The Xalet Verdu in Arinsal was in my opinion an excellent hotel.
It is well located - about a 2 minute walk away from the main Gondola (slightly longer walk in ski boots) - me and my husband snow board so the walking was not a problem. There are ski lockers at the top of the gondola so you dont have to carry your skis/ boards back to the hotel if you do not want to..
The food is good - husband is a picky eater and he ate in the restaurant every night. No problems at breakfast - always a giood supply of fresh bread and bacon! If you are half board - you only have to pay for the drinks you have with your evening meal - and they cost next to nothing.
The resort itself is fantastic for all ages. Free drinks, toasties and nachos galore!
My top tip for any keen skier is to get yourself up the mountain and across to Pal ASAP. You can either do this up the main chairlift from Arinsal (bit windy) and then across in the Telecabine. OR catch the L5 bus down the road to the village of LA Massana (1 euro 50 cents) and go up the gondola there - not windy. The good thing about Pal is that it is quiet, tree lined and the slopes are well pisted. They only really get chopped up on Sat/ Sun.

All in all, an excellent week - definitely would consider going back.... would even consider reelocating there if the right job came along!!! Email me for more details!!!

We stayed in Husa Xalet Verdu during our Christmas skiing break in Dec 2010. The hotel is 3 min walk from the main gondola and the bus stop. We enjoyed our stay very much - the hotel is very well run in my opinion. Staff are very helpful and friendly, although you might straggle a bit if you don't speak Spanish. Hotel is very clean and warm, it was a bit too warm for us and we ended up keeping our bedroom window open all the time, we were on the top floor overlooking the field and another hotel at the distance, so the noise from the road wasn't bad at all. The rooms are spacious enough and the bathroom with bath was great for after-skiing soak. I read some reviews on Trip Adviser before we went there and the lack of replacement toiletries was on my mind when i brought shampoos/shower gel with me, but the issue is now resolved - they have recently installed the bigger containers onto the bathroom wall which get topped up on a regular basis, so we never run out. Towels are replaced if you leave them on the floor and bed linen was replaced a 2-3 times i think. There is also now a safe in the room at no extra charge. We have left our skies in the underground parking ski storage for a couple of days (reception will give you a padlock at €20 deposit) but then ended up just taking skies and board into the room, the hotel don't seem to mind. However the ski boots are not allowed, you have to take them off at the entrance, which is fine as it is clean and most areas (including our room) had underfloor heating as well as radiators on the walls, which also meant that all our skiing gear dried very quickly. The wi-fi connection at the reception is FOC but didn't work all the time but Surfer's Bar (just behind the main Arinsal gondola) seemed to have wi-fi on all the time and no password needed :-) I have to warn you that hotel has 6-7 Spanish TV channels, 2-3 French channels and only 1 English channel - EuroSport, which showed Winter Olimpics non-stop.... The food was ok, not bad at all for a 3* hotel - continental breakfast with additional hot buffet (scrambled egg and beckon) and dinner of buffet starter (3-4 salads, olives, pickles, soup and pasta), a choice of 3 mains and deserts from the menu. Mains were ok, in a week we tried chicken, steak, veal, duck, salmon, cod and pork (comes with chips or mash) and all was eatable and well cooked, sort of more home-style rather than restaurant quality... My husband is a fussy eater and has nut allergy and even he agreed that the food was not bad, just a bit boring perhaps. Deserts were of pre-cooked variety if you know what i mean, the type you get at chinese restaurants - ice-creams in the tubs, pannacotta (which was actually very nice!!!!!!) or fresh melon. Couple of the deserts we tried, like some sort of jelly and 'cream cheese' - it was absolutely revolting!!! So stick with ice-cream and fruit! Wine and beer was actually very nice and the prices reasonable. Beware - hotel DOES take pets and some Spanish families bring dogs with them, which did cause us an evening of distress once (two dogs next door barking for 3-4 hours while their owners were out dining in Arinsal) We did complain and were offered to be moved for one night to another Husa group hotel down the road if the owners didn't come back before 11pm as the our hotel was fully booked, thank goodness it was not necessary after all. Also people seems to be smoking a lot in the reception area and in the rooms too, so next time i will ask for a non-smoking room, although i am not sure if they offer this option.. In general for 'value for money' this hotel is very good, and we are going there again before skiing season is over, but i'll take it on B&B basis rather than Half Board as eating out in Arinsal is great.

We stayed in Xalet Verdu hotel for one week. The hotel was in good location for our hiking purposes (we didn't have any car). The bus stops are nearby and the hiking paths left close from the hotel. The breakfast was ok and maybe above standard (of this level). There was a swimming pool in the garden that seemed to be quite popular place. Most of the hotel staff were friendly and some were very helpful.

There were couple of things that we were disappointed. The website of the hotel advertises that room facilities include for example balcony and safety box.
Using of the room's safety box would have been possible after paying 20 euros. We decided to carry on all valuables with us.
The first room that we got was small and didn't include balcony at all. We got another, bigger room with balcony after the first night and we were very satisfied with it.
The soundproofing was not the best in this hotel. In the first morning I woke up when three cleaning ladies were shouting (or so it sounded) just outside our room at 7am in the morning.
The beds were worn out in the first room (there was a dent in the middle of the mattress); the mattresses were better in the second room.

I would select again the same hotel if I were able to get the same room.

The Husa Xalet Verdu was for us a great hotel. We, male (42), female (35), daughter (12) and son (11) stayed for two weeks in this hotel. The surroundings were beautiful for some nice walks and the hotel staff was very friendly were always willing to help us. We stayed in one room which had 4 beds. Nice room on a corner of the building on the third floor. This had the advantage that the windows could open on both sides of the room so that it had plenty of fresh air. The meals were excelent. The breakfast contained croissants, chocolate or cream filled rolls, bacon, yoghurt, juice, cheese, varied kinds of meat, all kinds of jams, honey, etc. The diner was incredible ! First there was a buffet which had salads, pasta, soup, fish, etc. The second course was a choice between a fish (trout, salmon, sole, etc) or two meat dishes (veal, chicken, rabbit, sausage, meatballs, etc) and to finish it off you could pick one of three deserts (icecream, fruit or cake). Our children very much liked it and so did we !! In short, we would definitely recommend this hotel and got really value for money....