THE 5 THINGS YOU NEED TO KNOW BEFORE RENTING AT Sestriere

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 busy and too many ski schools

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.

Nice varied resort, too busy at the weekend though

Much busy. But very nice place.

Excellent service, easy to book equipment on line, great store location, friendly helpful staff and the real bonus was having a complementary ski and boot store on the piste.

Excellent Service

Good friendly efficient service.

Staff were very friendly and helpful

Marcellin Sport couldn't have been more accomadating for my sister and I who were renting snowboards for a week. The ease of service really added to our holiday. Really friendly group of workers. 5 star out of 5!