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Angel Fire Resort
Categories: Active Life Golf Hotels & Travel Ski Resorts Golf, Ski Resorts [Edit]
10 Miller LnAngel Fire, NM 87710
(575) 377-3055
- Good for Kids:
- Yes
10 reviews for Angel Fire Resort
10 reviews in English
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Review from Thomas M.
Dallas, TX
2/17/2012
This review is all inclusive
The Resort-(3/50 We didnt stay in the resort itself but in a condo very close that was owned by the resort. Free wi fi, nice restaurants, a decent hot tub and indoor pool. Overall the place is pretty nice, LOTS of retired persons, which is kinda nice, im not looking for that spring break party when i go skiing.
The Area-(5/5) If youve never been to northern New mexico this place is awesome. From taos to santa fe and the whole rest of what they call "the enchanted circle" this place was super fun to tour around. Saw the taos pueblo, bought some indian rugs, ate a bunch of mexican food, sweet vacay spot outside of skiing
The skiing-Ok people, i can look at a map, and a trail map and from this i have determined this resort is not taos, this is not wolf creek and this is not vail. When you get over the fact that that mountain is small, IT SNOWED EVERY FREAKIN NIGHT. 3-6 inches of pow every morning. The terrain is cool, glades ranging from very soft to very hard, the back side of the mountain is awesome with albeit short but beautiful runs.
So i loved it. If you want to do backflips into bowls, go elsewhere; if you want to find people to stay up late and get hammered with, go elsewhere. Come here if you want to vacation somewhere quiet with good skiing and good conditions and a whole area to explore nearby -
Review from R. W.
Waxahachie, TX
5/18/2012 8 photos
Angel Fire Ski Resort has a wonderful variety of skiing, including a very good area for beginners to learn. During summer, one can ride the lifts up to the restaurant on top and then back down again. The scenery is breathtaking. The restaurant in the lodge is expensive, but great food.
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Review from Karen H.
El Granada, CA
2/29/2012
i wrote a review about angel fire on trip advisor. But here's the catch. Whenever anyone writes anything about the facility or the service/personnel, then"Joe Kendall" always comes back with a "pat answer" for his resort. What's sad is, most of the reviews are negative. But good ole' "joe" has an answer for everything.
The bottom line is this. Your resort, and it's personnel should speak for itself. If it's a great place, whoopee! but if the place and the personnel (whom english is not their first language) is rude or ornery - the word will get out regardless.
Apparently, they must be working on a shoe string budget, or "joe" is cheap - and certainly puts more time and effort sitting on his computer, watching reviews on the internet (Trip advisor, specifically) versus investing money into upgrading the damn place - and the cheap labor he hires. -
Review from Trey E.
3/19/2011 13 Check-ins Here
AF is really only an option if you're close or don't have the desire to go to a real resort.
The snow in NM is notoriously iffy. Which is fine, a resort can't control the weather. What I don't get is why they insist on inaccurately reporting the number of open runs, and why anyone would be okay with paying full price for a lift ticket if less than a third of the mountain is open. Taos is a much better option for real skiers, and Red River is pretty much the same price but with more of a ski town feel (and considerably better terrain), but suffer from the same crappy snow problem as AF. For first-timers, AF is likely a decent option, but for advanced - and even intermediate - there's not much to explore. There's three hike-to blacks and a handful of mostly rutted out blacks on the back side, and a couple rocky blacks on the front. No glades.
When there is decent snow and the whole place is open, it's a cheap option but tends to get seriously crowded and probably isn't worth the hassle if you're looking for a proper ski area. -
Review from Luke P.
Astoria, NY
3/6/2012
Came for the skiing. Fun trails. We got a free night at the resort with purchase of passes. The rooms are a bit dated, but we didn't come for that. There's plenty of dining options, and the coffee shop is good in the morning. I'd come back, it's a good deal!
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Review from Anna O.
Scottsdale, AZ
8/13/2011
Hotel rooms are dark,old, and out dated. Carpets are disgusting, no a/c in the rooms nor would they put screens on the windows so I could open the windows and get fresh air. It is summer time and I was in a ground floor room. After requesting screens because I saw the other rooms had them I was told they couldn't do it, and they gave me a cheap box fan! The room was $99 a night, I've had better accommodations at a Holiday Inn for $65 a night. They should call this place Angel Fire Motel, not a resort. On the bright side there was free wi-fi ;)
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Review from Jerry Y.
2/24/2010
This review isn't for the lodging. I just couldn't find another place to review the actual mountain/skiing itself.
Angel Fire is what I would consider a beginner mountain. It has many green runs (the easiest) but also has some reasonably challenging blue runs, and a few black runs that look formitable.
On the front side of the mountain is a bunny slope with a slow moving 2-seat lift where beginners can learn the basics of skiing before treking up to the top of the mountain.
The Chille Express is the 4-seater main lift that takes you to the top of the mountain. This lift ride takes about 20 minutes and overviews a large green stretch along with several blue and black runs.
At the top of the mountain you have the option to ski the front of the mountain or ski down to another 4-seater lift that takes you to the back side of the mountain. The backside has a mix of runs but seemed generally more challenging than the front side of the mountain.
The nice thing about Angel Fire is that most of the runs end up on part of a green run. That means more experienced skiers can take a blue or black run and meet the beginners in the group on a green run.
The green runs are very wide with minimal trees and gradual slopes. The blue runs are narrower and steeper but I had a 2nd time skier (he went on the trip last year) with me doing the blue runs by the end of the trip.
Lift tickets are as reasonable as skiing can be. A ticket is about $50 and it good from 9a-4p. There is night skiing but looks to be limited to a small portion of the front of the mountain.
The big negative about Angel Fire is getting around. The ski village is composed of 4 levels (read: 4 flights of stairs). At the bottom is the restuarant/bar, 2nd level is outdoor seating, 3rd level is more seating and restrooms, and the 4th level is the ticket booth and lifts. There are buses from the parking lot to the stairs below the ticket booth but you will at some point have to go up and down the stairs! -
Review from Kim J.
Austin, TX
3/29/2010
We stayed at the lodge and skied as part of the 'White Sale." Price was very reasonable because the lift ticket was included in the package at $59 per person, per night. The resort isn't bad... it was dark and a little dated, but everyone was friendly and helpful.
On to the mountain... incredible snow, incredible time. Thank you El Nino. I learned to ski in the Great White North, so the Sangre De Cristo mountains seem big and steep to me. The runs are well planned (and it looks like they will be expanding soon?), are nice and long, with lots of options. Loved the Chile Express lift!
Can't wait to go back. -
Review from Carl S.
Angel Fire, NM
Updated - 12/27/2011
Went to the Legends bar in the hotel to relax with friends and chew on a snack. I can't say that I had any real problems with the service, very dutiful and business like but I'm still trying to figure out how they managed to screw up the nacho's. I thought nacho's were pretty easy to make and in New Mexico? nothing to it right ? For somewhere around $10.00 we got a few corn chips scattered on a pizza plate with just enough cheese to make a few of them stick together, a decent number of jalapenos for the few chips that were there and it looked like they accidentally spilled some sour cream and other stuff on them and tried to clean it off before they brought them out. Loaded Nacho's? I don't think so! They are not loaded, hell they were barely even nacho's! The sampler platter was a similar joke, for about the same price as the nacho's you got a lettuce leaf that covered half of a smallish platter and a little bit of stuff to cover where there wasn't any lettuce. How do you screw up nacho's in New Mexico!? Oh well, at least my iced tea filled the glass.
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Review from Graeson L.
Boulder, CO
5/24/2009
Free wi-fi was the highlight of the hotel itself. The carpet hasn't been cleaned since what looks like the 1970. The staff was unhelpful and unfortunately incompetent. I will undoubtedly be back to Angel Fire, but next time we'll try one of the camping cabins nearby or maybe a hotel in Taos.
