Hotel Garni B&B La Felce

We got flights from Leeds with jet2. The first weekend in January just before the schools went back to go skiing for a long weekend. 2 adults and a teenager. We flew to Bergamo near Milan and hired a car to drive to the mountains. The drive took just under 3 hours. The hotel La felce is very compact and looks Austrian. Nicely decorated and clean. The room was warm and clean with a lovely balcony. The balcony was great to keep food and water cool and to look at the snow on the mountains and breath clean mountain air. The room had a shower which I was concerned about after a day skiing but the water was lovely and warm. The breakfast was fine for the price we paid for the rooms. There was choice and a warm bun/croisant type thing each morning. We ate up the mountain for lunch and went out in the evening. The owner gave us discount vouchers for local restaurants all within walkin distance of the hotel. The hotel was lovely and quiet so we all got a good nights sleep. In the evening the sleepy town came alive when the shops opened. We found a lovely small market selling warm alcohol and cheese similar to Parmesan which was fabulous. The best I have ever eaten. The hotel is within walking distance to shops, restaurants and the cable car. We did used the car to drive to the cable car which has free parking. There was a car park full of huge camper vans. People had come to ski for the weekend. We hired skiis and boots in Pinzolo Euro Sports and bought ski passes for 3 days at the cable car. The hotel sells ski passes for the area. There was no snow down in the town but up the cable car in Pinzolo we found the snow. There is a nursery slope and blue, red and black runs. Although due to there being no snow for weeks some of the black runs were closed. As intermediates there was enough for us to do and there were snow making machines. The sun shone the whole time we were there. Madonna di Campiglio is worth a visit but much busier and full of fur coats. There did not seem to be any English in Pinzolo just a place for the Italians to have fun in the snow. Would use the Hotel again and expect ti would be lovely in the spring and summer.