a long hard day, what's wrong with that? It looks a lovely area.

Where?
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Madesimo.
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homers double wrote:
snowball wrote:
Seems like a big waste of ski time having to take the lift down.


Do some people not read? You can't ski down.
Puzzled That's why I said it.
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If it's impossible to ski then it isn't a waste of ski time, its just a fact that you have to get the lift.

Last lift down (IIRC) was about 5pm so pretty late anyway.
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No, you could stay somewhere else that is actually in the ski area and then you wouldn't have to use the lift.
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Fair point but we paid less to stay in a 4* luxury appartment with hotel facilites, ie a swimming pool, food etc than a 3* hotel without so it suited us with a child who we could take swimming and mrs double could use the spa.

I'd say as a family holiday it was a decent pay off.

OP says he is having trouble with accomodation over the new year, I'd say its a reasonable sacrifice, 10 minutes on a lift each evening or no holiday... Hmmm.
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Oh well, 10 minutes isn't so bad. I was imagining twice that plus a wait.
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You know it makes sense.

Nah, its a short ride and the village makes it worthwhile.

The new stuff was built for the olympics so is all top notch accomodation.
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Hi homers, what was the 4* apartment you stayed in? Cheers
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 Poster: A snowHead
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Google calls it Hotel Kempinski, Pragelato Village but drop the Kempinski bit as it's just called Pragelato Village now.
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