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Baqueira SKI HOLIDAYS

Baqueira Beret has been described as the perfect ski resort by Peter Hardy - the editor of The Good Skiing and Snowboarding Guide in the Daily Telegraph in December 2014. We took notice of his words - after all this chap has skied in over 500 resorts scattered through 20 countries so he knows a thing or two about what makes the perfect resort!

Baqueira opened as a winter sports resort over 50 years ago. It is situated high in the Spanish Pyrenees yet just 2 hours from Toulouse airport. Baqueira is a sophisticated modern resort that has managed to retain its laid back Spanish approach to skiing and Après Ski with world class skiing! Lift queues are un-heard of and to top things off there is an excellent British ski school in the resort.

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One of the great things about Baqueira is how quiet the ski area is in the morning. The Luis Arias is a great piste for getting the blood going - officially a black but in reality a steep red, but glorious all the same. If conditions allow then the 'Lakes' off piste has to be done - starting from the Cap de Baqueira down a rock walled couloir then opens up to beautiful wide snowfields ending up at the 2 chair lifts at Orri.

Heading over to Tuc de la Lanca - the highest point is always quiet - don't be put off by the drag tows - they open up some wonderful piste skiing with a choice of a red or black down to Cap del Port. The cafe here serves great cake and coffee! A couple of laps of the Peulla chair then I tend to head over to the far side. Tuc de Costarjas offers some wide open fast pistes as well as some off piste off to the left as you ride up the chairlift. Apres ski beer down at The Baqueira Bar right at the foot of the home run is well earned!

Intermediates

With over 170kms of marked piste spread over 4 vallees from Beret through to Bonaigua and skiing from 1500m up to 2610m Baqueira really is an intermediates paradise. What will surprise you is the lack of skiers first thing in the morning - at 9am you may think that the resort was deserted - but no self respecting Spaniard starts skiing before 11am! Long sweeping blue and red pistes criss cross the 6 mountain peaks - Baqueira offers some serious mileage on excellent well prepared pistes!
Try out your carving skills on the time giant slalom then download a video of you completing the course!

Advanced

Ok so 170kms of piste doesn't sound much, but there are 20kms of steep black runs, 10kms of itineraries and acres of off piste to have a crack at. From open powder fields, steep couloirs and off piste routes through the trees there is a variety here that many of the larger resorts fail to deliver. The lifts upto the summit of Cap de Baciver open up some great offpiste skiing as well as testing black and red runs. If you fancy heli skiing - Baqueira has some of the cheapest heli skiing available in Europe - along with Andorra. We have years of experience skiing throughout the world and we have to agree with Peter Hardy perhaps Baqueira is one of the best ski resorts in the world!