Spring Break Skiing -- Need Recommendation

[tim Senior Member Find all posts View Profile Close tim]

Can someone please recommend some very nice RCI resorts in a great ski area to take the family for Spring Break skiing (last week in March). Either Utah or Colorado would work for us. The ski area should accommodate kids (ages 8-13) and have good ski schools. I want to try and exchange into a decent resort for skiing. Thanks. Tim

[Glitter Brunello Super Moderator Find all posts View Profile Close Glitter Brunello]

Park City and the Canyons both have great ski schools. Deer Valley is supposed to be great but we have boarders in our group so can't go there (skiers only). Best resorts in the RCI directory look like Grand Summit at the Canyons and Miners Club at the Canyons, but I have never seen ski weeks online at these. Park Plaza is nice, not ski-in/ski-out, but they have a shuttle to Park City and Deer Valley (not the Canyons, though). Park Regency is easier to trade into, reviews aren't as good but it's also on the shuttle line. There are Extra Vacations available at Park Plaza for spring weeks. You might also consider North Lake Tahoe; Squaw Valley is supposed to be great. Hopefully someone else can help with Colorado.

[Dave_H Junior Member Find all posts View Profile Close Dave_H]

You asked this question on TUG as well. Here my response there: http://www.tugbbs.com/forums/showthr...773#post141773

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While on the topic of skiing out in the Rockies...

I am an East Coast Ice Skiier and I don't know how to ski powder if my life depended on it.... (perhaps it could have a lot to do with my carving skis). I am curious about grooming at these various resorts you all have listed as well...

My daughter (she is 8) is doing great (ready to ski diamonds at Killington) while my Son (age 5) is not capable of standing on skis at all, and our youngest daughter (she is 2) is a few years out...

So, I have time but I am interested in a ski week to try some of the really big mountains once we get all three of them on skis...

We just don't get to play with deep powder here and when we get it I tend to hate it (again likely because I have the wrong skis). Perhaps I need to buy some all mountain or real powder skis as my current skis are 184 carving skis and they do work great on the ice but in more then a few inches of powder they want to submarine under the snow and twist me around.... just no float... then again, perhaps if I lost 50-lbs that might help too.

[Dave_H Junior Member Find all posts View Profile Close Dave_H]

Many of the resorts have grooming reports available. Look around in the base area for an information person or ask at the ticket booth. The ones that I have definitely seen grooming reports are Vail, Beaver Creek, Breckenridge, Keystone, Steamboat. They will typically show you which runs have been groomed recently. If you prefer corduroy (that's what the ski mags call it), Beaver Creek it probably best known for it. The expert runs are generally not groomed and are covered with moguls. Unless it is a big dump, the powder is typically packed down by skiers fairly quickly. You have to hit the slopes early to ski the "freshies" on lighter snow days.

[travelguy Junior Member Find all posts View Profile Close travelguy]

Groomed Ski Runs

Many of the resorts in Colorado (Vail, Keystone, Beaver Creek, etc.) have their grooming reports on the net. We typically log in to the grooming report first thing in the morning and plan our daily ski runs over breakfast!

Beaver Creek has won several World Class awards for it's grooming. You will not have any trouble finding groomed runs on any day, even when's it's snowing a foot a day!

[jjking42 Member Find all posts View Profile Close jjking42]

Can someone please recommend some very nice RCI resorts in a great ski area to take the family for Spring Break skiing (last week in March). Either Utah or Colorado would work for us. The ski area should accommodate kids (ages 8-13) and have good ski schools. I want to try and exchange into a decent resort for skiing. Thanks. Tim

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This is whats in rci
I would take cliff club or iron blossom



The following 7 Resorts have availability during your requested time frame.


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Resort Name Resort ID Location Max Occ Check-in Date Range
Iron Blosam Lodge-Snowbird

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0044
Snowbird, UT, USA
4/2
03/31/2007 - 03/31/2007

Sweetwater at Park City Lift Lod

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0095
Park City, UT, USA
6/4
03/23/2007 - 03/30/2007

Circle J Club at Jeremy Ranch

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0781
Park City, UT, USA
6/6
03/31/2007 - 03/31/2007

Park Hotel Condominiums

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0811
Park City, UT, USA
4/2
03/24/2007 - 03/24/2007

The Park Regency

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2489
Park City, UT, USA
4/2
03/17/2007 - 03/31/2007

The Cliff Club at Snowbird

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4068
Snowbird, UT, USA
4/2
03/30/2007 - 03/31/2007

Skiers Lodge
5099
Park City, UT, USA
4/2
03/09/2007 - 03/30/2007

[jjking42 Member Find all posts View Profile Close jjking42]

Can someone please recommend some very nice RCI resorts in a great ski area to take the family for Spring Break skiing (last week in March). Either Utah or Colorado would work for us. The ski area should accommodate kids (ages 8-13) and have good ski schools. I want to try and exchange into a decent resort for skiing. Thanks. Tim

here are your choices in colorado


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The following 15 Resorts have availability during your requested time frame.


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Resort Name Resort ID Location Max Occ Check-in Date Range
Vail Run Resort

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0005
Vail, CO, USA
6/2
03/31/2007 - 03/31/2007

The Wren

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0054
Vail, CO, USA
2/2
03/24/2007 - 03/24/2007

Vantage Point
0086
Vail, CO, USA
4/4
03/31/2007 - 03/31/2007

The Pines at Meadow Ridge

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0768
Winter Park, CO, USA
6/4
03/02/2007 - 03/30/2007

The Christie Lodge

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0867
Avon, CO, USA
4/2
03/03/2007 - 03/10/2007

Fairfield Pagosa

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0948
Pagosa Springs, CO, USA
8/4
03/02/2007 - 03/31/2007

Indian Peaks

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1126
Winter Park, CO, USA
6/6
03/02/2007 - 03/30/2007

The Mountainside at SilverCreek

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1325
SilverCreek, CO, USA
7/4
03/03/2007 - 03/31/2007

Golden Eagle Resort
1617
Estes Park, CO, USA
4/2
03/03/2007 - 03/24/2007

Orofino by Straight Creek

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1778
Dillon, CO, USA
8/6
03/03/2007 - 03/17/2007

Village Square at Copper Mountai
1869
Copper Mountain, CO, USA
2/2
03/09/2007 - 03/09/2007

Rams Horn Village Resort

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2327
Estes Park, CO, USA
6/6
03/02/2007 - 03/31/2007

Inn at SilverCreek
2349
Silvercreek, CO, USA
6/2
03/10/2007 - 03/17/2007

Skier's Edge
5078
Breckenridge, CO, USA
2/2
03/16/2007 - 03/30/2007

WIVC The Inn at SilverCreek
6679
SilverCreek, CO, USA
4/4
03/03/2007 - 03/03/2007

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Lake Tahoe - Spring Break Skiing

How are the ski resorts - North and South Lake Tahoe for the Spring Break Time for Skiing?