Val Gardena - Gröden - Community Reviews & Ratings

Sitting on the sella Ronda run , Val Gardena gives a great starting point, being able to access in both directions. A pretty town with easy access to near by resorts of Altia badia , colfossco and many others. The whole area is serviced by extensive ski lifts,nearly all are chair or cabin lifts,

Val garden Ortisei gives access to the sella ronda via Saint Cristina , a total route of approx 56km. Mostly blues and reds it can be skied in a day provided you don't get lost! We enjoyed and big range of runs including the Soches run into Saint Cristina, a fast black. Plenty of bars and eating spots across the mountain. We ate at the Gostner above Ortisei and would recommend this restaurant. Overall a great location as an alternative to the Alps.

Second visit to Selva. We really enjoyed the mix of skiing available and the sense of traveling around the Sella Ronda and the various offshoots from it. However, the Ronda is definitely more popular than before so some queues can form at pinch points. If you stay off the ronda there are plenty of great quiet runs. Expert skiers might find the lack of off piste options disappointing. Great food to be had in resort and on the mountain. Apres is limited to 3or 4 bars in the town but the atmosphere in those is great. Overall a great resort and would definitely go back.

The mountains are very beautiful - as in you cant help but stop and stare. The food is really good quality on the mountains and well priced. An Italian/German combination, reflective of the history of the area. There are lots of options in terms of restaurants. Coffee is excellent everywhere! The skiing was great, lots of variety, the trees make it more interesting visually. Im an intermediate and it was never boring. The hotel was really good, newly refurbished and everyone was very friendly and helpful. Its worthwhile having a car, purely about gives you more options. Make sure you have winter tyres. All the villages are charming in an Alpine way, beautiful to wander around. Cafes and shops are all worth a snoop. The lifts were well placed and worked well - many with heated seats! The piste maps and lift maps are a little confusing thoughbut it was a great holiday, I imagine fabulous in the summer as well.

Great resort with good lift connections into whole Sella Ronda ski area. Generally good pistes with wide range of skiing types. Few bottle necks to worry about. Great apres ski at Luislkeller and La Stua

Very nice area many tree lined runs extensive area to explore. Lively apres was great fun. Found the sellaronda circuit more busy than the other areas but still worth doing the green route is the easiest of the two.

Excellent large terrain. Great lift system.Lots of on slope restaurants.Great tree skiing and the sun gets into the valleys early in the morning.

Perfect weather. Great lift complex. Plenty of runs including the renowned Sellaronda. Lift queues negligible. Snow record is excellent. Some great ski hire options. Personally recommend the ski hire at Dantercëpies lift where you can also store skis at the end of the day. All round excellent resort.

Val Gardena is an excellent resort. It was recommended to us by a friend and has fully exceeded our expectations. I had not perviously skied in Italy before, or the Dolomites specifically. We were completely blown away by how beautiful the area is; the slopes, mountains, villages are all lovely. Food is very reasonable and very good quality, as are drinks. The full ski area is huge, and well serviced by an excellent system. But the area is massive, and its not all interlinked, so worth considering a car to maximise the use of the life pass. My only minor criticism is that the piste map and the the general sign posting of runs/lifts is not always clear - but certainly makes for an adventure!

It is a lovely town with many hotels/accommodation options, plenty of restaurants but reservation in advance is recommended as we spent an hour trying to find a restaurant for walk-in on a Thursday night. Ski wise I absolutely enjoyed sella Ronda with a lively apres ski right at the end of the journey. Sundays can get extremely busy on the slopes.Overall its great!

Quiet lifts, slopes reasonably busy, Sellaronda is great. Amazing food options. Chalet Soldanella looking after us well. Quite a lot of skis on and off for lifts!!

The slopes in the Dolomites are beautiful! The resort is so big that you could be there for a week and only do each slope once or twice (if you want to explore as much as possible). There is a huge range of different slope levels available. However, many blue runs around the Sellaronda are only accessible after doing a couple of small red slopes to reach them. There are plenty of places to eat and apres around the resort with frequent buses to transport you.

Overall good with friendly people and plenty of choices for accommodation and food restaurant. Terran was very good and varied.

The runs are the widest I have been too and long with the one going down from Seceda being 12 km. The views are incredible but getting to the top can be a bit of a pain with 2 cabins to take and quite long queues. However overall its worth it for me.

The resort was nice, slopes are pretty short but there are lots of them.It was very busy in over the holiday season.Restaurants are expensive and eating vegan on the slopes is quite difficult.It didnt snow all week I was there and they did not make much new snow either despite the cold so it got icy by day 4 of my trip.Service is nice but its very crowded and slow.

We stayed in the Monte Pana area above St. Christina in Val Gardena in early January 2025. Slopes were very quiet, the longest queue we had in 4 days of skiing was ten minutes for the underground funicular lift. The Monte Pana Sports Hotel was a real find, friendly staff, great food, comfy rooms and a huge heated boot room. Pistes were beautifully groomed, we were fortunate to get snowfall whilst we were there so managed to find fabulous linked blue and red runs throughout the resort, as well as testing but not too difficult blacks. the 8 'Legend' runs were well named, try to do as many as you can! Top mountain restaurant tip - Jimmi's Hut above Selva, superb lunch with great service.

I found the ski resort to be absolutely amazing for intermediate skiers and above. There is an abundance of slopes to keep the thrill going all week and I loved every moment on the slopes. The only issue is that there were only a handful of blue runs for beginners to learn on and this means it may not be the best resort for people who are learning to ski for the first time/people who arent confident on red runs.

Worth going for the Sella Ronda circuit, never bored as there's so much to do. Apres was lively and traditional - would love to go back

First time here and I loved so much! Recommend for everyone, from beginner to advanced level (black pistes arent really that hard though).

Great ski area for intermediates with fantastic, wide well groomed slopes. Typically beautiful Dolomites as a 360 background and a good lift systemonly crowded due to the time of year (New Year) but the slopes were generally not too crowded. Food and drinks (as always in Italy) of a good quality on the slopes and in town, by resort standards decent value for money too. Will definitely return!