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Fantastic

Pistes were all well maintained but signage/names & numbers not always clear however we soon got used to the layout. Mountain restaurants were excellent and surprisingly good value. There were a few chair lifts only open on a Sunday which seems a bit mean as we've bought a ski pass for the whole area. Link to Sauze d'Oulx was closed due to wind on 4 out of 7 days but could easily have been opened for half a day.

Much busy. But very nice place.

Nice varied resort, too busy at the weekend though

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.

Very friendly and helpful staff, gave advice about rented ski.

Alberto is so helpful!

Everything was very good. The equipment was not new, obviously, and with a fair amount of scratches but functionally sound and of high quality. Heated locker was also very nice except for one day when the heating failed/was turned off. This was fixed the next day after we notified the staff. Lastly, staff was professional and attentive. One thing though is that they initially offered us beginner level boots despite the fact that we booked intermediate/advanced.

Shops are a bit dated. Feels like a workshop. Great staff!

super helpful staff and i really liked my head skis and very cheap hire