Hotel Portavescovo

This is the 3rd time of visiting this hotel for skiing and despite my best efforts they still do not do adequate or good vegetarian food. Criticism of this goes back 10 years on TripAdvisor so they don't take this matter seriously. I spoke to the manager and he promised so much and the kitchen delivered so little, its Italy for God's sake, why is it hard? They refuse to mark the menu with V symbols, they refuse to mark the buffet items with V symbols, Why?? Because there is so little? If the manager were not the owner he would need a severe reprimand as it is he can just pay lip service to my requests, so sad.

An excellent hotel. With fabulous views from the room which, although was a single room, it was plenty big enough. The option that I chose of half board was a massive plus. Also as a motorcyclist, it turned out that the underground parking was included 👍🏍. In all highly recommend.

We asked for 2 adjoining , quiet rooms. My friend and I had 314 which had a balcony and a well equipped bathroom with a super Jacuzzi bath and good shower over. Our friends in 312 had a big walk in shower. We found the mattresses solid, duvet and pillows thin and manmade. Not what we were used to in Austrian hotels. The rooms were hot so we turned off the radiators. Towels were plentiful and of good quality. Yellow towels for the pool. Thin cotton dressing gowns available from reception. Food was very good, breakfast had a huge buffet choice, lots of carbs, toast machine, yoghurt, fresh and tinned fruits, boiled eggs, scrambled eggs. The bacon was disappointing. The waiter brought hot water for tea or coffee. Dinner buffet was super, followed by a 3 choice starter, 3 course main, beautiful home made ice cream, fresh fruit salad or a pudding. Our waiter looked after us perfectly. Choices made the day before . The pool is on the ground floor, it has a swim jet , was pretty chilly, with a warm shower. Shame that there are no hooks for towels or dressing gowns. Didn't open until 1400. The spa area is odd, gloomy I didn't use it. The girls in the bar were lovely, nice to sit after skiing and relax with a drink . The reception staff were efficient and helpful. The boot room is a rabbit warren , a €20 refundable deposit is needed for the key. It's a down hill then up hill, 10 minute walk, to the the Burz lift. At the end of the day it's possible to ski to within a 5 minute down hill walk of the boot room steps. We enjoyed our stay. Thank you.

Travelled with Inghams for Christmas week. On arrival we were checked in by a rather uninterested gentleman who took our names and rather snootily said ‘your with Ingham’s’! He had to be prompted to provide us with a ski locker key for a 20 euros deposit. It was as much as he could do to tell us where the lifts were located. Most of the other reception staff we dealt with during the week were more engaging and helpful. Our room was on the 3rd floor and was well appointed, clean, warm, comfortable and fairly quiet. Our friends were on the 2nd floor and had real problems with music noise late at night from the public bar and people standing outside the bar being very loud. They managed to get their room changed to the 3rd floor after a couple of bad, noisy nights. Now for food which is my main beef ( no pun intended): My wife is dairy intolerant which Inghams had been advised of and they had acknowledged it. However we are unsure if Inghams had made the hotel aware or not. Breakfast is a buffet affair with a good selection of cold and a limited selection of warm foods, scrambled eggs and thin bacon. Luke warm water supplied for tea and a number of different, very diluted, fruit juices from 2 machines. My wife was given a lactose free yoghurt 3 of the 7 days we were there. Evening meals were, to be brutally honest, disorganised and very poor. You have to select your next evening meals from a very limited menu. This rarely had anything remotely dairy free on it, which became a bit of a guessing game. The salad/starter buffet was well stocked but nothing was labelled. It was impossible to identify if some of the dishes, quite often breadcrumbed, had cheese/dairy in them. One of our friends is vegetarian and the same lack of choice and information on content applied. He was given a vegetable lasagne one evening that had pieces of ham in it! The Christmas evening ‘event’ was shambolic. There were not enough waiting staff and the maitre d was running around like a headless chicken. It took an hour to be served our second course. The ‘main’ event was a large joint of pork which the chefs carved in the restaurant. It was not cooked properly and what should have been crackling was soft and fatty. The whole meal took over 3 hours to complete. Things did improve slightly on later evenings and the waiting staff were, in the main, very friendly and competent. I think they were generally frustrated by the random offerings from the kitchen. It was rare for the 5 of us to get our meals presented closely together. The hotel has its own bar but it was not open any of the time we were there during the week. We had to use the public bar, which is attached to the hotel and we guessed owned and run by them as you could put drinks on your room bill from there. Prices were very fair, 6 euros for a large beer and the same for an Aperol Spritz. My wife used the wellness facility most days and found the sauna very good, she said the pool was very cold. Arabba

lovely and designed hotel the hotel designed amazing. the room is clean and comfortable and the hotel stuff is very kind

This is an extremely comfortable hotel with an excellent restaurant and very friendly staff. There is also a spa and ample lounge areas. The hotel is located about 10 minutes from the nearest chairlift and you can ski almost back to the hotel.