THE 5 THINGS YOU NEED TO KNOW BEFORE RENTING AT Sestriere

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

Lots of ski area when fully open. Only downside was closing of a couple of major lifts even when there was good snow coverage. I can only assume there was a lock of staff to run them. Lifts were opened at the weekend when there were more skiers but closed again later in the week. I wonder if this was a economical decision or a staff problem. Luckily we were usually able to go over to Souzi Doux when the gondola was open. When it is fully open it is great. Sestriere seems a little limited in the number of restaurants and bars available, even though it was quite quiet when we were there.

Good staff and good knowledge in snow sports. I will book again if I come back to Sestriere

Friendly, knowledgeable and efficient. The gear was high-quality and well maintained. The renting process was quick and hassle free.

Great service for ski rental

Boots great but skis were poor (sufficient rating overall)… needed to upgrade to platinum before reasonable edge. Rest of my party had the same experience. Staff were pleasant and attentive, great boots.

Really good and friendly service, I was lucky and got new ski boots. The quality of the skis was great, no issues at all. Grazie Marcellin sport!