Arabba is small but has everything you need - hotels, restaurants, bank, post office, supermarket - and is a perfect place to base yourself to ski the wonderful Dolomiti area.
All round ski ing superb. Miles of wonderful runs and fab places to stop for a refreshment. Would definitely go again. Easy access to get around too. Very well sign posted.
We booked a ski safari with Arabba Holidays which is part of Arabba Ski school. We can recommend this type of holiday if you are a keen skier rather than a apres skier .The service we received from Mario and Patsy (a Kiwi )was great and our guide/ instructor was faultless.The Dolomites is a ski area for skiers not players with more slopes than one could ski in a month.Highly recommended
Best choice of skis in Arabba and has stores in several locations. Main store is under the Portovescovo main lift station. Big choice of skis ranging from full race SL and GS skis to All Mountain skis and off piste specific.Very helpful staff and happy to change skis regularly. I did one run on one set, deciding I didn't like them and changed immediately; not a problem.Also has a store at the Campolongo pass, so very handy if you are staying in the Grifone, Boe or Cherz hotels.Great value, top staff.
All the region is about walking. There is no way to get from one part of Arabba to another on your own skis. The mountains are high, but the slopes are not the best I've ever tried. Breuil Cervinia is much better prepared, for example.
We had a wonderful time and have booked again for next year. The report is small and caters for winter skiers and not much more. Few shops and no bars with happy hours so if you want to party after skiing this may not be the place for you. If you want to relax after a good days skiing its hard to beat.
Don't come to Arabba for apres ski, drunken youth/Dutch/Germans. Do come here to enjoy the Italian way of skiiing and good food.
Everything you need for a skiing break without a vast market place! Probably not good if you need lots of Apres ski. The skiing is so extensive and challenging that we didn't!
Best place to start the sella ronda either way. Start early and avoid queues going up to Porta Vescovo going clockwise , the gondola can be busy during the day, going up to monte burz is ok any time going anticlockwise
Situated in the middle of the Dolomiti Superski area there's loads of skiing to be had. Arabba is a very pretty village but quiet so not the place for those looking for lots of apres ski or shopping.