Poster: A snowHead
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Honest reviews please from those who have been?
What is the skiing like, is it well pisted etc?
How are the restaurants and night life?
We are looking at going next March on a lads trip to try somewhere new but we are used to the party resorts of Austria, how does it compare?
Thanks
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Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
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Well, the person's real but it's just a made up name, see?
Well, the person's real but it's just a made up name, see?
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@Rhumage, I've only skied two days but found it well groomed and some nice off piste. The OH did two seasons there, back in the day. Good skiing.
Can't really comment on nightlife as we were staying with locals.
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@Rhumage, I've spent a fair amount of time there.
Skiing is excellent. Good prospects for everyone from easy blue's to cliff drops.
Night life is Spanish which means that it doesn't really start until midnight. In Baqueira 1500 there is a club that's usually open till the early hours plus hotels & small bars. Further down the valley is better eating and cheaper beer but I don't recall the time for the last bus, depending on how you are fixed for transport.
I've a trip report on here from a few years ago but I think the pics have been lost.
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Anyway, snowHeads is much more fun if you do.
Anyway, snowHeads is much more fun if you do.
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Having also spent quite a lot of time there, I'd second what AndAnotherThing.. says, and I'd add that although it's well-pisted in the sense that they look after the pistes well, they don't bash the last dying breath out of everything, and often leave a variety of pistes alone for more than a day at a time. (Grandvalira in Andorra would be a good point of comparison, where the pistes are always as flat as a pancake.) Or perhaps it's just that Baqueira's snow tends to be fairly fluffy and so it rucks up quickly. March is ideal for the Pyrenees, by the way.
As for being a ideal destination for a group of lads accustomed to Austria, I'm not sure.. the Pyrenees doesn't really go in for apres-ski, for example - although Baqueira offers a decent first drink in the bar at 1500m and you could move on down to e.g. Arties (via car, or bus?) for some tapas for the next one. The Spanish nightlife is indeed fun (sociable and not drunken) but the valley is probably Spain's flagship ski destination and the crowd is generally well-heeled (without the silly pretensions of certain resorts in the Alps) - though perhaps that's right up your street of course! Maybe it depends on how old the group is; it's a place more suited to thirty-somethings upwards than twenty-somethings I would say. To throw in another idea to suit a younger crowd, Sierra Nevada close to Granada in southern Spain could make an excellent lads' trip that fits in both a good mountain and a very fun city.
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I thought Pas de la Casa was the Pyrenean resort for nightlife.
That's why I avoid it
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It is an intermediate resort for semi-posh Spaniards.
The Spanish royal family vacations there.
If you are going on a buddy trip, then go to Verbier, Chamonix or Val d'Isere. Far better.
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