This winter I visited Sella Ronda, Italy, for my ski vacation. Unfortunately this year I was without my lovely wife  Viki, usually we are traveling together everywhere, so I missed her during the trip and felt lonely without her. But, I had two more partners, my brother Dima and his friend Kostya, we ordered a deal on October, from skideal, which reminds us to keep `dreaming in white` so we defiantly made our ski white dreams to a reality , it was worth the long waiting.

When the time for the vacation came,  and we were in the Ben Gurion Airport, we were surprised to found out that we had a special aircraft just for the Skideal clients and everybody flying to a ski vacation. So we felt very special everywhere was their logo and in we even got small presents from Skideal, It was a candy and air pillow, so I now I have something that will remind me this trip forever.
The exciting part of our flight was when we needed to lend, usually the flight time about 3 hours, however because of the bad weather conditions when we prepared to land, the airport of Verona did not accept it. So our aircraft did circles in the air extra one hour, after we finally land other airport of Italy for refill gas. The gas refilling took another hour. So we landed in Verona airport after six hours only.

Sella Ronda

Recommendation:

Sella Ronda – the most recognized ski route of the Dolomites. It cover four Ladin valleys: Val di Fassa, Val Gardena,  Alta Badia and Livinallongo.

• 1100 km
• 450 lifts
• Snowparks
• 20 black slopes
• 115 red slopes
• 140 blue slopes

Like you can see lot of slopes is blue, so if you like speed (like me) the place is not for you.

Dolomiti Superski liftpass provide you ability to check your ski statistics. Because all your ski activity during the day is tracked, you can pirnt out a record of what lifts you used, how many vertical metres you skied and where you went day by day. Data is available on the day after you ski. Link

Helpful Links:

• Sella Ronda Home Page
• Dolomiti Superski

Campitello

This is small village with nice hotels. We stay in hotel Ramon, nice place with clear, beautiful rooms and sauna. There was one problem that their salads for dinner was not variety, every day was same salads.

We choose the hotel because of it was near of ski lift. But to get to ski area without stay in line we had to be on lift enter at 8:00 AM. The lift is working from 8:30 AM till 5:15 PM, but we get first lift at 8:10 AM. If you come at 8:10, you we have to stay in line 15 – 30 min.

Sella Ronda – Orange Route

Recommendation:

On first day we decide to do Orange route of Sella Ronda. This is route around of mount Sella Ronda by clockwise. This is round route, this is mean in end of rout you will come to start. There was different types of slopes. But what spoil the mood, is several blue slopes and transition with ski removing.

• 22 lifts
• 6472 m height difference
• 35 km slopes length.

The rout take half day.

Helpful Links:

• Sella Ronda

Sella Ronda – Green Route

Recommendation:

Green route is better than orange. But there is same blue slopes and transitions.  In additional lot of people choosing the green route, so you will see here more people than on orange route.

• 23 lifts
• 6472 m height difference
• 35 km slopes length.

The rout take half day.

Helpful Links:

• Sella Ronda

Fun Park – Piz Sella

Recommendation:

The park is amazing, this is was first time that I did ski throw snow tunnel. The park also have car jib, that I jumped over.

Aper – Ski

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Every day of vacation a SkiDeal guide invite us to different parties. There was Brasil evening, aper ski dancing on bar and more.

Ice Skating

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Also Campitello have ice rink. Last time that I did ice skating on natural ice was 14 years ago, in Russia. It was great.

Canazei

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Next village after Compitello is Canazei. The village is bigger than Compitello. It have cinema even. The villages is connected by pedestrian route near small river. There is nice vies and photos.

The hart on photo I did for Viki .