Sauze d'Oulx Reviews & Ratings

When weather is bad and links are shut to other resorts, Sauze terrain is very limited, however it does offer good tree skiing for free riders and good groomers for beginners and intermediates. It does however seriously lack advanced terrain on piste.

When the links are open (which is most of the time) the resort suddenly becomes significantly better. Sestriere offers lovely wide open groomers (which are often empty) and montgenvre offers some of the best alpine free ride terrain I have ever ski'd.

The town is great depending on what you're looking for. If you're after a boujee ski town with lots of fine dining then look elsewhere. Sauze is great for affordable family ran restaurants and bars with a nice Italian vibe. Perfect for people who go away mainly for the skiing and don't want to spend an arm and a leg on meals out.

To summarise, this resort is great for intermediate skiers and more advanced skiers who favour the off piste. If you get unlucky with weather then you will be limited for terrain, but otherwise the options are endless.

Definitely would recommend this resort, although you may be better off staying in sestriere as when the weather is bad, this resort has more options for skiing.

We arrived on the saturday and had a metre dump on the sunday, whcih is great.

The resprt took two days to open up, and even then not fully. The pistes were great when they opened. Apre was only really there on a couple of nights of the week.

The off-piste options looks great, and the connectors to other resorts let's you play about with a load of options.

Food was amazing and so were the locals, really friendly and helpful

Went to Sauze at the beginning of March 2024. We had the most snow id ever seen on the first day and only 2 lifts were able to open but once they were able to open all the runs/lifts conditions were excellent. Plenty of blues and reds for all abilities and some great spots for lunch and apres in Sportinia. Skiing in the other areas of the Vialattea was also good with wide blues. The nightlife is also lively get yourself to ghost bar for the silent disco on Friday night.

Mainly an intermediate place for those who like reds. Blues are narrow so overall not ideal for beginners. The village is lovely with quite a few nice places to eat and drink.

Love this place , skied here for years , runs re perfect for beginners or advanced , good people all around , the ski school is perfect and good snow most of the time

Great resort, really friendly and lots of places to eat and drink at reasonable prices!
Bit more of a party vibe going on than some other resorts.
Ski lifts and slopes can be closed often though, which is a bit of a downer, but doesn't effect overall experience!
Love it!

Sauze is known as a party place. Didnt particularly find the apres ski very lively but it really gets going in the evening. Plenty of live music and DJs. As youd expect in Italy the pizza is great. The local ski area is quite small and repetitive with some of the worst queues and bottlenecks Ive ever skied. There is no real way around this. Providing the weather allows the link then you can ski over to Sestriere which is an excellent ski area with runs and lifts that just flow without having to study the piste map too much. Be careful though as the lift back to Sauze stops very early in the afternoon. However if the winds are high or the weather bad then you are stuck in Sauze. Had some lovely quiet powdery runs though through the woods on a heavy snow day which made up for some of its other shortfalls. Overall a fun place and a fun combo for ski/partying but I dont think I could go back until they resolve the slow, limited chairlift issue.