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Voted 15th out of 19 reviewed ski resorts in Italy
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Good skiing, quiet village
Reviewed 1 Jun 2016
We were very fortunate to have perfect weather – there had been an enormous dump of snow the week before, leaving fresh snow at the beginning of the holiday. Then we had blue skies and sunshine every day. There is lots of skiing but the only downside is that Champoluc itself isn’t particularly exciting and could have done with some more apres ski.
Champoluc ski area
Reviewed 13 May 2016
If the snow is good, I would say that it’s a good resort for intermediate and advanced skiers.
Off piste paradise with snow, a quarry without
Reviewed 22 Apr 2016
Champoluc is somewhere you go for the off piste skiing, not for the scenery – it’s not like the Dolomites which are very pretty. We are experienced skiers and the off piste was the reason we came here. Usually Champoluc is Off Piste Paradise but when we stayed there was very little snow and conditions were a bit scratchy. While we’d booked two weeks we ended up coming back after a week. We’ve skied all over the world and it’s always pot luck with snow conditions!
We skied the pistes for 4-5 days and they did a good job with snow cannons. For a lot of people it would have been absolutely fine but the off piste was like skiing in a quarry. The village itself is very, very quiet. We found it a bit weird, not unfriendly but not like other places we’ve skied. I definitely wouldn’t recommend it to non-skiers as other than a few shops there isn’t much to do.
Snowboarding in Champ
Reviewed 12 Oct 2015
The backdrop of the Monterosa Massif alone’s enough to make the pulse quicken, and with more than 10 peaks breaking the 4000m boundary, this area’s one of the world’s best for heli-boarding. There’s plenty of powder to ride if you don’t have a chopper, too: the ski area alone covers 3 valleys, and I can’t get enough of the middle one at Indren. Served by the Passo dei Salati-Indren gondola, there’s one marked route, and you can carve your own way down on the rest. Moving onto 180km of inter-connected pistes, the area is mostly red with some cracking runs from Gabiet-Passo Dei Salati, like Salati, a steep, testing red and Olen, a groomed black. Of the red runs closer to home, testing Sarezza-Contenery is not to be missed, and the Del Bosco is a thrilling descent into town.
A very pleasant hotel
Reviewed 8 May 2014
We had a good holiday; Champoluc is a fairly quiet place but it’s a nice place to be and the whole thing suited us fine. The hotel is right next to the ski lift so you can basically hop over the fence and get into the lift. We had half board and the food was very nice, we got a free bottle of wine every night and the cheese board was very good too.
Pleasantly surprised by size/variety
Reviewed 26 Sep 2013
A fantastic small resort in Italy, we turned up being relatively experienced skiers and expecting to get bored towards the end of the week. We were pleasantly surprised however, and managed to be kept busy exploring for all 6 days of skiing. You can ski the whole way from top to bottom of the mountain, a run for any budding speedster. As for après, we were very happy in the bar Pachamama for 3 crazy nights of the week, taking the interceding nights gently for recovery. However, there’s not a whole lot of après aside from this, so if you’re looking for a quieter holiday, Champoluc is definitely the way to go.
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