Alta Lodging
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I just got back from skiing several salt lake areas, we stayed at the Hilton downtown for cheap by booking on hotwire.com at the last minute. You can select the star rating, and general location, but won't know the name of the hotel. We reserved a room for 2 nites, and when we decided to stay 2 more, the hotel wanted to charge double, about $140. So we walked to the library, got online, and reserved 2 more nites. We didn't know if it would be the same hotel-- but it was, and were able to keep the same room. you can cut a few bucks off by cutting off a couple of stars.
Beware! the Hilton has a very low garage, and I would have slammed my skis and rack into a concrete headwall if I hadn't been paying attention.
There's also semi-reasonable rooms at Alta, for the diehard powder hound, and will save you from driving up canyon every day. Alta Peruvian will rent you a dorm room that includes breakfast, lunch, dinner and lift ticket for about $1100 a week, which isn't too bad, considering it's right on the slopes, includes a lot!-- and if your'e traveling alone, includes built-in camraderie. There are other ones at alta, too- which can be found at http://www.alta.com.
Staying in salt lake was fine for our trip, since we wanted to try some different resorts, and because of spring conditions, there was no point in getting to the mountain before the snow softened up a bit.
For a true dedicated powderhound, there is nothing worse than saving $20 on a hotel room, only to waste it on gas and traffic congestion, and, most importantly, the tragedy of riding up the lift as you watch a zillion enthusiastic earlybirds chopping up vast fields of powder on their second runs, because you had to follow a UTA bus up the hill at 15 mph.
A couple of restaraunt reccomendations: I'll have to write more on this:
RED IGUANA-- This is not your ordinary much-better than average Mexican place. It's the best place north of the border! (the Arizona-Utah border) Be prepared to wait for a table It WILL be worth it!
RED IGUANA-- The tragedy is that we went there on our last nite in town, and they weren't open for breakfast.
Samba Grill in the gateway center: This is not your ordinary mediocre upscale chain place-- No, it is pure restaruant hell as I have never seen before! (from a trip in the fall) what you order you will NOT get, what you get you be charged extra for, attempts to rectify the situation will be sneered at, and will be changed but not fixed-- we left hungry and pissed off, and we were not alone that night.
Beware! the Hilton has a very low garage, and I would have slammed my skis and rack into a concrete headwall if I hadn't been paying attention.
There's also semi-reasonable rooms at Alta, for the diehard powder hound, and will save you from driving up canyon every day. Alta Peruvian will rent you a dorm room that includes breakfast, lunch, dinner and lift ticket for about $1100 a week, which isn't too bad, considering it's right on the slopes, includes a lot!-- and if your'e traveling alone, includes built-in camraderie. There are other ones at alta, too- which can be found at http://www.alta.com.
Staying in salt lake was fine for our trip, since we wanted to try some different resorts, and because of spring conditions, there was no point in getting to the mountain before the snow softened up a bit.
For a true dedicated powderhound, there is nothing worse than saving $20 on a hotel room, only to waste it on gas and traffic congestion, and, most importantly, the tragedy of riding up the lift as you watch a zillion enthusiastic earlybirds chopping up vast fields of powder on their second runs, because you had to follow a UTA bus up the hill at 15 mph.
A couple of restaraunt reccomendations: I'll have to write more on this:
RED IGUANA-- This is not your ordinary much-better than average Mexican place. It's the best place north of the border! (the Arizona-Utah border) Be prepared to wait for a table It WILL be worth it!
RED IGUANA-- The tragedy is that we went there on our last nite in town, and they weren't open for breakfast.
Samba Grill in the gateway center: This is not your ordinary mediocre upscale chain place-- No, it is pure restaruant hell as I have never seen before! (from a trip in the fall) what you order you will NOT get, what you get you be charged extra for, attempts to rectify the situation will be sneered at, and will be changed but not fixed-- we left hungry and pissed off, and we were not alone that night.
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Check out The Goldminers Daughter. Its one of most economical options and its low hassle b/c it includes both breakfast and dinner. If you want to stay on the mountain (and you do b/c the road closes with a dump) You really do not have a lot of options up there...GMD, The Peruvian Lodge, Iron Blossom at Snowbird...about all I know. I was at the GMD two weeks ago and, while the rooms are kind of old school super 8 meets a dorm, the service, meals and bar do the trick. Hope this helps.