Italian Food & Fun, San Cassiano
18-25 March 2012 (COURSE FULL)
Price from £599
The Inside Out Ski Club is once again heading to the wonderful Italian Dolomites for a week of coaching and sampling the best of the scenery and mountain restaurants that this area has to offer. Based in the charming village of San Cassiano, our hotel offers an unbeatable ski-in & ski-out location and Sunday transfer to beat the crowds. Book a later return flight and enjoy a day in Venice to cap off your holiday.
Price
Price: £599 (COURSE FULL)
What's included
• True ski in / ski out location• 7 nights accommodation on a room share basis
• Breakfast with a hot daily option
• 3 course dinner with wine
• Afternoon tea with home made cakes
• 6 half-day coaching sessions with video review
• Maximum group size of eight per instructor
What isn't included
• Flights• Airport Transfers
• Insurance
• Lunch
• Hire of ski equipment
• Lift pass
• Wifi (available in village)
Price Supplements and additional costs
Single supplementsSingle supplements vary by room type, please contact Mountain Sun for pricing. Two single rooms are available in the hotel, and we recommend you book early as these quickly sell out. Alternatively many club members are happy to share with others on the course so please discuss this option with Mountain Sun when you make your booking.
Ensuite rooms
£56 or £84 per person per week (price depends on room)
Standard rooms - no supplement (Shared bathroom with WC and separate WC on the same floor. All rooms have washbasins.)
Some rooms accommodate up to four people, so the 3rd and 4th adults occupying rooms are charged at 50% of the relevant rate.
Currency surcharge
A currency surcharge is payable in resort if the £:€ exchange rate is below €1.13 to the pound. The surcharge is €3 per person per night. Click here for current exchange rates.
Lift pass
Although we will be based in San Cassiano we will be skiing the whole SuperSki area to take advantage of the terrain, great restaurants and scenery. A six day full pass is €205 and will be delivered to the hotel if you take advantage of our pre-booking service.
The Skiing
The spectacular Dolomiti Superski area is the largest ski domain in the world. It has much to offer skiers of all grades. The region is characterized by beautifully groomed pistes, a well organised and well maintained lift system, friendly locals, quaint villages and the most breathtaking scenery. Dotted throughout the region are characterful mountain bars and restaurants, some of which have Michelin stars, and are world famous for providing local delicacies such as fruit grappa. All these establishments are of such a high standard that we challenge you to find one that is less than excellent!
One of 40 villages in the Dolomiti Superski area, San Cassiano nestles in the heart of the Dolomites in its own region of Alta Badia, surrounded by the stunning limestone cliffs and towers, which change from grey-pink in the morning to rosy red in the late afternoon sunshine. One of the world’s unique and most memorable ski runs, the Hidden Valley, is close by. At the bottom of this beautiful run, you can be towed back towards San Cassiano by horse!
Inside Out Skiing's base is just three lifts away from the famous Sella Ronda which offers an amazing day’s ski around a group of stunning peaks, taking in Arabba and the nearby Marmolada glacier. From San Cassiano, a 40-minute ski brings you to Selva Val Gardena, with endless pistes to explore and the famous men's World Cup downhill course: the Saslong.
Click here to download the Sella Ronda piste map.
One of 40 villages in the Dolomiti Superski area, San Cassiano nestles in the heart of the Dolomites in its own region of Alta Badia, surrounded by the stunning limestone cliffs and towers, which change from grey-pink in the morning to rosy red in the late afternoon sunshine. One of the world’s unique and most memorable ski runs, the Hidden Valley, is close by. At the bottom of this beautiful run, you can be towed back towards San Cassiano by horse!
Inside Out Skiing's base is just three lifts away from the famous Sella Ronda which offers an amazing day’s ski around a group of stunning peaks, taking in Arabba and the nearby Marmolada glacier. From San Cassiano, a 40-minute ski brings you to Selva Val Gardena, with endless pistes to explore and the famous men's World Cup downhill course: the Saslong.
Click here to download the Sella Ronda piste map.
Coaching
The coaching provided by Inside Out Skiing will comprise six three-hour sessions. Depending on weather and group preferences these sessions will take place over four half days and one full day. The focus of the coaching will be to develop all areas of your ski technique, to improve piste performance and equip you with skills for skiing off-piste. To fully take advantage of the coaching we require at least a Level 6 standard of skiing.
During the week we will develop skills to help you ski steeper terrain, enabling you to change the size and shape of the turns you make by varying the way in which you steer your skis. We will work on being comfortable skiing at higher speeds by carving your turns, making clean changes of direction and balancing against the higher forces that are generated when we ski quickly. We will also work on the fundamentals of balance, coordination and varying the ways in which we turn our skis, providing you with a wider range of "tools in the toolbox" so you can cope with all mountain conditions.
Group size will be no more than eight per coach. We will make extensive use of video feedback, with analysis and review sessions held in our hotel in the evenings. These Clinics will be delivered by the same coaches who run Inside Out Skiing's programme at The Snow Centre in Hemel Hempstead, so you may already know them and they may already know your skiing, ensuring each clinic gets off to a flying start!
During the week we will develop skills to help you ski steeper terrain, enabling you to change the size and shape of the turns you make by varying the way in which you steer your skis. We will work on being comfortable skiing at higher speeds by carving your turns, making clean changes of direction and balancing against the higher forces that are generated when we ski quickly. We will also work on the fundamentals of balance, coordination and varying the ways in which we turn our skis, providing you with a wider range of "tools in the toolbox" so you can cope with all mountain conditions.
Group size will be no more than eight per coach. We will make extensive use of video feedback, with analysis and review sessions held in our hotel in the evenings. These Clinics will be delivered by the same coaches who run Inside Out Skiing's programme at The Snow Centre in Hemel Hempstead, so you may already know them and they may already know your skiing, ensuring each clinic gets off to a flying start!
Accommodation
Our accommodation partner for this coaching holiday is Mountain Sun Ltd, an independent hotel operator that runs hotels in France and Italy. This is our second season of working with them. The Hotel Albergo Frohsinn has the following key features:
- True ski-in and ski-out accommodation, located just 40m from the nearby gondola
- 17 guest rooms, many of which offer en-suite facilities.
- Bar and dining room
- A hearty buffet breakfast with a hot option every day.
- Afternoon tea with delicious home-made cakes daily.
- Three-course dinner with unlimited free wine and coffee for six nights of the week.
- In-house ski hire.
- Sunday to Sunday transfers, less traffic
Travel
Transfers to the resort
Mountain Sun offer low cost airport transfers from both Innsbruck airport (approximately 1.5 hours transfer) and Venice airport (2.5 hours). From £27 per person each way.This provides a range of flight options and UK departure airports. All you need to do is time your flights to coincide with the transfer coach.
Please see the Mountain Sun website for transfer times as well as options for other airport transfers and sightseeing in Venice.
Travel within the resort
None needed as the Hotel is directly on the piste!The Hotel is a very short walk into the village centre
Sunday to Sunday transfers, less traffic