Andorra is two doors and a free baby pass through age 5. Match the youngest child to the village desk, then pick the bus from Barcelona or Toulouse.
Andorra is a short list. Snowthere can open two doors: Grandvalira and Vallnord (Pal Arinsal and Ordino Arcalís). The country hub is Andorra. Both day-pass pages, in Catalan, print a free baby pass through age 5, collected at the ticket window with ID. The adult price on those same pages is dynamic. This guide leaves it blank.
The easy part is the shape. One country, a published bus from Barcelona El Prat and from Toulouse Blagnac, then a local line. The hard part is the desk. Grandvalira's Catalan nursery FAQ does not give one age for the whole area. Pal's English heading and Catalan heading do not give the same childcare band. Ages below were read on the operator sites on 13 October 2026. A missing age stays missing.
Write the youngest age on paper. Cross out every desk that does not take it. Then choose the airport. A bigger trail map does not fix a closed nursery.
Not skiing yet. You need the village, not the brand. Grandvalira's Catalan FAQ says Grau Roig takes 1 to 3, Soldeu, Canillo and El Tarter take 2 to 5, and a roadside baby room at El Tarter takes 4 to 24 months. Pas de la Casa and Encamp have no nursery on that FAQ. Pal's childcare is a room without a ski lesson. Ordino takes 1 to 3 if the child walks.
From 3. You are in a snow garden, which is a lesson block. Grandvalira's heading says 3 to 6 and the FAQ on the same site says about 3 to 5. The Catalan snow-garden conditions say the child is out of nappies. Keep both ages. Pal says 3 to 5. Ordino says 3 to 6, and the Catalan snow-garden conditions say the child is out of nappies. Group ski at Grandvalira is 6 to 11.
Then the beds and the plane. Sleep in the sector that has the desk you booked. Barcelona El Prat is 200 km on both resort pages. Toulouse Blagnac is 195 km on both. The bus clocks further down are Andbus, and the timetable we read ends at the Andorra bus station.
| Door | The job | Age we read on 13 October 2026 | The trip |
|---|---|---|---|
| Grandvalira | Six sectors. The nursery is not in every one. | Catalan FAQ: Grau Roig 1 to 3; Soldeu, Canillo, El Tarter 2 to 5; El Tarter roadside 4 to 24 months. Pas de la Casa and Encamp: no nursery. Snow-garden heading 3 to 6; FAQ about 3 to 5; out of nappies. Group ski 6 to 11. | Barcelona 200 km, Toulouse 195 km. Line L2 Andorra la Vella to Encamp, then the free ski bus between sectors. |
| Pal Arinsal | Childcare without a ski lesson, in Pal and in Arinsal. | Catalan heading: childcare 1 to 5. English heading: 1 to 3. Snow garden 3 to 5. Kids program 3 to 11, alpine only. FAQ: ski from 3. | Same airport kilometres. Then local lines L5 or L6 toward La Massana, Pal, or Arinsal. |
| Ordino Arcalís | The third area, on the same Vallnord page. Cleaner ages. | Nursery 1 to 3, walking, 9:00 to 17:00, no lesson, no lunch. Snow garden 3 to 6, no nappies. Kids program 3 to 11. | Nord Pass: 1 day is not both Pal and Ordino. From 2 days it is. From 4 days it includes one Grandvalira day. |
Asked whether Grandvalira has nurseries, the Catalan FAQ says yes in almost every sector, then splits the ages. Grau Roig: 1 to 3. Soldeu, Canillo and El Tarter: 2 to 5. At the roadside in El Tarter, a baby room takes 4 to 24 months. Pas de la Casa and Encamp: no nursery. Lunch is not included. At the three village nurseries you can book a children's menu at the school or bring food. At Grau Roig you bring lunch. Staff do the feeding.
The Catalan and French nursery pages are titled 1 to 3. Conditions for Canillo, El Tarter and Soldeu say the service is for children over 24 months, 9:30 to 16:30, and parents may drop any time inside those hours. That bullet has no upper age. The FAQ's 2 to 5 is the upper age. Keep both. Grau Roig on the product page is 1 to 3, every day, online booking, no ski lesson, and the children stay indoors. The product page also says Peretol has no nursery, which the FAQ does not name. The English nursery intro still says four nurseries from 12 months to 5 years. The French intro says 12 months to 4 years. The Catalan FAQ wins when you are choosing a village.
The children-lessons hub, in Catalan and in English, titles the snow garden 3 to 6 and the nursery 1 to 3. The difference FAQ on that same hub says the snow garden is about 3 to 5, and the nursery is care from 1 to 3. The French snow-garden page lists six gardens (Canillo, El Tarter, Soldeu, Grau Roig, Pas de la Casa, Encamp) and describes 3-year-olds in initiation, then 4 and 5 in ski lessons. The Catalan snow-garden conditions say the child is out of nappies. Group ski is titled 6 to 11. The Catalan start-day FAQ covers courses of 2, 3, 4 and 5 days. The classes page lists a one-day beginner group, from age 6, at Soldeu and El Tarter. Children's group snowboard, 6 to 11, is Soldeu, El Tarter and Canillo. The Catalan FAQ on start days: at Pas de la Casa, Grau Roig, Encamp and Canillo, courses of 3, 4 and 5 days start Monday and the 2-day course starts Saturday. At Soldeu and El Tarter, courses of 3, 4 and 5 days start Monday and Saturday, and the 2-day course starts Saturday only.
The Catalan FAQ says children's services (nursery, snow garden, Kids Program, group lessons) do not include the lift pass, and you still need a valid one to use them. The Kids Program page refuses the pedestrian pass, the beginner pass, and the Mountain Pass. Kids Program is 3 to 11: ages 3 to 6 get two hours of ski in the snow garden plus one hour of snow introduction; ages 6 to 11 get three hours. The school can refuse a child who misses the age, and the page says a 100 percent cancellation fee can apply. Where the schools sit: Canillo, El Tarter, Soldeu and Encamp are up the mountain, by funicular or gondola. Grau Roig and Pas de la Casa are at the base. The roadside baby room at El Tarter is a separate sentence from that up-mountain school.
Catalan heading: jardí d'infants from 1 to 5, in Pal and in Arinsal. The children do not get ski lessons in that service. English heading of the same block: nursery from 1 to 3. The chips on the Catalan and English pages both say childcare from 1 to 5 and snow garden from 3 to 5. The Spanish chip list swaps those labels. The Catalan heading is the one to book against, and the English 1 to 3 stays visible so you do not get a surprise at the door. They check the age document. If it does not match the service, access is refused.
Childcare hours: 9:30 to 16:30. Parents may arrive any time inside that window. Lunch is not included. Half day is 3 hours. Full day is 6 hours. Snow garden is 3 to 5, alpine only, at La Caubella in Pal and at Comallemple in Arinsal. Morning 10:00 to 13:00, afternoon 14:00 to 17:00, confirmed if the school has room. The page says the child brings ski clothes and equipment. The pass, the meal, and the equipment are not in the price. The FAQ says the minimum age to ski, for the snow garden and for beginner lessons, is 3.
Kids Program is 3 to 11, alpine skiing only. Reception 9:30 to 10:00, lessons 10:00 to 13:00, lunch 13:00 to 14:00, activities 14:00 to 16:00, pickup at 16:00. Lunch is inside this program. It is not inside the nursery. Pass and equipment are still extra. Courses of 15, 12 and 9 hours start Monday and Saturday. The 6-hour course starts Saturday only. The booking blocks print euro amounts. They are not copied here.
Catalan, English and French agree on the floor. Nursery: 1 to 3, the child walks alone, 9:00 to 17:00, no meal, no ski lesson. ID is checked. The wrong age is refused. Snow garden: 3 to 6. The Catalan conditions say the child is not in nappies, and the school can apply a 100 percent cancellation fee if the age is wrong. Meeting point: Escola de Planells. Half days are morning 9:00 to 13:00 or afternoon 13:00 to 17:00, if the school confirms. Kids Program: 3 to 6 in the snow garden from 10:30 to 12:30; 6 to 11 on the piste in the group from 10:00 to 13:00; alpine only. The pass is mandatory and not included. The school does not rent the equipment. Bring boots, skis and a helmet.
The cheap line that survives the local page is the baby pass. Grandvalira's Catalan and English day-pass pages: free up to 5, ID, collected at the ticket window. Pal Arinsal's Catalan page: free fins als 5 anys, same collection rule. Pal's English page says under 5, and the paying child category on both sites starts at 6. A 5-year-old is booked off the Catalan line. The category is the age on the first day you use the pass.
Child is 6 to 11 and junior is 12 to 17. Those cells have a price, and the pages say it moves. We are not printing it. Senior prices printed as indicative are not a family budget. Lesson and nursery blocks also print "from" euros. Those stay on the booking page.
What the pass covers is a decision, and the two companies describe it in opposite directions. Grandvalira: a pass of two or more consecutive days also opens Ordino Arcalís and Pal Arinsal. A one-day Grandvalira pass does not. Pal's Nord Pass: options of one or several days, valid for both Pal and Ordino from 2 days, and from 4 days it includes one Grandvalira day. Buy the pass whose sentence matches the valleys you will actually ski.
Grandvalira's kids-program page lists the passes it will accept: day, multi-day, season Andorra Pass, Plus+. Pedestrian, beginner and Mountain Pass are refused. If the week you want is the French Pyrenees instead, open Peyragudes. This page does not copy an age onto it. France as a whole is the France family guide.
Both resort access pages, read 13 October 2026, print Barcelona El Prat at 200 km and Toulouse Blagnac at 195 km. Andorra–La Seu d'Urgell is 27 km on the airport list. Grandvalira's driving paragraph also says La Seu is 30 km from the first access, at Encamp. Those are two measurements. No page we opened printed a drive time, so this guide has none.
Grandvalira names the buses. Toulouse: Andbus, stopping at the airport or at Gare Matabiau. Barcelona: DirectBus (Sants or El Prat), Andbus (El Prat), and ALSA (Barcelona Estació del Nord). Pal's public-transport line names ALSA or Andbus from La Seu or Barcelona to Andorra la Vella, then local lines. From France, Pal names HIFE from L'Hospitalet-près-l'Andorre or La Tour de Carol, then the same local lines.
Andbus, the operator Grandvalira names, publishes this airport table to the Andorra bus station. Web one-way is 33 EUR from Barcelona and 36 EUR from Toulouse. The page says those fares are for purchases on the web, and the clocks depend on road traffic. A lower fare labelled A-PRIME is also printed. Who gets it is not defined here. The same site advertises door-to-door service and 180 stops. We did not read a stop list for Soldeu, Pas de la Casa, Pal or Arinsal, so the drop we will stand behind is the bus station, plus the resort's own local line.
Pal's winter driving sentence: from Ax-les-Thermes on the N22, the Envalira tunnel is the safer option. Grandvalira's access page, the day we read it, still printed a provisional bus line for an RN20 cut on the French side. A separate Grandvalira page says the RN20 reopened from 9 March after a late-January rockfall, and it does not print the year. The two pages disagree. Check mobilitat.ad the week you travel. Neither page says the Toulouse buses are cancelled. Road numbers on Grandvalira disagree with each other: the body says C-145 from Lleida and C-16 from the Cadí or Puigcerdà; the FAQ says N-125 from Spain and RN22 from France through Pas de la Casa. Pal says C-14 from La Seu, then CG-3 and CG-4.
Easy, in a specific way: two areas on Snowthere, a published bus from Barcelona (200 km) and Toulouse (195 km), then a local line. Cheap, in one line we could read: the baby pass is free through age 5 on the Catalan day-pass pages, with ID, at the ticket window. The adult and child prices are dynamic. This page does not print a family-week total.
On the Catalan FAQ for Grandvalira: Grau Roig from 1 to 3, Soldeu, Canillo and El Tarter from 2 to 5, and a roadside room at El Tarter from 4 to 24 months. Pas de la Casa and Encamp have no nursery there. Pal's Catalan childcare heading is 1 to 5, with no ski lesson, and the English heading says 1 to 3. Ordino is 1 to 3 if the child walks, with no ski lesson. Lunch is not included in any of these rooms.
Pal's FAQ says 3, for the snow garden and for beginner lessons. Ordino's snow garden is 3 to 6, and the child is out of nappies. Grandvalira's snow-garden heading is 3 to 6 and the FAQ says about 3 to 5. Group ski there is 6 to 11. A snow garden is a lesson. It is not the nursery day.
The day-pass product, in Catalan at Grandvalira and at Pal Arinsal, says the baby pass is free through age 5. You still collect it at the ticket window with proof of age. The category is the age on the first day of use. From 6, the child category is a paying pass, and the price is not printed here because the page says it changes. Pal's English wording "under 5" sits next to a child pass that starts at 6. Use the Catalan line for a 5-year-old.
Not on day one, in either direction. Grandvalira says two or more consecutive days also open Ordino Arcalís and Pal Arinsal. Pal's Nord Pass is valid for Pal and Ordino from 2 days, and from 4 days it includes one day at Grandvalira. Read the pass you are holding before you plan a two-valley day.
The resort pages print both at nearly the same distance: Barcelona El Prat 200 km, Toulouse Blagnac 195 km. Andbus web one-way is 33 EUR from Barcelona and 36 EUR from Toulouse, to the Andorra bus station, with the clocks listed above. Barcelona has more departures on that table. Toulouse airport has four. After the station, Grandvalira is line L2 to Encamp. Pal and Arinsal are L5 or L6. Grandvalira's access page still showed a provisional-bus line for an RN20 cut, and a separate page says the road reopened from 9 March with no year on it.
No. The Catalan FAQ gives a different floor to Grau Roig, to Soldeu, Canillo and El Tarter, and to the roadside baby room at El Tarter. Pas de la Casa and Encamp are the sectors without a nursery on that FAQ. The ski schools at Canillo, El Tarter, Soldeu and Encamp sit up the mountain. Grau Roig and Pas de la Casa sit at the base. Book the sector that matches the product, then the apartment.
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