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Last minute changes
It's Sunday early morning (transfer day) and all major British travel
agencies has decided to change their departure destinations. Usually
they use Toulouse and Barcelona airports to bring the British, Irish
and Dutch skiers back home, but the French authorities have yet
to clean up the road to access Andorra from the North, ending in
this decision.
 
Access denied
After two big snow storms during February, the French refused to
clean up and open the North access to the principalty, leaving Pas
de la Casa isolated for 19 hours. Three coaches were stranded in
the middle of the way between Toulouse and Pas, left to their luck
in the worst snow storm of the year so far.
The last of these
coaches reached the hotel two days later (after being rescued by
Andorran Mountain Rescue and Police teams) and they got their luggage
on Thursday (four days later). The 240 tourists were travelling
with the tour companies Panorama and First Choice.
 Free
snowploughs offered
The Andorran Minister of Tourism had visited them to be sure they
where okay and to explain this situation that even after offering
the Andorran snowplows trucks to French authorities they refused
to take the snow away from the roads.
Looks like French
are not very interested in the 6,000 tourists that each year pay
their airport tax at Toulouse-Blagnac Airport to go skiing in Andorran
resorts.
Only entrance through Spain
For this reason, all flights will arrive and leave from Barcelona
and Girona airports and the only 'entrance' to the principalty will
be through the Spanish border.
Report
from Andrés Hidalgo - Natives Resort
Reporter in Soldeu
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