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Advantages: Cheap shopping. A cheap way of skiing. Disadvantages: Coach transfer to resort took ages, and not nice if you're scared of mountain roads!
I went as part of a group of people. You fly into France and take a coach to the resort which is 3 hours away - no fun at all!
A cheap alternative to France or Austria, with excellent shopping because no VAT in Andorra. Ski equipment is very cheap, as is virtually everything else shopping wise. We bought gallons of booze back in our suitcases because it was so so cheap.
Skiing was OK but not brilliant. The lift system is OK too. Having been to Austria before I didn't think it was as good but hey, it's better than not going!
Nightlife - OK. As a group we tended to make our own entertainment and we gatecrashed a tour group's party. There was a bar in the bottom of the hotel which was handy!
Food at the Sport hotel wasn't brilliant but it wasn't awful. The facilities there were ok. ...
Advantages: Cheap, excellent snowboard school Disadvantages: Transport
After planning to go snowboarding with my best friend for 4 years, we got our act together and booked to go this January. It had to be cheap, and we were absolute beginner boarders. Both competent skiers mind.
Getting there. We home at 3 in the morning to get a 7.30 flight out of gatwick to toulouse, followed by a 3 hour bus journey up to the tiny village of soldeu in Andorra - Eltarter is the next village over on Andorras only road.
We arrived at our hotel at around 2 in the afternoon, unpacked, and then reached the first and only major problem of the holiday. The only public transport is buses, and they are infrequent, and manned by drivers with little English. Still, we eventually found one and got down to the kit shop in the village (two kilometers away) to hire our boots and boards.
The next 5 days passed in no time ...
Advantages: Slope access / Swimming Pool / Buffett / Perfect Disadvantages: I don't live there
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When / Why?
I visit the Sport Hotel Village once a year, and have done so since 2001. (Previous to this, we used to stay in the Sport Hotel across the road)
I stay here during the half term break in March, for 1 week.
The reason, the resort is perfect, with a wide range of runs, from green to black.
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Location
The hotel is located in Soldeu, Andorra, to the foot of the Grandvalira slopes. With easy access to the hotel from the main road, and the slopes. The bottom of the piste runs directly into the lifts on the ground floor. Andorra is located on the borer between France and Spain, on the eastern Pyrenees.
Of course, this hotel is available all year round. For the winter, the ski resort offers excellent skiing and snowboarding with the best and biggest slopes in the Pyranees. During ...
