RNCollins
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Colorado’s Bargain Season
https://www.nytimes.com/2019/05/14/travel/colorado-ski-resorts-cheap.html
By Steve Knopper / Travel / The New York Times / nytimes.com / May 14, 2019
“The weekend before Christmas, a night at the Ritz Carlton Bachelor Gulch, the luxurious hotel at the center of the Beaver Creek Ski Resort in Colorado, costs $1,489. In July, it goes for $659. But on a recent Saturday night, my wife and I paid just $189 for a similar room. We had to add $30 for valet parking, but breakfast was free and with spa treatments half-price, we spent only $80 for a half-hour in a copper bathtub-for-two, which included champagne, robes, slippers and tinkly new-age music.
I love Colorado ski towns just after skiing ends, during what locals call mud season. (The expression is too dirty for Aspen, which has rebranded it “the secret season.”) For roughly two months, beatific mountain villages empty out, chichi hotels become affordable, “drink the bar dry” specials pop up and shops go half-price or more....”
Taking a spring break: Gondolas at the Steamboat Ski Resort sit in a parking lot after the mountain closed for the season.
Photo Credit: Benjamin Rasmussen for The New York Times
https://www.nytimes.com/2019/05/14/travel/colorado-ski-resorts-cheap.html
By Steve Knopper / Travel / The New York Times / nytimes.com / May 14, 2019
“The weekend before Christmas, a night at the Ritz Carlton Bachelor Gulch, the luxurious hotel at the center of the Beaver Creek Ski Resort in Colorado, costs $1,489. In July, it goes for $659. But on a recent Saturday night, my wife and I paid just $189 for a similar room. We had to add $30 for valet parking, but breakfast was free and with spa treatments half-price, we spent only $80 for a half-hour in a copper bathtub-for-two, which included champagne, robes, slippers and tinkly new-age music.
I love Colorado ski towns just after skiing ends, during what locals call mud season. (The expression is too dirty for Aspen, which has rebranded it “the secret season.”) For roughly two months, beatific mountain villages empty out, chichi hotels become affordable, “drink the bar dry” specials pop up and shops go half-price or more....”
Photo Credit: Benjamin Rasmussen for The New York Times
