Explore 2 ski resorts in Andorra. Every card links to a full resort page with pictures, terrain and the numbers; the arrow opens the description without leaving this page.
The biggest ski area in the Pyrenees, spread across several Andorran valleys. It is wide, open and above the treeline, with a great deal of intermediate cruising, good beginner terrain and reliable snowmaking. Sunny and cheerful rather than dramatic. Where you stay changes the week completely. Pas de la Casa on the French border is duty free shopping and loud nights. Soldeu and El Tarter, further in, are calmer and better for families, and the ski schools there are used to teaching in English. Hotels and apartments cost well below the Alps, and the duty free shopping genuinely changes what a week comes to. Down in Andorra la Vella there is Caldea, an enormous thermal complex worth an afternoon. Eat where the Catalan cooking is rather than off the tourist menus on the main strip.
Two linked sectors above La Massana in Andorra, joined by a cable car across the valley. It is the smaller and more relaxed of the Andorran areas and has always been the one families and beginners are pointed towards. Pal is wooded and sheltered, which matters on a windy day, while Arinsal is more open and holds the steeper runs. The ski schools here are well used to English speakers and the learning areas are properly separated from through traffic. La Massana below has a working Andorran life and prices lower than the resorts higher up the valley, and Andorra la Vella with the Caldea thermal complex is twenty minutes away. The duty free shopping makes a real difference to what the week costs.
