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  Recap
of 10-Day escorted SKI group vacation
holiday trip to MOENA in
VAL DI FASSA
in the DOLOMITES In ITALY, for Seniors & 50's &
over,
February 29 to Monday
March 10, 2008.
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PRICE per person
$2895 Canadian
Double occupancy - $3095 Canadian
Single occupancy.
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INCLUDED:
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AIRFARE on
Alitalia direct flight from Toronto to Milan and return. |
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TAXES and
CHARGES - Airport, airline, fuel, hotels and
services. |
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All TRANSFERS
- Airport to and from hotels - Resort hotel to and from ski areas -
Resort hotel to Milan hotel. |
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Local Ski and Mountain
GUIDE. |
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RESORT HOTEL
with buffet BREAKFASTS and full course
DINNERS. |
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MILAN HOTEL
with buffet breakfast. |
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ESCORTED
from Toronto to ski resort, ski areas, Milan and return. |
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RECAP: |
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Departed for Italy Friday February 29th,
2008 at 7:00pm, after over an hour's delay for de-icing prior to take off,
but a strong tailwind helped the aircraft make up the lost time.
Arrived in Milan Italy Saturday morning
March 1st, 2008 then about 4 hours' on our private bus to the resort hotel.
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Stayed 7
nights in Moena, Val di Fassa
in the 3-Star Superior
Hotel Catinaccio
 Rosengarten (as good or even better than many Caribbean so-called 5-star's)
with indoor swimming pool, including buffet Breakfasts & Full Course
Italian Dinners. Saturday March 1st to Saturday March 8th.
Moena is a beautiful small Ladin town, ideally situated in the centre of Val di Fassa. Vigo
di Fassa, Pozza di Fassa and Canazei are a few km north and
Cavalese a few km south. |
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Val di Fassa in the
Dolomites in the Italian Alps in Europe
is Ed Pollock's favorite ski destination,
with more lifts and ski runs than in all North America.
And unlike in western North America, we were able to ski all the marked runs
even if there had not been much snowfall, because all of them have snowmaking and grooming
every
night, so we did not have to worry about snow conditions. |
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 There are more than 120 ski lifts around the valley: 8 cable cars, 7 gondolas, more than 50 chairlifts
(5-seaters, quads, triples and doubles) and more than 40 surface lifts. The resort altitude is 1300m, highest peak 3284m, longest run 6km and vertical drop 2060m.
There are more than 250km of marked downhill ski runs, nearly all with
snowmaking, rated 40% easiest (blue runs), 45% intermediate cruising (red runs)
and 15% more difficult (black runs).
Most of the lifts are the latest new
high-speed detachable quad chair lifts, many with bubbles, that have been
installed in the last few years, replacing the old surface lifts and double
chairs.
Many of the lifts also have moving carpets
at the loading area. Because the detachable high speed lifts get you
up the hill so much faster, so we skied more than 4,000m (as much as
15,000 ft.) of vertical each day, hardly ever skied the same run twice and
skied at a different area each day. |
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  SKI
SAFARI Ski Around to a different ski area every day for all six days.
PRIVATE BUS TRANSPORTATION from resort
hotel to and from DIFFERENT SKI AREAS every day for 6 days.
GUIDE & SKI
INSTRUCTOR Bruno Pederiva, local Certified Italian Ski instructor and Mountain
Guide, for 6 days, |
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You can click on thumbnails to see
details of each day's skiing at the 6 different ski areas the group skied
at. The maps and charts were obtained by entering the number
on the ski pass
on the
dolomitisuperski.com web site. If
you would like to see how this works, enter skitour pass number 311 99483 for
the dates we skied in the 2007/2008 winter season on the
web site ski performance check page. |
 Alpe Lusia Sunday, March 2nd 2008 |
 Latemar Monday March 3rd 2008
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 Buffaure
Tuesday, March 4 2008
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 Marmolada Wednesday March 5th 2008
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 Civetta Thursday March 6th 2008
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 Passo
San Pellegrino Friday March 7th 2008 |
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 PRIVATE
BUS TRANSFER - Left the resort hotel Saturday March 8th, 2008 at 10:00 am after
breakfast at the resort hotel. Arrived in Milan early in the afternoon.
In Milan the
group spent 2 nights in the
Best Western Hotel Cristoforo Colombo, an eclectic late 19th
century building located a short distance from the city centre,
at the beginning
of Corso Buenos Aires, one of the main shopping streets in Milan. |
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 2-NIGHT'S ACCOMMODATION IN MILAN
- Saturday March 8th, to Monday March 10th, 2008 in the 4-Star
Best Western Hotel Cristoforo Colombo,
with buffet breakfast Sunday morning and breakfast-box Monday morning and left at 6:30pm for Malpensa airport in Milan. |
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PRIVATE BUS TRANSFER
from Milan hotel to Milan Malpensa Airport. |
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AIRFARE on Alitalia direct flight from Milan
to to
Toronto.
Returned Monday, March 10, 2008,
from Milan Malpensa airport
at
10:00am and arrived back at Toronto Pearson Airport at 2:30pm,
after 9 days in Italy. |
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 ESCORTED
from Toronto to Italy, daily during stay & back to Milan and then back to
Toronto by Ed Pollock. This was Ed's fifth ski group trip to Val di Fassa, in addition to more than a
dozen previous ski trips to ski areas in the Alps. |
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Click
here if you would like more information on
Skiing in the Dolomites and
Val di Fassa.
You'll find links to other sites and especially check out
the inter-active area maps to find out
more about all the slopes, lifts and other facilities. If you do it early in the
day you can see
it live on the web-cams - (Italy is 6 hours ahead of us). |
