Hotel Casa Irene

Casa Irene is a small four-star hotel at Carrer Major 22 in Arties, the stone village halfway between Vielha and Baqueira. The family opened it in 1974 and it is still a house with a family feel: 22 rooms, its own restaurant and a spa with a pool. It is 6 km to the Baqueira Beret slopes, and in winter the hotel takes you.

Chalet-style rooms

The rooms are decorated like a mountain chalet, with wooden furniture, and some are in the attic. All have a private bathroom with a bath, hairdryer and toiletries, and there is free wifi throughout the hotel.

• Standard double: most look onto the garden or the mountain; you choose twin beds or a double.
• Suite: for families of up to four, with a living room and sofa bed for the children, a bedroom and a bathroom. Some are duplexes, with the living room downstairs and the bedroom upstairs.
• Suite Cabana: the couples' room, with a jacuzzi inside the room and mountain views.

There is room service from 16:00 to 22:00, every day except Monday. The website gives no prices: you ask for availability through a form or by phone.

The spa, paid for even by guests staying at the hotel

The spa has a heated indoor pool, Finnish sauna, hammam, jacuzzi, contrast showers and a relaxation area with herbal teas. Note that it is not included in the room rate. Hotel guests pay €15 per person, or €10 if they book a treatment; non-guests pay €25, or €20 with a treatment. The pool is open from 10:00 to 21:00 and the spa circuit from 16:00 to 21:00, with last entry at 20:30. Children under 12 can only enter from 16:00 to 18:00, and those aged 12 to 18 must be with an adult. Swimsuits and flip-flops are compulsory; the hotel provides towels. Massages, from €45 for 25 minutes to €70–95 for 50 or 75, are booked at reception.

Irene's restaurant

The hotel restaurant serves mountain cooking with produce from the Pyrenees and from the other side of the border. The summer menu had homemade cannelloni of Gers goose with morels, €26; grilled beef loin with béarnaise, €32; organic xisquet lamb leg, €29.60; and the thin apple tart with vanilla ice cream, which they have made since 1973, €12.50. The gastronomic menu, for the whole table, costs €63 with wine, water and bread. There is a children's menu for children up to 12. They say they adapt dishes for coeliacs and other intolerances.

Since 2025 the house also has La Borda de Irene, a more informal mountain restaurant 4 km from the hotel, with a grill and a terrace; it opens at midday only, from 13:00 to 16:00, and you book at reception.

Skiing and the rest of the year

In winter the shuttle to the slopes is free if you book at reception, and the hotel stores your skis. In summer it offers outdoor yoga in the garden for guests. The website does not give check-in and check-out times, parking or whether dogs are allowed: ask when you request availability.

Altisport's medium-level via ferrata leaves from Arties, and in the village is the first Tauèrna Urtau, from 1963. The Colomèrs Cirque is done with a guide from the Ribera d'Aiguamòg, in the upper valley.