Hotel Villaggio Olimpico

Features

Half board

This large, modern complex offers bright, spacious accommodation and a full range of dining, leisure and health facilities. our guests are housed in suites with a bedroom and separate lounge - spacious for couples, ideal for families. The complex is across the road from the Fraiteve high-speed gondola. The resort centre is 450m away.

Bedrooms: 287. All our suite rooms for 2-4 guests consist of 1 twin or double bedroom with a separate lounge with covertible sofa divan, satellite TV, fridge, telephone, table and chairs, and a large balcony or terrace. All also have shower and hairdryer.

Meals: Self-service breakfast. A 4-course dinner is taken in the self-service restaurant; guests help themselves to starters and main courses are served from hot stations. Once a week there is a pizza evening and once a week a Piedmontese meal is served.

Facilities: Lounge, bar, half board restaurant with pizza corner and a la carte restaurant; supermarket; lift; pool and fitness room included with the free Olympia Club Card; sauna, Turkish bath and other health and beauty facilities payable locally; free children’s mini-club (3-12yrs).

Special Attractions: • FREE cheese and wine tasting once a week • Exchange 1 dinner for open grill overlooking slopes once a week (weather permitting)

Official Rating: 4 stars

Sestriere Resort Info

Most probably the best resort in the Milky Way, Sestriere was the first purpose-built village in the Alps. It hosted the 1997 World Championships and ran many of the races at the 2006 Turin Olympic Games. Because it's at high altitude, there is top-class snow, supported by widespread snowmaking. All levels of skier should find something to sink their teeth into. There is steep terrain and off-piste for advanced skiers, great scope for intermediates and good facilities for beginners. This is all supported by a continually improving lift system, which only gets overloaded at weekends and on major holidays. Boarders will not find any territory of their own. And the Milky Way isn't the best for convenient access to all its disjointed parts.

The resort itself is not overly attractive, as opposed to the stunning scenery around, but it does have everything you need off-snow: plenty for non-skiers to do, a good range of restaurants, mainly hotel-based accommodation and up-tempo nightlife at the weekends, which caters to the Italian brigades up from Turin and Milan.

Overall, Sestriere is a surprisingly good value resort, considering its renown. It's also an excellent base for exploring the Milky Way, with its own all-ability pistes to satisfy everyone. Ignoring the less-than-heavenly architecture, this is one of the best Italian resorts.