Classic lift side lodge
Our stay at The Lodge was terrific, we won’t hesitate to stay there again. The property is an older property and it’s not nearly as posh and glamorous as many lift side resorts. However, our unit ( a 1BR “deluxe” model) was super. It was large with relatively recent updates to the kitchen and baths. Yes, baths, plural. There were two big bathrooms; one with a large stall shower, the other with a tub/shower and washer and dryer. The bed and other furniture was comfortable, the kitchen had everything we needed to make simple meals. There were TV’s in the LR and bedroom and there was a cozy fireplace. There are ski lockers, two for each unit. We were a party of two and could have easily fit our two pairs of skis/poles in to one. The room with the lockers was kind of out of the way (down the elevator, through a door, down a hall with a couple turns) but once you learned the way it wasn’t too bad. From the ski lockers you could either reverse course, reenter the lodge and then head out to the plaza by the ice-skating rink or you could continue down the hallway exit into the parking ramp and then take stairs or an elevator to get outside a little closer to the lifts. The only really shortfall of this property is the pool/hot-tub area. The pool is a small, plain rectangular indoor/outdoor pool and the two hot tubs are also fairly small, just square tubs, one of which adjoined the pool. The area surrounding the pool/tubs is just a concrete deck. There are no chairs or anything to make it comfortable or nice looking. Definitely not up to par for an expensive lift side resort. We just didn’t use either the pool or the hot-tubs. It’s not a deal breaker, as I said I won’t hesitate to stay at this property again, but if I’d like to see one improvement in this resort it would be the pool and hot-tubs. One weird thing is that we did not see a staff person during our entire 3 night/3.5 day stay. Check in was to be done by kiosk. The kiosk was broken so instead we got an email with the door code to our room and the additional check in materials were in the room. It all worked out fine but it was a little weird. One more thing to know, we skied nearly a full day after we checked out. When we returned to The Lodge our door codes had been inactivated. It was possible to get in and use the elevators to get to the parking garage and our car (our parking pass had not been cancelled or at least we didn’t get a ticket) but we wouldn’t have been able to get into the ski locker room (luckily we hadn’t left anything in the lockers!) or much of the rest of the building. So plan accordingly if you ski on your checkout day.