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Four Seasons Resort Vail Aiming For a Summer 2010 Opening
Last time we mentioned the future Four Seasons Resort Vail, we'd heard you could be skiing up to the Four Seasons' door by 2009. Latest reports have the resort opening during summer 2010 (hmm, just not in time for the ski season!) but at least we can see on the Four Seasons Residence Club website that there is definite progress being made.
For the non-residential guest (that means most of us), the Four Seasons Vail will include a choice of 121 rooms, plus tons of amenities like a full service spa and fitness club, a 75-foot lap pool in a sunken courtyard, a ski and snowboard concierge, fine dining restaurant and plenty of parking and gear storage space.
There'll also be the Après Ski Lounge with a dual fireplace and floor to ceiling windows looking out to the Vail Mountain slopes. The resort is pretty much at the main entrance to Vail so it'll be easy to find. No word yet on room prices, but you can buy one of the residences instead if you've got a spare $405,900 lying around.
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Vail Mountain Lodge Appeals to Summer Guests with Food, Free Stuff
For the ski bunny type, Vail might be synonymous with winter. But summer? Eh, not so much. The Vail Mountain Lodge & Spa, however, begs to disagree. The 20-room boutique hotel, perched on the banks of Gore Creek in Vail Valley, has a few goodies up its sleeves to lure summertime guests.
The Mountain Family Fun package makes the best of the season with rock-climbing access and climbing lessons, spa treatments, and organic fare for re-fueling. The package rates start at $445 per night, which includes three nights lodging (so really, we guess, $1,335 for all three nights), dinner for four at gourmet restaurant Terra Bistro, two semi-private climbing lessons, two spa treatments or two rounds of golf, free breakfast daily, and free access to Vail Athletic Club and classes. The package is available for Sunday through Wednesday arrivals, through Sept. 5.
Speaking of Terra Bistro, the restaurant is introducing a new menu with a small plates focus and more convivial restaurant ambiance (i.e. couches and banquettes). Summer fare flaunts treats like lemon shrimp and heirloom tomato gazpacho, steamed mussels, “sloppy Joe” sliders on toasted focaccia, peppered Amish beef tenderloin, vegetarian chili de arbol, and a cornmeal-crusted Rocky Mountain trout. With the new menu comes a summer calendar of weekly events, which includes a Monday night Grower’s Menu (featuring local farm fare), Tuesday night free cocktail with food purchase, Wednesday Gourmet Taco night ($6 for three tacos), and house-made ravioli on Thursdays.
[Photo via TripAdvisor]
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Low Prices Rock The Lodge At Vail
When it comes to riding the rapids, we prefer to avoid sharp objects like rocks. But in the case of The Lodge at Vail, A RockResort, their "Rock the Rapids" package is encouraging the right kind of gouging. Prices, not rubber rafts! Families can save up to 30 percent on their white water adventures.
The "Rock the Rapids" package is available April 20 through September 27, 2009. Prices start at $199 per night for two nights accommodation and include a half-day rafting trip and lunch. Adventure seekers also get a Vail picture frame to nicely capture the experience forever.
And those not feeling the outdoors can zone out inside with the Complimentary Spa Credit package to use at the RockResorts Spa. A two night stay for $555 gives guests $555 worth of spa credit to do a little unwinding while the rest of the family battles rapids.
[Photo: Doc Artemis]
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Vail Gets More Luxury Hotels, We Get No Closer to Affording Them
The ritzy ski town of Vail, Colorado is in the middle of a "renaissance" — which, we assure you, is exactly what you may suspect: a lovely and fancy way of saying there is a lot of construction going on to build a few luxury hotels and to turn Vail Village into a cute little European-looking scene (it might look kinda like Disney world, but with more fur coats).
According to the Vail Daily News, the new Four Seasons on the way is slated for completion in late 2009 (hopefully in time for next year's ski season) and a new Ritz-Carlton will be ready in November 2010.
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Tuesdays with Arrabelle Cuz It's Free
One Tuesday Night Free in Vail
$197 a night, three-nights minimum over a Tuesday
The new Arrabelle Resort in Vail which just opened last year is offering "Free Tuesdays." Guests booking a minimum of three nights at the resort over a Tuesday will not be charged for the Tuesday part of the stay. The deal is good through the ski season until April 18, 2009. Guests can also find more savings if they book before December 1st.
Additionally, guests looking to experience a ski vacation at the Arrabelle can save even more money this season with the "Baggage Bailout" program, an incentive that gives guests booking four or more nights with four day ski passes a $50 credit each if they book before December 1. The "Baggage Bailout" is offered for up to two people per room and is an attempt to make traveling with ski equipment a bit easier after the new airline checked baggage fees.
From now through December 14th, the hotel has rooms starting at $197 a night for a superior room. Those rates jump up to $330 a night just before Christmas and the holiday season gets insane at $900 a night. So one night free is a nice perk here.
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The Arrabelle in Vail :: Ski Nannies Might Be Buried Beneath Construction
We visited the brand new Arrabelle at Vail Square resort and retail plaza yesterday for the first time since its January 5th completion, expecting to be blown away. Instead, dust was blown in our faces from all the construction.
We had our eyes peeled for the fabled Ski Nannies (we assumed they would morph into like, hiking nannies or rafting nannies or something since it's summertime), but they were nowhere to be found.
But that was the least of our problems: we couldn't find the front door, either.
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Bright Sun, Bitchin' Powder, and A New Vail Resort
Okay all you downhill skiers, in 2011 the ever-popular slopes of Vail will welcome a new posh mountain resort from Fairmont Hotels & Resorts. The luxury hotelier just announced plans to develop the Fairmont Vail, with 128 plush rooms, 73 Fairmont Residences as well as Fairmont Heritage Place, the company's private residence club homes.
Set amidst the destination's three mountain areas, the new resort will treat winter and summertime guests to a handful of restaurants, a signature 10,000-sq.ft. Willow Stream spa, and 9,500-sq.ft. feet of function space, including a 3,000-sq.ft. ballroom for apres-skiing fun.
Vail is going to be getting a slew of luxury condo-resorts like The Ritz Carlton Residences, the Solaris Solaris and a Four Seasons Hotel by 2009. The Fairmont brand is already located at other famous ski resorts like Banff Springs, Whistler, Lake Louise, and nearby Telluride.
Despite the deluge of luxury digs, eco-minded skiers will be somewhat comforted to know that the entire Vail Mountain destination is 100% powered by the wind.
[Photo: Tracy~]
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Ski Hotels 2008: Ski and Sleep Vail for Under $500
Well, the writers' strike may be over, but it'll still be at least a few weeks before your favorite shows come back. Kill that time and get one last gasp of exercise with the "Skier's Escape" package from The Lodge at Vail.
The deal includes three nights accommodations, two three-day lift tickets and breakfast daily at the hotel set in the heart of Vail village. (Your lift tix are good at both Vail and Beaver Creek.) Rates start at $1,272, and obviously there are some blackout dates. Still, getting a room and a day of skiing for $424 isn't bad, given that one day at Vail costs $92.
It's worth noting that the hotel's Spa is scheduled to open next month, so book later rather than earlier if that's a priority. The Skier's Escape package is available until April 19.
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· Ski Hotels 2008 Map [HotelChatter]
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Ski Nannies on Hand at the Arrabelle Resort in Vail
Vail is getting a little bit of Aspen-esque luxury digs for its snow bunnies with money.
The Arrabelle at the Vail Resort will open on January 5, 2008. A RockResort, The Arrabelle is the first new ultra-luxe resort to open in Vail in 25 years.
Anchoring a new destination called Vail Square, a European-inspired village that will fuse new energy into the region, The Arrabelle will offer guests an exceptional vacation experience with 36 luxury rooms and 50 condominiums, fine dining at Centre V, a RockResorts spa, personalized services such as the Ski Nanny, and a true ski-in/ski-out experience with a location just steps away from Vail Mountain.
Ski Nanny? Apparently the nanny will watch kids while they are on the slopes and take them to and from ski school, allowing parents to ski the more difficult slopes. We love it.
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Vail Hotel Scene :: Sonnenalp Resort of Vail
We're checking in on the hotel happenings in Vail, Colorado this week and since the area has some serious construction to make the village feel a bit more "European", we checked out a hotel that was legitimately already European: The Sonnenalp Resort of Vail.
A member of Leading Small Hotels of the World, the Sonnenalp is owned by the same family that own the famous Sonnenalp Resort of Bavaria, which (according to the Sonnenalp website) was rated the number one vacation resort in Germany.
With its stellar reviews on Tripadvisor, we know the Sonnenalp has a fab reputation, but last time we checked in with them the property was in the middle of a bigtime renovation project that left some guests a little annoyed.
We went back to check out the changes and took a little tour of the property. What we found after the jump.
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Vail Hotel Scene :: Vail Mountain Marriott Resort and Spa
Vail, Colorado is one year away from completion of its billion-dollar renovation project and construction is in full swing this summer all around the resort town.
Luckily, all the businesses in Vail and LionsHead remain open, the construction doesn't obstruct many views and all the commotion certainly won't disrupt most of the summer recreational activities on the mountain.
We're on the scene this week to see what's going on at a few of the local hotels and to see if the construction will help us score any rate kickbacks.
First up: The Vail Mountain Marriott Resort and Spa.
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Antlers for Sale!
Staying in Vail off-season definitely has its perks. You can avoid people in big furry boots being the main one, although to be honest that is not a guarantee.
Even so the summer in the mountains and the clean air in this snooty resort town can make for a relaxing summer getaway. Plus, traveling is always so much easier sans skis.
Staying off-season also means specials. If you stay at the Antlers Hotel during the middle of the week you'll book 20% off; a special running through September 21. Or stay more than seven nights and get 15% off, this promo runs until September 23.
What's the deal here? There is praise upon praise for their hot tubs which face the mountains. The rooms are like little apartments and have internet (DSL not WiFi). So if you don't mind a little feeling of country and the lack of robe provided by the hotel, as one reviewer's griped about, take advantage of the summer rates because they'll be gone as fast as you can say EuroTrashSkier.
Image via Jenniferyl/Flickr
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