Winter Corso Italia in Cortina d'Ampezzo, with the Hotel de la Poste sign, the bell tower, a Christmas tree, and low sun on the rock face

The dressed street

Christmas and New Year

Christmas week is inside the winter season and outside the cheaper months. Book the hotel that feeds you, or book the tables, and do it before you book the train.

Photo: Antonio De Lorenzo, CC BY 2.5, Wikimedia Commons.

Cortina Homes editors · Updated 15 November 2026

What you are paying for

The photographs of Corso Italia in winter show the thing people come for: the tree, the bell tower, the walk. Hotel de la Poste's sign is on that street for a reason. If the holiday is the town at night, sleep in the centre.

Moonhoney's cheaper months are June, late September and October. Christmas is not on that list. We will not invent a percentage on top of a summer rate. We will say: expect the resort at its most requested, and expect minimum nights.

Eat where you sleep, or book

Half board and three-quarter board exist so that Christmas dinner is not a scavenger hunt. Menardi and Savoia offer half board. Hotel Tofana Cortina includes dinner in its three-quarter board, and its shuttle runs until 20:00, which is late enough for the tree and early enough to miss a second sitting in town. Ambra is breakfast only. At Christmas that is a bold choice unless your restaurants are already booked.

Pocol is beautiful in snow and the wrong place if someone in the party wants to wander back to the tower at 11. The centre is the Christmas base.

The illuminated bell tower of Santi Filippo e Giacomo on Corso Italia in Cortina d'Ampezzo at blue hour, with snowy peaks behind and people walking below
Campanile of Santi Filippo e Giacomo, Corso Italia, Cortina d'Ampezzo. Photo: Antonio De Lorenzo, CC BY 2.5, via Wikimedia Commons.

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Questions

Should we stay in town or at a spa?

In town, if Christmas morning is the street. At Zuel or Pocol, if the holiday is snow, a pool, and a shuttle you have read.

Is New Year different from Christmas week?

Both sit in the same winter peak. We do not have a sourced split between the 24th and the 31st. Treat both as dates you book early.

Keep going

Half boardWho will actually feed you.CentreThe street in the photographs.WinterThe season around the fortnight.

Sources

  1. Moonhoney Travel: where to stay in Cortina. Updated 25 September 2026. The authors name hotels they stayed in and hotels they surveyed. Cheapest room-rate window they publish: June, late September and October.
  2. Alps by Design: where to stay in Cortina. The page carries a 1 October 2026 note that 2026/27 lift dates were still unpublished. Hotel distances below are quoted from that guide, which attributes several of them to the hotels.
  3. Hotel Tofana Cortina. Pocol 40. Five-star hotel on Rosà slope 23, garage included, shuttle to the centre from 8:30 to 20:00 every 30 minutes, three-quarter board. Not Hotel Tofana in San Cassiano.
  4. Hotel de la Poste. Official site confirmed live on 15 November 2026. The 450 m figure to Faloria is from Alps by Design, which attributes it to the hotel.