Bardonecchia, Italy

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Bardonecchia summary

Bardonecchia is a sizable town with a pretty good sized ski area. Bardonecchia would make an ideal base from which to explore the surrounding French and Italian resorts. For this you would need a car. The resort offers 140 km of pistes that should amuse the beginner-intermediates but the experts will find the terrain a bit dull. The lift system may be a bit old, a common problem with Italian resorts, but Bardonecchia is quiet in the week so there are rarely any queues. At the weekend there is an influx of skiers from Turin and the resort can become crowded. Off the piste, the town of Bardonecchia lacks the charm of many alpine resorts, but it was primarily a transport town in the past. There are some excellent hotels and the nightlife is more sip than slurp which is not always a bad thing!

Resorts close to Bardonecchia include: Serre Chevalier (14 km), Les Karellis (15 km), Valfrejus (15 km), Valmeinier (15 km), Valloire (16 km),

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	Trails (Pistes): 41	Halfpipes: 1
	Summit: 2750 m	Toplift: m
	Beg: 30% Int: 50% Adv: 20%	Terrain Parks: 1
	Vertical Drop: 1438 m	X-Country: 13 km
	Lifts: 20 (7 chair lifts, 12 surface lifts)	Snowmaking: 30%
	Gondolas / Cable Cars: 1	Slopeside accom.: Y
	Restaurants: 30	Acres of ski: 140
	Bars: -	Nearest Airport: Turin
	Nearest Train: Bardonecchia	Info phone: +3912299855 \| Bardonecchia Resort Info Website

Visitor Reviews of Bardonecchia

Nigel Cooper from UNITED KINGDOM writes:

Good value resort for beginners/intermediates.
Went 27/1/2008, stayed at Rive Campo Smith Apartments. Has a great time. Last week of low season so great value (£1250 for family of 4 incl flight, tuition, lift pass and kit - Thomson, booked November).
Apartments: Great location on slope next to ski school. Clean and comfortable. Great views of slopes. Excellent 5* restaurant on site but v.expensive. 15 minutes walk to nearest SPAR type shop! But on free ski bus route. However, most shops only open at 4pm and bus stops at 5:45, so plan your shopping. Apts have lockers on site. English style pub opposite apts with good restaurant and ambience.

Resort: Smallish resort, v. quiet in low season (dead at night generally), but looked like it would get very busy in high season. Not particularly pretty, but not ugly either, and relatively quiet/traffic free during week. Carnival on Saturday night with excellent fireworks and fancy dress candlelit descent - do not miss! Good raclette meals (melt your own cheese at the table) a speciality.
Skiing: Good number of blue and red pistes, uncrowded during week, but busy at w/e when locals arrive. Nothing much for experts. Nice picturesque wooded runs on generally wide pistes. No snow while we were there and warm, so it got icy, but the runs are high enough so that they're not too bad. Plenty of cannons to help as well. Good friendly ski school, excellent for kids, good English, and technically excellent, but most don't have conversational English, so can sometimes get confused when you ask them questions. Blue slopes are STEEP for blues and can be tricky in comparison to other resorts, especially if icy. Lifts are good and appear to have been modernised since 2006 Olympics. 2 4-man chairs take you to the top of the Mt Colomion, or 1 in Melezet.

Location: 1.5 hours from Turin and no hairpin roads - access straight from the motorway. Turin airport too small for the amount of traffic, so long check-in/security queues (2.5 hours just queueing on Sunday am), but clean and modern. Well connected to local area for sight-seeing by train/car to Turin etc.

Summary: We had a good time there, the kids loved it, great value off-season, we'll be booking again for next year.

2008-02-06

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Season opens: 2006-12-01
Season closes: 2007-05-01

What’s new
Since winter 2005/2006
• Bardonecchia is The Olympic Site for Snowboard and for
The Olympic Village (Olympic Winter Games Torino 2006)
• Bardonecchia is The Site of the University Winter Games
2007 (Alpine Ski and Snowboard)
• Happy Birthday Bardonecchia: 100 years of Ski (the ski
born in Bardonecchia hundred years ago!)
• Snowboard Olympic Venue. Half pipe and piste for PGS
• New and extended pistes running from the arrival point of
the chairlift
• Increase the snow making facilities

17/27 jan 2007
• University Winter Games (Universiadi Torino 2007). Alpine
Skiing and Snowboard (SBX, PGS, HP)
February
• 2/3 – Snowboard World Cup (PGS and HP)
• Ice Sculture
March / April
• Lu Merce d’Oc (local tradition)

Information supplied 2006-12-05 14:37:58 UTC