We've been to Sestriere in 2009 and 2011, stayed in Hotel du Col, very nice , clean, hotel and the food is excellent, plenty of choice and the desserts at the evening meal are especially good. The position of the hotel at the bottom of the slopes is good too, as there is no walking to lifts of catching buses. in fact we like the hotel and resort so much we are going again next year and taking our 13 year old grandson. We are skiers, and have ;been skiing for about 8-9 years, not expert but for us Sestriere suits us, as there are some good runs, not too challenging and it is posible to go to other resorts, as we did in 2011, we took a coach trip to Montgenevre , the skiing there is really good, some runs quite long, even though we had been told it wasn't worth going to as it was too easy. So in 2012 we went there for a week, as I said we enjoyed the skiing, we stayed in a new hotel, which was very good, but the food certainly did not compare with the food in Hotel du Col.