Seceda Cable Car: The New Reservation Rule and Which Ticket Is Best for Your Trip

Seceda is the ridge everyone has seen on Instagram, and getting up is easy: two cable cars from Ortisei. Buying the right ticket and getting a slot is the confusing part. Here's how it worked for us.

Parking in Ortisei

On signs and in your GPS you'll see Ortisei, Urtijëi and St. Ulrich. They're all the same town. Typing "Ortisei" into Google Maps works fine.

Park at Parkgarage Central. It's the best-rated garage and has a good location. Google Maps

• About a 10-minute walk to the Seceda cable car, slightly uphill
• €2.50 an hour, €20 for the day
• In peak season, get there before 9am. We went in mid-June and there were still spaces at 9:30, but from 10am cars were parked along the roads everywhere. It eases up after lunch.
• You can check live free spaces on the Val Gardena page for the garage.

Which Seceda ticket to buy

Only going up Seceda once: a return ticket is €74 per adult (2026), on the official Seceda shop.

Staying a few days: get the Gardena Card. Three days costs €124. Go up Seceda twice and it already beats two return tickets. We went up a second time on day three just because we could.

The card covers every lift in Val Gardena, including the gondola from Ortisei up to Alpe di Siusi.

Don't buy the SuperSummer card by mistake

On the shop page, the Dolomiti SuperSummer card sits right next to the Gardena Card. It costs more, and in 2026 it isn't valid on the Seceda lifts at all. I almost bought it.

Buy the Gardena Card. It defaults to 6 days, so switch it to 3 if that's what you need. On the card's page it says all Val Gardena lifts are included and that Seceda needs a reservation. That's the one you want.

The Seceda cable car reservation: separate, and only 3 days ahead

This confused me most. You can buy your ticket or card whenever you like. But riding the Seceda lift needs a separate reservation for a time slot, and those reservations only open 3 days before.

I was worried I'd miss out, so I booked the moment it opened. In the end it wasn't hard. On the morning of July 31, in peak season, the 8:30 slot that same day was still open. I never saw a fully booked slot. They don't seem to limit numbers much.

On the day

• Slots are every 30 minutes. If you booked 9:00, you need to be there by 9:30. Maybe 9:35 if you're lucky. Don't test it. Go early.
• It's two cable cars. You change at Furnes halfway up.
• It's busy. Lots of people at the bottom station, so leave time to work out where to pick up your ticket.

If I went back

With the Gardena Card, I'd ride every lift in the valley. We didn't, because with my parents it was always "let's have lunch, then rest" and "what about dinner". The card would have paid for itself many times over.

So here's what I'd do: ride the other lifts early in the morning, like the ones further up the valley around Selva (Wolkenstein). Then have a slow lunch and go up Seceda in the afternoon, when it's calmer.

Some people go the other way: they ride one of the last lifts up, stay for sunset and walk down slowly. In summer the lifts stop well before sunset, so you'd be walking down, partly in the dark. Bring a headlamp and check the route before you go.

Planning the rest of the trip? Here's the route we drove: Should you rent a car for the Dolomites?

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