Heli & Ride Week Monterosa / Gressoney Royale II

All services: (included in travel price!)

• 6 freeride days (Sun-Fri) with english speaking UIAGM mountain guides in small group (4 guests + 1 guide)
• 2 helicopter flights with ca. 4000m descent are included in our price.
• Flight tax (charged on every helicopter flight in Italy!)
• Refund for not used helicopter flights of 120.- Euro /flight
  Refund is paid only in case of wind, bad weather or avalanche danger. No refund in case of illness, accident, leak of fitness, bad skiing skills, late arrival or breaks during the skiing days
• Organization of additional heli flights
• 7 overnight stays in 4* hotel in Gressoney
• 7x breakfast
• Plus: Arrival breakfast on Saturday (when you book coach/shuttle journey)
• 7x dinner with different main courses
• Additional: Departure Pasta at the hotel befor departure (in afternoon - when you book coach/shuttle journey...)
• Insolvency insurance according §651k BGB from tourVers / Hanse Merkur
• Optional: Sport65 Shuttle/coach travel from/to Weinheim (possibility to hop-on on route) and transfers can be booked
  Or: Pick-up service at the airports of Frankfurt, Basel or Geneva on demand
  Sport65 #travelsafe concept: We are going to follow the Covid-19 regulations at the time of the trip, more info in the section "Journey"
• Optional: 6-8 days lift tickets at a special discount. You can order your lift ticket here with your booking at a special price and will get it in the morning from our guides (extra)
• Hotelshuttle to the gondola
• Free utilisation of the sauna and SPA at the hotel
• If desired: Instruction with avalanche beacon, airbag backpack,...
• Sport65 tour organization
• Sport65 tour operation
• Free parking at the hotel
• Sport65 rental gear service for latest freeride equipment with "Try & Buy" oportunity
• "Sport65 Duty Free Voucher" - as a Sport65 travel customer you will get many special discounts on items of the Sport65 Premium Partner brands. This coupon will be sent with your travel voucher after receiving the payment.

Extras and special rates: (not included in travel price!)

• 6-8 days lift tickets
  Or: You can order your lift ticket here with your booking at a special price and will get it in the morning from our guides!
• Heliskiing: You have 2 flights included.
  Rates per additional flight 150.- Euro to 250.- Euro, depends on destination and occupation of the helicopter.
• Arrival/journey
  Or: Transfer with Sport65 coach/van including transfers on-site and pick-up service at the airports of Frankfurt, Basel or Geneva on demand
  Sport65 #travelsafe concept: We are going to follow the Covid-19 regulations at the time of the trip, more info in the section "Journey"
• Solarium, massages in hotel
• 7x Stay tax at the hotel
• Sport65 Rental-Center: We provide you with the latest Freeride and All Mountain skis with freeride-tour bindings and climbing skins.
  We provide you with full avalanche equipment, beacon, airbag backpacks.
  Please note your desired equipment in the booking form!
  "Try & Buy" option: The rental paid will be credited to you at a later purchase!
  Sport65 rental fees...

Important information about included and extra services:

• All services are included in the travel price.
• Extras are not included and must be paid at your destination or will be added in the booking form.
  Please remember to bring cash to be ready for unpaid extras.
• Lift tickets: If lift tickets are not included in the price, Sport65 is in charge of providing you with lift tickets we advise that we do not take responsibility for terms and rules of the lift companys.
  In case that we get free tickets we need them for our guides and staff. Special rates do not need to be forwarded to the customer.
  Booking of lift tickets is mandatory.
  Exception: Holders of season tickets or interconnection tickets (like Tirol Snowcard,...) must not buy tickets and can use their own ticket.
  Please note this during the booking procedure.
• Additional costs for transportation during the trip (bus, train, taxi/cab rides) which are not already included have to be paid extra.
• Visitor's tax: Will be added in the booking process and paid seperatly from Sport65 to the hotel.
  If not: Visitors taxes are not included in the travel price and will get charged directly by the accomodation to you.
• Drinks and additional food (which is not included in the service) have to be paid extra.
• Skilessons from Sport65 DSLV skiinstructors:
  Our trips include ski guiding but no - lessons!.
  Private lessons for novices can be booked on request.
  Group lessons: 2 days á 2x2 hr.: 79,00 EUR
  Group lessons: 3 days á 2x2 hr.: 99,00 EUR
  Group lessons: 4 days á 2x2 hr.: 129,00 EUR
  Private lessons: 39,00 EUR/hr. every additional person 19,00 EUR/hr.
  Min. number of participants for a group lesson is 4 people.
• Rental gear: Please regard the official terms of cancellation
  Cancellation of a formal and confirmed reservation has to be done by email and will effect the following terms:
  Until the 15th day before pick up date 10,00 EUR
  Until the 3rd day before pick up date 20,00 EUR
  If the gear did not get picked up on the stated day in the reservation sheet the cancellation fee of 80% of the quoted price will get charged. We will process an invoice automtically and send it to the renter. Refusal of the payment will get pursued by law.
• Please pay attention to our terms! They are mandatory with each booking.
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• Please consider our terms of cancellation.
  until the 30th day before trip 20 % of the travel price
  until the 22nd day before trip 30 % of the travel price
  until the 15th day before trip 50 % of the travel price
  until the 8th day before trip 70 % of the travel price
  no show 90 % of the travel price
  We strongly recommend a travel insurance, that covers a cancellation from you due to disease. We will take out this for you through "HanseMerkur Reiseversicherung" (Travel Insurance). More information about Travel insurance.
  This insurance is not included in the trip price and Sport65 is not responsible for any insurance that is offered by alternative payment methods (such as Creditcard,...).
  If you book for more persons than yourself you also agree in our cancellation rules for those.

Self aranged journey by plane, train, car or Sport65 shuttle with the Sport65 #travelsafe concept*

You can reach your destination by yourself - for closest airport, railway station, pick up service or shuttle please feel free to ask us via mail!

Or: You can travel with the Sport65 Coach or Shuttle - which leaves on Friday to Saturday night around 0.30 a.m. from Weinheim.
Pick-up service at the airports of Frankfurt, Basel or Geneva on demand.

Schedule:

• Arrival: Saturday, during the day. Rooms will be at your disposal from 2 p.m.
  Meeting and group briefing: Saturday at the dinner in the hotel
  Dinner is served until 8.30 p.m.
• 1st skiday with UIAGM guide: Sunday
• Departure: Saturday

Closest airport: Torino Caselle - from there you can get easily by shuttle to Valtournenche.
You can find the best rental car rates here: www.rentalcars.com - rates starting at 40.- Euro/day
Shuttle services: Feel free to check this website for transfers from airport to hotel: transfervallee.eu

Important information concerning departure times, dates and journey:

• Departure of the Bus or Van: Sport65 Shop, Am Hauptbahnhof 8, 69469 Weinheim
• Parking during your Sport65 trip at the "3Glocken Center", Sport65 Shop:
  Parking spots available on the main parking lot in front of the Sport65 Shop. No reservations have to be made!
  Special rates for Sport65 customers:
  - 2,5 until 3 days 14,00 EUR (Departure Friday, arrival Sunday night)
  - 3,5 until 4 days 19,00 EUR (Departure Thursday, arrival Sunday night)
  - 4,5 until 5 days 25,00 EUR (Departure Wednesday, arrival Sunday night)
  - 7 until 9 days 38,00 EUR (Weekly rate)
  The regulations and house rules from the parking lot owner are applicable.
  
• Sport65 is allowed to cancel this trip 15 days before start in case of not reaching the minium number of participants.
  Any costs for booked transfers or transportation to the destination of departure will not be refunded by Sport65.
• Pick up from the Sport65 Bus or Van along our travel route (Switzerland A5 via Basel-Bern or Basel-Zürich, Austria/Italy A5/A6/A7 via Karlsruhe, Stuttgart, Ulm,...) are possible but must be discussed before booking.
  Your are a group of 10 people and would like to book a pick up and ride to our destination of departure? Let us know and we will give you a ride in our Van for an extra charge. Frankfurt, Mainz, Wiesbaden, Darmstadt...
• In case you chose Self-arrival travel you will be responsible for the late arrival, if it is not represented by Sport65.
  A claim for damages for non-preserved benefits does not arise from it.
• If you choose self arrival we do not guarantee a free seat in our bus or shuttle for transfers to the ski resorts.
  If we have free seats we will give you a lift.
• Please consider our terms, they are part of your booking.

Charme & Relax Hotel Albergo Lo Scoiattolo 4*

For the last 20 years: Our 4* "basecamp" in Gressoney la Trinité...

Set in the ancient village Gressoney La Trinité at the foot of Monte Rosa's impressive massif, "Lo Scoiattolo" is a hotel, where relaxation and comfort merge with the exquisite hospitality of the owners. Probably some of the best food you ever got at a hotel.
In 2011 completly rennovated - However, you will always find that mountain and familiar style that has characterized this hotel all through these past years that we are staying there with our groups...
Caution: in this hotel you can easily gain a couple of pounds/kgs due to the amazing food. Sport65 takes no responsibility in case your clothes do not fint anymore after this trip. 

Facilities and achievement:

• Big breakfast with typical specialities of the region
• Big dinner with different main courses, antipasti and salad
• New rooms with shower, toilet, TV, phone, WLAN, hairdryer, safe
• Hotel SPA with Sauna, Jacuzzi, Turkish Bath, massage oportunities
• Hotelshuttle to/from lifts
  

Hint: Just a couple of steps away from the hotel your can the the bar "castore". A beautiful bar with lounge music which you would never expect to find in a village like Gressoney. The owner Paolo is a long time friend from our Sport65 team.

Freeride Paradise Monterosa Ski (Gressoney/Champoluc/Alagna)

Sorry, we did not translate the skiresorts facts in English language.
But you may rest assured that this resort is a fabulous freeride spot!
Endless runs and a bunch full of off-piste possibilties are waiting for all our freeride levels.

Feel free to contact us for further information or visit the website of the resort.

Monterosa, das Sport65 "5 Sterne+ Freeride XXL Gebiet"...

Freeride-Paradise heißt es an der Gondel von Alagna.
Der Name ist Programm! Hier erwartet euch Besonderes...
Die Gondel zur Punta Indren bringt uns in schnellster Zeit auf über 3200m und mitten rein in die Traum-Freeridehänge, alle Hänge ohne Präparierung, Der Zutritt hier ist sogar nur mit LVS Ausrüstung möglich.
Wer sowohl auf gepflegten italienischen Pisten mit gemütlichen Hütten, als auch off-piste in einer grandiösen Hochgebirgswelt unterwegs sein möchte und gleichzeitig ein ganz spezielles Lebensgefühl der Freeride-Szene sucht, ist hier genau richtig!
Powderstress nach Schneefall á la Arlberg? Hier ein Fremdwort!
Mitte der 90er Jahre fuhr man nach La Grave, Verbier oder Chamonix, heute fällt in einem Atemzug mit diesen legendären Orten immer wieder der Name Monte-Rosa Ski und Gressoney oder Alagna.
Warum wohl? Weil es wirklich einer der größten und spektakulärsten "Spielplätze" der Alpen ist!
Off-piste Möglichkeiten ohne Grenzen. Tiefschnee-Cracks erfüllen sich dort ihre innigsten Träume.
Von Abfahrten in 40-55 Grad steilen Wänden und Couloirs mit bis zu 2.500 Höhenmetern Abfahrt offenen und breiten Hängen.
Zudem ist die Monterosa Region eines der letzten Heliski-Resorts Europas, in dem wir uns auf die höchsten Gipfel bringen lassen können und unvergleichliche Abfahrtsmöglichkeiten vorfinden.
Im Übrigen: Günstiger und mit mehr Abfahrtsmetern kommt man nirgendwo auf der Welt zum Heliskiing!
Sich in einer atemberaubenden Gletscherwelt und beeindruckenden Naturlandschaft bewegen, per Helikopter auf die zahlreichen 4000er-Gipfel steigen oder mit Tourenausrüstung und Fellen hochstapfen und die schönsten Runs "erobern".
Natürlich ist hier eine gewisse körperliche Fitness Grundvoraussetzung, denn wir bewegen uns immer auf ca. 3000m Höhe.

Sonne- und Schneegarantie sind für ein Skigebiet, dass auf 2000m beginnt und bis auf 3.300m geht, gegeben.
Rund um die Bergdörfer des Gebietes steht die absolute Prominenz der Alpengipfel aufgereiht: Castor, Pollux, Lysskamm, Monte Rosa, Mont Blanc, Grand Paradiso, Matterhorn,... alles 4000er, die majestätisch über den verschlafen wirkenden Ortschaften thronen.
So vielschichtig wie die Skigebiete sind auch die Sprachen der Einheimischen (Italienisch, Französisch, Deutsch mit Walserdialekt...).

Und Abends?
Im Aostatal geht es auch beim Après anders zu. Gemütliche und rustikale Hütten gibt es zu Hauf im Skigebiet und an den Talstationen.
"Unsere" Aprèsstation fast immer: Die "Morgenrot" mit der schönen Kellerbar und der sonnigen Terrasse an der Jolanda-Talabfahrt...
Wer allerdings hier den "Anton aus Tirol" sucht dem sei gesagt: Du bist falsch hier!
Ganz genial mach einem heftigen Skitag: Die Castore & Pollux Lounge-Bar von Paolo, 50m vom Hotel Lo Scoiatollo entfernt, genau neben der Kirche in Gressoney la Trinité, dort gibt es mega leckere und gehaltvolle Cocktails bei entspanntester Musik und Kuschelecken zum chillen.

Aber psssst - nicht zu vielen Skifahrern weitersagen, das Gebiet ist noch immer ein Geheimtipp und so soll das auch bleiben...

Daten / Fakten / Wissenswertes...

• Gesamt Pistenkilometer: ca. 180 km präparierte Pisten + unzählige Skirouten, Varianten,...
• Anzahl der Aufstiegsanlagen / Lifte: 26
• Helikoptermöglichkeiten ohne Ende (ab ca. 180.- Euro/Tag)
• Schneesicherheit: Das Gebiet ist bis 3300m hoch.
  Hoch oben an der neuen Indren Station bewegt man sich auf Gletscher. Die Hänge weissen alle Expositionen auf, so dass man oft Powder und Firn an einem Tag fahren kann! Die Höhenmeter, die man dort machen kann sind fast unglaublich, denn die Bahnen sind alle sehr lang!

HELISKIING: Hier natürlich das große Highlight und sicherlich eines der weltbesten Heliski Gebiete!
Mit dem Heli auf über 4000m steigen und endlose Runs über die Gletscher geniessen...
Eines der letzten Gebiete mit Helimöglichkeiten, zudem eines der preiswertesten weltweit.
Ab ca. 180.- Euro (inkl. Bergführer) könnt ihr euch hier nach oben fliegen lassen.
Die Ziele die wir ansteuern sind Colle de Lyss, Porta Nero ("Schwarztor"), Colle d´Ayas, Tête de Valpelline,... allsamt über 4000m und mit ca. 2500m Abfahrt durch die grandiose Gletscherwelt rund um das Monterosa Massiv.
Hier arbeiten wir seit jahren mit den Monterosa Guides zusammen, die unsere Gruppen hier betreuen, deren Helikopter wir nutzen, und deren Ortskenntnis wir brauchen, um maximale Sicherheit und die besten Runs zu garantieren!
Ausserdem kennen die Jungs auch die entlegendsten Hütten mit dem besten Essen... werdet ihr sehn!

  Link zum Gebiet: Monterosa Ski