The Skiers' Guide to Sestrière

Lovely resort for all especially when it’s all open. The whole vibe of the mountains and town is really cool and lots to choose from depending on where you want to spend your time. Also if you love coffee it’s so cheap!

Amazing quiet slopes, varied terrain. Definitely better for intermediate to advanced skiers than beginners, unless you are with a ski instructor. Easy to ski over to Mongenevre if advanced skier, if intermediate get a bus back. The Italians are really friendly, very helpful on the lifts if you have little kids. Food amazing on piste!

Former Olympic venue. Great lift infrastructure and plenty of well groomed pistes to ski. The town is purpose built and doesn't have the atmosphere of local towns like Sauze but the location and facilities are great.

Good resort option, not a beginner friendly ski area with limited blues and poor group ski schools (recommend you go private). Infrastructure is somewhat dated but they make do, the runs are good although not managed as well as in France. The food and drink options are phenomenal with great prices and great quality.

Fantastic resort, well suited for a big group of beginner/intermediate/expert skiers.

Lovely and quiet in January, still had plenty of fun - would definitely go back.

Lots of different areas to ski, so long as the weather allows the joining lifts to be open.
Husky experience was so much fun!

Everything was perfect!loved the panorama and quality to food and ski slopes
Nice food and nice environment

The connections to the rest of the Milky Way are somewhat cumbersome but there's just enough for a full week of skiing without having to hire a taxi or minivan to Montgenèvre.

Very good slopes, good conditions and amazing staff, highly recommend. Me and my friends had a great time with lessons and learned a lot

A nice resort and you get what you paid for but not at the top of my list of places I have been to. Many of the chairlifts do the job but are older and slow. Also many of the pistes are so narrow compared to other resorts - I would say not the easiest for beginners such as my Dad. We went in mid January and it was very quiet on the pistes but also quiet in the town where some restaurants were not open so eating out was limited. But apres at GFC is worth the visit!

Fantastic resort had the best time for my first ever snowboarding experience. Lessons were great and the people were lovely. 100% would return

Good resort for value for money. Great that it links up with the Milky Way, San Sicario is my fav area which links easily.

amazing! such a great resort and loved the access to 4 different resorts!! I did 5 mornings with the sestriere ski school and learned so much - felt so much more confident at the end of my trip on the slopes!

Great ski resort, will definitely be returning at some point in the future. We was unlucky with the snow but that is just how it goes. Can’t wait to go back

Whilst the runs were overall decent when groomed properly, I was a bit disappointed with the basics such as signposting and the map quality, we experienced a lot of barriers due to closed runs and therefore struggled to stick to our plan for each day. Also we couldn’t easily access a whole area (Sansicario) that was covered on our lift pass due to it only being accessible by a long, steep drag lift which is highly difficult for boarders

Good resort and would be a fab one for beginners as plenty of green and blue runs. Food was amazing quality and much better value than France, also not a huge amount of apres but the main apres bar (GFC) was the best I’ve been to. Just a bit disappointing that more slopes weren’t open however appreciate it does depend on the time of year you go. We also got 2 days to ski in France with our lift pass and it’s well worth doing!

We stayed 7 nights in Sestrière, and had 6 days skiing.

The gradient and width of pistes suited me as an intermediate skier but were quite challenging for the less experienced members of our group. It was technical.

We were a bit restricted in terms of open lifts and runs - early season. I could see there would be a lot more options when the wider Vialetta area received more snow.

I had a day out at Montgevevre down the road. Beautiful and suitable for all levels.

Great place perfect for group of lads. Town is great and full of options
Slopes and lifts are well mentained

We had a brilliant time on my brother in laws stag. We were there for the skiing above all else but the apres didn’t let down either. Loads of runs all open and because there’s two ski areas there is always somewhere new to go and you don’t get bored of the same runs all the time. Great snow and a brilliant atmosphere looks very family friendly resort as well so hoping to come back with the family another time. Brilliant place to ski.

Excellent resort for intermediate skiers. Beautiful food and restaurants. Lifts were incredibly busy at the weekends (to be expected) but no queues during the week. Lunch and a pint was very reasonable. People were very helpful. Overall excellent trip!