... The Sierra Nevada mountain range is high (3470m), which it needs to be considering its position in Europe. It has the most southerly ski slopes in Western Europe and the sunniest. It is an easy drive on a good toll-free motorway in a hire car and is well signposted when you reach the outskirts ... Read review
Set in the heart of the Sierra Nevada resort, this Alpine-style hotel offers easy access ... more
to the fantastic local skiing and a range of facilities for when you return from the slopes.The Meliá Sierra Nevada is located just 100 metres from the chair lifts of southern Spain’s best ski resort, just 33 km from the monumental city of Granada. Enjoy panoramic views of these slopes from the hotel’s own heated indoor swimming pool.After spending the day on the piste, relax with a session in the sauna or steam bath before cooling off in the whirlpool tub. You can even soothe your body with a massage. Enjoy the evening to yourself by making use of the supervised kid’s club, allowing you to dine in peace at the on-site à la carte or buffet restaurants.
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The only 5-star hotel in the Sierra Nevada resort of Monachil, this hotel enjoys ... more
ski-to-door access to the local slopes.The Vincci Selección Rumaykiyya is built in a typical Alpine style to match its mountainous surroundings. One of the highest hotels in Europe, it boasts direct access to a ski lift and a special transport service to Pradollano. Onsite, ample ski storage space is available, as well as a comfortable Alpine lounge and treatment area.Rooms at the hotel all offer views of spectacular surrounding mountains. Each one features exposed wooden beams reminiscent of a traditional mountain lodge.This seasonal hotel is open between December and April.
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Situated in the hub of the Sierra Nevada ski resort, this hotel lies just 500 m from Plaza ... more
Andalusia with its shops, cafe-bars and restaurants and is only 200 m from the ski lift station.Sleep well in the smart and simple bedrooms which have attractive, tiled floors and decorated in refreshing, blue tones.Start the day with a superb buffet breakfast and then return to the restaurant for dinner. The Citymar el Ciervo also has a coffee shop where you can purchase light snacks and hot drinks throughout the day.Its location a short walk from Plaza Andalusia is where many of the resorts commercial activity is found including ski and board rental. You can enjoy your stay conveniently in the heart of Sierra Nevada and make the most of your time of the slopes. This seasonal Hotel is open from December to March.
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Located in the centre of the Sierra Nevada ski resort, this recently renovated hotel ... more
blends classic-style rooms with impressive Zen-style public spaces.The Meliá Sol y Nieve is located just 100 metres from the chair lifts of southern Spain’s best ski resort. The monumental city of Granada is just 33 km away.Each room comes with state-of-the-art facilities such as Wi-Fi internet and flat-screen TVs with satellite channels and real-time updates on skiing conditions. After a day on the surrounding slopes, enjoy a relaxing session of après-ski in the hotel’s amazing, new 2,500 m² spa centre.
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Set in the Sierra Nevada ski resort, these apartments are located within 400 metres of ... more
Plaza del Pradollano and provide ideal accommodation for a skiing or mountain-walking holiday. Located very near the ski lifts that run to the slopes, these apartments form the ideal base for skiers. At the end of a long day on the slopes, you can prepare dinner in your apartment’s own American-style kitchen. Then sit and relax in the lounge area and chat and play games with friends or family. Resort Sierra Nevada is situated at the foot of the mountain range, and within easy reach of the monumental city of Granada.
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The traditional timber chalet style Vincci Seleccion Rumaykiyya, at an altitude of 2,400 ... more
metres, is located ten metres from the ski slopes and lifts, 40 kilometres from Granada. This three floor hotel features 50 air conditioned guestrooms, all of which feature exposed wooden beams and open onto balconies. Modern amenities include satellite television, minibars, Internet connections, safes, and hair dryers. Bathrooms come with separate tubs and showers, complimentary toiletries, hair dryers and bathrobes. After a day on the slopes guests can unwindwith drinks in the apres ski coffee bar, or dine on traditional Mediterranean dishes in the restaurant. Further relaxation includes a spa with sauna, hot tub, massage room and pampering beauty treatments. Business guests can organise meetings in the conference rooms and make use of the audio visual equipment and banquet facilities. The concierge can advise on local attractions or guests can research the area using the high speed Internet connections. Multilingual staff at the 24 hour front desk are on hand to answer any queries. Parking is available at around 17 EUR per day. Guests can explore the Sierra Nevada mountain range on the ski slopes and lifts just ten metres away. The city of Granada, with its Cathedral and Royal Chapel, is 40 kilometres away. The hotel is located 40 kilometres from Granada Airport. Special Offer: Guests who stay on Dec. 31, 2005 receive a New Year's dinner that is included in the room rate.
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Advantages: Warm sun and snow in January and February. Price over others in Europe. Disadvantages: Lack of snow in April. Not enough ski area. Not testing skiing.
...hours from Malaga airport. The Sierra Nevada mountain range is high (3470m), which it needs to be considering its position in Europe. It has the most southerly ski slopes in Western Europe and the sunniest. It is an easy drive on a good toll-free motorway in a hire car and is well signposted when you reach the outskirts of Granada. Granada has a small airport.
The resort itself is quite small compared to most in France and Switzerland ... ...people use the multitude of apartments, or stay in Granada overnight.
Restaurants are ok, but as in many other ski resorts often pricey. Here though, there are few gastronomic choices. There is one, masquerading as Swiss, which is best to AVOID.
Nightlife is relaxed and totally informal. Bars and restaurants stay open late, but have no experience of the discos. All are reasonably priced. Beers cost about €3.00 - 4.00 ... more
The Sol y Nieve (sun and snow) resort is situated about 40 minutes drive from Granada and 2.5 hours from Malaga airport. The Sierra Nevada mountain range is high (3470m), which it needs to be considering its position in Europe. It has the most southerly ski slopes in Western Europe and the sunniest. It is an easy drive on a good toll-free motorway in a hire car and is well signposted when you reach the outskirts of Granada. Granada has a small airport.
The resort itself is quite small compared to most in France and Switzerland and there are only about 3 good hotels, although most people use the multitude of apartments, or stay in Granada overnight.
Restaurants are ok, but as in many other ski resorts often pricey. Here though, there are few gastronomic choices. There is one, masquerading as Swiss, which is best to AVOID.
Nightlife is relaxed and totally informal. Bars and restaurants stay open late, but have no experience of the discos. All are reasonably priced. Beers cost about €3.00 - 4.00 and a meal for 2 in town would be about €40.00 with wine.
The ski area is small (about 40 miles of runs) and good for beginners and intermediates, but only worth a day out for an advanced skier. There are plenty of lifts, but since it the only ski area in Spain (Andorra is not Spain), it attracts all the skiers living south of Madrid and Valencia and others too no doubt, as well as tourists from other countries. During the week, queues are virtually non-existent, but at weekends the position is reversed. The area is averse to high winds, so sometimes many of the lifts are closed. With its high temperatures, the slopes are often icy in the early morning and slushy in the late afternoon. The resort boasts more snow making machines than any other resort in Europe. It needs them all. However, rainfall in spring is not usually a problem in the Andalucia region and there has still been snow to ski on until late April in the last 2 seasons. This year may be the first one for a few years to not have much rain/snow.
Ski passes are reasonable compared with France etc. Prices as follows: Adult ½ day pass from €19.60 - €28.00. Children: ½ day pass from €11.80 – 16.80. Adult day pass from€23.10 – 33.00. Children day pass from €13.90 – 19.80. Adult 1 week pass from €137.40 – 196.30. Children 1 week pass from €82.50 – 117.80. Seniors and handicapped charged at children’s prices.
I have skied here for anything from a day trip to one week. I first went there in 1983 when it was little more than a village with only one good hotel and no more than 10 lifts. Subsequently and since I live close-by, I have been on numerous occasions, mainly for 1 or 2 day breaks during the week. The skiing has varied from the sublime, with crisp powder snow in hot weather to slush on a nasty and cold day in January last year, when we all had to go to the nearest mountain restaurant to thaw out. Generally, it is very pleasant for all the season, with few bad days.
Advantages: Anybody can walk up, warm air in high altitude. Disadvantages: Plain countryside, no cliffs
As I already wrote in my other reviews i was in spain by my car in 2005. Im fancy mountain climber and therefore i surely wanted to get on the top of the highest mountain in spain. That mountain is Mulhacen located close to Grenada in mountains called SierraNevada. Its altitude is 3,478.6 metres.
We have driven to the beach south from the SierraNevada and after breakfast that was about 7.30am we (me and two friends) started to climb with our car to the south parking place in sierranevada. It is a long way since you have to climb about 2.600 meters with car so the road is very crooked. about 9.30am the road started to be very dusty and the car was slipping in curves. We thought that we maybe passed the parking place and we are going wrong way. After 20 minutes we finally got to the parking place where almost no cars were parked. We ...
Advantages: BEAUTIFUL Disadvantages: Not for the none walkers of us
the Pyrenees and the SierraNevada. The highest point, the summit of Torrecerredo (2,648 m.), crowns this spectacular range of limestone peaks. The lower reaches live up to their local name, 'Green Spain', with the lush valleys providing excellent pastures and the higher meadows bedecked with wildflowers in the spring. The high ground is a 'moonscape' of dramatic rocky terrain almost devoid of vegetation. It was the wildness of the terrain that stopped the Moors from conquering this part of Spain. There are still villages in the mountains that have no access by road; this inaccessibility and wildness has provided some of Europe's more exotic wildlife with a safe haven. Bears, wolves and boars all still survive here, chamois are often seen across the range, and due to a total hunting ban are not at all shy, allowing us to approach well within camera ...
Advantages: Great place if you like desrts and heat. Good as part of a circular tour with CA Disadvantages: A lot of driving. Nowhere is very near anywhere else
at Mammoth Mountain, a winter ski resort close to the real Ponderosa Ranch, and accessed via the shores of Lake Tahoe. A strange place to stay in summer, but very a very scenic drive to and from the hotel.
The next day, we set off for our journey towards Las Vegas.
Driving south with the SierraNevadas on our right, we stopped to look at Mono Lake, with its salt stacks looming from the water - this place is really LA's reservoir, so no wonder the level is dropping!
Before joining the freeway that joins Vegas to LA, we stopped in Mojave (the town, not the desert) for lunch at some Spanish lady's cantina, where I summoned up the courage to compliment her on the photos of her grandchildren (in Spanish, I might add) - this did wonders for the service received, and we left well stuffed. The place was just like you imagine it, right down to ...
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