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Vail Gets More Luxury Hotels, We Get No Closer to Affording Them

December 9, 2008 at 1:54 PM | by Jenna | 1 Comment

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.

Meanwhile, a few miles away at the base of Beaver Creek Mountain, the Westin Riverfront — which an HC operative checked out as soon as it opened back in September — seems to be chugging along nicely as ski season kicks in.

The New York Times dropped in for a quickie visit and, in perhaps one of the most bland, non-enthusiastic "Check In, Check Out" reviews we've read, the overall impression the reviewer seemed to get was that the hotel was good, with "plenty of four-season perks." Yup. Pretty exciting, wouldn't you say?

Seems like the Times had nothing to highlight beyond the fact that the Westin is "another luxury hotel in the Vail Valley, but this time with an environmentally friendly twist." But the rates here start at $249 during the ski season, which isn't too bad.

[Photo: Kevin Moloney for The New York Times]

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  1. donnellyaa

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    Vail!

    I read that New York Times reviews as well, and I have to agree with you that it was pretty bland. It contained a lot of useful information at least!

    All these fancy new luxury hotels are nice, but I'm all about Destination Resorts Vail. I'm a big fan because with all their different properties they have rental condos that fit however many people I'm going skiing with on a particular trip. The location is great, too.

    Thinking about all this makes me want to leave my desk and just go skiing, haha.
    January 5, 2009 at 10:38 AM
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