A family ski holiday to Italy
best routes for self-drive
If you’ve booked your family ski holiday to Italy through one of the large UK tour operators, then your travel arrangements are most likely included as part of a ski vacations package. What if you’re more adventurous and want to make your own way there, or have booked accommodation independently?
How easy is it to drive from the UK for your ski holiday?
Italy is easy to drive to from the UK – but – it must be said that the resorts in the north-west of the country are a quicker drive than those in the north-east. Worth remembering if your children are like ours and start asking if we’re nearly there when we’ve only covered the first 100 miles!
North-west
For the Bardonecchia and the Via Lattea resorts such as Sestriere and Sauze d’Oulx, the best route is from France via the Frejus tunnel. We've driven this route many times and it is a comfortable drive through France.
For Courmayeur, La Thuile and the resorts off the Aosta valley such as Cervinia, Gressoney and Pila we’d travel from France via the Mont Blanc tunnel. You could also go via the Grand St Bernard tunnel from Switzerland for the Aosta resorts.
North-east
To drive to the Sella Ronda resorts that include Cortina d’Ampezzo, Selva and Arabba, the best route is from Austria over the Bremner pass. The drive from the UK isn’t difficult, but it is long. We’d consider it if we were going for more than a week and wanted to use the car to visit different resorts whilst we were there. Otherwise, with children we’d probably fly.
In the middle
Likewise, if we were taking family ski vacations to Livigno or Bormio in the central north we wouldn’t drive. Although you can use the San Bernadino or St Gotthard road tunnels from Switzerland, the drive once in Italy isn’t direct. Road trips are all very well, but we prefer to be skiing on ski holidays.
Where's best to take the family on a self-drive ski holiday?
Italy has so many wonderful ski resorts, but truthfully, when driving from the UK with a car full of children, we'd opt for the north-western resorts purely because they're quicker to reach.
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