Colorado Review

Here’s a great package I read about on Travelzoo’s weekly list of Top 20 deals: you can stay at the Grand Lodge Hotel in Crested Butte for just $49 per person per night AND ski for free at Crested Butte Mountain Resort from November 25 to December 15.

This three-diamond hotel with 226 guest rooms and suites is within walking distance of the ski slopes. It’s a newly renovated hotel with a fitness center, year-round indoor/outdoor pool, and ski and snowboard rentals. The on-site Wildflower Spa offers massages, herbal wraps, body polishes, facials and more. (Nice way to treat yourself after a day on the slopes!) Three different dining options include the Woodstone Grill, Deli and Lounge.

The town of Crested Butte is one of the state’s largest National Historic Districts. It was originally settled in the 1880s as a mining camp. The Grand Lodge Hotel is about three miles away at the base of the ski hill in Mt. Crested Butte. Free shuttle service whisks guests to and from downtown.

Crested Butte is in the southwest corner of the state, in the Gunnison National Forest and the Elk Range of the Rockies. The nearest airport is the Gunnison/Crested Butte Airport, about 30 miles away. Or you can fly into Montrose, which is nearly 100 miles away. Kids can fly for free on United and American to Crested Butte. Read about the details here.

Too book the $49/night rate (per person), you’ll have to move quickly. The deal ends October 19. Book online here.
Or call 877-326-1468 and say you want to book the SKIFREE package.

Crested Butte

Here’s a good deal for folks who live in the Dallas area and who enjoy skiing at Crested Butte. Not only can kids fly for free from DFW to the Gunnison-Crested Butte Regional Airport, but they basically stay for free, too, in a two-bedroom condominium with their parents. Here are the packages:

American Airlines
Packages are based on two adults and two children (ages 12 and under) and include four nights lodging in a two-bedroom condominium in Mt. Crested Butte, three days of lift tickets for Crested Butte Mountain Resort, roundtrip airfare from Dallas-Ft. Worth and roundtrip ground transportation per person from the Gunnison-Crested Butte Regional Airport. Other lodging options are available. Valid dates of travel are Jan. 6–Feb. 15, 2008. Cost starts at $2,050 per family. Packages featuring flights originating from other cities also are available.

United Airlines
Unplug and recharge with a United Airlines’ “Kids Fly & Stay Free� package starting at $1,807 for the entire family, based on two adults and two children (ages 12 and under). The package includes four nights lodging in a two-bedroom condominium in Mt. Crested Butte, three days of lift tickets for Crested Butte Mountain Resort, roundtrip airfare from Dallas-Ft. Worth and roundtrip ground transportation per person from the Gunnison-Crested Butte Regional Airport. Other lodging options are available. Valid dates of travel are Nov. 28–Dec. 13, 2007 and Jan. 4–Feb. 14, 2008. Cost starts at $1,807 per family. Packages featuring flights originating from other cities also are available.

Book “Kids Fly & Stay Free!� ski vacations through Crested Butte Vacations, (877) 326-1467 or www.GunnisonCrestedButte.com by clicking on “Stay & Play Deals.�

Crested Butte, Colorado