Hey, you Denverite tri blokes/birds, I’m going to ski for a few days with my (grown) kids in early March, not sure where but likely Breckenridge. Does anyone have a recommendation for a reasonably priced hotel or accomodations there? Doesn’t need to be on the mountain, I’ll have a car, so in town will be fine. Or maybe Copper, Winter Park, or any other suggestions would be welcome.
Thanks
Barry
This is a centralized reservation site for Summit County, CO which includes the towns of Silverthorne, Dillon, and Frisco which are within easy driving distance of Copper Mountain, Breckeridge, Vail, Arapahoe Basin and Keystone ski areas. I believe you can also get a pass that allows you to ski at any one of the above interchangeably. I recommend you look into a condo rental vice a hotel. There’s tons of them there.
I grew up in Denver, but am a Florida transplant. My little sister is the Assistant City Manager of Frisco and was formerly the Recreation Director of Silverthorne. There is a nice pool/gym in Silverthorne which my sister was in charge of building if you want to keep up your training.
I know a guy who has a condo in Frisco. Easy drive to Copper, Breck, Keystone. How many folks in your party? There are three bedrooms and a fold out sofa. Probably sleeps six to eight pretty comfortably. I do not remember his pricing…but thought it was reasonable the last time I stayed there (three or four years ago).
Thanks for the replies. There will be four of us, me, my son, my daughter and her husband. So a 2 bedroom would be ideal. If you have your mate’s e-mail, I could get in touch and enquire.
Cheers
Barry
I would definitely reccomend Frisco or Silverthorne as places to stay. Much cheaper. and accessible the many mountains of Summit County.
I have used this site before, it may be a place to look http://www.greatrentals.com/CO/CO.html
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Barry,
Check out http://www.snow.com - they’ll run lodging/ski deals for Breck/Keystone/A-Basin/Vail/Beaver Creek. If you can get those deals right its really cheap -we got 4 people into a 1br condo last year for 2nights and 2 days lift tickets for only $400. And the condo was right on one of the runs in Breckenridge so you could just ski home at the end of the day.
If you get lodging separately, stop by a supermarket before you leave Denver and buy lift tickets. Saves a bunch of money over buying them at the hill. The passes for Breck/Keystone/A-Basin can be used at any of those three places, if you buy multi-day passes you can usually get one day at vail or beaver creek instead of 2 days at the other three.
The other trick is to rent gear in Denver before you drive up - Gart Sports has some of the best deals on rental equipment and it isn’t horrible gear. For $16-20 last year you could get shaped ski’s and regular boots. At Christy Sports for the same price you got straight ski’s and rear-entry boots - definately not a great deal.
Send me an e-mail if you have other questions - my wife and I are headed to A-Basin on Saturday to get warmed up for the season so I’ll know more about how things are looking by next week.
Happy training,
Josh