...forgive the almost total absence of what one might call real luxury five star hotels, Livigno has everything else one needs. There is an excellent choice of dining possibilities in some of the best and most reasonably priced restaurants in skidom. In fact the whole area offers a fun, laid back atmosphere. Livigno makes no claims to sophistication or airs about being a jet set destination. It is simply a good value, good fun, "lets do it" type of ski resort. The duty free aspect is possibly the driving force in Livigno's character makeup. The reason it attracts the type of clientele it attracts. Good value in drinks, food, accommodation and skiing can lead to some pretty serious fun? What’s not to like? The facade of the village is changing rapidly, and where once we described it as long and narrow, now it seems to be growing in a more orderly manner. There are basically two main streets running through the valley, with shopping and skiing on both sides. Spread out along the two main streets are hotels, restaurants, shops (duty free) ski schools and more.
WINTER LIVIGNO
A flat open valley that disappeared into the horizon. Two chains of mountains that descended gently down to a town composed of a series of dark wooden houses that rose up out of the snow here and there in a long single row. A sheltered village flooded with sparkling rays of sun from the clear blue limpid sky, the air is fresh but revitalising, there are no roads, only tracks for sledges and an immense blanket of snow broken here and there by the green of the trees. This is how Livigno appeared in the thirties, to the German tourists who fell in love with Livigno and its skiing, coming in via the Gallo Pass by horse and sledge, the only way to get in from the Engadin at the time. These tourists would go for long treks on skis up the valley or climb up the gentler slopes around Livigno using snow shoes in order to ski down the virgin slopes. Then after the war advances in snow ploughs allowed Livigno to break its winter isolation. More tourists started to come, new hotels and the first ski lifts were built. Today Livigno is one of the most important European ski resorts and despite its growth it has been able to preserve its environment and architecture and the alpine atmosphere that those first German tourists so loved. Livigno is still a true mountain resort , the sort we all dream of, with an immense blanket of snow, blue skies and dotted with wooden cottages just below the tree line.
SKIING IN LIVIGNO
To appreciate the real evolvement of Livigno from a long, basically ugly town with skiing on both sides to the ski resort it is today requires that you make a visit to this Italian resort. The skiing is mainly divided into two sides, the Italian and the Swiss. Both are in Italy mind but one side is closer to Switzerland than the other.
As the highest livable resort in Europe, Livigno often has snow when lower resorts do not; this too accounts in no small part for its attraction. Almost guaranteed snow is a big pull. The skiing on both sides of the valley is best suited to those of beginner and intermediate talents with little on tap for the real expert. Never mind; as a fun, duty free resort Livigno makes no apologies for any lack in top-flight skiing possibilities. With more than 30 lifts on both sides of the mountain and scores of ski pass sales points you will never be too far away from either a ski area or a place to buy your ticket. You might also like to know that each of Livigno�s ski areas (6 in all). Has its own website and most have their own ski school, so think carefully before you commit your holiday to any particular one.

ITINERARY
08.30am - Meet at the hotel ready to go. Our Ski guide and driver will come and pick you up. Wear your regular shoes and carry your ski boots ski and poles if you are a skier.
h. 09.30am - Arrival at 3 Palle. Skiers will get off the bus with your ski guide and start skiing Mottolino (1st Livigno ski area). The non skiers will stay on the bus and will be dropped off in the city center.
h. 12.30pm - The bus will come and pick the skiers up at 3 Palle to transport them to the next Ski area (Carosello). The ones who want to dedicate the rest of the day to shopping will be dropped off in the city center.
h. 04.30pm - meet at the coach parking lot to depart Livigno for Bormio
h. 05.30pm - Arrive at your hotel.
Enjoy a pleasant "bus party" provided by your ski guide on the bus with Prosecco and snacks.

INCLUDED
-Full Day Private coach
-1 Ski guide each bus
-Prosecco and snacks on return on the bus
NOT INCLUDED
-Lift Pass and all what is not described in the "included"
LIFT PASS
-To ski Livigno you must buy an ALTAVALTELLINA SKI PASS or you can buy a day lift pass when in Livigno. We recommend to buy the Altavaltellina ski pass from Bormio to avoid long lines
IMPORTANT
-Bring your valid passport with you
-Do not buy more goods than what the regulations advise
-Wear your regular shoes and take your ski boots with you on the bus
-Livigno is cold, dress accordingly
-Bring your gorgles and sun scream
-Buy a valid Altavaltellina Ski Pass the day before the excursion

BOOKING CONDITIONS
1. Italy Europe Tours responsibility will not exceed the limits foreseen by the Italian laws.
2. In case of “force majeure”, Italy Europe Tours reserves the right to change the itinerary of the excursions in every moment.
3. Italy Europe Tours is not responsible for any damages caused by the client.
4. Prices are quoted in EURO; the prices can be changed in every moment for as follows: in case of “force majeure” or changes of local or national taxes. In this case Italy Europe Tours will give communication to the clients immediately.
5. We reserve the right to cancel the excursions in case of bad weather conditions (especially for walking tours and fishing experience).
6. We also reserve the right to cancel the excursion in case there is an insufficient demand (minimum of people requested: 20 participants).
7. Notifications of a cancelled excursion will be provided as follows:
°Bad weather conditions: at least 1 hour before departure
° Insufficient demand: at least the day before the scheduled service at 08:00 p.m.
In these cases Italy Europe Tours will not pay any penalties to the client. If the client had already paid Italy Europe Tours for the service, will be refunded only for the sums paid.
8. Owing to the nature of our excursions, there will be no refund for “no show” or cancellation received by you less then 72 hours in advance.
9. We suggest: walking boots (no high heels shoes or sandals), water, sun cream, hat, binoculars, camera.
10. Vertigo sufferers may have problems with this excursions.
11. The excursions will be hold in English language.
12. Personal travel insurance is not included.
13. We are unable to accept responsibility for any aspect of your excursion affected by matters over which we have no control. Those include natural disaster, government action, visits or services not being part of our standard excursions, sale of optional luncheons, bad weather conditions, industrial disputes, technical transportation problems.
14. Italy Europe Tours accepts neither liability for actions and/or negligence of suppliers, or for the correctness of information given by them.
15. Italy Europe Tours is not liable for circumstances amounting to “force majeure”: it means unusual and unforeseeable events beyond the control of Top Level Travel or suppliers seeking to rely on them. Such circumstances may include (by way of example and not by way of limitation) war, threat of war, civil strife, natural or nuclear disaster, fire, epidemics, bad weather, terrorist activity, Governmental action, acts of God and all other similar events.
16. In case of sell of Italy Europe Tours’ Tours by a Travel Agent, it is liable about its actions and/or negligence. The travel agent is also liable about wrong information given to the client about Top Level Travel services and Tours.
17. Italy Europe Tours, as a T.O., is covered by “Unipol Assicurazioni” (Italy) insurance Company for tort liability, in conformity with the Italian legislative decree n° 111/95.
18. We suggest the clients to provide a personal travel insurance.
19. Tips and any personal extras are always not included.

..In St. Moritz the sun shines 322 days a year. But even more legendary than that is St. Moritz's "champagne climate": sparkle and glamour, and international events attract top athletes, stars, statesmen and royal families to the health resort. And hotels, the gastronomy, shopping and leisure facilities in this top Upper Engadine resort are accordingly exclusive. A visitor's card that is a travel pass for mountain transport facilities and buses, a parking disc and a credit card all in one while also entitling its holder to a great many discounts, is the perfect key for visitors to benefit from the countless opportunities on offer in the Upper Engadine. The red trains of the Rhaetian Railway swiftly transport St. Moritz's visitors to the surrounding attractions: the ski regions of Diavolezza and Lagalb, the National Park in the Lower Engadine, by Bernina Express to the Mediterranean Puschlav and by world-famous Glacier Express to Chur and from there further to the Valais.
WINTER St. MORITZ
St Moritz boasts legendary bob and toboggan courses, including an exhilarating 4.2km toboggan run from the viewpoint of Muottas Muragl – accessed by a funicular from the hamlet of Punt Muragl, 4km north of St Moritz – back down into the valley, a vertical drop of 700m (you can rent a sled at the top). The death-defying Cresta Run is for pros only, but the 1.6km Olympic bob-run is open to amateurs, with advance registration required (contact the St Moritz tourist office). There’s also the famous five-kilometre Preda–Bergün toboggan run : wooden sleds can be rented to make the winter run from Preda station, just over the Albula Pass, and the specially modified track run takes you down through the scenic Albula valley to Bergün, from where RhB trains will cart you back to the beginning (Fr.29 for a day ticket). Trains run late, so you can sled the illuminated route by night.
SKIING IN St. MORITZ
There are three main sectors. On the north side of the valley is the sunny, south-facing Corviglia, accessed by cable-car from St Moritz-Bad to Signal, a midway point below the Munt da San Murezzan (2659m), and by funicular from St Moritz-Dorf to Corviglia itself (2468m), below the soaring Piz Nair summit at 3057m. Red runs abound all over the mountain, including a long piste down through the trees into the valley. There’s a half-pipe for snowboarders on the Munt da San Murezzan. A gondola from nearby Celerina rises to Marguns (2278m), which gives access to more testing intermediate and difficult runs off Las Trais Fluors and Piz Glüna, as well as linking directly to Corviglia itself. On the opposite side of the valley is the Corvatsch area, accessed by cable-car from Surlej, a hamlet 3km south of St Moritz-Bad, and a chairlift from Alp Surlej, just above the hamlet. Both serve Murtèl below the peak of Piz Corvatsch (3451m) – again, long sweeping reds are plentiful, especially from the Corvatsch Bergstation, and the testing 8km Hahnensee black run drops through the trees down to St Moritz-Bad. A cable-car from the village of Sils Maria 4km south of Surlej serves Furtschellas, with its own welter of blues and scenic reds linked to Corvatsch. Some 12km south of St Moritz on the Bernina Pass road, just before the pass itself and with easy access from the nearby resort of Pontresina, is the Diavolezza area, with some long, steep difficult runs on the south side, and also off the face of Piz Lagalb (2959m) opposite.

ITINERARY
07.15am - Meet at the hotel ready to go. Our Ski guide and driver will come and pick you up. Wear your regular shoes and carry your ski boots ski and poles if you are a skier.
h. 09.45am - Arrival at the parking lot of Signal (St. Moritz Bad). The skiers will get off the bus and follow the ski guide first to buy the lift ticket and get a ski map and after to ski all the Corvatsch area.
The NON skiers will stay on the bus, our local guide will start firsta panoramic bus tour of the area to finish with a walking tour in the historycal city centre of St. Moritz.
h. 12.30pm - The bus will come and pick the skiers who want to become shoppers for the rest of the day at the Signal Parkin Lot. Our private bus will transfer them to the city centre.
h. 03.45pm - Skiers will meet back at the parking lot at the base of the Signal Cable car.
h. 04.00pm - Our private coach will leave Signal with the skiers to go and pick the skiers up in the city centre.
h. 04.30pm - Pick the NON skers up and back to your hotel in Bormio.
Enjoy a pleasant "bus party" provided by your ski guide on the bus with Prosecco and snacks.

INCLUDED
-Full Day Private coach
-1 Ski guide each bus
-Prosecco and snacks on return on the bus
NOT INCLUDED
-Lift Pass and all what is not described in the "included"
IMPORTANT
-Bring your valid passport with you
-Do not buy more goods than what the regulations advise
-Wear your regular shoes and take your ski boots with you on the bus
-Livigno is cold, dress accordingly
-Bring your gorgles and sun scream
-Buy a valid Altavaltellina Ski Pass the day before the excursion

BOOKING CONDITIONS
1. Italy Europe Tours responsibility will not exceed the limits foreseen by the Italian laws.
2. In case of “force majeure”, Italy Europe Tours reserves the right to change the itinerary of the excursions in every moment.
3. Italy Europe Tours is not responsible for any damages caused by the client.
4. Prices are quoted in EURO; the prices can be changed in every moment for as follows: in case of “force majeure” or changes of local or national taxes. In this case Italy Europe Tours will give communication to the clients immediately.
5. We reserve the right to cancel the excursions in case of bad weather conditions (especially for walking tours and fishing experience).
6. We also reserve the right to cancel the excursion in case there is an insufficient demand (minimum of people requested: 20 participants).
7. Notifications of a cancelled excursion will be provided as follows:
°Bad weather conditions: at least 1 hour before departure
° Insufficient demand: at least the day before the scheduled service at 08:00 p.m.
In these cases Italy Europe Tours will not pay any penalties to the client. If the client had already paid Italy Europe Tours for the service, will be refunded only for the sums paid.
8. Owing to the nature of our excursions, there will be no refund for “no show” or cancellation received by you less then 72 hours in advance.
9. We suggest: walking boots (no high heels shoes or sandals), water, sun cream, hat, binoculars, camera.
10. Vertigo sufferers may have problems with this excursions.
11. The excursions will be hold in English language.
12. Personal travel insurance is not included.
13. We are unable to accept responsibility for any aspect of your excursion affected by matters over which we have no control. Those include natural disaster, government action, visits or services not being part of our standard excursions, sale of optional luncheons, bad weather conditions, industrial disputes, technical transportation problems.
14. Italy Europe Tours accepts neither liability for actions and/or negligence of suppliers, or for the correctness of information given by them.
15. Italy Europe Tours is not liable for circumstances amounting to “force majeure”: it means unusual and unforeseeable events beyond the control of Top Level Travel or suppliers seeking to rely on them. Such circumstances may include (by way of example and not by way of limitation) war, threat of war, civil strife, natural or nuclear disaster, fire, epidemics, bad weather, terrorist activity, Governmental action, acts of God and all other similar events.
16. In case of sell of Italy Europe Tours’ Tours by a Travel Agent, it is liable about its actions and/or negligence. The travel agent is also liable about wrong information given to the client about Top Level Travel services and Tours.
17. Italy Europe Tours, as a T.O., is covered by “Unipol Assicurazioni” (Italy) insurance Company for tort liability, in conformity with the Italian legislative decree n° 111/95.
18. We suggest the clients to provide a personal travel insurance.
19. Tips and any personal extras are always not included.