Beaver Creek

The Charter is a very comfortable and extremely convient location.

The Charter provided an excellent bus service to the Village and lifts.

Rooms are comfortable and are well fitted out.

The wood fire is great at the end of a days skiing. Thoroughly recommend the Charter.

The choice of restaurants for a family is not greatin the resort and booked out in the busy New Year period. Otherwise a great intimate resort.

Townsend Place - very comfortable

We stayed in a 1 bedroom apartment, in early March. The apartment was far more spacious, comfortable and atmospheric than we had expected, with lots of windows and a pleasant outlook. The apartment had everything we needed; great kitchen, 2 bathrooms, big lounge area, washer and dryer, king bed. In-room wifi was free, undercover parking was free.

Access to the shops and restaurants was up a snow covered path - slightly uphill but quite pleasant. Ski in/out access was a bit limited - ski out down a path to the slow old elkhorn lift, and ski in requiring a bit of planning to be in the right spot.

Overall we loved this place and also loved Beaver Creek. The next week, staying at Vail with crowds and poor snow, we found ourselves making daytrips back to Beaver Creek as the skiing was better!

Great holiday, but poor ski school and WAY TOO EXPENSIVE

BC was a sharp contrast to our previous ten days at Copper Mountain. In summary, the extra 30% you have to pay at "the Beave" is not justified. The place is pretty, and the village more attractive than Copper, but the place is very expensive.  Specific comments as follows:  

- Highlands Slopeside was extraordinary.  Really luxurious lodging, right on the slope.  Ski out of the boot room right onto the slope and down to the ski school, lifts etc.
- The kids loved the skiing, particularyl Jack Rabbit Alley.  The green runs and some of the blues are on top of the mountain, and all the trails are immaculately groomed.  Overall I found the mountain quite confusing, but I got used to it after a few days.  We spent a day at Bachelor Gulch which was cool.
- The ski school was dreadful.  Seriously.  Apart from being exorbitant ($750 for a private!), the grading process was a shambles, and there was no maximum class size.  The instructors were fine, but it could take more than an hour before you were actually skiing because you were faffing around doing little test runs.
- the kids classes are hyped as "the best in the country".  All talk. The first three days the kids didn''t get a ski report (until we asked for one), the "nutritional food" claim is nonsense, and again, no maximum class sizes.  

So all up, while we loved the apartment and did some great skiing (we had a lot of powder) we didn''t think that BC justifies its very elevated prices for food, lessons and accommodation.