Winter 2026/27: what we are running, and why we are excited

There is a particular morning in late November when the first proper cold arrives, the webcams stop looking like October, and the phone starts ringing. We are not quite there yet. But the plans for this winter are finished, and they are the most interesting set we have put together.

What is new this winter?

The Ski Safari stays the flagship, and it is the thing we would push hardest at anyone who has skied the Alps before and come away feeling they saw one mountain. The method has not changed: you keep one bed, and the mountain changes. What has changed is that we now hold a spare day back on every seven-night trip as standard, rather than as an option — because the weeks where we used it were consistently the better ones.

Is the snow going to be any good?

Nobody knows, and anybody who tells you otherwise in August is selling something. What we can say is structural rather than predictive: this valley skis high, and altitude is the only real hedge against a warm winter. Cervinia and the Monterosa glaciers hold conditions when lower regions are struggling, and having every resort on one pass means a thin week somewhere is not a thin week everywhere. source

What about the off-piste?

This is where the excitement genuinely lives. The Monterosa side has some of the best lift-accessed freeride terrain in the Alps and a fraction of the crowd of its famous neighbours. Every off-piste day runs with an IFMGA mountain guide — not a ski instructor with a transceiver, an actual guide — and the route gets chosen that morning off the avalanche bulletin. source

Can this work with children?

Yes, and it is the request we get most. Ski school in the morning, childcare arranged around it rather than against it, a long lunch, and parents peeling off for a harder afternoon while somebody qualified has the children. Pila is the base that solves the most problems: a cable car straight out of Aosta, so you sleep in a city with restaurants and a supermarket and still get on snow in twenty minutes.

When should you actually come?

If the snow matters more than the crowds, February. If the light and the long days matter more, March — and March is quietly the best month here for touring. Late season favours the high resorts. And if you are flexible, tell us your window rather than your dates: we will tell you which week inside it we would pick, and why.

What happens if you book now?

Nothing you cannot change. The planning conversation is free at every level, we rebuild every itinerary around the people actually travelling, and we will tell you honestly what a week would cost before you commit to anything. If what you want and what you have budgeted do not meet, we would rather say so in August than in January.