APPARTAMENTO VALENTINI

Excellent spacious apartment, but not ski-to-door

Pros: Property was clean and spacious, with lots of amenities (dishwasher and washing machine, and good size freezer) and storage. Two bathrooms, and showers were hot. Location was superb for the ski bus (btw it's not obvious but ski bus is an extra €20 per person for 7-days) and the village. Overall the property was excellent (but see primary caveat below). Despite the text length disparity - the positives significantly outweighed the negatives.

Cons: This is a not a ski-to-door property - the property listing is entirely inaccurate and misleading in this respect. We purely choose the property for this element, but it's not true, by any stretch! Some issues with some of the electrics not working, but flick of a switch on the fuse box fixed it. No 'normal' oven - microwave might have had an oven function but we couldn't work it out. An extra sofa would have been good, but admittedly not much space to add one. Had to pay extra for towels and city tax (that cost is entirely transparent in the booking listing, and I know is a typical extra in Italy - but still a bit of a bind to fork out a bit more whilst there). Had a call from the owner in advance to collect the keys from the hotel. It just wasn't clear which hotel! It wasn't from the hotel immediately opposite the apartment; it was from a hotel that was only accessible by going back onto the main road. Once I worked that out, it was straightforward to get in. Receptionist at the key-collection hotel was useless though and entirely unhelpful (the hotel-owner was the complete opposite, and very helpful).

Pros: Posizione ottima, vicino al centro del paese ed agli impianti di risalita. Appartamento pulito ed ordinato, gestori cordiali e disponibili. Esperienza molto positiva.