Ski Club 2.0 Home
Snow Reports
FAQFAQ

Mail for help.Help!!

Log in to snowHeads to make it MUCH better! Registration's totally free, of course, and makes snowHeads easier to use and to understand, gives better searching, filtering etc. as well as access to 'members only' forums, discounts and deals that U don't even know exist as a 'guest' user. (btw. 50,000+ snowHeads already know all this, making snowHeads the biggest, most active community of snow-heads in the UK, so you'll be in good company)..... When you register, you get our free weekly(-ish) snow report by email. It's rather good and not made up by tourist offices (or people that love the tourist office and want to marry it either)... We don't share your email address with anyone and we never send out any of those cheesy 'message from our partners' emails either. Anyway, snowHeads really is MUCH better when you're logged in - not least because you get to post your own messages complaining about things that annoy you like perhaps this banner which, incidentally, disappears when you log in :-)
Username:-
 Password:
Remember me:
👁 durr, I forgot...
Or: Register
(to be a proper snow-head, all official-like!)

Travel time - Barcelona to Andorra area?

 Poster: A snowHead
Poster: A snowHead
A friend is taking the SO to Barcelona before Christmas. Anyone got experience of travelling time to Andorra?
In particular, is a day trip possible? If the conditions allow, (it is mid Dec ) he may put it on the agenda as a surprise.
TomTom reports about 3 hrs and 125 miles, but sometimes these can be wrong.
Only there a few days, so time is at a premium.
Wasnt going to consider ski-ing but she got the idea they were off to Switzerland or Austria so trying to add this in as a special day out.
Thanks
latest report
 Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
snafu, it's about the same if a bit more from Barcelona as it is from Toulouse side to say Pas. Day trip is possible, pretty accurate if the weather is good, expect it to take longer if its bad.
snow report
 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?
We did this 2 years ago, travelling Sunday to Sunday.

Outbound was fine - about 2.5-2.75 hrs airport to Soldeu, travelling late afternoon. On the way back we were spending the Sunday night in Barcelona, so skied at La Masella in Spain on the way back (fairly decent ski area by the way).

We left the ski area about 5pm and arrived in Barcelona at about midnight - the most miserable driving experience of my life. Turns out that there are about 2 main roads (both mainly single carriageway though dual near Barcelona) from the mountains and it's apparently like that every Sunday in the ski season. So much for our leisurely night out in Barcelona - I was so knackered it was straight to bed.

Great trip though! We skied all the areas of Andorra (Soldeu, Pas de la Casa (these 2 are linked); Pal & Arinsal (ditto re linked); & Arcalis plus a small French resort called Porte de Puymorens - plus Spanish area mentioned above.

Well worth doing - but only if you can avoid return travel on a Sunday afternoon in the main season. I imagine that - if the skiing is open before Christmas - it could well be fine on a Sunday as it will be ultra-low season at that time.

Little Angel Taking everything into account, a day trip is definitely feasible.
ski holidays
 You need to Login to know who's really who.
You need to Login to know who's really who.
If you get a good run it is possible to get from Andorra to Barcelona airport in about 2.5 hours.

A big thing to consider here is that it is the run up to christmas. As there is only one road in and out of Andorra, this can get quite busy around the Duanes/borders with all the spanish coming up to get cheap pressies. This can increase the journey to Barca by anything up to 3 hours!! In the run up to christmas this can be everyday, but at other times, it generally just the weekends.

Other resorts that you consider in Spain which would be easier to get to and of a decent size are the likes of La Molina (about 2hrs from barca), Port Aine (about 3hours) and Cerdagne Puigmal/Puigcerda (about 2hrs).
snow report
 Anyway, snowHeads is much more fun if you do.
Anyway, snowHeads is much more fun if you do.
Another option might be Font Romeu/ Pyrennes 2000. It's French Catalan area, so not as cheap as Andorra, but nothing like Alps prices.

It was full of day trippers from Barcelona at the weekends when I went last February... iirc, about 2 hours drive from Barcelona airport (travelled Saturdays, didn't hit any jams).

(looked for map and found this list of ski resorts near Barcelona instead, which might be useful .. http://www.barcelonayellow.com/component/option,com_mtree/task,listcats/cat_id,160/Itemid,26/ )
snow report



Terms and conditions  Privacy Policy