• Professional English-speaking local IFMGA guide(s)
• All accommodation as described
• Meals as detailed in the meal plan
• Local bus fares and cable car
• Via ferrata equipment

• Travel insurance
• Airport transfers to/from Cortina
• Some meals as detailed in the meal plan
• Miscellaneous personal expenses - drinks and souvenirs etc.

TRAVEL TO YOUR DESTINATION

In some cases you may choose to take a ferry and/or train to your holiday start and end destination. Please see further information on Travelling by Train.

If flying from the UK there are low cost airlines available to the start and from the end of your holiday.

To benefit from full financial protection, ease your holiday planning, and avoid dealing with airlines, we can book scheduled flights from the UK as part of a flight inclusive package. Scheduled flights are usually more expensive that low cost alternatives, however potentially less stressful if your flight is cancelled or delayed. If you book flights through KE Adventure Travel we will offset the carbon of your flight.

There is no group transfer for this trip, the group will meet at the group hotel in Pocol (near Cortina). The most convenient airport is Venice's Marco Polo Airport.

Firstly, you need to get to Cortina...
There is an express bus service which departs Marco Polo Airport for Cortina and the journey takes approximately 2 hours. There are usually three buses daily. Inbound, the buses usually arrive at Marco Polo Airport at 10.30 and 13.30. It is usually necessary to book the shuttle bus in advance. This can be done online at www.cortinaexpress.it or telephone 39.0436.867350. Please note that it is quite normal for the exact times not to be confirmed until only a couple of months before.

Another company which provides a similar bus service is ATVO. They also usually have two buses daily. It is usually necessary to book the shuttle bus in advance. This can be done online at www.atvo.it.

... from Cortina you take a local bus to Pocol...
To get to the Villa Argentina you need to take a local bus (Linea Urbana 3A) from Cortina Autostazione to Pocol. The hotel is just off the main road and there is a bus stop nearby, please just notify the driver you need to get off there.

There are also several buses and train/bus combinations daily from the main bus station and railway stations in Venice. For further information please see www.trenitalia.com.

You should check the timing of these services before making your flight booking. Please meet the guide at the hotel for 19.30 on day 1.

All breakfasts and dinners from dinner on day 1 to breakfast on day 7 are included in the holiday price. If required, packed lunches can be purchased from the huts at approximately 15 Euros.

When in the towns and villages all tap water is drinkable. In mountain huts there is usually not a sustainable drinking water supply. Water in plastic bottles is brought in to the hut. All huts have a recycling point. If you have to purchase water in plastic bottles please buy the largest bottle you can so as to use less plastic. Please take purification tablets or a filter bottle (such as a Water-To-Go bottle) to treat your water if you can fill from a local stream. Bottled water is not provided. We do not encourage the purchasing of single use plastic bottles. Local authorities are working to find solutions to using plastic water bottles in huts. We monitor the situation carefully for updates.

Continental breakfasts are provided - tea and coffee, bread and a variety of spreads including jam and honey, for example.  At each of the refuges, a full 3-course dinner will be served, usually a soup dish, followed by some wholesome local speciality and a simple desert. Lunches if needed, can be purchased every day from the huts. This may be at your overnight accommodation or at a hut passed en route.

Whilst we can cater for vegetarians, albeit sometimes with a more limited choice, we cannot always provide special diets.  Due to the nature of some of the trips that we operate and the countries in which we operate them, it can be very hard (and sometimes impossible) to cater for a wide range of dietary choices and you may have to supplement your diet with food/snacks from home.  If you have specific dietary requirements please do speak to our sales team and they will be able to advise you whether or not we will be able to offer your specific choice.  Please note that we are unable to provide separate menus and cannot accept liability for any problems arising from special dietary requirements or intolerances.

During this trip, the group will spend 2 nights in a hotel in Pocol and 5 nights at a number of Italian mountain refuges. Accommodation in the hotel will be on twin share basis and in the mountain refuges will be in non-segregated dormitory style rooms with bunk beds and shared facilities.

The group will be led by an English-speaking IFMGA Guide. The guide to client ratio is 1:6

This holiday involves going to moderately high altitude. During the course of your trip you will reach altitudes in excess of 2500 metres. Most people will have no difficulty with this level of altitude but before coming on the holiday, we recommend you read the advice on trekking at altitude on our website which can be viewed via the link below. You can also talk to one of our trekking experts if you have any concerns about altitude. www.keadventure.com/page/altitude.html

You will need to allow approximately €20 per day for your snacks and refreshments. Note that bottled water, if bought at refuges, is very expensive. Beer, wine and soft drinks are available every night. Soft drinks especially are expensive compared to home. You should also allow €20 - 30 for the final night's evening meal. You can withdraw cash (euros only) from ATM's at the airport in Venice.

For this holiday you should take one piece of luggage (maximum weight 15kg) and a daypack (of around 40 litres). Since group members will carry all personal equipment during the trek, it is important to keep the overall weight of this equipment to a minimum. Neither a sleeping bag nor a camping mattress is needed and it should be possible to keep the weight of your pack to around 8 kg.

For each holiday there is a minimum number of participants required to enable it to go ahead. Once the minimum number is reached, the trip status will change from 'Available' to 'Guaranteed to run'. You can check the trip status for each departure in ‘Dates and Prices’ table. Other than in exceptional circumstances, we will not cancel a trip once it has achieved this guaranteed to run status and so you are free to proceed with your international flight booking and other travel arrangements.