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Folgaria - Post Hotel - Alpe Cimbra
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The Setting
You will get many WOW experiences. Words like “spectacular & breathtaking view”, “amazing & unforgettable landscape” will be used a lot during your holiday. The Dolomites are the perfect setting for a ski holiday. Here, UNESCO-protected landscapes combine with a sunny climate and immaculate pistes to create one of the world’s most beautiful and enjoyable ski regions. Meanwhile, state-of-the-art snowmaking systems ensure the slopes are fast and fun, whatever the weather.
The Accommodation
Folgaria Post Hotel is an elegant 4-star hotel in the very centre of Costa di Folgaria, offering a relaxed base for a ski holiday with excellent comfort and freedom built in. Its intimate size gives it a calm, boutique feel, while its location on the main piazza puts you right in the heart of the resort.
The ski lifts are a short walk away, with easy access to ski hire and storage, so getting on and off the slopes is quick and straightforward. After skiing, the hotel’s extensive wellness facilities make it one of the most relaxing places to stay in Folgaria.
The hotel's spa is unusually complete, featuring a heated indoor pool with counter-current swimming, Finnish sauna, bio-sauna, infrared sauna, Turkish bath, Kneipp path and whirlpool, as well as outdoor garden saunas and a wood-heated hot tub. It is a genuine recovery and relaxation space, ideal for adult skiers who want to feel good for the next day on the mountain.
The hotel is offered on a bed & breakfast basis, with a generous buffet breakfast including homemade sweet and savoury options. In the evenings, guests are free to enjoy Folgaria’s excellent range of restaurants, pizzerias and wine bars, all just steps from the hotel, with several offering special rates for Post Hotel guests.
For skiers who want a central location, high-quality wellness facilities and the freedom to enjoy Folgaria’s lively food scene, Folgaria Post Hotel is a fantastic choice.
The Skiing
Only 95km or about 90 minutes from Verona airport, Folgaria is a mid-sized resort in the Trentino region of northern Italy that has a reputation for being in a snow pocket. It also has impeccable ski history credentials, as the first ski lift in Italy was built here, in the 1930s, and a full ski resort created shortly after the war.
Since then the pistes, accessed by chairlifts, have grown to cover 104km. About two-thirds of that is local to Folgaria itself; the other 30km is above the neighbouring villages of Lavarone and Luserna, a short bus ride away.
Folgaria is a gem, with an excellent variety of slopes it is ideal for a mixed-ability groups and perfect for beginners with 37 flattering easy-to-intermediate red and blue runs carving down through the trees plus a handful of testing blacks.
Mountains of the Champions
It is official, Alpe Cimbra ski area is the new training centre of the US SKI TEAM for the next 4 years.
The decision of the US Ski team is no coincidence.
In the last couple of years, many World Cup teams trained here.
The technical features of these slopes coupled with the optimal conditions of the terrain resulting from the professional grooming techniques of the ski lift company led to spread the popularity of the ski area as one the best destination for training purposes.
Men’s Alpine Team Finds New European Home Base in Italy
Every year national teams from all over Europe come to Alpe Cimbra to train: the Italian, Austrian and Swedish national teams to name but a few.