Sauze d'Oulx, Italy   Flexible Ski Holidays & Flexible Snowboard Holidays 1509m - 2469m

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Flexible Breaks specialise in ski and snowboard holidays, weekends and short breaks in Sauze d'Oulx, only 1 hour 15 minutes from Turin international airport, and half an hour further from Chambery.  We offer accommodation in chalets, apartments and hotels. (Sauze d'Oulx is sometimes incorrectly spelt as Sauze Doulx or Sauze d Oulx).

Arrive any day, leave any day, stay as long as you like:

If you are busy during the week, you can arrive on Thursday or Friday evening and leave the following Monday or Tuesday, giving yourself a long weekend. If you are busy at the weekends you can ski on empty pistes during the week. You can also stretch your stay over two weekends maximising your time on the slopes with the minimum time off work. A favourite is to arrive Friday night and stay until the second Monday evening giving you 10 full days on the piste with only 6 days off work. 

Accommodation for longer breaks is also available in our chalets, apartments and hotels in Sauze d'Oulx, Montgenèvre and Meribel. 

In summary we provide the following combinations:

Ski weekends, snowboard weekends, short ski breaks, short snowboard breaks, midweek ski breaks, midweek snowboard breaks, ski holidays, snowboard holidays.

We offer free transfers to Sauze d'Oulx from Turin and Chambery airports meeting flights arriving from 13 UK airports (Belfast, Birmingham, Bristol, Edinburgh, Exeter, Gatwick, Leeds-Bradford, Luton, Manchester, Newcastle, Norwich, Southampton and Stansted) plus Dublin and Brussels. See our transfers page for details of the airlines, routes and transfer times.

Although many websites will tell you that it is possible to get from Turin to Sauze d'Oulx using public transport in just over two hours they are referring to the actual journey time and do not take into account any waiting time.

There is also a train, which takes only 4½ hours from Paris to Oulx, the village just below Sauze.  For those who prefer self-drive ski breaks, Sauze d'Oulx is between 8 and 10 hours from Calais and there is motorway all the way.

Sauze d'Oulx is an ideal departure point for the Milky Way, which is one of  the world's largest skiing areas. There are over 400 kms of pistes of which 110 kms have artificial snowmaking facilities (over 1000 snow cannons). With 88 ski lifts, skiers of all standards have the choice of fast, wide pistes or gentler picturesque routes through the fir and larch woods.

Popular with British tourists for many years, Sauze d'Oulx has excellent English-speaking ski and snowboard schools and ski/board hire shops.  Lift pass prices are lower than in many comparable resorts with discounts for under 12's.  Under 9's  and over 75's ski for free. There are also nursery/crèche facilities for the very young.

The original village has retained its old world charm, whilst the newer part has all you need for an enjoyable fun-filled holiday. Après-ski can be as lively as you please with pubs, bars and discos. In the many restaurants and pizzerias in the resort you can eat very well at reasonable prices.

Advanced skiers will appreciate the easy connection to Sestriere, where you can enjoy the black runs at the top of Mount Motta and Mount Sises as well as the Olympic Kandahar Slalom and Kandahar Barchetta runs.  From Sansicario, you have access to the seemingly endless pistes of the Milky Way, which stretch all the way to Montgenèvre in France. Intermediates have a vast area to explore. Sauze offers an excellent range of skiing possibilities with the three main areas of Clotes, Sportinia and Genevris interlinking by lifts, providing some very interesting fun runs through mainly wooded terrain. From Triplex there is a good choice of runs back to the village, some of them quite challenging. Beginners normally start off at the top of the Sportinia chairlift, where there are some very enjoyable runs back to the village through the woods. Snowboarding is also very popular in this fun resort, with a good choice of wide pistes, varied terrain and lots of off-piste possibilities as well as a snow park.

Après Ski  

For non-skiers or those taking a rest, there’s host of non-skiing activities.  By night Sauze comes alive with an incredible choice of bars, many open late.

Eating Out

There are numerous mountain restaurants, some of them more modest than others. Most are concentrated in Sportinia, and the five restaurants based in this sunny plateau maintain a high level of service, although they tend to get very busy at lunchtime. On sunnier days, some of the bars hold barbecues.

In the resort all tastes are catered for. There's everything from up-market Italian banquets to pub grub and a take-away. You can also get good value Mexican food, burgers or full English breakfast with authentic bacon!

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