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February 13, 2017
Nick King from
United Kingdom
Nick King from
United Kingdom
Skied here for a week. Was a nice resort having been to one Bulgarian before. The runs are many and wide with plenty to challenge beginners and intimidates. Also, there is access to three other areas. Town is not too interesting but the pubs etc are good for a few hours after the lifts close. They do night skiing on a Tuesday and Thursday on an easy blue so open to all. But watch out for the speeds, you don't want to stop in the middle of the run. Price wise I was happy. Beer was €4.50 for 400ml and wine was €4.50 for 500ml; happy hour in the pubs 16:30 to 17:30. Runs well cared for and short queues. Many empty or near empty. Would go again.
March 22, 2015
Ifat from
Israel
Ifat from
Israel
Visited site 28/2-7/3. Enjoyed it very much.
Safety: kids learned to ski and we felt 100% safe having slopes and lifts quite empty. Very easy and many blue slopes.
Snow was great. We had lots of it, but except one day when the sky was clear. When in fog can ski between trees.
Lifts are quite good the minute you learn how to "get up"; most of them have a bubble.
Lessons: the Italian guides are better, by far, than others we have met.
The site is quite small for good skiers. My advise is to pay an extra 30 Euro, in advance, to include Madonna di Campiglio site which is 1 hour away in the free ski bus.
To summarise, I recommend this resort. Have been to many ski resorts and for beginners this is maybe the best one. My husband claims this site is a bit small, but I don't mind.
March 26, 2014
Steve Martin from
United Kingdom
Steve Martin from
United Kingdom
22 Feb 2014. Back for our 5th visit to Hotel Dolomiti. Another great holiday. Never seen as much snow. Food and service fantastic and Stefano and all staff welcomed us and remembered us from last time (Feb 2008). Piste team did a great job coping with all the snow and providing ideal conditions for first visit after ACL surgery. Improvements, in resort, making ski lifts even closer to Dolomiti (less than 50m). Ski school great for intermediate improver lessons. A new activity, Snow(Go)karting (behind Miramonti) enjoyed by eldest son. Already looking to go back at Christmas.
February 23, 2014
Edward from
Israel
Edward from
Israel
I spent last week in Passo Tonale. Most of the slopes in poor condition. Some blue slopes are groomed, probably on behalf of ski schools, but red and black just neglected most of the week. During my 1 week stay black and red slopes were groomed just twice. All this made skiing hard labor instead of pleasure. My advise: stay away from this site.
February 24, 2013
graham stowell from
United Kingdom
graham stowell from
United Kingdom
Half-term week with a school party. We enjoyed good weather and the resort suited a mixed ability group well. Ponte di Legno runs are really good fun for the better skiers and very quiet for the time of year. Even the beginners got to the bottom of the glacier taking the easy ski road down. Spectacular views. Not too many snowboarders compared to other resorts. Good variety of runs and ski in/out a big plus.
February 02, 2013
Andy from
United Kingdom
Andy from
United Kingdom
We had a very good week, in mid-January, in Passo Tonale staying at Cielo Blu, with good snow. We were able to ski back to across the road from the hotel. The main area at Tonale is probably best for beginners, but the runs at either end, especially Contrabbandieri (36) and the long Alpina (20), are good red runs. Across the valley, the long descent from the top of the glacier down to Ponte di Legno is a classic, through very varied scenery and terrain and with a vertical drop of over 1700 m. The middle part is black but not too difficult. Ponte di Legno is mainly good reds and blacks through the trees and was very quiet. We went there most days. The blacks were also not too difficult. Our favourite run was down from the highest point on Angleo (15) followed by Corno d'Aola (14) . We had an area pass and went to Madonna, where it snowed most of the day - lovely skiing. The black Schumacher (25) is apparently 70%, but it is only very steep on the bottom section that you can see from the bottom of the Spinale Express.
With an area pass covering Madonna and Marilleva, as well as the skiing at Ponte di Legno and down from the glacier, I would say that Passo Tonale is a good resort for good intermediates looking for varied skiing. At Tonale, we would have liked some better interconnections between the pistes, to enable us to more easily traverse across the pistes going to and from Ponte di Legno. On the last day, we did manage to traverse across high up, partly off piste, and thus avoided finding our way across the beginner pistes and through fencing.
February 21, 2012
Mr Funktastic from
United Kingdom
Mr Funktastic from
United Kingdom
We have been to Tonale twice now and stayed in the Ademello, other hotels in the resort may be good but Ademello is great! Snow is always well groomed, lifts are quick and quiet runs are nice and open. The park is good for all abilities and there are enough harder runs to keep us boarders happy! Going again in 2013 and will be stopping at the Ademello again.
February 20, 2012
K Hurst from
Ireland
K Hurst from
Ireland
January 22, 2012
Carol Eckersley from
United Kingdom
Carol Eckersley from
United Kingdom
Just got back from Passo Tonale yesterday 21st Jan 2012. Had a fantastic ski holiday. Neilson reps were great! Hotel Orchidea was second to none. Lovely room, spotlessly clean, superb food. Ski hire easy and efficient. Good snow. What a wonderful package and to come home with nothing to complain about. 10/10 for everything!
January 06, 2012
D from
United Kingdom
D from
United Kingdom
Been three times to Tonale, I love it
I would class myslf as an advanced boarder, and I love the mix of riding parks, piste and free riding.
It's a good mix between pure alpine style mountain with no trees, but if you want you can get the looooooooooooong blue run to Ponte di Legno for tree lined runs.
I do think that if Tonale didn't have Ponte it wouldn't be as good.
They could open a few more areas by cutting some off-piste areas as these seem only to be accessible from the glacier, but then you end up with a 10 minute hike when you finish, if they took this into consideration the resort would be perfect.
Food is good, there is a fantastic pizza bar in the Mirimonte hotel that serves pizza quicker then Mcdonalds can make a burger, and sometime the reps have two for one offers at the welcome meeting, if you're in a group these can be vital for keeping to your budget, but in all honesty it's not expensive.
Happy Hour in the bar at the bottom of the main lift (the one nearest the ticket office) is good fun at 4:30 - 5:30 and gets quite busy.
Beer at this time is quite expensive with the euro being so shite, but if you nip to "de Spar" you can pic up a crate of beer for about 12 euro's, brilliant for the hotel room.
If you're hiring snowboard equipment from the travel company - would recommend that you don't. Get it from "6 punt 9" you'll get this years Burton boards and binding, with safety equipment for the same price as a budget board from the travel agents.
The pros and cons are:
Pro's:
Nice open slopes
Good connectivity with Ponte di Legno & Temu
Glacier
Lifts system
Quiet lifts
Hotels
Reps
Snow
Con's:
Nightlife
3 Hour transfer