Pal Arinsal Ski Holidays Resort Guide
Pal Arinsal - Typical Andorran Atmosphere
Arinsal, Andorra is renowned for its sunny days and friendly hospitality, as well as being a resort that offers excellent value for money. With the neighbouring resort of Pal, Andorra linked by high-speed cable cars, skiers can take advantage of the Ski areas in the larger Pal Arinsal Ski resort. Since they have been interlinked, skiers of all different levels of ability have benefited from the variety that Pal-Arinsal has to offer. Pal Arinsal hotel accommodation is of a good standard and caters for a range of budgets.
Pal-Arinsal is situated at the end of the valley in the southern part of Andorra. Offering a typical Andorran Ski resort with a mix a newly built modern Hotels and Apartments and featuring water fountains that offer the purest water in Andorra, Pal-Arinsal is a very popular place to stay. Locals collect the drinking water for their own use and it is also bottled and sold in local supermarkets. Pal Arinsal can be reached from most UK Airports and Ski holidays in Pal Arinsal can be booked online at Holiday Hypermarket!
Piste Fact File On Pal Arinsal
- Resort height – 1550m
- Highest lift – 2560m
- Number of lifts – 30
- Total runs – 42
- Piste runs – 68km
- Cross country – 5km
- Longest run – 6km
- Snowboard Parks – 1
Beginners – Pal-Arinsal is a perfect destination for beginners and offers excellent Ski schools, with helpful and friendly instructors to assist in learning the basics of skiing. There is a good variation of gentle, easy slopes that are away from the main area, allowing plenty of space to practice on.
Intermediates – Having the two resorts in one means that an intermediate skier will certainly find slopes to suit their ability. Pal-Arinsal offers a wide variety of wide, flattening pistes that will undoubtedly help to improve technique.
Advanced – Pal-Arinsal has limited black runs for the experienced skier but with the variety that the two resorts have they will find that the resorts offer some testing runs and good off-piste.
Snowboarding – As well as skiing in Pal Arinsal, snowboarding is also very popular. A fair amount of varied terrain is on offer in Pal-Arinsal and freestyle riders will love the exclusively dedicated Arinsal snowboarding area.
Après Ski – Renowned for its après Ski activities and lively night life, Pal-Arinsal offers a great variety of activities throughout the day and evening, including dog sledding, Ski bikes, snowmobile, bowling, bars, cafes and restaurants. Nightlife is also very varied within the resorts, with lively bars and restaurants with distinctively different atmospheres.
Transfers – Pal-Arinsal is situated approx 3hrs 30mins from Toulouse airport.