Dave Cartman wrote:
In article ECLzi.316$0_2.195@trndny07,
"Alan Fried" wrote:

Now looking for a possible trip to the Canyons in Utah. A friend
at work says the best way to stay is at Salt Lake City and rent
a car.

You can do that, but accommodation isn't too bad down the Canyons end of
town. The PC budget hotels are all around Kimball Junction, and there's a
lot of condos and apartments around there that aren't as pricey as the
"real" part of PC. Prices for all-season accommodation at the Canyons, and
around the corner at Pinebrook, tended to be cheaper than PC-proper, and
they've been building furiously on both sides of the highway. You should
at least check what's available at the resort (condos down near the
highway), and also at the chain hotels at Kimball. There's a free bus that
runs to and from there to the resort, and to PC-proper.

the drive up from SLC is done every day by many people... heaps of staff
live in SLC. It'd be a pain though, I reckon, especially if it's snowing.
Trucks seem to have great problems coming up and down Parley's and often
crash (or catch fire).

Do you have to ski the Canyons though? The other two are also worth skiing.


I started doing that back when my friends and I were graduate student
types, and now that we're filthy rich, we still do that. We stay the
Crystal Inn in downtown Utah, easy walking distance to various
excellent local brew pubs as well as big chain type restaurants like
Buca di Beppo and P.F. Changs etc where you pay mainstream prices and
not resort prices. The Crystal Inn is clean, quiet and has free
breakfast and free internet and is not terribly expensive. When you
feel like taking a day off, you can walk to that fancy mall they
built for the Olympics and catch a movie.

Is that the Crystal Inn down near Fort Union? (overlooking that highway that
appears to be built in a drain).

Probably isn't, none of those restaurants were near it! And that fancy mall
was Gateway.... pretty rotten shopping, I have to say. Fashion Place Mall
was better, and of course the magnificent Nordstrom Rack!

Dodging the weird fountains at Gateway is fun for about 5 minutes.

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