Pal and Arinsal resorts in Andorra – the dream come true for skiers

March 10, 2010 – 10:41 am

Winter Activities:
Skiing, Caldea (Europe’s largest recreational spa), cultural visits, helicopter flights, tax-free shopping, après-ski…

The resorts of Pal and Arinsal form a single resort, linked by a cable car and a single ski pass. You thus have a fantastic ski resort right in front of your door step: 63 km of pistes (4 greens, 16 blues, 16 reds and 5
blacks) spread over over 700 ha and from 1′550m to 2′560m, 31 ski lifts, 2 ski schools with 140 ski teachers and 350 snow cannons which guarantee good conditions from the beginning of December to the end of April. Your pass is also valid for the Ordino/Arcalís resort at no extra cost! Check the winter activities section on our website for details.

Summer activities:
Trekking, Caldea (Europe’s largest recreational spa), cultural visits, horseback riding, mountain biking, trout fishing, 4×4, golf (there’s a pitch & putt 10 min from your apartment or chalet and 3 18-hole courses at a 1-hour drive), indoor and outdoor pools, mountain biking, tax-free shopping
(8 km) etc etc. Check our summer activity page for details.

Arinsal is surrounded by Andorra’s highest peaks such as the Coma Pedrosa (2′942m), ideal for trekking.

With the rental of your apartment or chalet, you have a 10% discount on entrances and treatments at Caldea, Europe’s largest recreational spa!

There are many fantastic excursions you can do on well marked trails which start right from your door step such as the Coma Pedrosa (2′942m), Andorra’s
highest peak, the Pic de Médécourbe (2′914m) and many others. What’s more,
there are 3 free mountain huts at a 1h30min. hike from the village as well as 7 mountain lakes! The GR 11 passes through Arinsal and the GRP passes just above! Read More »

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Chalet Review – Chalets in Andorra by Hola Andorra

March 10, 2010 – 10:25 am

Comfortable, fully equipped and well furnished apartments, located just 400 metres from the gondola that connects the village with the VALLNORD Arinsal-Pal ski resort and just 8 km from Andorra’s capital and Caldea, Europe’s largest recreational spa. Central heating, proper kitchen, bathroom, open fire place, garage for one car, sunny terrace. Free outside parking.

Our self catering chalet for up to 10 persons:
Cosy mountain chalet, located just 200m from the VALLNORD Arinsal-Pal gondola. Garden with a BBQ, terrace, private parking, living room with wooden beams and open fire place, parquet flooring throughout the chalet, central heating, 2 bathrooms, proper kitchen etc. The chalet is not luxurious but nevertheless comfortable, warm and clean. Each of the 5 bedrooms has a built-in cupboard with lots of hanging space, shelves and drawers.

Our self catering chalet for 14+ persons:
Nice mountain chalet located just 400m from the gondola that takes you up to the Pal-Arinsal ski resort. Ideal for large families or groups of friends.
6+ bedrooms, 2 bathrooms + separate toilet, proper kitchen, garage for 1
car. The living room, kitchen and sunny terrace overlook the valley. Free outside parking.

Services close to all properties (meaning not having to take the car, max. 400m):
4 restaurants, 5 pubs, bread shop, cafés, a bank, cyber-cafés, ski rental shops, cable car, pharmacy, village supermarkets and 1 disco. None of the above mentioned services are located in or close by and thus do not create a disturbance at night.

With the rental of your apartment or chalet, you have a 10% discount on all ski passes for the Arinsal-Pal and Arcalís resorts, on the “All-Andorra” ski pass, on entrances to the Caldea spa and 20% on ski rental!

We can also arrange door-to-door transfers from all nearby airports.

Click here to see visit this chalets website.

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Chalet review – Chalet Soltir from BoardingBansko.co.uk

March 5, 2010 – 3:57 pm

Chalet Soltir is a newly renovated ski chalet dating from 1869 with the history of the building being tenderly preserved throughout the renovation process in 2006. Your hosts Amy and Mark met in the French Alps both working in similar high class chalets and brought their idea of opening a full catered ski chalet to Bansko 3 years ago.

Chalet Soltir

Chalet Soltir

The chalet sleeps up to 12 people including 2 family rooms and 2 twin/double rooms. After skiing you may want to enjoy a glass of hot mulled wine on our large terrace followed by a freshly baked cake served in our cosy lounge with a log burning stove and plenty to do including board games, DVD/VHS player and a Nintendo Wii. The chalet also has free WiFiand a laptop for you to use. In the evening we serve a wholesome 3 course meal in our grand dining room along with unlimited wine and beer.

We are situated 100 yards from the old cobbled town of Bansko and a further 100 yards from all the shops, bars and restaurants. The gondola is a 10 minute stroll fro the chalet but if you prefer we supply a private shuttle bus to and from the gondola with an option of dodging the queue, if their is one, by running you up to the next lift!

Fully catered from £229 per person perweek. NOW AVAILABLE FOR SUMMER BOOKINGS ALSO. Please contact us through our inquiries section.

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Stag Skiing Holidays

March 2, 2010 – 2:22 pm

Getting the location right for stag parties can be the key to having a great time. What could be more memorable than a stag group skiing holiday? Whether you’re an adrenaline thrill seeker or a beginner, skiing stag parties are filled with excitement, snow and beer. Gather some friends together and get the camera out because there is also plenty to do on the slopes besides skiing. Activities such as floodlit tobogganing, hang-gliding, ice caves, bobsleighing on Olympic tracks, or even ice driving or skidooing to become James Bond for the day!

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Hen Skiing Holidays

February 26, 2010 – 2:50 pm

Your hen party needs to feel like a holiday to get away from it all for everyone involved. What better place than breathtaking scenic mountains.
Skiing or snowboarding during the days and relaxing with a glass wine in scenic mountain restaurants in the evenings! Not sure all the girls will want to ski? Don’t worry there is plenty to do off the slopes on a hen skiing holiday. With many resorts having thermal spa facilities (especially in Switzerland), ice skating and best of all duty free shopping! A hen skiing weekend never fails to be fun and memorable.

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February 26 – Great Escapades Ski blog and Ski directory progressing

February 26, 2010 – 1:39 pm

February 2nd 2010 Great Escapades rebrands as Ski Holidays portal as part of Eclipse Ski

Great Escapades is in process of rebranding and launches the website as a Ski Holidays portal, adding a Ski Chalets directory soon newly launched Free Ski Directory and Ski Blog, Funny Ski Pics, Ski Websites Reviews and many many more.

If you would like to list a business in our directory, please use our contact page or call us on +44 01273 773 689.
Stay put and visit us often to see the changes on our website and new features being added.

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May 8th. Great Escapades now offers single activities for your customers not wanting to book a whole package.

With more and more agents putting activity posters in their shop windows to promote our new exciting activity breaks agents have found themselves inundated with inquiries for customers wanting just the individual activities as well. Please see our Group Activities page for more information.

April 28th . Travel agents see opportunity.

Travel agents are starting to book stag and hen weekends with Great Escapades and many free lunches are being sent out, some agents are selling the weekends to football tours and birthday parties.

April 25th. Great Escapades now offers bespoke packages for corporate customers.

We can arrange a wide variety of corporate activity events from a half days paintball through to overseas conference and incentive trips staying in luxury hotels. Please call our reservations team for more information.

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February 2010 Great Escapades Launches!

February 22, 2010 – 3:29 pm

Blog coming soon, we just launched this website ;-)

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