Olympic Village Hotel

Overall very good. For ski apartments they are spacious and well equipped. They dont have a usable teapot though. There are well organised ski lockers and the main lift to Sansicario is just over the road. Excellent free covered car park. The staff were helpful and generally spoke excellent English. The pool is small, you need flip flops and a swimming cap to use it. The gym is well equipped but only for over 14 years of age. On the downside it is a confusing place with long corridoors and a distinct smell of drains in the communal areas

we stayed 08/15 feb. appears to have had recent refit - rooms as new - spacious bedroom and lounge, plenty of storage space. well fitted shower room and kitchen.terrace with view of slopes. staff efficient but not particularly friendly. on site pizza/pasta restaurant was fair value and we received free meal voucher for each restaurant. the place is huge and lots of corridors to get lost in. 10 min uphill walk to village. ski lift opposite main reception but not suitable for beginners (slope it takes you to is quite tricky). **note there is a 100 euro deposit which has to be paid in cash on arrival & will not be returned to you until 30 mins prior to departure whatever your tour company may say to contrary!** overall a really good basic standard hotel with really nice clean facilities close to the slopes

After reading some of the reviews I was a bit apprehensive about our stay. However the staff were really helpful and friendly. The rooms were basic but clean and comfortable and had everything you needed. Small bathroom but good sized living area with balcony and views of the slopes.The corridors were a bit confusing at first. We were given two meal vouchers each for the week and provided you arrived in the self service restaurant at 7.30pm there was a good choice of dishes. There is also a pizza selection available these are good and very filling. Plenty to do with evening entertainment if you wish. There is a small but adequate swimming pool with clean hot shower facilities plus gym and aerobic classes. A mini market is open daily so you can self cater as we did for breakfast and the occasional evening meal. Check in was strange as you initially checked in upstairs and then went to lower reception to pay 100 euro deposit in cash refundable at end of week for your room key/ski locker key. Bit of a walk uphill to the beginner slopes in Sestriere about 10-15 minutes but possible to ski back easily to accommodation. Intermediate skiers could ski from nearer the hotel or take the gondola up Mount Fraiteve close by. If you don't like the walk leave your skis/boots up in Sestriere near the ski school for a weekly fee we didn't find out this until later. Prebooking skis/lift pass this would have been cheaper prior to holiday and was no cheaper from the rep on the coach than in the village.Ski Scuola Sestriere has great instructors for beginners and there are several easy blue runs until you are ready to progress. The run to Borgata is excellent once you can do snowplough turns and stop. All in all an excellent holiday and no need to be put off by unreasonable reports about the Olympic Village unless you are expecting a luxury 4 star venue.

We've just returned from a week in Sestriere and had a great time. The snow was the best there has been in years and skiing conditions couldn't have been better. Having read previous reviews of the Olympic Village we were concerned, however we were very pleasantly surprised. The complex has everything you need whatever size of party you are visiting with. Staff were friendly and very helpful, and most speak English. There is a bar, disco, restaurant, shop, gym and swimming pool on site. The staff arrange activities throughout the day and evening so there are things to do for all ages, and included in the price of the holiday were two evening meals each. Rooms were basic but had everything we needed and provided more than enough space. They were clean, well maintained and the balcony was big. On the downside, the corridors are confusing to start with and rooms can be noisy. Also, mainly due to the bad exchange rate at the moment, drink and food prices are quite high. There is also a slightly confusing check in system where you register at the front desk, then complete the check in process and pay 100 Euro deposit (which you get back when you check out) at a different desk. However, staff were happy to guide us through this without any problems. Sestriere itself, and the surrounding Milky Way area, is a lovely place to visit. The towns are small but very friendly. Sestriere was quiet during the week, but much busier at the weekend. However, tour companies do organise things during the week so there are plenty of things to do. The skiing however was brilliant! More than enough to keep most skiiers occupied for a week, and the links between resorts make travelling between them relatively easy. All in all, a great holiday!

This complex is massive and confusing - think huge modern student hall of residence - but on the plus side it is great value and the staff are marvellous. Also everything is under one roof, including a mini market. We only found out about the promotion on the self-service resturaunt too late to make use of it. You can get a book of 7 meal vouchers from reception which lets you eat a full three/four course meal or pizza with a drink (wine included) at a discount rate. Cheaper & better than self catering as the small supermarkets are all very basic and expensive. Apartment comfortable, if over heated (thermostat wouldn't go below 28 degrees) but you could turn heating fan off. Don't believe brochures saying it is five minutes to the village - it is a good 10 minute climb up a steep hill.

We stayed in the Olympic Village (4 adults + 4 children, aged 6 - 15) in March this year. Our experience ranged from beginners to experts. The complex itself was large and wandering with different levels and meandering corridors, but our apartments were clean and spacious, with balconies overlooking the slopes. The food in the on-site restaurants was fine, and there was also a supermarket if you wanted to self-cater. There were plenty of bars and restaurants within 5 - 10 mins walk. We found all the staff to be polite and friendly. Skiing was probably more suited to experienced skiiers, but the beginners among us could get a bus outside the Olympic Village to Sestriere itself - just a few minutes journey - where there was more of a selection of gentle slopes. Then you could ski easily back to the Olympic Village at the end of the day. All in all, a good trip!

what a terrible place, down as 4 star but is 2 at best - more fitting to youth hostel although they are more comfortable than the rooms at this hotel. very long dark corridors before you get to your room block, no natural light, the whole of the building has grey cheap tiled floors even the rooms - rooms are in the basement so if you are expecting a view of anything you will be very disappointed. all fittings in rooms are of a very poor standard, more apt to dormitories rather than bedrooms, bathrooms very cramped - not enough room in the shower to lift your arms to wash your hair. as all floors are tiled it makes the rooms very noisy especially when you are in the basement and the people in the apartments above are moving around. the food in the restaurant is good value for money forget breakfast, the staff are very unhelpful unless you are Italian. The tour reps pay you lip service when you bring faults to their attention. Impressive looking reception area but that is as far as it goes. I could go on and on but i feel yo may become bored of my ranting. Not worth its 4 star rating

Built for the Winter Olympic Games in 2006, a very modern complex ...this where the problems start. The bedrooms were all situated on basement level. With dormitory style bedrooms (4 single beds and 4 wardrobes!) not much room for comfort here. IKEA style furnishings, wooden chairs with metal legs on the bland grey tiles that are found EVERYWHERE, the noise from the rooms above at night has to be heard to be believed.In these so called 4star bedrooms (in A block at least) fittings fell off the bathrooms walls, the shower leaked and smelt of mould/drains and you could only sit on the toilet with you knees protruding thru the broken side panel of the shower! No Fridge, mini bar or kettle but there is a TV.... but you need to like BBC world as thats the only english channel to be found!!! The only view out of the bedroom windows (above head height) was of a bank of snow littered with cigarette stubs disgarded from the appartments above. Everything was built to a budget and it shows, for a 2/3 year old building its already in a poor state. Not built to even Roman standards! Mangement is poor and some Staff are less than friendly. One or two tried to be helpfull. With long long corridors finding your room and getting about is like being on the STAR SHIP ENTERPRISE! I wished someone had 'beemed' me up to another hotel. This is not really a place for young children either, too much glass and long drops from walkways in this ultra modern complex. There is entertainment....in Italian....but thats another story!!!! You wont find photos of the bedrooms in th brochures or web site ( and now I know why!) only the apartments which are slightly more comfortable, they have a pull-out bed settee BUT are not FULLY equiped as many brochures suggest, lacking Microwaves and kettles. Complaining to the Inghams rep and the management wont improve ...you just get fobbed off and told to make a complaint!!! I could go on ...but I'm fed up talking about the place. If you have to go to this 'hotel' (because a tent is tooo cold...and all the good hotels are full!) choose an apartment. The rooms are NOT somewhere you can rest your aching limbs after a day on the piste...YOU HAVE BEEN WARNED!!!! Oh! Sestriere is nice, with good snow skiing the Milky Way is fun....Sauxi is great as is Montgenevre for skiing. Enjoy!

First of all the staff took 2 hours to check in 5 groups. When it eventually came to our turn to check in we found the staff very abrupt, although that could have been the language barrier. It took us another 20 minutes to find out apartment, as it wasn't signposted at all and the staff coudln't speak English to give directions. As part of out package with Crystal Ski, we were told we had full use of the facilities (which included sauna, pool and gym), and a linen change half-way through the week. It turned out the Gym and Sauna etc, was closed for renovations. Then when we asked for a towel & linen change midway through our stay, we were told it would cost €25 per person, or we just have a new towel for the bargain of €10 each. The apartment itself was adequete but small, and you could hear entire conversations from the apartment above. It had no microwave as advertised. The actual ski resort isn't great for beginners, but good if you were more advanced. Apres Ski isn't really a big thing in the resort. It's more for families, but some really nice restaurants. So unless they're paying you, I wouldn't go near the Villaggio Olimpicio.

We stayed at the Villaggio Olimpico complex, newly built for the 2006 Olympics. Although there is a chair lift and bubble just across the road, they only lead to reds so if you are a beginner it’s not the most convenient location – especially as it’s a 10-15 minute walk uphill to the central Ski School area where the other lifts are located – not something you are going to want to do in your ski boots! Worse though are the staff at Villaggio Olimpico. The reception staff appeared disinterested and unhelpful. I won’t go through all of the problems that we had but they included broken and missing equipment, electrical sockets falling out of the wall, door keys and replacements which didn’t work, ski lockers incorrectly numbered (most were) / wrong keys and more. The staff just didn’t appear to care. On the plus side, the in house restaurant was good and the locals elsewhere in Sestriere were friendly and helpful. But we wouldn't go to the Olympic Village again and wouldn't recommend it.