THE 5 THINGS YOU NEED TO KNOW BEFORE RENTING AT Sestriere

Sestriere was a lively resort . It was one of the busier weeks of the year that we went but still managed to find parking. (Provided you arrive early enough) Good variety of pistes and links to other ski resorts.

There are excellent, primarily wide slopes, few people in even week 7, but expensive foods in the mountains. Lifts could be newer and faster. It is great being able to go to many other valleys.

I think there is a lot to be improved. It feels like the entire Via Lattea is stuck in the past, proud to have hosted an Olympic Games that happened almost 20 years ago. The entire resort got complacent. It is sad, quite frankly. All the people who work there, including you, should take a trip to Vail, Aspen or Winter Park in Colorado and see how much you need to improve. The pistes have very little signs in quantity and the size of the signs are small, when you can find one. So you find yourself many times not knowing where you are going in piste forks/instersections. The colors of pistes are not indicative of the level of the piste. There are dozens of red pistes and some reds can be much harder than others reds. Also, many pistes had almost zero snow, just ice or not even. You could actually see the stones the dirt or grass in some parts of some pistes. It is extremelly dangerous to ski in these conditions. These pistes should be CLOSED. Also, there was not enough ski workers from Via Lattea patrolling the pistes, which is very dangerous in case a tourist or anyone gets into an accident and there is no one to rescue them. The Via Lattea map has symbols that have no legend. That just shows how your resort got complacente. That is a rookie mistake. You can do better than this. This is a basic thing. If you want to stay in business and stay relevant, get your Via Lattea map right. Make it easy for people who have never seen it to be able to read it easily. Queuing could be improved. You could make individual queues, like in the USA. The infrasctructure in Sestriere was ok. Almost all restaurants were extremely expensive, except for Adam’s Kebab, which was almost always full of people. It is obvious why. They offered a lot of food for a fair price, even though they treat their customers in a very, very rude way. But they can do that, because they have no competition.

Great ski area

Helpful peple awryware we go

When we arrived at the rental shop they had our details ready and really efficient in setting our ski equipment up so that we could head out on to the slopes. Very friendly and helpful staff. Ski equipment was of good quality, although some of our skis didn’t have sharp enough edges, but they sorted this on the spot when requested.

I rented skis, boots and lockers for 49 people over 2 weeks. The team at Marcellin rent were superb. They are friendly and knowledgeable, this was the fastest and most efficient I have ever seen a group receive their equipment. Nothing was to much trouble. We stored the equipment in the shop each day and never had any problems. Than you

Amazing service staff were so friendly and helpful. Got all the equipment sorted quickly and professionally. Equipment was excellent quality and in very good condition had no issues whatsoever.. really helpful in explaining what skis would be more suitable and gave good advice on this. Definitely recommend.

The shop is excellent most if not all equipment was brand new and at reasonable prices

Friendly & efficient service. We used the shop directly on the slopes which was perfect for storing at the end of each day.