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Hi,
Staying for two weeks in January at Sunshine Inn at Sunshine Village. Would be great if I had some knowlede on the below items: 1. What standard room is like? 2 Where best to have a room in the hotel 3 Is it expensive for food? 4 Is there much to do at night? one final one for the wife......will she is the Northern Lights!!!! Cheers Arsie |
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"Arsie" wrote in message ... Hi, Staying for two weeks in January at Sunshine Inn at Sunshine Village. Would be great if I had some knowlede on the below items: 1. What standard room is like? 2 Where best to have a room in the hotel 3 Is it expensive for food? 4 Is there much to do at night? one final one for the wife......will she is the Northern Lights!!!! Cheers Arsie The rooms are clean and average. Food is a little on the high side because they have to ferry it up to the base lodge by truck, up the mountain. There's one bar next to the rooms. You are fairly isolated up there, it's several miles to the parking lot below, and to Banff. If you love skiing, this is a great place to be. I would get incredibly sick of staying up there after about two nights tho'. Two weeks would drive me nuts, you have around 30 rooms, the main day lodge with the cafeteria, and the bar. That's it. Probably no more than 50-100 people way up there at nights, in total. |
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On Thu, 11 Dec 2003 15:27:01 -0000, "Arsie"
wrote: Hi, Staying for two weeks in January at Sunshine Inn at Sunshine Village. Would be great if I had some knowlede on the below items: Rooms ok, food a bit pricey, not much to do... if you like isolation, Sunshine Village is the place to be. As for being there two weeks, I'd go insane |
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Cheers gus for the info......I do love the skiing and will I hope love being
up their for two weeks!!! Arsie wrote in message ... On Thu, 11 Dec 2003 15:27:01 -0000, "Arsie" wrote: Hi, Staying for two weeks in January at Sunshine Inn at Sunshine Village. Would be great if I had some knowlede on the below items: Rooms ok, food a bit pricey, not much to do... if you like isolation, Sunshine Village is the place to be. As for being there two weeks, I'd go insane |
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Hi ,
I stayed there for one night and two days nov. 20 / 03 . early season special ! I live 4hrs drive away and for day trips it's a long day I enjoyed my stay ! Great early snow but you may want to stay in banff for some of your stay as on the hill is isolated i'm sure after several daysoften"Arsie" wrote in message .. . Cheers gus for the info......I do love the skiing and will I hope love being up their for two weeks!!! Arsie wrote in message ... On Thu, 11 Dec 2003 15:27:01 -0000, "Arsie" wrote: Hi, Staying for two weeks in January at Sunshine Inn at Sunshine Village. Would be great if I had some knowlede on the below items: Rooms ok, food a bit pricey, not much to do... if you like isolation, Sunshine Village is the place to be. As for being there two weeks, I'd go insane |
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I really just go for the skiing boarding!! I get up first thing ski/ride
all day and then bed by 9 - 11!!! I have booked the hotel for two weeks so looks like I am stuck with it....looks great conditons!!! Arsie "jzwanenburg" wrote in message news:N8vCb.685922$9l5.290367@pd7tw2no... Hi , I stayed there for one night and two days nov. 20 / 03 . early season special ! I live 4hrs drive away and for day trips it's a long day I enjoyed my stay ! Great early snow but you may want to stay in banff for some of your stay as on the hill is isolated i'm sure after several daysoften"Arsie" wrote in message .. . Cheers gus for the info......I do love the skiing and will I hope love being up their for two weeks!!! Arsie wrote in message ... On Thu, 11 Dec 2003 15:27:01 -0000, "Arsie" wrote: Hi, Staying for two weeks in January at Sunshine Inn at Sunshine Village. Would be great if I had some knowlede on the below items: Rooms ok, food a bit pricey, not much to do... if you like isolation, Sunshine Village is the place to be. As for being there two weeks, I'd go insane |
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I worked and lived there back in the late 80's / early 90's for about 3
years. I go back there now every year with 10 other friends. We usually go the last week of February. Sunshine is a fantastic place! There's nightly entertainment put on by the ski school guys. They usually turn the lights on Strawberry chair lift for the hotel guests a couple nights of the week...or at least they did when I lived there :-) It's a lot of fun to go night skiing there. They used to do this only for the hotel guests and staff. A favourite event is getting one of the big oval serving trays from the restaurant and going out tobogganing at night. The gondola is the main access from the parking lot to the Village. The gondola stays open late on Friday night till 10:30 so I would advise if you wanted to go into Banff to one of their many restaurants, that would be the night to do that. The town of Banff is about a 15 minute car ride from the parking lot at Sunshine. A taxi will run you about $20 CDN one way. Up at Sunshine, the old log cabin the middle of the village is a great place to relax at night or for après drinks. The rooms are very clean and spacious. You can take a virtual tour of them at www.skibanff.com. Food is on the pricey side but it is excellent! The Eagles Nest dining room is a 5 star experience. The Chimney Corner lounge offers lighter fare like burgers and pasta. Mad Trappers offers much the same. You won't be disappointed with the food at Sunshine! Hope you have a great time!!!! I'm sure you will....and don't listen to anyone who says they'd go insane there for 2 weeks. You're in for a real treat!!! -- Greg Wyld Home - 519.886.6002 Cell - 519.575.1111 "Arsie" wrote in message ... Hi, Staying for two weeks in January at Sunshine Inn at Sunshine Village. Would be great if I had some knowlede on the below items: 1. What standard room is like? 2 Where best to have a room in the hotel 3 Is it expensive for food? 4 Is there much to do at night? one final one for the wife......will she is the Northern Lights!!!! Cheers Arsie |
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Greg,
I am heading to Banff for a week on 17 Jan, will be first time skiing in Canada and looking forward to it. One thing that is a concern is the cold, I wonder if it will be practical to ski each day. Is it worth buying a full weeks area pass, or better to buy local passes for each individual day that we manage to ski? "Greg" wrote in message ... I worked and lived there back in the late 80's / early 90's for about 3 years. I go back there now every year with 10 other friends. We usually go the last week of February. Sunshine is a fantastic place! There's nightly entertainment put on by the ski school guys. They usually turn the lights on Strawberry chair lift for the hotel guests a couple nights of the week...or at least they did when I lived there :-) It's a lot of fun to go night skiing there. They used to do this only for the hotel guests and staff. A favourite event is getting one of the big oval serving trays from the restaurant and going out tobogganing at night. The gondola is the main access from the parking lot to the Village. The gondola stays open late on Friday night till 10:30 so I would advise if you wanted to go into Banff to one of their many restaurants, that would be the night to do that. The town of Banff is about a 15 minute car ride from the parking lot at Sunshine. A taxi will run you about $20 CDN one way. Up at Sunshine, the old log cabin the middle of the village is a great place to relax at night or for après drinks. The rooms are very clean and spacious. You can take a virtual tour of them at www.skibanff.com. Food is on the pricey side but it is excellent! The Eagles Nest dining room is a 5 star experience. The Chimney Corner lounge offers lighter fare like burgers and pasta. Mad Trappers offers much the same. You won't be disappointed with the food at Sunshine! Hope you have a great time!!!! I'm sure you will....and don't listen to anyone who says they'd go insane there for 2 weeks. You're in for a real treat!!! -- Greg Wyld Home - 519.886.6002 Cell - 519.575.1111 "Arsie" wrote in message ... Hi, Staying for two weeks in January at Sunshine Inn at Sunshine Village. Would be great if I had some knowlede on the below items: 1. What standard room is like? 2 Where best to have a room in the hotel 3 Is it expensive for food? 4 Is there much to do at night? one final one for the wife......will she is the Northern Lights!!!! Cheers Arsie |
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On Sun, 4 Jan 2004 20:14:56 -0000, "no-one"
wrote: Greg, I am heading to Banff for a week on 17 Jan, will be first time skiing in Canada and looking forward to it. One thing that is a concern is the cold, I wonder if it will be practical to ski each day. Is it worth buying a full weeks area pass, or better to buy local passes for each individual day that we manage to ski? Don't worry about it too much. Yes, it may well be a LOT colder than you are used to n Europe, but so long as you wear an extra layer or two, and don't leave any skin exposed, you should be OK. I certainly skied every day on my only trip (so far) to that area, even though temperatures for the first 5 days (of a 10 day trip) never got above -20C at the base. The only time I really felt severely cold was on the last day at Sunshine, when temperatures were only -12C, but there was a bit more wind, and I wasn't wearing my thermals. Even then it was only on the chair up Goats Eye mountain that I felt really cold. Do be careful about exposed skin though. One long run I did with a gap of half an inch between my neck warmer and my goggles, my cheeks actually froze. I didn't quite get frostbite, but it was a near thing, and I had hard lumps there for nearly a week afterwards. -- Alex Heney, Global Villager Q: Why do blondes hate M&Ms? A: They're too hard to peel. To reply by email, my address is aDOTjDOTheneyATbtinternetDOTcom |
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Anyone try Whistler this weekend.
I understand it was -27 Celsius at the top with a bit of wind as well. I suspect that it might have felty a bit chilly. I wisely decided to stay at home. |
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