Dolomite Ski Region, Italy
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Trip Description (Jan 31 to Feb 09, 2025)
The Bytown Ski Club will return to Europe in 2025 with a ten day ski/snowboard group package tour to the Dolomite ski region in Italy, with Munich Germany as our gateway airport. Our trip is timed to capture the best snow conditions in the Alps while purposely avoiding any European holiday periods.
The Bytown Ski Club will use Air Canada from Ottawa to Munich Germany via Toronto.
We use private coach between Munich Airport and the Dolomite regional town of Ortisei. As it is approximately a four+ hour coach ride, we'll stop en-route for a lunch break before arrival at our hotel in mid-afternoon.
Your Hotel Dolomiti Madonna is located a short walking distance from the town centre, bus station and gondola into the massive Dolomite ski region. A short distance from the hotel is our complementary included pass into the Swimming pool complex. While one can use the gondola to enter the ski -snow board area, some winter visitors elect to use the free ski bus on occasion to connect quickly to neighbouring towns in the immediate area for skiing or other activities. As with past Bytown ski vacations, your tour leader will arrange a standard dinner time for our group at the hotel restaurant so our members can always unite at the end of each day to share stories of their mountain day with other Bytown folks. Unlike Austria, we do not yet have any apres ski recommendations to offer but will advise everyone as soon as we obtain any information.
Whether you have the IKON pass or have your included package ski pass, you will have the Superski pass that entitles you to use any of the 488 lifts in the massive ski complex that interconnects twelve ski communities. A must for skiing or boarding here is to follow the circular Sella Ronda route over two of your vacation days; one day in each direction. The routes are exceptionally well marked by colour coded signs at the top of each lift.
Contrary to many weeklong ski trips where it is a necessary evil to rise early (very early!) to board the coach back to a gateway airport for an early day flight departure back to Canada, on this trip we have elected for a more civilized departure after breakfast on our Saturday check out day, and travel back to a Munich hotel where we will overnight until a late morning Sunday departure in our return to Canada. This itinerary will provide an opportunity for people wishing to experience a touch of Europe beyond the mountains, experience Munich late Saturday afternoon and have dinner (beer hall!) in a cosmopolitan beautiful city. We would suggest booking any attractions before the trip to ensure that you will not be disappointed.
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Flight Schedule:
| Date | Flight | From | To | Depart | Arrive |
| Jan 31, 2025 | AC 457 | Ottawa | TorontoT1 | 14:10 | 15:21 |
| Jan 31, 2025 | AC 836 | TorontoT1 | MunichT2 | 19:45 | 9:50+1 |
| Feb 9, 2025 | AC 837 | MunichT2 | TorontoT1 | 11:50 | 14:55 |
| Feb 9, 2025 | AC 462 | TorontoT1 | Ottawa | 17:05 | 18:12 |
+1 means that the flight arrives the next day.
Cost includes:
Round trip air from Ottawa - Munich Germany via Toronto with Air Canada.
Private group coach transfer between Munich Airport and Ortisei Italy.
Private group coach transfer between Ortisei and downtown Munich hotel.
Private group coach transfer between Munich downtown hotel and Munich Airport.
7-nights accommodation in Hotel Dolomiti Madonna.
1-night accommodation with breakfast at Munich Hotel Maritim.
Buffet breakfasts and multi course dinners daily at hotel Dolomiti Madonna.
6-day ski Dolomiti Superski pass.
Ski pass RFID card;
Trip leader accompaniment;
September trip information meeting.
January pre-trip information meeting.
Two pieces of checked airline luggage (suitcase & ski/boot bag) at no extra charge.
All taxes, tourist taxes, coach driver tips and service charges.
Cost does not include:
Cost of lunches;
Travel insurance;
Passport valid for 6 months after date of departure;
Italian liability insurance to be purchased on line in advance (E26 in 2024);
Any other items not specifically mentioned in the inclusions;
Cost per person (all-inclusive):
Cost per person (all inclusive):
| Based on double occupancy | $4,150.00 |
| Based on single occupancy | $4,450.00 |
| Based on triple occupancy | $4,050 |
| Four person suite upon request | $TBD |
| Payment by VISA/Mastercard (+3%) single | $4,583.50 |
| Payment by VISA/Mastercard (+3%) double | $4,274.50 |
| Payment by VISA/Mastercard (+3%) three person suite | $4,171.50 |
| Seniors 65 and 65+, reduce package cost by | $50.00 |
| Land only, not including airfare, reduce package cost by | $1,300.00 |
| Adult (non senior) package not including 6-day ski pass, reduce cost by | $500.00 |
| Senior package not including 6-day ski ski pass, reduce cost by | $450.00 |
| Optional all-inclusive insurance with MANULIFE covers up to package price (rates are based on your age) prior to departure: | Up to $4,000.00 | Up to $4,200.00 | Up to $4,400.00 | Up to $4,600.00 | |
| Up to age 59 | $441.00 | $454.00 | $468.00 | $481.00 | |
| Age 60 - 64 | $541.00 | $557.00 | $573.00 | $589.00 | |
| Age 65 - 69 | $622.00 | $640.00 | $659.00 | $678.00 | |
| Age 70 - 74 | $824.00 | $846.00 | $868.00 | $889.00 | |
| Age 75 - 79 | $979.00 | $1,009.00 | $1,038.00 | $1,068.00 | |
| Age 80+ | Will be quoted depending on age | ||||
| Insurance costs are subject to change any time until booked | |||||
For other age groups (or different coverage), please contact Touringhouse for a quotation, or call 613-741-2942:
Expenses related to COVID 19 will not be covered if the Government of Canada issues an "Avoid All Travel" or an "Avoid All Non-Essential Travel" Advisory, advising or recommending that Canadians not travel to a specific country, region or city on their date of departure.
All-insurance coverage covers the following (insurance brochures available on request):
Trip cancellation (for covered reasons)
Trip interruption
Emergency hospital/medical
Baggage loss/delay
Flight and travel accident
Registration Information
Reservations for the limited number of group package spots will be accepted on first-come basis starting 9:00 a.m. on Tuesday August 13, 2024 by phoning Touringhouse at 613-741-2942 and/or submitting an application to Touringhouse by mail, deliver to office, or email attachment.
There will be a trip information meeting, open to all, on Wednesday September 11, 2024 from 18:30 - 19:30 at the Nepean Sailing Club, Harbourview Room, Andrew Haydon Park, 3259 Carling Avenue, Ottawa, ON, K2H 1A6 (directions at bottom).
A PDF of the registration form can be downloaded here, and a Word (.doc) version here. A PDF of the credit card/insurance authorization form can be downloaded here, and a Word (.doc) version here.
Initial deposits of $400, plus optional insurance must be made at time of application to guarantee your reservation, together with your application.If you are reserving your spot by phone call or email, your $400 application fee (and insurance payment if required) must be paid to Touringhouse within seven calendar days.
Balance of payment is due with post-dated cheque dated November 15, 2024, or email transfer or credit card payment before November 15, 2024.
Payments can be made by email transfer to travel@touringhouse.com, by VISA or MASTERCARD or by cheques payable to Touringhouse and mailed or dropped off at our office at 876 Montreal Road, Suite 201, Ottawa, Ontario, K1K 4L3.
If requiring travel insurance, it must be paid at time of initial deposit. See the trip application form.
Touringhouse will endeavour to pair single registrants into a two-person room, if possible and upon request. In event of a pairing option, you would be provided an opportunity to network with your potential roommate prior to finalization.
Please note that payments once made are fully non-refundable unless eligible for insurance refund or the trip has to be cancelled by Touringhouse and suppliers for whatever reason.
Deviations
While the group must depart together from Ottawa, individuals will be allowed to change their return date, provided requests are made in writing by October 31, 2024.
The airlines allow only 20% of the passengers in the group to change their return date. For example, if only 20 passengers take the full package with air, only 4 persons will be able to deviate.
Extensions are permitted for a maximum of 7 days after the group returns. Deviations are provided on a first-come, first-served basis.
There will be an Air Canada service charge of $100.00 per person to process individual deviations plus the applicable incremental airfare if the same class of service is not available on the return. We cannot guarantee the same airfare for individuals returning on a different date.
Land only, or deviation people, are welcome to use the group coach transfers Munich to/from Ortisei, IF they make prior arrangements to join the group in advance to coach departures. We cannot give a credit for transfers which are not used by passengers making their own air arrangements or deviating.
Bytown Ski Club (www.bytownskiclub.ca)
Hotel Dolomiti Madonna Ortisei, Saalbach (www.hotel-madonna.com/)
Hotel Maritim, Munich (Maritim hotels)
Dolomite Resort (Dolomite Superski lift map)
Touringhouse Travel (613-741-2942)(www.touringhouse.com/)
Nepean Sailing Club directions (Nepean Sailing Club)
ETIAS Application (ETIAS application form)
Dolomite Superski website Italian ski mandatory liability insurance (Mandatory Superski liability insurance)
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