Advantages: excellent beginer slopes Disadvantages: limited skiing for the more experienced
...first trip skiing was to arinsal andoora in the winter of 1994, a two week holiday with my step brother. We book with cyrstal holiday to stop in a small family run hotel, towards the lower end of the price scale. About a month before we were due to travel we were contacted and told there had been a problem with the hotel and they would have to move us to a different hotel the St Gottard. A 5 star hotel and one of the best in the resort. Bonus
As ... ...which takes about 3-4 hours. Arinsal is the last drop off by the coach so everyones usually very tired by the time you arrive. Hotel
The hotel is towards the bottom of the hill leading up to the slopes, but is very nice indeed, our room was towards the back of the hotel with a great view of the mountains and steam running right next to hotel. We stopped half board, with both breakfast and evening meal run on a buffet style, with a wide range of ...
freestone 25.01.2001
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Advantages: cheap, good value, plenty of pubs & restaurants, mixed crowd Disadvantages: long journey, very little public transport
Pal Arinsal is the perfect ski resort for beginners or intermediates. It is well structured as beginners use different slopes than intermediates.
The skiing instructors are very nice and helpful.
In case you don't catch on they keep repeating the instructions over and over again.
Arinsal is a good spot to have fun because there are plenty of pubs, restaurants and even 2 or 3 nightclubs.
Apart from that there is the true beauty of that area.
... ...best thing is -of course- the snow!
The best time to go is February/March as there is nearly always snow.
I was there in the middle of March and it was so hot in the mountains. I skiied in tanktop and got a nice tan.
2 days later the weather changed and we got plenty of fresh snow and teperatures dropped suddenly and I was happy I'd bought a skiing jacket when I arrived in Arinsal.
Another plus is that they don't pay tax in Andorra, that means ...
Vali 10.09.2002
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Advantages: Ski School,Value for money Disadvantages: small ski area, mountain restaurants
...car from the centre of Arinsal which tends to get very busy at peak times at top and bottom, for those staying at the top end of the village there is the advantage of a two man chair right up to the base station and snow conditions permiting a choice of a blue or black run right back down to the Hotel Crest and Patagonia Apartments which never seems to get busy.So the skiing, well arinsal's stretches right up the mountain with a series of easy blues ... ...chance of getting lost, ideal for beginners/early intermediates, but beware, these slopes are used by ski school which stretch accross the hill therefore get horribly busy and congested, better going high to avoid this where there are some nice(short) reds and a couple of blacks.
Over in Pal which is reached by a 50man cable car, this offers a better variety of runs amongst trees with nice views.Early in the week its almost deserted over there as ...
Bairsty 27.03.2004
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