House Cervinia Apartments

The place itself (La Grand'Ourse, Cielo Alto) is really good and, moreover, it has a bus stop and parking nearby as well as allows easy to get (just a 100 meter walk) to the ski slope 34 to skiing down to the central cable lift. On the way back from skiing the apartment can also be easily reached from the main slope 7 via a turn to the slope 13 and then a turn left at the middle of the slope 34. There was quite warm in the apartment 111, the heaters worked well, all listed equipment, including kitchen and bath, of the apartment worked also really well. The closest ski rental office is in 500 meters, down over the road, near the Cielo Alto cable lift.

The internal interior of the building is quite old and shabby, probably there was no any renovation for a long time. There is no any view to the mountains from this apartment, because it is oriented to the mountain, but not to the valley.

Location is a double-edged sword. On one hand, you can pretty much ski in-ski out, but the proximity to the main town is a bit of an annoyance, especially with how unpredictable the bus is. Our group walked daily down to the town as we couldn't be bothered waiting for the bus to turn up, and due to the fact that you ski daily, we didn't really notice how long the walk was towards the end of the trip. If you prefer not to walk, just wait for the bus, our group was simply impatient. If you are confident about doing a little bit of backcountry skiing, you can actually find your way to the front door of the hotel rather than doing a 5-minute walk from the side of the piste. The hotel rooms themselves were everything our group needed. One of them was high up and had a window & balcony with lots of natural light, the other one was a floor below and had poor natural light inside due to there being a wall or something outside the window. There is a smart TV and overall bigger space in that dark room, though, so there is a plus side to it. The ski and boot room felt like a 70s high school gym locker room, and there are no heating elements to warm your boots up overnight, unfortunately, but this wasn't a major issue for us.

- The bus is hardly on time and costs €1.10 which yeah, is cheap, especially in a ski resort but ideally it should be included in the lift pass. - We only had enough towels and bed linen for 2/4 of us in one room which was really annoying. Fortunately, two people brought their own towel so we managed to escape sharing one. As for the bed linen, the duvet doesn't actually fit the duvet cover, none of us were sure what we were supposed to do with it as it was like having 2 sheets. We ended up using the cover and an empty duvet on top as that was all we could do, it did the job.

L'alloggio è in un complesso di tanti appartamenti, tipico di quelle zone. L'appartamento non ha grandi fronzoli ed è l'ideale per chi va in montagna per sciare ed esce di casa al mattino e ci torna al pomeriggio. Il ns. appartamento aveva una camera con due letti singoli e una camera con un letto con una piazza e mezza e sopra un letto ad una piazza e non era dotato di balconi. L'appartamento era pulito, dotato di biancheria da letto e asciugamani e teli. Per arrivare in centro paese bisogna avere l'auto oppure c'è una navetta. La casa era ben riscaldata, dotata di wifi, macchina del caffè ed i proprietari molto disponibili.

Tutto sommato non ho avuto brutte sorprese. Il rapporto qualità/prezzo è ottimo! Chiaro che si è fuori dal centro, ma lo sapevo quindi avevo già messo in conto di muovermi con l'auto. Cambierei solo il materasso del letto alla francese. In bagno il soffitto era scrostato, ma lo ritengo normale trattandosi di un bagno senza finestra, ma niente di grave.

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