Sestrière Reviews: 3.91/5 from 100+ Verified Skiers | Snomad
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Sestrière Reviews & Ratings

How Skiers Rate Sestrière

Overall Rating
3.91
Value for Money
4.15
Quiet Slopes
3.77
Après-Ski
3.47
Accommodation Options
4.12
Family Friendliness
4.28
Groomed Runs
4.28
Powder Zones
3.12
Tree Runs
3.34
Mogul Fields
2.66
Off-Piste
3.52
Snow Parks
2.43
Lift Efficiency
3.79
Eating Out
3.78
Ski School Quality
4.23
Beginners
4.50
Intermediates
3.90
Advanced
3.84
Experts
4.05
Snowboarders
4.25

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What Skiers Say About Sestrière

Sestrière attracts a wide range of skiers from beginners to experts, with reviewers frequently noting its connection to the wider Milky Way ski area including Sauze d'Oulx, Sansicario, and Montgenèvre in France. Intermediate and advanced skiers consistently praise the well-groomed pistes and variety of red runs, though several beginners found limited green runs and steep blues challenging. Value for money is repeatedly highlighted as excellent compared to French resorts, particularly for on-mountain food and lift passes. The main recurring complaint involves wind-related lift closures, especially the gondola link to Sauze d'Oulx, which can trap skiers in Sestrière and create queues. Reviewers consistently mention dated lift infrastructure with slow, older chairlifts, though most agree the piste quality compensates for this.

AI-generated summary based on verified skier reviews

  • value for money
  • well-groomed pistes
  • Milky Way connections
  • intermediate terrain
  • on-mountain dining
  • snow reliability
  • wind-affected lifts
  • dated lift infrastructure
  • limited beginner terrain
  • quiet après-ski
  • weather-dependent connections
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Large ski area with varied levels. Short transfer from Turin. On slope restaurants are mostly good value. Option to ski to France too.
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Excellent value for money. Very sunny report with easy access to neighbouring resorts. A wide range and of runs from beginner to advanced. Food wise is excellent with fantastic Italian choices from pizza to more exotic dishes. If youre looking for an alternative to expensive French resorts but still have an extensive range of runs, you cant go wrong here.
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We stayed in Hotel du Col half board. It is a buffet style restaurant with a variety of foods, all fine, nothing off the chart exciting, veggie options. Im lactose intolerant and they provided a choice of soy or almond milk on request. The evening meal comes with a half carafe of red or white wine included. Apres ski was crazy wild in GSK for the youth vote and The Igloo provides all day food/entertainment and good beer choices. There are a selection of small shops and a Carrefour as usual at these resorts.We didnt use ski rental or schools as we have our own/are experienced skiers. From Sestriere you can get across to France, across and down to other local areas, all with good ski areas. Weve stayed in Sestriere twice and would come back.
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Lots of accommodation options with ski in ski out options. We went in low season so not loads and loads of options for food but the food was amazing! Amazing value for money with so many run options with access to Sauze and even an option to ski into France. Overall amazing resort and good for intermediate to advanced skiers!
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Great week in Sestriere. We were lucky to have 2 nights of snow snow and the opportunity to ski on freshly powdered runs that has previously been groomed - epic!N.B. The Gargote Fashion Café offers some banging après ski!
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Good combination of beginner and intermediate friendly piests, fewer black runs but any open were well groomed. Unfortunately high winds traps you in sestriere and unable to get across to saulz d'oulx to explore as there is only one gondola which is weather dependent. If wanting to explore that side of the mountain worth staying in saulz d'oux. Restaurants were well priced on the mountain
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Good skiing just packed a bit of snow. We found quiter runs over near Sauze Doulx. Great variety of runs.
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Ive been here a couple times and would recommend to anyone. A variety of slopes for all skill sets! Lovely welcoming people, great hotels, great service and amazing food and drink.
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Went over Christmas so expected it to be busy. More runs and lifts opened on 27/12 and when the gondola opened so you could get over to sansicario there are a lot more pistes,lifts and a lot less people
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Visited Feb 2024. Snow was ok and the staff worked hard to keep as many runs open as possible. Watching the snow later on in the season it seems much better later so we have booked to go first week in March this year. Hotel was ok, staff friendly and helpful. No Tea/Coffee making facilities which I thought was poor but, travel kettle has sorted that issue. Other than that, nice resort and nice clean, friendly hotel. Hotel Du Col
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Very good resort thats very well connected to others int he area. If you enjoy exploring and going on trips between areas then its great. The last tango is a great dinner spot to try!
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Runs are predominantly red and black with the occasional blue which were quite advanced blues. Not ideal place for a beginner. Parks and extras were limited, people were generally friendly and lifts were good but not much going on here in terms of apre or other entertainment activities
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Sestriere was really goof as a whole. I spent my time there ate hotel principi de pie monte. The food was amazing and the beer wasn't too overpriced. Slopes and facilities were well upkept for December but food on the slopes was very costly
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Sestriere was a really well thought through, well run, and affordable resort. With nice wide but challenging reds it's a good place for an intermediate to improve.
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Sestriere is a great place to ski for all levels. You can even ski across to France. Aprés ski has a great selection, so overall a great resort
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Amazing ski resort with great ski instructors who teach you well and by a full week of skiing you feel you have preached a new level. Lovely slopes that are nice to ski on. The village is amazing and filled with fun people
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Having skied in Brovets for 10 years in a row, we decided to try Sestiere last year. Wow, just wow, the slopes were very well groomed, wide & very forgiving. The only downfall was the nightlife, this was non existent, but that didn't put us off for booking to go there again this year as there's so many slopes, we could not do that many of them (over 400km) Our hotel was ski in, ski out, which was amazing, as was the views from the hotel. Ski lifts are 50m & the Gondala only 150m from the hotel & the queues were short. On one of the days there, we took an excursion coach to Montenevre (think that's spelt right......lol) & managed to ski from France, back into Italy & back into France again to catch the coach back to Sestiere. Looking forward to our return to Sestiere on the 4th March 2025
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Hard to fully review as we didn't have great snow over new year. Due to limited snow half the runs were shut which made the the others really busy. Good links to other resorts helped though.
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Hotel Du Col great slope side location. Lift system quite old - slopes nice great variety, sadly not all open but it didnt spoil a good week.
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Huge resort and very well connected by lifts. Can do different runs every day for a week without needing to repeat. Can find new restaurants and bars every day. Ski pass very good value and gets you to montgenevre if you fancy a challenge getting there and back in a day. One of the best feelings to have a proper Italian pizza with a Mountain View.
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