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Advantages:
Great location for the beginner, right through to the advanced skiers . Plenty of drinking holes and eateries .
Disadvantages:
1 . 75Hr Coach travel from airport to the resort not very nice, given the road conditions (snow) and the sheer cliffs the roads pass by : /
Ignore what the press say about this place, it's a great place to stay for a week or two skiing some of the best runs along the Milky Way. Don't knock it until you've tried it! I have, and loved the place. Sauze D'oulx used to have the association with British lager louts frequenting the many bar's Sauze has to offer... Things have changed, for the better!!
There are plenty of places to eat and drink around Sauze, the night life is almost non stop until 5 or 6am if you're that way inclined. Paddy McGinty's bar seems the most popular place to spend evenings if you're not the total party animal you'd need to be to spend evenings in other bars/clubs... Very friendly place, they also serve *real* beer there too - I seem to remember (on one rather hazy night) consuming copious amounts of Caffreys... :/
The 2000/2001 snow season was the best the Sauze region has had in about 3 years... Almost 2 metres of snow cover at the top, to about a metre on the lower slopes. Fresh snow fell while we were there (7 to 14 Jan 2001) which made the runs a little slower, but ideal for new comers to the sport to get to grips with their parallel turns on the more adventurous red runs.
Sauze D'oulx is linked to the rest of the Milky Way by a huge series of lifts (2 or 4 man chair lifts, button lifts and the odd gondola here and there), and is very easy to get to Sestriere and Sansicaro runs without too much trouble for the intermediate skier.
Overal an excellent place to learn to ski with plenty of offer off piste!
When I seem to remember having a really good time... well what I remember of it anyway...it was Killkenny not Caffreys that got me... good opinion...SB.
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