Hotel EuroEsqui at El Tarter / Soldeu review

Very impressed with this hotel. It was a little bit off the beaten track but free bus to the el Tarter gondola.

Food was great, buffet though so never very hot.
Excellent staff, very helpfull & friendly.

Great facilities: free ski bus (5 mins to el Tarter), sauna, pool, jacuzzi, steam room, weights room, TV room, bar etc


Money:

The bad exchange-rate killed the various trips unfortunately, and the beer was pretty bad at €3.50 a pint (now costing £3.28, whereas a few months back it woudl have been about £1.90).

Ski pass: €210 for 6 days (from the hotel)
Ski hire: €74 for 6 days for bronze-rated skis (more for silver & gold) including boot hire & poles.

If you've got your own boots, take them folks cos its only €54 for the week to hire the skis.

Resort:

El Tarter is linked to all of the other slopes in the Grand Valira area by lifts & runs & as long as you can get down a blue slope alive you can go right across the range of mountains there.

Excellent snow conditions, we had 6 inches of fresh powder most of the time.
The piste descriptions are pretty vague though, not sure what they judge to be the difference with Blue, Red and Black but some Blues were green, some red, some reds were rediculously steep & narrow whereas some blacks were pretty easy really.


Well impressed overall & will definately go back there next year (unless a better offer comes along).

Cheers

...what was up with "el Corbs" black run on the el Tarter side? Pure evil: about 89 degrees from the horizontal! (well ok exagerating a bit there :) but evil anyway!

Got any photos?

This hotel is probably one of the worst I have stayed in, maybe I have lucked out in the past though.

Our experience of the food was quite the opposite to the point of eating elsewhere most nights.

RossF wrote:This hotel is probably one of the worst I have stayed in, maybe I have lucked out in the past though.

Our experience of the food was quite the opposite to the point of eating elsewhere most nights.

really?? you might have been unlucky I guess - or I'm in for a treat next time I go there :)

The food everwhere else did look pretty tempting but the exchange rate killed off most of the spare cash we would have used & we had 1/2 board so wasnt worth trying really.

pics:



this is looking back up "Mufflo" - black run:







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D O H !! that was pretty silly of me.. sorry :)

elgius wrote:

RossF wrote:This hotel is probably one of the worst I have stayed in, maybe I have lucked out in the past though.

Our experience of the food was quite the opposite to the point of eating elsewhere most nights.

really?? you might have been unlucky I guess - or I'm in for a treat next time I go there :)

The food everwhere else did look pretty tempting but the exchange rate killed off most of the spare cash we would have used & we had 1/2 board so wasnt worth trying really.

We went in 04 so the exchange rate was pretty favourable! Photos look great.

Good Hotel with great food. San Miguel beer is really crap, and very gassy. Kronenberg 1664 not much better either, and costs 3.5 Euro. Staff are very good, and Christian, the Crystal Ski Rep was brilliant with a great sense of humour, 'Proper Job'.

My main gripe is the buses that ferry you to the El Tarter gondolas. At 9.15 in the morning, the queue's are 30 deep and more. You wait for 20 - 30 minutes for a bus.

I might try the Nordic next time, as this backs on to the ski slopes and the gondola.

Didn't see any of the world famous Andorra n boiled eggs though. My mate reckons they are best ever. I think they must time the 3 minutes much better than we do.