Lodging

All rates are based on high season double occupancy, with half board. €€€—€125+; €€—€75–€125; €—€74-.

Hermitage (0166-948998, fax 0166-949032; €€€+) This beautiful hotel is the best choice in Cervinia. Everyone who stays here loves it.

Bucaneve (0166-949119, fax 0166-948308; €€€+; photo left) Center-of-town location with a woodsy elegance. In the evening a piano player entertains.

Punta Maquignaz (0166-949145, fax 0166-948055; €€) This hotel has a spectacular lobby with a massive stone archway and unfinished wide wood floors. Elegant touches of wood are everywhere except in the rooms which are quite modern.

Europa (0166-948660, fax 0166-949650; €€) In the center of town, just a few minutes’ walk from the lifts. Clean and modern with parking.

Breithorn (0166-949042, fax 0166-948363; €) furnished in knotty pine, this hotel is about 200 yards from the lifts and has one of the better restaurants in town.

Excelsior Planet (0166-949426, fax 0166-948827; €€; photo below) This hotel is modern and convenient to the slopes. It has a tiny swimming pool as well as steamroom and sauna.

Fosson, (0166-949125, fax 0166-949720; €€) a family-run hotel, also has a small steamroom, sauna and fitness room.

Mignon (0166-949344, fax 0166-949687; €€–€€€) is very small and cozy, just minutes from the lifts. The casual family atmosphere is hard to beat.

Lyskamm (0166-949074; fax 0166-948692; €–€€) This small hotel is as close as one can get to the base of the Cretaz lift, one of the two main access lifts.

Fürggen (0166-948928, fax 0166-948929; €–€€) is a Bed & Breakfast. On the slopes above the town, this is the place you want if you want to ski out your front door; however, it's a bit inconvenient to the town.

Perruquet (0166-949043; fax 0166-940014; €) is another Bed & Breakfast in town center that's clean and roomy.

Apartments
Cervina’s stock of apartments is somewhat limited but often offer bargains. The rental agencies in town are Il Cervino, tel/fax 0166-949510; La Maison de Vacances, tel/fax 0166-948267; Nuova San Grato, 0166-949442, fax 0166-949644; La Tour, 0166-940216; Studio Breuil Cervinia, tel/fax 0166-940238; and Pierre et Vacances, 0166-949242, fax 0166-949732.