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The first time I went to S.N the only buildings that existed were the ones around the Pradollano Sqare! I´ve been there in the first week of December 1999 and you could not believe it!!! Despite the lack of snow that is always present, the lines could go all the way to Granada and back. We can watch Cetursa allowing the building of more and more buildings every year in a resort that cannot support half the visitors that go there. In a few years it will be impossible to ski in Sierra Nevada. I´ve been skiing since I was 5 and I went all across the world skiing. I've been to Sierra Nevada more than 20 times. My advice is:
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I usually go to Sierra Nevada for first week Season skiing. For us Portuguese ski lovers that do not have our own Ski Resort, it is definitly our best option. It's cheap, fast access with 7-hour car travel from Lisbon, very good slopes from beginners to experts, a lovely shining sun most of the time, and a tremendous 'aprés-ski' animation... Indeed, sometimes, it gets impossible to ski, but you just have to choose the right week to go, which I believe is between 2nd and 4rd week of January.
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Snowboarding wasn't that good and night life totally sucked. Weather was awesome. Holiday was pretty ok but I have had much more fun in the Alps, 12 times by now...
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One word describes this resort:horrible. Horrible climate, too hot. Horrible snow, due to the hot climate. Horrible lifts, to old. Horrible queues, hours of waiting. Horrible place, like sahara desert. Horrible people, to much. Horrible resort, nothing to do with the best resort in spain Baqueira Beret.
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I´m an expert(?) skier from Portugal and I just spent my first weekend in Sierra Nevada - 1-3 December, the season is opening and there is already enought snow on the slopes, altough you have to be careful with off-pist, as there are many rocks with a light cover of snow waiting to trash your skis (or worse). Having skied in many resorts, I can't say that this was the best place I have ever been, but it is quite nice and with a decent number of slopes (some of the best were closed due to lack of snow). Unfortunately there are way too many people for the lift capacity during the weekend, and the long waiting periods in the queues become unbearable. There are also too many people on the lower slopes, and lots of fast, not-fully-in-control skiers and snowboarders who are a serious treat for beginner skiers attempting to slowly traverse the slopes as they go down. The resort has an impressive number of snow cannons, and since it was below freezing during the nights, they could produce a lot of artifical snow. There were also light snow falls, and in my last day there was a light cover of fresh snow over the frozen layer on the ungroomed slopes, which made my Dynastar 4x4 skis quite happy :-) If there was enough snow for all the runs to be open, specially the ones on the "back" side of the mountain, the resort would be ok for all skiers from beginner to advanced (altough experts might feel the need for something else - go off-pist!), but as it is now I think it is better suited for beginner to intermediate. The shops seem quite expensive compared to Andorra and the night life is not impressive. An advice towards portuguese skiers: consider trading the 7-8 hour drive to Sierra Nevada for a 9-10 drive to Andorra - larger area, fewer people, better and cheaper shops, more variety in the night life (but the vacation will cost a bit more, of course).
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I´ve just arrived from Sierra Nevada, and I've been there for a all week. I´d like to say that this resort is one of the best I've ever been. I have been there from 7 until 13 of December and I loved it. The night was great, the days were even better. I´ve payed for 6 days of great sun and snow about 20.400 pesetas of forfait and about 18.000 for an T2 apartment. Im really looking to get back there soon.
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After months of anticipation and great excitement we arrived at Sierra Nevada for 7 days of Snowboarding and fun. My girlfriend and I were booked into the Melia Sierra Nevada for 7 nights between 24th of Dec and the 31st of Dec 2000 through Nielsen tours. I guess we should have seen the writing on the wall when our tour representative did not have our booking on her list of reservations. The Holiday was a shambles from start to finish. Initially we were concerned that there might not be enough snow, these concerns turned out to be the least of our worries. The resort was practically snowed in for our entire stay. I realise that the weather is beyond the control of the resort operators but it was very clear that the resort management had no idea of how to run a ski resort. Even on days when the weather was awesome you couldn't get on the slopes because the lifts were closed. The lifts opened at 09h00 in the morning but if there was a problem then they would not open, as an English tourist who can't speak Spanish you would have to find some one who could translate all announcements as they were all in Spanish. Most mornings were spent standing around in lines waiting for the lifts to open. As the weather was so poor we were advised by our rep not to buy six day passes but rather daily as these were refundable (as vouchers) if the resort was closed. We were not however told that this would mean lining up for over an hour every morning to get a pass for the day. Upon enquiring at the ticket office if it was possible to get a three-day pass we were strongly advised against it, as there were no refunds given if the weather was bad. So even when the weather was good you would find us lining up with hundreds of other eager skiers and snowboarders waiting buy passes. To further complicate the situation, there was form of crowd control at either the lifts or the ticket offices. This meant that people pushed in at will. This caused a lot of friction particularly between the 'Locals' who pushed in and the 'tourists' who stood patiently. On one occasion the police had to be called to stop a mass brawl that had started when a group of people tried to jump the line. The situation was far worse at the lifts and very dangerous with people pushing and pushing in to get on the lifts, making it a very dangerous exercise. We were also booked in for 5 days of ski school with EEE ski school of which we had had two lessons when our instructor, apparently thinking we had joined another group left my girlfriend behind at the top of the beginner slope unassisted. I had to then walk up the slope to assist her. While in the process of helping her she was hit but a beginner skier who was incredibly under tuition from the same school. Before we were able to determine the extent of the injury this instructor took her pupil and vanished down the slope. Fortunately the injury was not to bad and we were able to make our own way down the slope. Incensed at being abandoned twice by instructors from the same school we went to complain to the school, which refused to even discuss it with us - claiming that we were mistaken and that their instructors would never do any thing like that. Even after calling our rep in they refused to refund us our money, saying that we were liable. In the end our tour operator refunded our ski school lessons. It was only on the bus back that we realised just how unhappy our entire group was, every one was filling in complaint forms. It is difficult to say what the worst aspect was, although if the resort was better run or rather managed with the visitors in mind as opposed to the convince of the operators, the holiday would have been bearable. That said the hotel was terrible, the food was disgusting and the service was shoddy. The ski school was a joke and clearly a fly by night set up - even though we booked it through our tour operator. The resort it self was an absolute rip-off and a waste of seven days vacation not to mention the cost of it all. I find it difficult to find one positive experience about the holiday, except for the fact that we did, amazingly, get a little bit of snowboarding done and I am hooked. I will however never return to Sierra Nevada I will in future send my money with a different tour operator at a different resort outside of Spain.
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All I can say is wow! This was one of the best skiing resorts I have ever been to. The lifts and operaters a re great. You might get held up once in a while but not for a long time. The hotels in the area are great also. I definetly recommend this place to any travelers going in that area.
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I am here for three months of Spanish courses and snowboarding with my girlfriend. We live in Granada and drive up every day (about half an hour s drive). Parking is free, about five minutes walk from the gondola up to the middle station. We have been boarding for one week now, so we can probably give our impressions about the resort:
- First, a small update to your info and some reviews. There are now 61km of runs, all of which are open as of today, with about 150-200cm of snow. That s a LOT more than the Alps have right now, although most people will admit this is a bit of a freak year, weather-wise.
- We would very much hesitate to call the lift system old. Maybe for those spoilt by the proliferation of chairlifts in the US, the prospect of about 20% T-bars is daunting, but there are plenty of new, express four-seat chairlifts which are fantastic. Yes, queues can be long at the weekend, but today we were waiting no more than five minutes for a lift. The advice is obvious - avoid public holidays if you can, the same applies to every resort I have skied in.
- The runs are well-prepared in general, and at night you can see them being groomed from Granada, 40km away. Some runs can get quite uneven in the afternoon, but with a big choice of runs, even timid beginners should not have problems finding suitable runs.
- The people we see on the runs are bloody awful skiers in general (there are a lot of holiday makers from Latin America, Spain and Portugal, and Brits and Germans who live on the Costa del Sol and come up for a few days). Safety rules are completely ignored by skiers, so you often see people stopped for a cigarette behind blind corners, skiing completely out of control, too fast, etc, etc... Have eyes in the back of your head is the best advice.
- Queueing etiquette is fairly non-existent, it must be said, but you have to be patient... :-)
- The climate is great. Although it is true that the lifts are closed fairly often due to high winds (at least they have been this past week). Everyone who lives here tells us that in the next few months, it is generally sunshine, snow and empty slopes - and they know we have a season ticket, so they are not lying.
- Day passes are a bit dear, at 4.100 pesetas, but it gets much cheaper for longer periods - we paid 70.000 pts for a season, which is very good value.
- The resort has all the shops and bars you would expect to find, and prices do not seem to be extortionate (Spain is fairly cheap in general compared to Alpine countries). We cant comment on the nightlife, because Granada has all we need!
Have fun.
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Yo voy a esquiar a Sierra Nevada desde hace cinco años por lo que la conozco perfectamente. Como todas la estaciones de esquí tiene sus cosas buenas y sus cosa malas. Se puede destacar la climatología (con una enorme cantidad de horas de sol al año), la calidad de las pistas (anchas, bien cuidadas, variedad de dificultad, buen ambiente y muy divertidas),buena oferta hotelera,zona urbana con discotecas, pubs, patinaje sobre hielo,piscinas, centro de alto rendimiento deportivo... Se puede decir que es bastante normal el sistema de remontes, la señalización, los servicios en pistas...
Pero en mi opinión el problema de Sierra Nevada es el viento. Realmente es un problema unos 10 o 15 días por temporada, pero durante estos días la estación por seguridad siempre tiene que cerrar. Esto produce muchas críticas sobre todo porque la zona de taquillas esta resguardada del viento por diversas montañas y la gente siempre cree que es un cierre inútil.
Quitando la gente que visita la estación en estos desafortunados días,por lo general quien viene una vez repite. Por eso bajo mi opinión es una estación de esquí totalmente recomendable.
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Sierra Nevada is a very exotic resort, snow is 90% guaranteed, good lifts and wide slopes, sun shines most of the days though windy days stop the resort 9 o 10 days every season. Rey Midas is a good choice for dining (cheap and good) and Sticky Fingers is the soul of the night (until 5 o 6 in th morning)
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Sierra Nevada es una estación con muy buenas pistas y aunque la nieve no es la mejor, está casi garantizada. La vida nocturna es probablemente la mejor de España, os recomiendo el Sticky Fingers y para una cena buena y barata el Rey Midas es la mejor elección.
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