• traveled 15 years ago
Rested from 3 to 10 January. Hotel Edelweiss. Small family hotel. The owners live in the same hotel. Breakfast is poor. 4 types of breakfast cereals with milk, 1-2 types of cold cuts, 1 type of cheese, egg cooker, coffee-cocoa-tea machine, water, 3 bottles of diluted juice, 1-2 types of pastries and honey-jam-nutella in portion packs.
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Rested from 3 to 10 January. Hotel Edelweiss. Small family hotel. The owners live in the same hotel. Breakfast is poor. 4 types of breakfast cereals with milk, 1-2 types of cold cuts, 1 type of cheese, egg cooker, coffee-cocoa-tea machine, water, 3 bottles of diluted juice, 1-2 types of pastries and honey-jam-nutella in portion packs. That's actually the whole choice. For dinner, the choice is richer, but still sometimes they remained hungry and went to the side. I'm not picky, but eating half-baked duck or something like that is beyond me. In fairness, I liked the baked salmon, it was delicious, but the cook did not consider it necessary to peel the skin from scales, alas. The grill mix was also quite decent, nothing more was remembered on the positive side.
The hotel has a sauna, Turkish bath, gym, solarium and massage room. I won’t say anything about massage - I don’t know. The rest is purely nominal.
The ski room consists of lattice cells for ski-boards on the left side and square niche racks on the right for boots. There is no mention of any drying. In boots and with skis, it takes about 10-15 minutes to get to the ski lift uphill, but every morning until 11 o’clock there is a ski bus, free of charge, it doesn’t carry on a schedule, but as soon as there are people, but it can also take 1 person. After 11-00 the service costs 3 euros. You can call and they will come to the lift to pick up the riders.
Our room was standard for two. The room is quite decent in size, but apparently it is designed for more than two, as there was also a folding chair and a teenage bed. The bathroom is shared, the bath without a curtain, there is no drain in the floor either, wash yourself as you can. The battery for drying ski suits is one and not too big, things of 1 person can only be dried normally.
The room also had a free safe, satellite TV (5 Russian channels: 1 ORT, RTR, Vesti, RUTV (Russian radio music) and Planet Sport). By request, you can organize a minibar, it is, but you can’t order an empty one yet. There is a lobby bar downstairs.
There is a lot of snow this year, a 30-year record, we were told. There are places to ride, there are a lot of trails, varied, it is possible to ride not only in Italy, but also on the Swiss side. The trails are better prepared there. On the Italian side they are loose, perhaps due to the very thick snow cover. There was a case when it was impossible to stand up, leaning on sticks, since they completely went under the snow, they did not reach the stones at all (130 cm). The weather was changeable, but it was cloudy only on the Italian side, clouds of the mountains are not allowed into Switzerland.
Regarding the rental: I rented boots and skis near the cabin lift (ganzianella, it seems). There is an uncle who speaks a little Russian.
Someone might find it very useful. But the rental there is not very good. There is no intersport in Cervinia as a class at all. It seemed better, as it seemed through the window, to rent Chervino, where the skis are more decent in appearance and in brands too.
On the tracks, if anyone is interested: for beginners, 5 and 6 tracks are recommended. I skated the first day for 1 hour with the coach and he sent me to the 5th. Should not be doing that. First on the 6th!! ! Firstly, the 5th is much longer than the 6th, and secondly, it has 2 red sections and 1 black. For the first time, I almost climbed sideways along all 3 steps, then I got used to it and started to slide down, but it was scary. The 6th blue one is much easier, there is a direct road for beginners. Red 6 is also not very scary, for me personally the 5th blue is scarier. One thing is bad on the 6th - they are very popular and therefore they are already torn up by 10-11 o'clock, especially the red one. At the intersection of 6 blue and 26 blue there is a cool cafe, there are not very many people there and the food is very good.
In Zermatt it was generally spring, 0 degrees, streams, and in Cervinia -10, slippery and unclean after snowfalls. After going through the shops of Cervinia, Zermatt seemed like a shopping paradise: the choice is richer, the prices are lower, there are more shops. But in Cervinia, they found a store that sells collection wines, called Arnold's. We saw wine from 1900 there. I wonder if you can still drink it, or has vinegar formed from it, is it not cognac ? ! Prices are anywhere from 200 euros per bottle.
Loved the Capanna Alpina bar. Very tasty lasagna. There is a menu in Russian. The young bartender is the only one in Italy who speaks intelligible English of those with whom I had a chance to communicate, the rest have terrible accents! So he asked me about the old New Year, so I explained to him what it was, oh, and I remembered Zadornov! As a result, we wrote to him in Russian how to write it, and he gave us Italian music, cut it to his taste literally within 2 minutes. Such is the responsiveness.
The hotel has a sauna, Turkish bath, gym, solarium and massage room. I won’t say anything about massage - I don’t know. The rest is purely nominal.
The ski room consists of lattice cells for ski-boards on the left side and square niche racks on the right for boots. There is no mention of any drying. In boots and with skis, it takes about 10-15 minutes to get to the ski lift uphill, but every morning until 11 o’clock there is a ski bus, free of charge, it doesn’t carry on a schedule, but as soon as there are people, but it can also take 1 person. After 11-00 the service costs 3 euros. You can call and they will come to the lift to pick up the riders.
Our room was standard for two. The room is quite decent in size, but apparently it is designed for more than two, as there was also a folding chair and a teenage bed. The bathroom is shared, the bath without a curtain, there is no drain in the floor either, wash yourself as you can. The battery for drying ski suits is one and not too big, things of 1 person can only be dried normally.
The room also had a free safe, satellite TV (5 Russian channels: 1 ORT, RTR, Vesti, RUTV (Russian radio music) and Planet Sport). By request, you can organize a minibar, it is, but you can’t order an empty one yet. There is a lobby bar downstairs.
There is a lot of snow this year, a 30-year record, we were told. There are places to ride, there are a lot of trails, varied, it is possible to ride not only in Italy, but also on the Swiss side. The trails are better prepared there. On the Italian side they are loose, perhaps due to the very thick snow cover. There was a case when it was impossible to stand up, leaning on sticks, since they completely went under the snow, they did not reach the stones at all (130 cm). The weather was changeable, but it was cloudy only on the Italian side, clouds of the mountains are not allowed into Switzerland.
Regarding the rental: I rented boots and skis near the cabin lift (ganzianella, it seems). There is an uncle who speaks a little Russian.
Someone might find it very useful. But the rental there is not very good. There is no intersport in Cervinia as a class at all. It seemed better, as it seemed through the window, to rent Chervino, where the skis are more decent in appearance and in brands too.
On the tracks, if anyone is interested: for beginners, 5 and 6 tracks are recommended. I skated the first day for 1 hour with the coach and he sent me to the 5th. Should not be doing that. First on the 6th!! ! Firstly, the 5th is much longer than the 6th, and secondly, it has 2 red sections and 1 black. For the first time, I almost climbed sideways along all 3 steps, then I got used to it and started to slide down, but it was scary. The 6th blue one is much easier, there is a direct road for beginners. Red 6 is also not very scary, for me personally the 5th blue is scarier. One thing is bad on the 6th - they are very popular and therefore they are already torn up by 10-11 o'clock, especially the red one. At the intersection of 6 blue and 26 blue there is a cool cafe, there are not very many people there and the food is very good.
In Zermatt it was generally spring, 0 degrees, streams, and in Cervinia -10, slippery and unclean after snowfalls. After going through the shops of Cervinia, Zermatt seemed like a shopping paradise: the choice is richer, the prices are lower, there are more shops. But in Cervinia, they found a store that sells collection wines, called Arnold's. We saw wine from 1900 there. I wonder if you can still drink it, or has vinegar formed from it, is it not cognac ? ! Prices are anywhere from 200 euros per bottle.
Loved the Capanna Alpina bar. Very tasty lasagna. There is a menu in Russian. The young bartender is the only one in Italy who speaks intelligible English of those with whom I had a chance to communicate, the rest have terrible accents! So he asked me about the old New Year, so I explained to him what it was, oh, and I remembered Zadornov! As a result, we wrote to him in Russian how to write it, and he gave us Italian music, cut it to his taste literally within 2 minutes. Such is the responsiveness.
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