The Skiers' Guide to Arabba Marmolada

Amazing mountain with modern lifts and great accommodations. The area is well designed and a nice variety of terrain!

Lovely resort on the Sella Ronda, so much skiing, great lifts, quiet slopes. Brilliant for intermediates and advanced. You can travel miles. Good food on the mountain. Very hard to beat. Apres ski on the quiet side but didnt really seek it out.

Arraba is a small village on the Sella Ronda loop. It is perfectly placed to access all areas of The Dolomitti Superski area which has about 1200km of pistes. The scenery in the Dolomites is absolutely stunning and unlike any other mountaine range due to its unique geology.The village is small and traditional and is certainly not a destination for anyone who prioritises partying. as to be expected all the hotels have bars but there are only a couple of separate bers and a few restaurants . There are two ski hire shops which both have a large range of upo to date equiptment.The pistes servrd by the lifts in Arabba are not suitable for beginners and this is reflected by the type of skier that visits the village.Every single piste is groomed to perfection every night and the snow making faculities are as good as anywhere. Just about everywhere is covered. It is hard to find anywhere as good for piste skiing. Having said that, it isn't a suitable destination if off piste skiing is your priority. The lift system is very modern and queues are rare apart from the occasional short wait at a couple of bottlenecks. The Sella Ronda is a circular route which goes from resort to resort and takes about half a day to complete. Skiers can tackle it in either a clockwise or anti clockwise direction. and it is possible to radiate off the loop to explore many other pistes before returning to the circuit.To conclude, Arabba is a fantastic resort for competent piste skiers who want to explore new runs every day clocking up huge mileage and who go on skiing holidays to ski and not to party.