"Pros: Fairly clean and tidy. Good location to el tarter lifts. Decent kitchen cooking facilities. Parking in garage. Helpful staff. Cons: Paper thin walls- could hear everything g going on in flats either side. Partying from groups next doors kept us up for a week until 4am. Ran out of hot water after three showers (family of four) Not much room for a family of four with two teenagers (a boy and a girl) but we managed ok." ~Carolyn

"Pros: Easy check in with keys in a lockbox, and good communication from the owner. I like the look of the accommodation - more traditional, not modern and white. Facilities were fine - 2 bathrooms (upstairs shower is only suitable for short children), dishwasher, washing machine, kettle, coffee machine, and TV with HDMI input. Wifi was fast enough for streaming. All good. It's about a 10min downhill walk to the gondola (uphill on the way back, obviously). Rent a locker and leave your gear near the gondola (or at the top if you're not going to ski back down). There's a nice outdoor bar on the corner which we enjoyed a drink apres-ski (as the apres-ski directly off the bottom of the piste is almost non-existent, and a bit of a disappointment). Cons: A few issues to report I'm afraid - the pillows were terrible. It would not be expensive to buy 4 decent pillows for guests to sleep on. and keep the current 4 as secondary pillows (only 1 bad pillow each means no sitting up in bed reading or having tea/coffee - they were so uncomfortable, and after all, you're on holiday). Smoke filled the whole accommodation whenever the neighbouring properties had a fire. When we got home all our clothes smelled of smoke! If your neighbours come home at midnight and start a party or even a conversation, you will hear EVERYTHING. Insulation is non-existent. Luckily this didn't happen every night, but it's frustrating if you or your children get woken up and can't sleep because of the loud noise. Parking - there is a space included, but you will need a tiny car to manoeuvre down there and back up. If you are a family with 4 suitcases and a family size car, you should assume you can't use the included parking. There is a car park 1 min away, but I had to contact the owner because it wasn't clear how to pay for parking. Machine only takes coins - everything is only in Catalan, so get your eSim installed ASAP (use the Grandvalira app to get 2GB for €7.50 for 2 weeks) and use Google Translate! Lots of people in car park having similar problems. Finally worked out how to pay online - but then payment declined/not possible. Very frustrating start to the holiday. In the end I found out that the big main car park next to the Gondola is FREE so I left the car down there all week - wish this had been better communicated before arrival as it would avoid stress! Overall we enjoyed our stay here, it was rather expensive for the region (£1600 for a week during Feb half term) but we had very limited options due to booking too late. Tip: Don't book the Grandvalira El Tarter VELL ski lockers if you have afternoon ski lessons - they close before the afternoon ski lesson ends!" ~Mark