Country: Italy + some Switzerland Period: from 12.02. 11 to 19.02. eleven Place of residence: Antey-Saint-Andr Hotel: Residence BELLEVUE Ski region: Сervinia, Valtournenche, Zermatt Operator: Pac Group Air carrier: Orenburg Airlines Ski regions and resort 5, hotel 2 Foreword: For everyone who is still in the process of choosing, it’s not worth going to this hole called Residence BELLEVUE at all, feel free to choose another hotel, in my opinion, nothing can be worse! Those who have already bought these "apartments" - good luck and patience! The only plus is that the hotel is located on the road to the Alps, the rest is minuses.
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Country: Italy + some Switzerland
Period: from 12.02. 11 to 19.02. eleven
Place of residence: Antey-Saint-Andr
Hotel: Residence BELLEVUE
Ski region: Сervinia, Valtournenche, Zermatt
Operator: Pac Group
Air carrier: Orenburg Airlines
Ski regions and resort 5, hotel 2
Foreword:
For everyone who is still in the process of choosing, it’s not worth going to this hole called Residence BELLEVUE at all, feel free to choose another hotel, in my opinion, nothing can be worse!
Those who have already bought these "apartments" - good luck and patience!
The only plus is that the hotel is located on the road to the Alps, the rest is minuses.
In general, 6 days in Italy are sorely lacking! You need to go here for at least 2 weeks, so as not to depend too much on snowfalls and have time to see the country, so our priority was only skiing.
This review is only about the hotel, and the Alps are excellent as always (a little about them at the end).
And now, in order, why such low ratings for this hotel.
If there was at least one normal review about Residence BELLEVUE, I would hardly be going there! I found only very old summer ones from foreigners, whose persuasiveness was not enough for me : )
The planning of the trip began back in autumn, when there was a large selection of different apartments. Hoping for luck and profitability of the offer, I chose this hotel. Thinking that we would still have a car and a daily trip to Cervinia or Valtourenche would not be scary, so the remoteness from civilization did not frighten, but in vain. : ) I will say right away that this hotel is located 20 km from Cervinia along the serpentine. If it snows, then it’s not a fact that you will arrive in a rented car, or you will have to put on chains. The bus to the ski lifts runs very rarely and only to Valtourenche: at 8.05 it goes from Antey and at 17.10 back to Antey. So if there is no car, the hotel is not worth taking at all. Antaeus himself consists, as it were, of three parts.
The 1st part of the village is nice, in Alpine style, with at least some civilization, the next part, where the hotel stands, is a forgotten and abandoned village, there are no shops and restaurants nearby. We were very glad that we bought the full program in Turin's Auchan, so there were no problems with the products.
Apartments:
If "Bilo 4" is a two-room apartment, with a bedroom and a living room with a kitchen. Everything is very ancient, the kitchen has a couple of cabinets, a sink, a mini fridge and a gas stove. Beds - like in a train compartment, two-level : ). Bedroom – looks better and normal beds at least : ). Adults are unlikely to feel comfortable on shelves with mattresses!
And everything would not be so bad if it were not for the owners of this barn. I've never seen such slugs before. Upon arrival, they take a deposit of 100 euros and 80 for heating, and if you need linen with towels, which I do not advise you to take at all, then 8 euros per person.
These fees are warned in advance, so there were no questions for them.
Why is it better not to take linen - it is clear that their goal is to create an atmosphere of a carriage, because instead of normal linen they give only sheets. As it is not at all pleasant to sleep under such. Towels are generally some kind of rags, probably the remnants of the sheets. It is easier to take with you, it will be much more pleasant to sleep!
Heating - it is not! And the fact that you pay for it separately, these misers do not care! At best, it is turned on several times a day for 10 minutes. If you manage to hang up your clothes after the gurney – you are lucky! : ) Therefore, the room is always cold and not pleasant. After a couple of days of such a life, the whole hotel fell ill. It can be seen that one of the tourists got it all and for 2 days the heating was at night. In general, this family monitors the parking lot, as soon as people leave, the heat in the room is immediately turned off.
One day I stayed at the hotel to get sick, and everyone went to the mountains, an Italian, unaware of anything, enters our room, discovers me with surprise and tries in his Italian, knowing that I absolutely do not understand him, to explain that he came to air the room! Well, why? I suspected, probably, that we are warming ourselves with a gas stove : ). In other hotels, at least the logic was that it was necessary to heat in the morning and at night, but during the day there was still no one. They decided to turn on the super-economy mode!
The room itself is very dirty, a lot of dust, everything is broken, in the shower, obviously, some part of the water tap was missing, so it is extremely inconvenient to use it! In the chandelier we counted from 17 to 20 flies, they flew out of it periodically.
Renting a number is a separate issue. Never seen such disrespect anywhere. Usually you just calmly hand over the key and wish you a pleasant journey, but here everything is completely different.
We had an early flight, so we left the room at 4 am, although he was registered with us until 10 am. When I asked how they were going to return the deposit to me, they began to pretend to be fools that they did not know how to be in this situation. We agreed that the "hostess" would come in the evening and check everything. At the same time, they put forward a condition: that the kitchen must be absolutely clean and that we no longer use it! Brad, right? Comes in at 7 pm and checks all the pots and plates! ! ! I would also count the forks. We already thought that now the gas would be turned off! After such an attitude, on the contrary, I wanted to smash the whole number.
They have a rule in the hotel that skis and boards are not allowed, no problem! But when people need to get together, it's probably not on the street to pack everything. On the last evening I go with my board to the house, then this Italian grandfather jumps out, yelling in his native language, waving his arms, blocking the only way to the room.
Explanations that I have one suitcase for the board and things did not bother him at all. Yes, that evening there was no more heating : ) I must have been offended!
We were even more or less "lucky" with the number, the windows were at least not on the road! The audibility in this shed is perfect, what the neighbors behind the wall are doing is audible to everyone! And those who lived with windows overlooking the highway probably had the feeling that their apartment was in the middle of Leningradka at rush hour. The road seems to be small, but there is enough noise from it.
The wheelchair is great! Of the 6 days, three were sunny, the rest with snow and fog!
Cervinia:
Large selection of trails for every taste. Not very wide, but enough space for everyone. All the tracks have been tracked, they don’t break before lunch, but after that they are quite normal. On foggy and snowy days, of course, things are much worse. The 7th track at the very beginning resembles a mogul, there are many bumps and nothing is visible. On such days, you can normally ride only at the very bottom, at least you can see where you are going.
You can also move out to virgin lands, but only after a snowfall, in the sun it all melts. Some inconvenience is caused by the fact that many lifts have to go up the stairs. "Italian gouging" to close the lifts at any time, as many wrote in the reviews, was not noticed. Everything is clearly on schedule until 16:00, and the booths generally work longer. But even on a foggy and snowy day, when I had to get to the Valtourenche slopes by any means, at 16:15 they calmly allowed me to take the chair lift.
There are restaurants on the slopes, where you can relax on sun loungers in the sun. After lunch, these clearings resemble a fur seal rookery : )
The ski lifts of Cervinia in 2 places and in Valtourenche have free parking, on weekends there may be problems with places if you arrive late, on weekdays everything is free.
From Valtourenche on the lifts to the very top - 1 hour and 5 different lifts.
So it's easier to start from Cervinia.
Cervinia itself is quite pleasant, there is a street with shops, souvenirs, cafes. I also liked Valtourenche, we passed through it every day. It has the only fitness center, but there were no signs on the road, the only landmark is a pharmacy!
Zermatt:
On the other side of the mountain is Switzerland with Zermatt. They work only in good visibility, because the tracks there are narrow and there are many cliffs on the side that are not fenced in any way. In my opinion, it’s not worth buying an international lift for the whole time, because it takes a lot of time to get to Zermatt and back and you can’t get there in the fog. But I liked riding in Switzerland much more, everything is more thoughtful (landing on the lift - you don’t have to go uphill) and somehow more cultured. You need to go back in advance - because the lift to Italy closes earlier.
The trails are interesting, there are many beautiful landscapes on the sides.
The entire ski area is divided into 3 parts, only on the lifts you can get from one ski area to another. During the day, only managed to ride in 2 zones.
There is also off-piste skiing on virgin soil, and even for mogul lovers a couple of tracks have been made, only without springboards at the end : ). But somewhere on the side there was also a large springboard with a pillow for everyone who wanted to fly.
There are much more people in Zermatt, there are a lot of clashes in narrow places. There were no such problems on the Italian side.
The Pac Group operator did not make much impression (they flew for the 1st time). The guide at the airport could have been more polite. A person who has arrived for the first time at Turin airport will not immediately find out where everything is.
And the situation developed in such a way that it was not possible to book a car in advance, so upon arrival from the guide it was necessary to find out where you could quickly take the car, to which I heard a rude answer that this issue does not concern her and she deletes us from the paid transfer. True, after half an hour, when the issue was resolved on her own, her anger turned to mercy and she asked if help was needed. Well, very timely : ) The guide did not meet in the hotel itself for the whole week, but there was no need for him either.
Orenburg Airlines - with them, too, the 1st time. Departure from Domodedovo was almost on time, but they delayed it back by 1.5, explaining that they could not fly normally from Moscow.
Findings. Skating is wonderful, I want to come back again. Cervinia is very advantageously located: it’s not very long to reach Switzerland and Chamonix (we didn’t have time to get there : (, thanks to the misers because of which everyone was sick).
But next time I will choose a hotel much more carefully and no further than 500 m from the ski lift, and you need to go there for at least 10 days!
Period: from 12.02. 11 to 19.02. eleven
Place of residence: Antey-Saint-Andr
Hotel: Residence BELLEVUE
Ski region: Сervinia, Valtournenche, Zermatt
Operator: Pac Group
Air carrier: Orenburg Airlines
Ski regions and resort 5, hotel 2
Foreword:
For everyone who is still in the process of choosing, it’s not worth going to this hole called Residence BELLEVUE at all, feel free to choose another hotel, in my opinion, nothing can be worse!
Those who have already bought these "apartments" - good luck and patience!
The only plus is that the hotel is located on the road to the Alps, the rest is minuses.
In general, 6 days in Italy are sorely lacking! You need to go here for at least 2 weeks, so as not to depend too much on snowfalls and have time to see the country, so our priority was only skiing.
This review is only about the hotel, and the Alps are excellent as always (a little about them at the end).
And now, in order, why such low ratings for this hotel.
If there was at least one normal review about Residence BELLEVUE, I would hardly be going there! I found only very old summer ones from foreigners, whose persuasiveness was not enough for me : )
The planning of the trip began back in autumn, when there was a large selection of different apartments. Hoping for luck and profitability of the offer, I chose this hotel. Thinking that we would still have a car and a daily trip to Cervinia or Valtourenche would not be scary, so the remoteness from civilization did not frighten, but in vain. : ) I will say right away that this hotel is located 20 km from Cervinia along the serpentine. If it snows, then it’s not a fact that you will arrive in a rented car, or you will have to put on chains. The bus to the ski lifts runs very rarely and only to Valtourenche: at 8.05 it goes from Antey and at 17.10 back to Antey. So if there is no car, the hotel is not worth taking at all. Antaeus himself consists, as it were, of three parts.
The 1st part of the village is nice, in Alpine style, with at least some civilization, the next part, where the hotel stands, is a forgotten and abandoned village, there are no shops and restaurants nearby. We were very glad that we bought the full program in Turin's Auchan, so there were no problems with the products.
Apartments:
If "Bilo 4" is a two-room apartment, with a bedroom and a living room with a kitchen. Everything is very ancient, the kitchen has a couple of cabinets, a sink, a mini fridge and a gas stove. Beds - like in a train compartment, two-level : ). Bedroom – looks better and normal beds at least : ). Adults are unlikely to feel comfortable on shelves with mattresses!
And everything would not be so bad if it were not for the owners of this barn. I've never seen such slugs before. Upon arrival, they take a deposit of 100 euros and 80 for heating, and if you need linen with towels, which I do not advise you to take at all, then 8 euros per person.
These fees are warned in advance, so there were no questions for them.
Why is it better not to take linen - it is clear that their goal is to create an atmosphere of a carriage, because instead of normal linen they give only sheets. As it is not at all pleasant to sleep under such. Towels are generally some kind of rags, probably the remnants of the sheets. It is easier to take with you, it will be much more pleasant to sleep!
Heating - it is not! And the fact that you pay for it separately, these misers do not care! At best, it is turned on several times a day for 10 minutes. If you manage to hang up your clothes after the gurney – you are lucky! : ) Therefore, the room is always cold and not pleasant. After a couple of days of such a life, the whole hotel fell ill. It can be seen that one of the tourists got it all and for 2 days the heating was at night. In general, this family monitors the parking lot, as soon as people leave, the heat in the room is immediately turned off.
One day I stayed at the hotel to get sick, and everyone went to the mountains, an Italian, unaware of anything, enters our room, discovers me with surprise and tries in his Italian, knowing that I absolutely do not understand him, to explain that he came to air the room! Well, why? I suspected, probably, that we are warming ourselves with a gas stove : ). In other hotels, at least the logic was that it was necessary to heat in the morning and at night, but during the day there was still no one. They decided to turn on the super-economy mode!
The room itself is very dirty, a lot of dust, everything is broken, in the shower, obviously, some part of the water tap was missing, so it is extremely inconvenient to use it! In the chandelier we counted from 17 to 20 flies, they flew out of it periodically.
Renting a number is a separate issue. Never seen such disrespect anywhere. Usually you just calmly hand over the key and wish you a pleasant journey, but here everything is completely different.
We had an early flight, so we left the room at 4 am, although he was registered with us until 10 am. When I asked how they were going to return the deposit to me, they began to pretend to be fools that they did not know how to be in this situation. We agreed that the "hostess" would come in the evening and check everything. At the same time, they put forward a condition: that the kitchen must be absolutely clean and that we no longer use it! Brad, right? Comes in at 7 pm and checks all the pots and plates! ! ! I would also count the forks. We already thought that now the gas would be turned off! After such an attitude, on the contrary, I wanted to smash the whole number.
They have a rule in the hotel that skis and boards are not allowed, no problem! But when people need to get together, it's probably not on the street to pack everything. On the last evening I go with my board to the house, then this Italian grandfather jumps out, yelling in his native language, waving his arms, blocking the only way to the room.
Explanations that I have one suitcase for the board and things did not bother him at all. Yes, that evening there was no more heating : ) I must have been offended!
We were even more or less "lucky" with the number, the windows were at least not on the road! The audibility in this shed is perfect, what the neighbors behind the wall are doing is audible to everyone! And those who lived with windows overlooking the highway probably had the feeling that their apartment was in the middle of Leningradka at rush hour. The road seems to be small, but there is enough noise from it.
The wheelchair is great! Of the 6 days, three were sunny, the rest with snow and fog!
Cervinia:
Large selection of trails for every taste. Not very wide, but enough space for everyone. All the tracks have been tracked, they don’t break before lunch, but after that they are quite normal. On foggy and snowy days, of course, things are much worse. The 7th track at the very beginning resembles a mogul, there are many bumps and nothing is visible. On such days, you can normally ride only at the very bottom, at least you can see where you are going.
You can also move out to virgin lands, but only after a snowfall, in the sun it all melts. Some inconvenience is caused by the fact that many lifts have to go up the stairs. "Italian gouging" to close the lifts at any time, as many wrote in the reviews, was not noticed. Everything is clearly on schedule until 16:00, and the booths generally work longer. But even on a foggy and snowy day, when I had to get to the Valtourenche slopes by any means, at 16:15 they calmly allowed me to take the chair lift.
There are restaurants on the slopes, where you can relax on sun loungers in the sun. After lunch, these clearings resemble a fur seal rookery : )
The ski lifts of Cervinia in 2 places and in Valtourenche have free parking, on weekends there may be problems with places if you arrive late, on weekdays everything is free.
From Valtourenche on the lifts to the very top - 1 hour and 5 different lifts.
So it's easier to start from Cervinia.
Cervinia itself is quite pleasant, there is a street with shops, souvenirs, cafes. I also liked Valtourenche, we passed through it every day. It has the only fitness center, but there were no signs on the road, the only landmark is a pharmacy!
Zermatt:
On the other side of the mountain is Switzerland with Zermatt. They work only in good visibility, because the tracks there are narrow and there are many cliffs on the side that are not fenced in any way. In my opinion, it’s not worth buying an international lift for the whole time, because it takes a lot of time to get to Zermatt and back and you can’t get there in the fog. But I liked riding in Switzerland much more, everything is more thoughtful (landing on the lift - you don’t have to go uphill) and somehow more cultured. You need to go back in advance - because the lift to Italy closes earlier.
The trails are interesting, there are many beautiful landscapes on the sides.
The entire ski area is divided into 3 parts, only on the lifts you can get from one ski area to another. During the day, only managed to ride in 2 zones.
There is also off-piste skiing on virgin soil, and even for mogul lovers a couple of tracks have been made, only without springboards at the end : ). But somewhere on the side there was also a large springboard with a pillow for everyone who wanted to fly.
There are much more people in Zermatt, there are a lot of clashes in narrow places. There were no such problems on the Italian side.
The Pac Group operator did not make much impression (they flew for the 1st time). The guide at the airport could have been more polite. A person who has arrived for the first time at Turin airport will not immediately find out where everything is.
And the situation developed in such a way that it was not possible to book a car in advance, so upon arrival from the guide it was necessary to find out where you could quickly take the car, to which I heard a rude answer that this issue does not concern her and she deletes us from the paid transfer. True, after half an hour, when the issue was resolved on her own, her anger turned to mercy and she asked if help was needed. Well, very timely : ) The guide did not meet in the hotel itself for the whole week, but there was no need for him either.
Orenburg Airlines - with them, too, the 1st time. Departure from Domodedovo was almost on time, but they delayed it back by 1.5, explaining that they could not fly normally from Moscow.
Findings. Skating is wonderful, I want to come back again. Cervinia is very advantageously located: it’s not very long to reach Switzerland and Chamonix (we didn’t have time to get there : (, thanks to the misers because of which everyone was sick).
But next time I will choose a hotel much more carefully and no further than 500 m from the ski lift, and you need to go there for at least 10 days!
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Outraged by the first review of the lady on the rented car. The town of Feernatz - the residence of Bellevue - is wonderful, especially for hypertensive patients. Living at a height in the hotels of the Cervinia resort itself is difficult because of the highlands, and two weeks were spent in Bellevue - great.
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Outraged by the first review of the lady on the rented car. The town of Feernatz - the residence of Bellevue - is wonderful, especially for hypertensive patients. Living at a height in the hotels of the Cervinia resort itself is difficult because of the highlands, and two weeks were spent in Bellevue - great. We went to the store, restaurants down the paths, along the mountain river where swans live, past private houses, passing through which the light immediately turns on, that is, it’s not dark to go. Every day we went by bus not to Valturnash, but to the Cervinia resort itself, because we didn’t know that you can ride everywhere from the Valturnash lift, including Cervinia, Zeermatz. The apartments are in order, the bed is European, as in all hotels in Cervinia, even better (this year we stayed in Petite Tibet - higher than the lifts, rarefied air, difficult, the bed is wide, the plumbing is excellent, the cheap cabin works, on the balcony inside the yard there is a tan with 12.00. The owners of Bellevue Fredo and Liliana are wonderful, well-mannered people: Fredo showed us the way to the supermarket in his car, gave his husband his ski poles, because he lost them. They are great hosts - in the morning you can drink coffee + croissants. In the apartments of Cervinia, the order of the deposit, the inclusion of heating for the return of guests is everywhere. The bus to the resort runs every hour minute per minute 2 euros - 30 minutes along the serpentine you do not get tired of taking pictures, and in the resort itself from the Petit Tibet hotel to the central lift - 1 euro. If you want to enjoy the real alpine air - Bellevue + for 1 euro to Valtournach and ride where the weather allows. Be more generous, smarter, more educated, more cheerful yourself and the rest will turn out, and the deposit will be returned without accepting the number and counting the dishes. Irina
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