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Christie Lodge
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5 reviews for Christie Lodge
(Note: the location on the map is wrong, but the address is correct. Blame Google!)
My brother and I stayed here while snowboarding in Vail. Overall I was pretty pleased with my stay there. The rooms have a small stove, microwave, toaster, fridge that allowed us to make breakfast easily and save a lot of time. The couch turned into a bed so we could each have some privacy. Lots of parking in back. The rooms were pretty nice and open. There are several places to eat within walking distance although we were steered away from a few of them by the locals. They have lot of things to do, a game room and ping pong out in the middle too.
The problems:
1) You access the rooms from inside. Out in the middle they have a hot tub and pool, which means the whole place smells of chlorine.
2) Because of said pool and hot tub, people can stay out there late making quite a bit of noise. The rules say it shuts down at a certain time, but they happily ignore that.
3) The main bed is right inside the entryway, crammed against the wall. So people can't leave and enter without walking right past you. You'll hear people stomping past your room clearly.
4) Internet access is unusable. If we had dial-up it would of been faster and more reliable. We had a pretty good signal.
In all, our experience wasn't horrible, but if we had been even just a few doors down it would of been much worse, of if we had noisy kids in the pool. If prices are similar I'd go with another place over this one. If you do have to stay here, ask for a room away from the pools and hot tubs and places to eat. That will probably put you at the end of the building, but it's your best bet for a good nights sleep.
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What a terrible place! We found out after a while staying here that it doubled as employee housing. There is a huge open area in the middle of the whoole place that just makes all the sound echo. When our kid were eating and doing regular kid stuff in the center gathering area. We were yelled at at 8:00 PM because the umployees were sleeping. When we finally went to bed at around 9 there was a loud noise coming from the hottubs (the old equipent sounds like it screaming) and they wouln't do anything about it. Then later we heard loud music. This place lets you hear evverything that is going on!
Our room was by the subway and it smelled like banana peppers the whole time, plus we heard them making deliveries and drive ups all through the night. Between all the noise and the terrible smell we couldn't sleep at all. The beds are smaller than advertised. (the "daybed" is a wooden ski shelf with a pillow on it.) the rooms are poorly organized and you have to walk through one persons sleeping area to get to the kitchen. This is a terrible establishment and I will NEVER stay there again.
This place really deserves a higher rating!! The rooms are roomy and have a little kitchenette for refrigerating your leftovers and cooking it. It has utensils, plates, minifridge, and dishwasher. The lobby and common areas have tons of couches and are heated. Two restaurants and meeting rooms. There is an indoor pool and hot tub so bring your swimming trunks. Two small (27,20) TVs in the room, one with a DVD player. We had a party of 5 and fit perfectly (fold out queen couch, full bed, mini half bed). We all really liked this place and it's a great value.
Oh, and ask Steve Lasky at the front desk about recommendations. He is extremely knowledgable about the area, restaurants, and gives you better service than most fine dining restaurants in LA. We kept joking about how he was our concierge. Really, this is a nice place and only 10 mins from Vail.
This is not a lodge, it is a poorly designed facility that has stuffy rooms with lousy access that we would never, never consider again for a stay. For starters, the lobby has two elevators to the second and third floors that require going down stairways with about a ten foot drop to the actual floor with the rooms. Not fun hoofing luggage to say the least. Maps around the place are so poor that everyone wanders with a dazed look trying to figure out where the assigned room must be.
But the BIG surprise are the rooms that open off an interior concourse with a double bed jammed into a corner by the door and a very small living area with a patio. No ventilation whatsoever. And hot (NO A/C). And very, very run down with dowdy everything. Can't forget the noise from the freeway (I-70) that is very busy all night long that makes sleeping a task. One star is a push, one-half would be appropriate.
I don't get why this place doesn't get a higher rating. You can't complain, you are in Beaver Creek for crying out loud and you aren't paying an arm and a leg to stay here. I thought it was lovely, yeah the room was small but we fit a small sized Mexican Family, no problem. I heart Mexicans, no offense.
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