Planning a trip to Andorra in advance could lead to coming across bad skiing conditions.

Andorra has faced a transport crisis in recent years. Only two roads connect it with the rest of the world: N145 leads from Spain and N22 from France. The road from France is a “serpentine”, it has not been modernized for many years, and therefore it is often blocked in winter even when there has only been a few centimetres of snow because of the danger of avalanches. Therefore, the French themselves often prefer to get to Andorra via Spain on the N145.

The increased number of day tourists to Andorra for cheap tobacco and alcohol provokes many kilometers of traffic jams at both borders. During the 2018-2019 season, about 15 serious traffic jams were recorded, some of which stretched out for almost 10 km and led to many hours of downtime at the border. As a result, hundreds of tourists were late for flights from Barcelona airport and local residents complained about the contamination levels due to the increase in the amount of harmful emissions into the atmosphere. https://all-andorra.com/ski/

At the same time, for example, getting to the ski resorts Masella and La Molina (nearest to Barcelona) is only 1.5 hours by bus or car or 3.5 hours by train. At the same time, tourists are unlikely to come across traffic jams, since they do not need to cross the border.