Pal Arinsal Reviews & Ratings

The perfect report for beginners, intermediate and family snow sports. 1 gondola up and you have ski shops, restaurants, lockers and all the facilities you could need. Two chair lifts to the top and some forgiving fun piste runs. The town is quiet but has a few great bars, restaurants and shops. would thoroughly recommend a trip here, it’s beautiful!

It is a wonderful resort and we have been 2 years running - perfect for beginners, intermediates and families, cheap compared to most other locations for skiing and very friendly. We hired a car to drive from Barcelona - 2.5/3 hours unless you want to get a bus which is 8-10 euro but takes 3.5/4 hours

We hit Pal Arinsal for the second time this year.
We love it. For my son who is just learning to ride, it's great because there are lots of slopes to build his confidence and also challenge him.
People are friendly all over the resort. Food is pretty decently priced on the resort and cheaper in the town.
Accommodation was good, there are different options there. So you can stay in luxury, a hostel or somewhere in between. If you get a 4+ day pass, you get a free day at Grandviliara or Ordino. On the whole, it's a fantastic alternative to the Alps and we would return in a heartbeat

A beautiful resort with great value for money options available. Only drawback is; it is approx 2/3 hours away from both tolouse and Barcelona airports so can be a bit of a slog getting there! But it is worth the journey!
Ski pass has the option of including your lunch -burgers fries and a drink. Worth it! As they’re approx 20€ on the slope for burger and fries
The ski pass included for pal as well, it’s a beautiful trip over from the gondola at the top of the mountain with some great views

Great Value resort, enough skiing for a few days, need to sweep slopes a bit more. But great all round resort.

Love Pal Arinsol, this is the 2nd year we have been in March for a cheeky 5 nighter. Our main ski holiday is in january with part of our larger ski/board club, but like to get the most out of it with a smaller, cheaper trip in march. 4 adults - 2 advanced ski-iers and 2 advanced boarders.

The resort itself is beautifully compact, we stayed in Princessa park and spa hotel which was just a few minutes walk into the village and main gondola, which we got on straight away without queuing.

The base of the slopes has a large station with a couple of restaurants/bars and some shops, a good time to go to the shops as they have some cracking discounts and great gear.

Food and drink is great and reasonably priced. There are several mountain bars, one even has a magic carpet to get you up there if you dont quite make it.

Lifts are efficient, friendly and normally pumping music, we hardly queued at all.

The weather this time of year is fab. First time in years that we were out in T shirts. Once day was foggy and cold, this made it harder to access all the slopes and certain areas did become a bit over crowded, but still a good day skiing. Although this beautiful warm weather meant a bit of slush in the afternoons, so made sure we were out first thing in the morning to get the best conditions.

Slopes are mainly wide groomed blue and red runs, with some tree lined. A few mogals in between ski lifts which were fun. There are a few great black runs too - its not a huge resort before enough for 4/5 days skiing, the ski pass also includes a day's access at the next resort which is a short bus drive away.

This time of year the slopes are quiet, at points we were the only ones around which was fab, there is plenty of space to ski/board without having to worry about dodging everyone else.

The resort itself is super friendly, everyone is chilled and happy. At the bottom of the gondola in the village there is an open space where they normally have a DJ pumping out a few tunes for a couple of hours, with a handful of restaurants and bars to choose from, you won't have an issue eating out.

All in all, we love this small resort for our smaller ski trip, and is a great choice for those wanting a shorter length trip or for families that dont want to pay a fortune

Lovely small resort for a few days easy skiing with family or friends who are not that experienced. Great value for money.

Visited in March 2026 and found really good conditions. Budget friendly place, not Bulgaria kinda cheap, but compared to the Alps it's a steal! Pal & Arinsal are actually separate resorts, but covered by 1 pass and linked by a 50 person cable car. Arinsal is smaller, but good for blasting out quick runs. Altitude hits 2300m and a good selection of steep reds & 3 blacks up top, leading to 2 main long blues to the bottom. Pal is larger, and a better variety of slopes to explore. Lower altitude and some of the runs are less steep - girlfriend is a boarder and she struggled at times navigating flatter runs which you use to explore across the resort. Stayed in Arinsal where there's a good selection of accommodation, restaurants and bars. Apres isnt crazy, although Ciscos is a must visit for 1 night at least!

Lots of snow this year ! Great friendly family resort with access to Arinsal + Arkalise + access to the Grandvalira ski area for one day if you have a four day pass

Great resort with ski lift in easy reach of many hotels. Option to ski further. Food and drink really reasonable pricing for a ski resort.

From recommendation from friends we took our 6 year old here for her first ever ski trip, and what an amazing time we had. The most perfect long blue slopes so she can practice parallel skiing and a lovely welcoming ski school. As for me and my husband, we couldn’t have enjoyed it more. I ski and my husband snowboards and it was perfect for the both of us. Chilled, family oriented resort that I will 100% be going back to. We loved it!

Had an amazing trip to Arinsal. Brilliant snowfall late Jan, pretty much never had to wait for a lift, lots of room on the slopes. Loved being able to get the gondola over to Pal which was a nice change from Arinsal with lots more tree-lined runs.
Great value resort, cheap food and drink, and found everyone to be very friendly and helpful.

Great skiing. Pal had some lovely runs and easily linked with the cable car with Arinsal. Would definitely visit again. Prices in restaurants and bars were very reasonable and lots of choice.

I had always been put off visiting Andorra with 'its for beginners' and 'its not that good' comments. We visited, as a family, and found out we'd missed out and the nay-sayers were wrong.
Pal-arinsal is a massive area. Runs are nice and open and generally quiet. We went at end of March for spring weather and it was perfect. Snow stayed good even when the sun was out due to how high everything is. People are freindly. Everything seems reasonably priced compared to SE of England.
2 things to note - there's not a massive amount of places to eat out in the evening so be aware of that. Ski buses were an issue, they turn up when they're ready then if the driver fancies a rest and a tik-tok doom scroll you just have to sit on the bus and wait. Worth considering which hotel you choose if youre gonna use the ski bus.
However, the paid bus service is superb - take an afternoon off and go in to the city.
We're going back again soon.

We went in March 2025, and for a few weeks before we arrived the snow had been sparse. So, we were really pleased when we arrived to see plenty of good coverage over the entire mountain range. Apart from one cloudy/misty day, our whole week was bluebird skiing, and the slopes were well groomed.

However, particularly towards the bottom lift it could be very crowded, especially on the weekend and when the childrens ski schools were running.

We went with Crystal ski and they were really great at looking after us, especially when my son was injured and needed hospital attention.

The second time in my life I had been skiing. This time I went with my girlfriend and it was an incredible trip. We had a great time at Pal Arinsal.

Went as part of a school trip. Stayed at Sant Gothard Hotel. Short walk up the hill to the main gondola to the pistes. The Arinsal slopes are well contained in a single valley but the Pal slopes are easy to reach via a gondola from the top of the mountain. Good mix of grades, but mainly aimed at beginner and intermediate skiers in my opinion.
Returning with our school for the third time in Feb 2027.

Had the best time, our ski instructors were amazing and asking us what we wanted to do every day instead of doing their own thing and re doing all the basics. Chairlifts were very efficient and plenty of snow around the whole time. Great experience would highly recommend

A lovey place to go for beginners/intermediates. Slopes were empty, beers were cheap. Great value for money.

I was lucky enough to skiing at Pal-Arinsal after several days of snow storms in Andorra. This allowed me to enjoy the off-piste areas of glade skiing. with amazing powder. Although it is less and less common to have this snow conditions at Pal-Arinsal, rather the oposite, this year it is being exceptionally good for skiing in Pal-Arinsal, Andorra.