Dolomites 2018 trip

Muckers

Hi. I'm looking for advice as to where the best places are to base a group of club cyclists for a Dolomites trip in May 2018. Ideally somewhere that offers some flat cycling to recover from the mountain climbs if possible. Any advice from previous travellers to the area would be great. Thanks in advance.

I would recommend Toblach, (Otherwise known as Dobbiaco), small German speaking town. It has a train station, which means you could fly to Munich,and get the train down with only one change.
It's close enough to the Drei Zinnenn mountains.
In May, you could get a fair bit of snow on higher ground, I was there at the end of June last year, and lots of snow on the ground.

terrydel

Muckers wrote: »

Hi. I'm looking for advice as to where the best places are to base a group of club cyclists for a Dolomites trip in May 2018. Ideally somewhere that offers some flat cycling to recover from the mountain climbs if possible. Any advice from previous travellers to the area would be great. Thanks in advance.

Corvara or Badia are great, I can get you the name of the place I stayed in Badia in July if you like?
I've also stayed in Arabba about 10km from Corvara and found it lovely. Its right at the start of Passo Pordoi which gives great access to the stunning Passo Gardena and Passo Sella loop.

terrydel

Here you go - http://www.miaaltabadia.it/en/parus/
I found it great, the woman who runs it is a lovely woman. Theyve a big garage you can use to store and work on the bike.
Its self catering so not sure if thats your thing, but I loved it.

Muckers

terrydel wrote: »

Here you go - http://www.miaaltabadia.it/en/parus/
I found it great, the woman who runs it is a lovely woman. Theyve a big garage you can use to store and work on the bike.
Its self catering so not sure if thats your thing, but I loved it.

Where did you fly into?

brownian

terrydel wrote: »

Here you go - http://www.miaaltabadia.it/en/parus/
I found it great, the woman who runs it is a lovely woman. Theyve a big garage you can use to store and work on the bike.
Its self catering so not sure if thats your thing, but I loved it.

I think I might have stayed in that place, some years ago - lovely young woman running it (she must be 30 now...still young). We had B&B

Anyway, savage riding nearby, most of all the Fedaia, but several others too. Totally recommended.

There's a meat restaurant (Fleisch-stube) in the village; the cellar restaurant serves the most enormous platters of meat I've ever devoured.

terrydel

Muckers wrote: »

Where did you fly into?

Treviso or Venice, I've flown to both and they are grand.

terrydel

brownian wrote: »

I think I might have stayed in that place, some years ago - lovely young woman running it (she must be 30 now...still young). We had B&B

Anyway, savage riding nearby, most of all the Fedaia, but several others too. Totally recommended.

There's a meat restaurant (Fleisch-stube) in the village; the cellar restaurant serves the most enormous platters of meat I've ever devoured.

Yes, Martina is her name, probably in her 30s.
We locked ourselves out the night after the Maratona and after a few drinks we had to wake her up to let us in! she was great about us and even offered us another drink!
Its a lovely location, stunning views from the bedroom balconys.

brownian

brownian wrote: »

I think I might have stayed in that place, some years ago - lovely young woman running it (she must be 30 now...still young). We had B&B

Anyway, savage riding nearby, most of all the Fedaia, but several others too. Totally recommended.

There's a meat restaurant (Fleisch-stube) in the village; the cellar restaurant serves the most enormous platters of meat I've ever devoured.

Corvara is a really nice spot, right in the heart of the mountains, spent a week there a few years ago hillwalking, recommend it,

brownian

Maybe the best walking in Europe. Cycling excellent too, although the many Dutch and German motorbikes can make some of the super-classics a bit tedious at times.

terrydel

brownian wrote: »

Maybe the best walking in Europe. Cycling excellent too, although the many Dutch and German motorbikes can make some of the super-classics a bit tedious at times.

I absolutely love the place and I'd move there tomoro if I could convince my girlfriend to go.
Im a motorcyclist also so they dont bother me too much :P

brownian

There's only one life, and one range of Dolomites. There are some hundreds of millions of possible girlfriends.