Anyone been to el tarter in march?

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Not been to Andorra since 2001, can hardly remember it.......enjoyed the nightlife of pas a tad too much!

Now times have changed! Skiing with husband and 4 year old.

Looking to book neilson for march 2018.

Has anyone been to their club hotel?

What's it like?

How was the childcare?

How do the piste hold up late on in season?

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I've done Pas in late March and it was good spring skiing. Very slushy if you were in the sun, but damn good till it got too warm in the (very sunny that year) afternoons.

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Did the same trip in 2015 - Mar-15/22 - minus the 4yr old and husband NehNeh

The deClos Hotel was superb. Bar really good value with Beer and G&T. The quiet bar area good for chilling out and for kids to play games. Food in restaurant very good. I was (well Wink

)informed that this hotel was the only one actually owned by Neilson and therefore, was run to higher standard than their other offerings but could have equally been because of the people staying at the hotel who told me this Wink

(this may have changed since then)

Did not use the childcare but the girls looking after the "kids" were very friendly and using this as experience in their chosen profession - take that how you like, probably not the same girls will be there . . . but the creche was just near the restaurant and looked ok.

I was lucky with the weather, it was hot the 2 weeks before and words like "swimming pool" and "wet snow" were being used on the transfer up. That said, the temp went chilly for the first 3-4 days of the trip and keep what they had in good shape plus a mini-dump towards the end then with a day of getting back to tropical temps. Pistes will hold up well if the temps are low, with high temps then they get slushy quickly - a bit like the EoSB in VT really.

I would go again and definitely plan to as the area is rather good (Grandvalira) but perhaps go little earlier to increase the optimal weather probability but then the better weather could be later....

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I want to do it again now the kids are bit older and up to the long transfer. I didn't much like Pas, but I want to see the other villages and I think the areas are much better linked now than when I went.

Anyway, snowHeads is much more fun if you do.

Thanks for reply......the weather is a gamble anywhere you go......who would have predicted such poor snowfall this season in January in France?

Now they have loads of the stuff.

We are very much tied to school holidays.

2018 Easter is early and Liverpool
Schools break up a week earlier than rest of country!

Year after I am going to be a bad parent and take her out of school! wink

We are also limited as to ski area with childcare.

Esprit are pricey for a dump of a hotel, that's why we looked at el tarter.

Esprit childcare is amazing! Went with them this season to la plagne( bad experience.) and st anton (great experience.)

Would go back to st anton in a heartbeat but have been warned it would be crazy busy at Easter.

If anyone has other ski holiday suggestions with childcare I am open to advice!

Don't want chalet.
None of your big French resorts.
Have tried: club med, esprit, mark warner and crystal.

Cheers

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Stayed at Hotel Des Clos first week of April 2015.

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Hotel and staff were great.

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Hi. We have a place in Andorra, not Grandvalira but know it reasonably well.

Personally I would stay in Soldeu (just up the road from El Tarter)' at one of the Sport hotels if travelling with a young child as everything is exceptionally easy. Ski hire, storage and gondalas all in the same complex, everything connected by lifts, etc. The hotels are great too (have stayed in two of them) and there is a lovely spa.

http://www.sporthotelsandorra.co.uk/

Snow should be fine in March.

After all it is free

Went last week of March a few years back. Loads of fresh snow while were there. Good variety of slopes. The village was dead quiet though as a lot of places had shut up for the season bizarrely early.

Grand Vallira gets the best snow of the season in March.

I have had waist deep powder on every March visit and sometimes it has snowed so much the lifties cannot get to work.

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Cheers!

Going to book.

Thanks for advice.

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Anyone been to el tarter in march?

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