Browsing entries tagged with Champoluc
21 Feb 2022
There’s no better ski area in Europe for skiing perfectly groomed, very quiet pistes than Italy’s Monterosa ski area, which spans three lift- and piste-linked valleys . If you want a few days away…
20 Aug 2021
The Covid pandemic has claimed another casualty in the ski world, with the closure of Ski2, the ski tour operator that has specialised in holidays to Champoluc for the past 22 years. Ski2 founders Simon…
9 Dec 2020
Skiing remains off the cards in Italy to anyone except professional athletes, with new regulations introduced last week to prevent travel between different regions and communes to help reduce the spread…
3 Jun 2020
Ski tour operators are reporting that skiers are feeling positive about the 2020/21 winter season and planning to take ski holidays. A customer survey by French specialist Peak Retreats reports that…
8 Nov 2019
Ski 2 started up over 20 years ago as a specialist in Champoluc in Italy’s Monterosa ski area. It now takes around 2,500 people a year there and features over 30 hotels and apartments. Its USP has always…
23 Oct 2018
Champoluc specialist Ski 2 has teamed up with Hampshire-based Fast Track EMS Personal Training to help clients get fit for their ski holiday. Fast Track EMS is the latest in fitness technology; offering…
18 Jul 2018
The Italian resort of Champoluc will this season get its first 5* hotel, along with a new gondola and “Adventure Ski Course”. Camp Zero Hotel, which is located within a five-minute drive from…
22 Oct 2017
Tour operator Ski 2 has specialised in holidays to the small village of Champoluc in Italy’s Monterosa region since it started almost 20 years ago. Last year it branched out to offer ski holidays to…
3 Nov 2016
Tour operator Ski 2, which specialises in the Italian resort of Champoluc, is branching out with a new operation in Les Gets, France this winter. Ski 2 has been operating in Champoluc for 18 years, but…
1 Jan 2016
Skiers can now ‘try before they buy’ a holiday in Italy’s Aosta Valley, with the launch of virtual piste maps by tour operator Interski. You can take a virtual ski down the blue, red and black pistes…
28 May 2015
Inghams is to open a Chalet Hotel in Italian ski resort of Champoluc this winter. The four-diamond Chalet Hotel Champoluc is set at the skiers’ end of the village centre, in a virtually ski-in/ski-out…
30 Sep 2014
Zermatt, Cervinia and Monterosa Ski (encompassing Champoluc, Gressoney and Alagna) are planning to link up and create one of the largest ski areas in the world. A lift link has long been discussed between…
22 Feb 2010
There are plans for a bit of a knees-up in the Monterosa region next month to inaugurate the area’s new funicular lift. Champoluc is set to host an afternoon of games, music and traditional entertainment…
2 Dec 2009
Just a few days ago green fields were beckoning hiking, not skiing … and Monterosa put opening day on hold. But the Italian slopes were revived for winter by this week’s snowfall. It now appears…
28 Aug 2009
If all goes to plan, Italy’s Monterosa Ski area could be welcoming a new cable car this winter and possibly a new funicular. The lifts are being built at either end of the ski area: a cable car above…
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