Fur Coats and hot chocolate at Beaver Creek
Written by Solveigh a Skier from Sydney, Australia
26/2/2011
In January 2011 my family and I headed off to Beaver Creek for 2 weeks. After long discussions with Toby at Travelplan and friends, I/we decided that we wanted a resort that was small enough to feel like a village, and have just enough terrain to make it worth it.
Our accommodation was first class, ski in ski out, the concierge at the McCoy Peak condos. was excellent and very helpful, she even went to get us shopping from the town nearby. We were so comfortable at our accommodation that on the really cold nights we just ate in! The nearby village of Avon provides you with an enormous supermarket, and other stores within a short bus ride from Beaver Creek itself. There is a very handy bus service which runs around the village nearby to nearly all accommodations regularly. Beaver Creek is well suited to families, but don''t expect any huge diversity in restaurants and night life. We ate out a few times, one excellent restaurant was up high on the mountain "Zacs". You can only reach Zacs by a massive ski sled which ferries groups of 10 people or so up to the restaurant for the early or late sittings.
The snow this year was great, light and plentifull - so it was possible ski on ungroomed powder and many times in the morning and afternoon we would have the hills to ourselves!
The ski school was great, we simply booked up lessons and had great days going all over the mountain. Our instructor Michele was an amazing teacher and lots of fun. The mountain provided skiers with all creature comforts one could want. In the cold mornings you could have a hot chocolate getting off the lift and in the afternoon you could grab a freshly baked chocolate chip cookie (or two) at the base of the centennial lift. This occurs daily. Even little touches like tissues are provided at each lift.
All over the village and lifts the staff at Beaver Creek are always courteous and helpful, which indicates the level to which they pride themselves as being such a service orientated resort. Overall we had a great time at Beaver Creek, by the end of our time there we had well and truly skied all over the mountain, but there was enough to keep us happy. p.s. we''ve booked next year but we will also check out Vail this time too.