I am prompted to write a review based on the negative comments made about this place. 8 of us stayed here in March of 2007 & we had a fantastic time.

The hotel is definately a walk from the slopes, but with the bus stop outside the door I had no complaints.

The rooms were large, clean & a lovely place to come back to after a day's skiing. The food was excellent & all our worries about eating in the same place for 6 nights came to nothing - they vary the options every night so it never gets boring!

The staff were so friendly. There's no bar area, but we spent many nights sitting on the couches in the lobby having some beers & playing cards.

Having read 3 terrible reviews about this hotel ,our group of 8 were delighted with what we found. It was warm,clean and comfortable and very very welcoming. The food was excellent and our waiter very good and friendly. Yes there is a short walk to the lifts but the bus service was prompt and the times were good. We tended to walk back at night as it was downhill! Lots of good bars very close with excellent and very generous nibbles to go with your beer.

We were just glad that the moaning minnies who wrote previous reviews were not there when we were. In fairness perhaps it has changed but the old reviews should be deleted.

We stayed at the Hotel San Bernardo in January, my first ski holiday, and after seeing some of the reviews - I was a little more than worried.

How wrong could they be!? I'm sure things must have changed since the previous reviewers stayed as ours was a totally different experience to the ones that they described.

We went with our friends (Mollari, see the previous review!) having booked the holiday via a website. After a 2 and a half hour transfer from the airport (the worst part....) we found that the hotel was at the end of the resort, a fair walk to get to the slopes, but you could hire a locker at the ski hire shop for a small amount. There was also a free bus if your legs were too tired to walk up the hill.

It was a nice resort, fairly quiet, though it did get quite busy on the weekend. The hotel was full and the half-board meals were more than sufficient. An all-you-can-eat continental breakfast (the best soft cheese ever!) and a 3 course meal of an evening which was usually a starter of chunky soup or pasta dish (massive!), a meat dish with veg and then a pudding of cake, ice cream or fruit, varying each night.

The staff were lovely and friendly and did their best to talk to you - though they did slip into their native tongue at times, they always had a smile on their faces... especially when the language barrier proved too much (e.g sors = sausage! :) The room was lovely and warm and clean, as was the hotel itself, and the bed was very comfortable.

All in all, for a 2 star hotel this place cannot be faulted and comes highly recommended.

The only thing that WAS faulty that week was my skiing ability.... :)

After booking this Hotel first then reading the reviews I was a little nervous about staying here. I'm glad to say that I shouldn't have been worried.

The hotel is in a ok location. It's about a 10 min walk to the lifts but to stay closer you'd have to pay more.

The staff are very nice, always saying hello and getting our keys for us before we even told them our room number. It's nothing like the bad reviews say here with the exception that they do speak a lot of Italian so sometimes it's hard to understand what's going on, but we were in Italy so what do you expect!!!

The rooms we're very clean and they were tidied every day. We had a good supply of clean towels etc.

The food was again great for the price, we saved so much money by not having to go out for our evening meal. The breakfast was a set continental style buffet but there was enough choice. The dinners were a choice of 3 starters and 3 main courses and 1 desert (although you could ask for fruit), which all differed each day (with only a few repeats through the week).

All in all a great place to stay for the price with absolutely nothing to complain about.