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Ski Accommodation Bormio
Book Bormio ski accommodation direct with owners chalet apartment.
Bormio offers a cobbled medieval Italian town.
The ski area is ideal for the skier who enjoys red runs, you can also take the bus out to the Val di Dentro skiing, or make longer outings, to Santa Caterina. Bormio began life as a Roman spa, and the thermal bathing facilities remain. It has a wonderfully preserved 17th-century town centre, complete with cobbled streets, markets with washing troughs, and old facades for today's shops, restaurants and cafes. Fortunately the town has escaped the dreariness and formality of many European spas.
- Good mix of high, snow sure pistes and woodland runs with artificial snow, giving some excellent long runs when conditions are right
- Several good neighbouring ski resorts on same lift pass
- Interesting, attractive, old town centre - quite unlike any other ski resort
- Good mountain restaurants
It's a colourful place where promenading is an important part of the evening scene, but not as lively as some Italian resorts, such as Courmayeur. Between the town centre and the ski lifts, over the other side of the river, lies a characterless urban sprawl consisting largely of hotels built for the convenience of skiers - saving almost all of a 15-minute walk or a bus-ride. The ski-bus is reliable but not frequent. Most people walk. Bormio has good (but limited) skiing for confident intermediates who like long runs, with a nice mix of high, snow sure pistes and lower wooded slopes. Beginners, intermediates who prefer blue runs and the advanced are less well provided for. Both the piste map and the piste marking could do with some substantial improvement. The main ski area is tall (1800m vertical drop) and narrow, with virtually all the pistes facing northwest and heading down towards town.
The two-stage Cima Bianca cable-car goes from bottom to top (3010m) of the skiing via the mid-station at Bormio 2000. The alternative gondola goes up to Ciuk at 1620m. Drag- and chair-lifts above these mid-stations serve all the runs, including those from the very top.
The gondola means only the lowest 400m vertical is lost when runs to the resort have no snow and you have to ride down. New lifts above Oga and Val di Dentro have made this once insignificant ski area, a short bus-ride out of Bormio, a useful addition to Cima Bianca. The area is now large enough to merit one or more day-trips. Half the runs are east-facing and not high, but some are north-facing and the mainly tree-lined skiing is very pleasant.
