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Amazing Champoluc Winter Season…. and it’s not finished yet!

As the sun sets on another great ski season here in Champoluc, I would like to thank all of you,  our guests at our Hotel Castor this year as ever; it’s been one of the greatest ski years I can remember – snow from the beginning through to the end. So many have enjoyed our off-piste ski offer with our very own Alpine Guide Stefano Percino and we’re working on new ideas for next year! It’s...

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Spring snow in the Aosta Valley: Pila and Champoluc both have fresh snow

What an end to the season we have seen this week with spring snow across the Aosta Valley. Pilaski in Pila and Ski 2 in Champoluc were both reporting great conditions on...

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Champoluc – Touching the Void!

SPECIAL OFFER from our Hotel Castor…. once a week throughout the season, for just the price of a good lunch, our Alpine Guide, Stefano Percino is yours for the day!….. Just a couple of days ago my wife Beatrice and I decided to take up our own special offer along with 6 crazy Swedes and the even more crazy Alpine Guide, Stefano Percino with an excursion to “La Valle Perduta” – the Lost...

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Fresh spring snow in Champoluc

Weather forecast for the next couple of days gives us a nice top up to the snow blanket up top. Ski conditions still excellent for the season. Fat skis and spring wax the order of the day! Hotel Castor offers our guests a day out with our Alpine Ski Guide Stefano Percino for less than the cost of a couple of Spritz – available until the end of March!  Book early and enjoy the ski of your life!!! Call...

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Papparazzi in Champoluc!!

  Seven hectic and heady days with the boys from Metrosnow, Daniel, Paul, Ian and Antonio (an Italian who moved 12 years ago to my home town – London) revealed all and more to the lenses of their ubiquitous Go Pros and Canon 7D’s. A full on, non stop, action packed week, all for a series of amazing 45 second videos the first of which is here. Follow the intrepid adventures of the Famous Five in...