The Dolomites' Three Peaks

Would recommed walking poles, we used them for the first time and found them very helpful. Also suggest that Inntravel consider an alternative easier option for day 2.

Day 4 would recommend booking on the 08:13 bus with a taxi from 07:45.

The welness facilities and food at Hotel Saalerwitt were fantastic, a great way to start the holiday.

The 3 peaks mountains and views are spectacular.

This Inntravel trip is truly amazing, the walking is incredible, the hotels are a delight, the food is excellent.  We have never done anything like this before and it was wonderful.  The Dolomites are absolutely stunning and I would highly recommend this holiday as a comprehensive introduction to the beauty and variety of the area.  Your walking notes are excellent.  There are some changes in and around Moso due to the construction of new cable car lift stations etc but it is not too difficult to work things out.

Important Tip:  If you have any further trips to this destination, with regards to the Day 4 Three Peaks walk, you must inform your clients that the bus to Rifugio Auronzo needs booking at least a week ahead not 24 hours!  Because the weather on the day was perfect and we wanted to take every opportunity that we had, we paid 100 euros cash for Rizzo Patrick to take us up there because the bus was completely booked up for the entire week.  Patrick was brilliant and his mother drove us up there.  If we had not done this we would have missed our weather window.

It's a long journey to get there but it's worth it! There is beautiful scenery everywhere you look & it's an experience you will never forget. Don't expect Italy, even though that's where you are. Everyone speaks German & the place itself is very Germanic looking. Having said that everyone we met was very friendly & helpful. Be sure to keep a close eye on the wethaer forecast & pack for every eventuality, as things can change very quickly in the mountains.

It is definitely worth doing the walk around the lake at Braes as the scenery is stunning. Doing this did not prevent us also walking to the hotel from the lake (rather than taking the bus). This walk, together with the walk around the Three Peaks, and the walk from Sesto (using the cable car) to Moso, were the highlights. The accommodation and food at all the hotels were excellent.

This trip in the dolomites was truly extraordinary. We had fabulous weather and the hiking was glorious. The highlight, not surprisingly, was the hike up to the Three Peaks. The views are stunning.
I think that in travel kicked the route perfectly. Several days we had relatively steep, but short, hikes to start off, followed by less deep, but much longer hikes going down. I cannot imagine doing the hikes in reverse order. Though it's clear that many people do, because, we passed a lot of people going in the opposite direction when we were going down the mountains. We really enjoyed all the hotels, particularly the first and last. The views from our window were stunning. This was particularly true at hotel Drei Zinnen. 

This was a delightful hiking holiday with varied walking in stunning mountain scenery.  The hotels are comfortable, friendly and well run, with high-quality food and wine and a strong service culture.  This was our third successful trip with Inntravel and the first time we had used their GPX files as a back-up to the detailed walking notes. The Gaia app makes this very easy.

The booking process was an absolute disaster. This should have been a 'no hassle - book a package and turn up - holiday' for us, but it was far from this. Communication was appaling. And then when we were away, the train tickets sent were not recognised by the relevant machines at the station. However, the mountains, walks, and scenery were fabulous.

The Dolomites provide a fantastic walking experience, the routes enable a full appreciation of the National Park area and are combined with first rate accommodation and food.

Overall this walking holiday delivered what it said on the tin. We were lucky with the weather so feel we saw the Dolomites at their best. Transfers between hotels were seamless and easy. The 3 Peaks part of the trip were definitely worth seeing and are spectacular but I would recommend anyone on this part of the trip to take as early a bus as possible to hopefully avoid some of the crowds.

Really enjoyed the holiday. Inntravel was excellent. The only glitch was our train connection was cancelled on the first night, we were an hour late arriving at our destination station and couldn't get hold of the hotel to let them know as we had no phone signal. 

The scenery on this trip was absolutely spectacular--an appealing variety of majestic rocky peaks and lovely mountain pastures. And the sounds were lovely too--goat and cowbells. The hotels were warm and welcoming and had much-appreciated wellness centers with saunas and steam baths, perfect after a long day on the trail. Our tips are to start early and realize that sometimes when the walk has many meters of descent there may be alternate routes (eg, going down on a gondola or taking a city bus back). Trekking poles were invaluable.

Walking in the magical scenery in the Dolomite mountains was wonderful and the routes selected by Inntravel were well chosen to give you a really good introduction to the region. The supporting materials provided (maps and trip notes) were excellent and you should definitely read these carefully before you travel.
My tips would be:
1. If you want to brush up on a language for your trip then make it German, alkthough you can definitely get by with Italian or English.
2. Some of your walks could get disrupted by weather or local route closures (we had a couplke of paths closed due to storm damage and logging activity) but with so many well marked paths across the region there is always another route. Using a GPS app with the GPX files supplied makes navigation really easy.

3. The history of the region is fascinating. The trip notes give you a good introduction but if you are interested then look at other sources as well.

The Three Peaks hiking week is wonderful. This is a fantastic area for hiking and we would happily go back to explore other areas of the Dolomites. The hikes are varied and all the hotels were extremely welcoming and friendly. 

This was our 4th Inntravel trip and we are getting more confident at adapting the trip for ourselves, for instance taking a gondola (if available) on the ascent, and maybe on a rainy day just going to the next town for a coffee.

My daughter and I had a remarkable trip hiking through the Dolomites. Lake Braies was such a reward to rest our weary feet after a strenuous hike over the mountain. Walking through the myriad of soaring jagged rocky peaks, including the 3 Peaks, we felt as though we had entered another world. The stark beauty of the landscape was huge in scale and magnificent. The hike through to the Fischleintal Valley was challenging and beautiful and we had a well deserved lunch at the Refugio before our final descent through the wildflowers of the vally to our hotel. We thoroughly enjoyed our time together hiking through the incredible landscape.

We very much enjoyed this holiday. All the hotels were very good although we found that there was a lot of road noise at the Hotel Edelweiss, so much so that we did not use the balcony.  We would sacrifice the view for a quiet room at the back of the hotel. Our favourite hotel was Hotel Saalerwirt, where they were very friendly and helpful and the food was excellent. On day four, the three peaks, we got the taxi to come earlier than scheduled which proved very useful as the bus journey up to Refugio Auronzo took over an hour as the traffic was very busy. Although there were a lot of people on the walk the views were spectacular and we very fortunate with the weather. Both the walks recommended from Hotel Drei Zinnen were excellent and we found it was cheaper to buy the cable car tickets online rather than at the ticket office.

A combination of The Dolomites' Three Peaks and An Italian Lake Paradise walking holidays.

Dolomites outstandingly beautiful.  Hotel staff uniformly welcoming and friendly.  Garda lovely. Ferry timetable out of date and walk to Monte Baldo impossible. Inntravel as usual excellent.

Overall, a great holiday. We will be returning to Inntravel if we can.

We have been on numerous Inntravel holidays, and this time combined three holidays giving us three weeks abroad. It was an excellent selection, no time wasted between holidays, and the travel arrangements Inntravel sourced for us, were perfect. We left Hotel Wiesenhof at 10.30am and arrived at our first Italian hotel at 2.00pm. The choice of hotels was good, particularly Hotel Hubertushof with its extremely friendly hosts, beautiful peaceful setting and excellent food. Pertisau was very special, Hotel Wiesenhof outstanding, and we particularly enjoyed the walk to Rofanspitze. The Dolomites were very busy with tourists, but loved the walking routes as wherever possible they took us away from the main tourist paths, so one could enjoy the peace and tranquility of the mountains. Two walks not to be missed are Mount Specie at Prato Piazza, and Mt Elmo. Gondolas have replaced the Cable car at Sesto, so there is no waiting as they run continuously. On our last night of the holiday, Frau Watschinger hosted a cocktail evening with an excellent guitarist who entertained us. The food at all the hotels was exceptional. Overall a magical holiday, so well organised as always by Inntravel. Thank you so much, we can't wait to plan our next adventure!

INNTRAVEL NOTE: These customers combined the following holidays - The Leutasch Valley; Hotel Wiesenhof in Pertisau; The Dolomites’ Three Peaks

We thoroughly enjoyed this trip: great walks and excellent organisation. We extended by 1-2 days in each of the locations, and especially enjoyed Hotel Saalerwirt (a truly excellent but still unpretentious hotel) and Hotel Drei Zinnen (old-fashioned charm in the best sense); Hotel Edelweiss is OK but on a busy road (although the traffic drops to almost zero after about 7.00 p.m.).  Owing to our extra days, we did all the optional walks and one or two of our own devising (such as from Hotel Edelweiss to Niederdorf on rt 1 and then back on the 1A via Lercha and Plung). Note that it is now necessary to book ahead for the bus from Dobbiaco to Rifugio Auronzo. Since we hadn’t realised that and couldn’t get seats on early buses for Option A to Moso, we walked option B (the low route) from Dobbiaco to Moso, and started by spending time at the local museum handily located at the start of the walk in Dobbiaco  - very interesting without demanding much time. We easily did option A via a bus direct from Moso all the way to Rifugio Auronzo (must be booked in advance, and an early start is advisable). We tagged on an overnight in Innsbruck and found the Inntravel notes (walking tour and restaurant suggestions) excellent. We spent a few days in Brunico at the beginning which we highly recommend – a lovely town with two Messner Mountain museums in the vicinity and excellent restaurants (K. Bernard Enoteca) and pastisserie (Acherer).