Cortina d’Ampezzo (Italien) – There are still 302 days for the Olympic Winter Games in Cortina d’Ampezzo and Milan. The run on the tickets has started – but can you also afford to do so on site? The prices rise into the apparently immeasurable one! An Olympic weekend can cost as much as a mid-range car.
While you get a ticket for the Olympic skeleton in Cortina d’Ampezzo (is located at a height of around 1200 meters in Italy) for a mere 40 euros, there is hardly a holiday apartment (two people) or a double room for less than a thousand euros a night in the mountain town (around 5600 inhabitants).
There are at least two double beds and a sofa bed for the proud price of 56,420 euros for the Olympic weekend
There are sauna and garage with the luxury apartment
Up, on the other hand, there is a lot open: Booking.com offers the luxury apartment Dolomiti for an Olympic weekend for 56,420 euros! After all, there are two bedrooms, a sofa bed in the living room, sauna and garage. The prize was supposedly already reduced and, according to the provider, would have been at 70,460 euros.
The ice channel for the winter games in Cortina. Apparently there was a targeted sabotage act at the beginning of the year. A large cooling pipe was deliberately removed, then blocked a street and access to the construction site
In contrast, a rustic apartment with a fireplace for ten people with 34,580 euros is almost a bargain at Fewo Direkt. There are two bathrooms and four bedrooms – partly with stock beds. And the Dolce Casa Cortina Centro-Ski (80 square meters) in the Alps For an Olympic weekend for four adults, costs 20,020 euros (two bedrooms).
In the best case, you can share the price of 34,580 euros for this rustic apartment with a fireplace by ten people
This accommodation is cheap
After all, you can also accommodate the short price for the short price Winter vacation find. The somewhat old-fashioned “Quiet Apartment, Beautiful View” is available at Booking for two nights and two adults for just 131 euros (a bedroom, flat-screen TV, kitchen, WiFi included).
A rather unusual offer for the time of the Winter Olympics in the Alpine town
96 percent of the accommodations in Cortina d’Ampezzo were fully booked at the time of 13.2.2026. Instead Hotels offered in neighboring towns. Here, too, sometimes seems to have been put on a lot: a 15 square meter double room in the Hotel B&B Lorenzini Ski in Selva di Cadore costs 7219 euros for two people and two nights.
Cortina d’Ambzzo is known for his flair as a mountain village in the Alps. The ski area has 72 slopes
There is currently nothing to be found on Airbnb for the Olympic weekends in Cortina d’Ampezzo. There are ordinary prices for accommodation with around an hour’s drive to the venue (from 115 euros/night).
Competitions with 3500 athletes
Both Winter Games Olympics (6. – 22.2.2026) over 3500 athletes from 93 countries compete in 16 Olympic disciplines. 195 medals are awarded. In Cortina d’Ampezzo, the ski alpine competitions of women and those in curling, bob, skeleton and tobogganing take place.
Even in summer, the place offers a great (mountain) panorama
According to a study by the Swiss business service provider Deloitte, there will be an offer of around 4700 sleeping places per night at Airbnb in the greater Olympic Winter Games in the Trentino South Tyrol region. The potential daily request, on the other hand, is estimated on accommodations for 88,000 visitors. In the enormous demand, the landlords will probably also start their apartments at auto prices.