Sansicario School Ski Trips
Host of the 2006 Winter Olympic Games
Sansicario is a purpose built resort village for the Olympics in 2006 that hosted the Woman’s Downhill and Super G Alpine races, offering you and your more advanced students the chance to ski the same piste.
As a standalone ski area it offers a good mix of skiing for all abilities – it’s perfectly positioned at the center of a huge, natural bowl, offering mixed skiing. This is further enhanced with direct, quick links into Sestriere and Suaze. You can also ski down into Cesana and take the lifts into Claviere.
The resort it’s self a quiet and totally traffic free small village, with gradually descending galleries of apartments and a shopping precinct are all connected by covered walkways.
Hand-picked for schools because…
Forms part of the impressive Milky Way
Traffic free village
Olympic doorstep skiing accommodation
Sansicario Resort Facts
Resort Height 1,700m
Vertical Drop 1,483m
No. of Lifts 70
No. of Runs 240
Easy Runs 120km
Medium Runs 240km
Difficult Runs 40km
Kilometres of Piste 400km
Longest Run 9km
Coach Transfer Time 14hrs from Calais Flight time 2.5hrs Transfer times 3hrs from Geneva
Sample Itinerary
Hotel Rio Envers ****
The Hotel Rio Envers is located directly on the slopes of the international ski area of the famous Via Lattea. The hotel, simple and informal, has 46 rooms spread over three floors. The rooms are spacious and bright with views of the splendid panorama. Each room is equipped with telephone and TV, bathroom with hairdryer, some have a balcony. The hotel also has a comfortable hall, restaurant, bar with panoramic terrace and solarium.
Facilities
- Free WiFi
- Solarium
- Restaurant
- Panoramic Terrace
Olympic Centre ***
A great advantage for groups staying here is its position with doorstep skiing at the entrance of the village overlooking the bobsleigh rink. Built specifically for the 2006 Winter Olympics, this is a conformable hotel with 64 rooms accommodating around 180 guests. Intermediate and advanced groups can conveniently ski to the Cesana-Sansicario gondola and ski back to the hotel.
Facilities
- Guestrooms sleep 4 students in single beds
- En suite with TV
- Meeting rooms
- Spacious lounge, bar and restaurant
- Disco and games room
Apres Ski
Make sure you speak to your Regional Sales Manager to include the apres ski activities you want in your quote!
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