Bardonecchia Ski Resort Guide
Bardonecchia Ski Resort Guide
Bardonecchia is a sizable town with a pretty good sized ski area. Bardonecchia would make an ideal base from which to explore the surrounding French and Italian resorts. For this you would need a car. The resort offers 140 km of pistes that should amuse the beginner-intermediates but the experts will find the terrain a bit dull. The lift system may be a bit old, a common problem with Italian resorts, but Bardonecchia is quiet in the week so there are rarely any queues. At the weekend there is an influx of skiers from Turin and the resort can become crowded. Off the piste, the town of Bardonecchia lacks the charm of many alpine resorts, but it was primarily a transport town in the past. There are some excellent hotels and the nightlife is more sip than slurp which is not always a bad thing!
Resorts close to Bardonecchia include:
Valfrejus (11 km),
La Norma (13 km),
Sauze d'Oulx (Via Lattea) (14 km),
Bramans (16 km),
Cesana Torinese (Via Lattea) (16 km),
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(Also see our detailed Weather Map around Bardonecchia, which will give you visual overview of current and future snow conditions)
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Trails (Pistes): 41 |
Halfpipes: 1 |
| Summit: 2750 m |
Toplift: m |
| Beg: 30% Int: 50% Adv: 20% |
Terrain Parks: 1 |
| Vertical Drop: 1438 m |
X-Country: 13 km |
| Lifts: 20 (7 chair lifts, 12 surface lifts) |
Snowmaking: 30% |
| Gondolas / Cable Cars: 1 |
Slopeside accommodation: Y |
| Restaurants: 30 |
Acres of ski: 140 |
| Bars: - |
Nearest Airport: Turin |
| Nearest Train: Bardonecchia |
Tourist Info Phone:: +3912299855,
Bardonecchia Tourist Office Website |
Visitor Reviews of Bardonecchia
Trevor Robinson from United Kingdom writes:
I went to Bardonnecchia 8/1/12 and stayed at the Hotel La Quiete. The the hotel was fabulous. It was basic, traditional and very comfy. The food was immense and excellent for a so called 2* hotel, every night we were stuffed! The hotel was in an ideal position for the ski areas as it was only a couple minutes walk to the main Campo Smith lifts and to the bus stop if you wanted to go the Jafferau area. The week that we were there the weather was far too warm and blazing sunshine all week which in the end took it's toll on the quality of snow at the Campo Smith area so we spent most of our time up the Jafferau which was a short bus ride to the gondola and took you higher up where the snow quality and skiing was far better. The down side of this area is the lift system which is old and desperate in need of investment in upgrading it. It has a fair few drags and two 2man chairlifts which are very harsh. The first one you use at the top of the gondola is the "Vinne Jones" of chairlifts, it's fast and takes you out from behind when you're not expecting it for the first couple of times and it's not padded. The other 2man is padded but is just as fast and brutal, a couple of goes and you are used to it. The night life is very low key to non existent and there are no cheap places to eat or drink, no happy hours, but all in all I would go back there and especially to the Hotel La Quiete and to see what it's like with really good snow.
2012-01-31 |
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- Season opens: 8 Dec 2011
- Season closes: 15 Apr 2012
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