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New for this season in Pal Arinsal
Pal Arinsal has launched this winter the first phase of the future skiing connection of the two sectors with the new Port Negre cable car and a new white piste in Arinsal.
For the 2024-2025 season, the resort will complete the next phase of the connection with a tele-ski and green pistes that already allow skiing from one sector to the other.
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Slopes and facilities
New Port Negre Arinsal chairlift and new el Niu slope
This season Pal Arinsal has a new six-seater detachable chairlift, Port Negre de Arinsal, and a new blue piste, El Niu. Both new features will considerably improve skiers’ mobility around the resort and mark the first step towards the future ski link between the Pal and Arinsal sectors.
On the other hand, the new 700-metre blue run will make it easier to get from one side of the Arinsal sector to the other, improving skiers’ experience.
Refurbishments and other new developments
It has carried out various refurbishments at different points, such as the reception area of the Pal nursery, the rest area of the Jardí de Neu de Pal garden and the ticket offices and customer service area of the ski school in the Planells building.
The Adaptive Center Pal Arinsal, the ski school for people with functional disabilities, will have new equipment and a team of 5 specific instructors.
The Corpalanca slope, which last year was approved for competition by the FAE, will now have a timing system for the races that will be held during the winter.
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Sostenibilitat i medi ambient
Innivation and energy saving
The resort incorporates four new state-of-the-art snow cannons to continue to optimise snowmaking at all points in the domain. In addition, the Planell snow cannons have been renewed to make them more efficient.
The lift and return cabinets have been renovated, replacing the automatic controllers and TSD Serra 2 screens, and a new piste simulator has been installed at TCF Tossa.
High mountain gastronomy
The Terroir restaurant, in Arinsal, culminates the renovation that began last winter with a new bistronomic proposal that combines a warm and organic atmosphere.
El Niu is also one of the restaurants that was renovated last year, with a new dynamic proposal for the terrace, which will have a DJ, and also thanks to the new Port Negre telecadira, which will be open from just in front of the restaurant.
New fast good food on the terrace of La Caubella, a new oriented point of sale.
Starlight nights, the Coll de la Botella offers the Starlight sopars, where you can experience the light of the night through its unique rice and meat on the stone. Pla de la Cot offers its iconic evening meals where the star is its fondues and stone-grilled meats.
Sporting events
ISMF Comapedrosa Andorra. Arinsal will again host one of the country’s most important sporting events: the Comapedrosa Andorra Ski Mountaineering World Cup, which celebrates its 13th edition this year and will take place from 19 to 21 January.
The La Massana sector will host two firm fixtures: the Individual Race (20 January) and the Vertical Race (21 January).
UCI MTB World Championships. With the ninth edition of the UCI Mountain Bike World Cup held last August, Pal Arinsal began preparations for what will be the big event of 2024: the Mountain Bike World Championships. The resort of La Massana will host the most important annual event for the second time, after successfully hosting it in 2015. The world’s best riders will compete for the rainbow jerseys between 27 August and 1 September 2024 in the Downhill (DHI), Olympic Cross-Country (XCO), Cross-Country Short Track (XCC), Cross-Country Relay (XCR) and E-MTB Cross-Country (e-bike) disciplines.