Hotel Club Uappala Sestriere

3rd stay in this hotel. It's pretty basic, but the rooms are more than adequate, the food is very good, with a decent selection and the location is perfect - right next to the link lift for Sauze and also the high chair to access all of Sestriere, a short walk in the morning and you can ski to the hotel car park in the afternoon. This hotel is used by many schools during the holidays and is often full of kids as a result. Every single one of the staff I have dealt with during the times I have stayed here have been professional, friendly and go out of their way to be helpful. If you are looking a good base to go skiing, then look no further. If you are looking for a luxury hotel, then perhaps consider something else.

The hotel from hell. They say check-in is from 4pm which is already quite late, but don’t expect to get your room key until 6pm. Chaotic queues at check-in and it took people several hours before they got their room keys. Apart from that the hotel is run-down, tired and untidy. Certainly not worth the price. In the end we didn’t know whether to laugh or cry. Fortunately it was only a one night stay. We were only too happy to move on in the morning.

what should I start with? I got food poisoning on the first night so I had to have bread for the rest of the trip. The cleaners smoked 6million times a day and never cleaned anyway. Only 2 lifts so we had to take the stairs most of the time. This hotel sucks I do not recommend

I went on a ski trip with my school and we stayed at this hotel. I don’t think I ever want to go back. My friend and I had quite a few problems with our room. For example, when we got there, our shower smelled like pee, the shower head had mould in it, there was a bright blue toothpaste stain in the sink and there were small stains on our bedsheets. Though luckily, they were all cleaned about two or so days later. The food wasn’t particularly nice, especially for vegetarians like myself. One of my friends who does food tech warded all of us at our table that a lot of the hot food, particularly the eggs, were not being held at a high enough temperature to be safe. Thank God for him as there were reports of another school visiting the resort at the same time as us who all got food poisoning. And apparently, that’s a pretty common occurrence at this hotel.

The food was absolutely amazing. Rooms were awful, so small, hair everywhere. If you had a 4 person room,with two doubles, you wouldn't even be able to open the balcony door, without completely folding up the beds. WiFi is quite slow, but is expected in such a big hotel. The lifts were so slow. If you accidentally left your room without the key, you would have to go down to reception to get a spare key, which they weren't happy at all about. The staff were kind and spoke good English. Stairways absolutely stinking, Cleaners smoked constantly. Cigarette butts everywhere, some sort of brown liquid mixed with cigarettes, that from previous reviews has been there for quite some time. Short walk from the slopes, but had to go up and down some awful stairs. Went with my school so don't really know if this applies to everybody, No lockers, so had to keep poles, hats and boots upstairs in our rooms which wasn't very easy, when the lifts were so slow. There were 7 floors in each tower and 9 rooms in each but only 2 lifts. when you are all coming back from, dinner, skiing, entertainment so not very ideal. Don't think this should be a 3 star hotel

Good location for starting your winter sports. Calm and quiet at nights. Good choice in breakfast. The ski/board storage is without heating and without boot dryers. Which is very very annoying. They tell you to take your boots up to the room. Where they don't dry either. They charge extra for ski/boot storage The beds are old and you tend to sink in. Pillows are good though. The cleanliness can be better as well. For instance, there is fungus in the shower and in the bathroom ventilation.