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It's Beginning to Look a Lot Like Ski Season

Where: 4122 Village Green, Whistler, BC, Canada, VON 1B4

It feels like Halloween is barely over, but the folks over in Whistler, B.C. are already thinking snow.

The ski town’s Adara Hotel is offering an early season getaway package that includes two night’s accommodations in a Superior guestroom (get an upgrade for just $30 more per night), free valet parking and two two-day lift tickets to Whistler Blackcomb ski resort.

The package, available December 12-19 for $550 per night, coincides with the opening of Whistler’s latest attraction: the PEAK2PEAK gondola, an 1.88-mile unsupported freespan linking Whistler and Blackcomb, which, not so coincidentally, opens December 12.

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Casino Royale Package a Good Deal at Whistler's Adara Hotel

Where: 4122 Village Green, Whistler, BC, Canada, VON 1B4

Up at Whistler the Adara Hotel has put together a special deal during the Cornucopia food and wine festival this year: it's the Casino Royale Party Package which you can book for November 7 only.

Along with two tickets to the nearby Casino Royale Cornucopia Party, you'll get accommodation in a superior guestroom and the chance to upgrade to a Loft Suite for just C$30 more; without upgrading the package price is just C$269 for two. They say that party tickets are $125 per person so that does sound like a great deal if you're interested in the event.

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Hotel Adara is Like 'Prada on Powder' (Snow Powder, That Is)

Where: 4122 Village Green, Whistler, BC, Canada, VON 1B4

Back in February we told you about Canada's newest "hotel boutique," (that's boutique hotel for us American folks) which opened in Whistler. Since then Hotel Adara has been a hot property.

The Belfast Telegraph recently pushed the hotel as a top choice for ski fans:

Looking for Prada on powder? The Adara hotel in Whistler is your answer. The 41-room boutique hotel, Whistler's first and only member of Small Luxury Hotels of the World, is a cool alternative to standard ski-town accommodation. Blending modern style with cosy wooden chalet, this is a great place to hang out - and has already been touted as a hot destination for celebs-on-skis as the BC ski area gears up for its leading role in the 2010 Winter Olympics.

Keep in mind, Hotel Adara is definitely a ski lodge and the colors are going to be dark in order to promote that we-say-cozy, you-say-cosy, feel. One past guest review found the colors too depressing and dark and perhaps had never stayed in a ski lodge before.

We say for $199 CAD a night, we'll bring a flashlight if it's really that dark because that's a hot price for ski lodge boutique hotel, er um hotel boutique.

Image via DustinandTracyKofoed/Flickr

Related Stories:
· Adara Hotel to be Different [HotelChatter]
· Ski Special [Belfast Telgraph]
· Hotel Adara Reviews [TripAdvisor]

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Fairmont Chateau Whistler Bar

Where: 4599 Chateau Boulevard, Whistler, BC, Canada, VON 1B4

[Editor's Note: Apres ski lush or unhappy Chateau Whistler visitor? You decide. As always, high end hotels are rightfully given the least amount of slack by the hotel mavens]

Well since I live in Whistler, I have a lot of friends who visit, and usually I will recommend a hotel according to their budget/needs.

Since this is a ski town a lot of apres drinking takes place, this particular night it was at the Mallard Bar in the Chateau Whistler. We ordered a pitcher while waiting for some stragglers to join, the waitress had a bit of an attitude the whole time but I really didn't care because I was in high spirits. Then she over-pours our beers spilling them, and blames it on the glasses. She didn't clean up her mess till another waitress noticed, and did cleaned it up for her.

After this service we decided to switch spots and went to the cigar lounge, I handed her $30 for my $21 pitcher and told her I would like my change in the cigar room about 7 yards from where I was sitting. 20 minutes later and no sign of her, I left but not without letting the manager know that I was disappointed in the service.

I also stayed at this hotel for New Years Eve 2005, overpriced for the tiny rooms, many other better options availble in Whistler, unless you need all those services. Overall that night was excellent, but I wouldn't really recall anything b/c of my state.

[Editor's Note II: Wonder how the androids over at the Four Seasons Whistler are handling the winter crowds...]