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Anyone know if any tour ops will sort transfers only? Or a cheapish way to get to resort?
I'd like to do a DIY to Pas. Can sort flights/accomm etc but transfers for just 2 are horrendous.
Before you say it I dont want to drive as there is no parking in Pas and I dont want the responsibility.
Cheapest transfer is £496  for the 2 return. No shared transfer available hence cost.
Any ideas?
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Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
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Sorry can't help with the transfer but i thought there was plenty of parking in Pas. There's at least one (only one i've used but i think there's others) multistory which has always seemed to have plenty of space to me. Hire car plus car park would i guess be cheaper than £496?
Good luck anyway.
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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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Most operators will not sell transfers but they mostly arrive on a Sunday so if you take a flight you can normally pay for a transfer at the airport just ask on arrival. Obviously no gurantee they will have spaces. Crystal flights arrive between 11 and 2
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Michael B,
Who told you there is no parking in PAS?
I have done countless day trips to PAS and never, ever had issues with parking...
EDIT: and there's a bus service direct from the airport at €44pp return, but only two rotations a day.
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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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Michael B, As Kruisler says there's a service from Toulouse twice daily - it leaves Toulouse airport at 11:00 and 20:00 and is €27 single and €45 return for adults, and children 4-11 years at 50%. My company can arrange these for you.
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£496 is crazy! We've just booked up with Inghams for 16th Jan for Pas and all in (s/c accomodation, transfer, board carriage and a week ski pass) it was £393!
You could try popping over to the Seasonnaire thread and seeing if any Pas reps are there? They might be able to sort you out a tranfer on the sly?
good luck finding something cheaper.
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Kruisler, Ok I know there is parking but I dont want to do it. I've been a few times and a couple of them peeps were digging their cars out etc. I just dont want that hassle.
grimmy, Going to check Inghams. Ta.
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They might be able to sort you out a tranfer on the sly?
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I was just thinking the same thing.....
Young skint student type reps have got to be easy to bribe with a few beer tokens surely?
Anyone ever done this?
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| grimmy wrote: |
They might be able to sort you out a tranfer on the sly?
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I was just thinking the same thing.....
Young skint student type reps have got to be easy to bribe with a few beer tokens surely?
Anyone ever done this?
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Michael B, When we did Pas, we always flew to Girona (is this an option for you?) and hired a car. The car hire is much cheaper on the Spanish side, we hired a 9 seater Merc Vito for the week and paid less than you were quoted.
Free parking wasn't a problem either.
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snowHeads are a friendly bunch.
snowHeads are a friendly bunch.
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And love to help out and answer questions and of course, read each other's snow reports.
And love to help out and answer questions and of course, read each other's snow reports.
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Its just not cost effective to do Pas on a DIY, unless you drive the whole way. Car hire from Toulouse is expensive as you will need snow chains and will need to take the car out of France so need Andorra insurance from the car hire company.
My mate is a manager at Eurocar and we looked at getting a car from his firm out there, just to avoid the wretched coach transfer and that stupid thieving coach halt halt. It was nearly £300 with his discount for a Megane or similar.
I love Pas, but its a pain to get to unless on a TO.
The other factor to consider is that we have been seriously delayed getting back to Toulouse twice. Once because of the remains of a mega, mega March dump and the second time because of a fatal head on crash on the pass up from Ax Les Thermes. Because we were on a Thompson flight, on a Thompson holiday, the aircraft waited for us. On our own, assuming the coaches had not been held up, we would have faced a serious flight delay and bill, to get home.
The place is so cheap, TOs included, why would you want to go DIY?
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Michael B, Would that have been about 2006???? we made it to the airport too....but only because the flight was delayed. I've done Toulouse as well, but we always prefer the drive up from the spanish side. Surely more of an adventure when it snows!
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You know it makes sense.
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Yes it was 2006. The most epic dumps I have ever seen. Over a metre feel the night before our first day and another metre before our last day. The resort was in chaos as the pisties couldn't get to work. Half the lifts were open and the entire resort was a massive deserted powder field.
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Otherwise you'll just go on seeing the one name:
Otherwise you'll just go on seeing the one name:
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joydivision, bar shaker, 2006 it was. We were arriving rather than departing. When we arrived and were walking up to our apt people were looking at us like we were from another planet as no one had left or arrived all day. It was still snowing the piste bashers couldnt cope for a day or so.
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Poster: A snowHead
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Sounds like 2006 was fun! 
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Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
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2008 was similar. We got in and out of the resort fine but it chucked it down like I have never seen and didn't stop for 2.5 days, all as we first arrived. Lots of lifts were shut as they had to clear snow for the chairs to be able to move along. Once it stopped, it was clear blue skies for the rest of the week. I don't think any runs were pisted until the Wednesday or Thursday. Being late March it was empty and we felt like we had the place to ourselves. I'll never forget going down Llarga and Menera in waist deep powder. Every run was new tracks, all day.
When Andorra gets an equinox Atlantic storm, it gets serious powder depth. But so do the roads.
The only downside is that the highways people run their massive Caterpillar snow blades all night when its snowing hard and the beep, beep, beep of their reverse sensors keeps me awake... unless I am pished.
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