Colorado Review

You’ve gotta love Travelzoo. I certainly click on its Top 20 email as soon as it lands in my in box. Even if I’m not planning on traveling anywhere anytime soon, I do like browsing the specials the staff has turned up — which could be anything from great cruise deals to cheap flights to incredible all-inclusive vacations at rock-bottom prices.

Again this week, there’s a deal at a Colorado hotel. This time it’s the Holiday Inn Summit County Frisco. Through December 24 you can stay at this three-diamond, centrally located hotel for just $59/night.

Don’t expect fancy accommodations. But if you’re in Summit County for skiing the fresh champagne powder, you won’t have the energy to do much at night anyway before pass out in a comfortable bed!

The Holiday Inn Summit County-Frisco is in downtown Frisco, 80 miles west of Denver and just off I-70. It’s close to Breckenridge, Keystone, Arapahoe Basin and Copper Mountain ski areas. It’s got a nifty indoor “holidome” with an indoor pool, two hot tubs (nice for soaking weary muscles after a day on the slopes), sauna and arcade room. The hotel is pet friendly.

To book the $59/night special, which also includes a $10 food and beverage credit at the hotel’s restaurant and lounge, call 970-668-5000 and use the code TRL. The only blackout dates are November 22-24.

Here’s another deal I first heard about on Travelzoo’s Top 20 list. It’s for a Crested Butte lodge.

There’s already glorious snow in the high country. So don’t delay and get up here to the mountains!

Travelzoo, Colorado, Frisco, Breckenridge

Continuing on the brew theme, my family and I were shopping the outlets in Silverthorne yesterday (nothing like waiting til the last minute to buy school clothes), and ate lunch at the Dillon Dam Brewery. I love this place.

Free Wi-Fi, kids’ menu, pool tables and video games are much appreciated. It’s a working brewery, so there’s a little self-guided tour you can take past the vats and “mill room” and such (you can’t miss the scent of hops, yeast and barley). The American menu includes burgers, sandwiches (”sammies”), salads, pastas, ribs, fish ‘n’ chips and more.

I had the yummy Tuscan Wrap (fresh grilled chicken, balsamic-roasted eggplant, tomatoes, red onions, red peppers, cilantro pesto and jack cheese all tossed together and wrapped in a red chile tortilla; dipped in Sundried Tomato Vinaigrette) and a chile-infused beer (it must be a seasonal brew; I don’t see it on the online menu).

The Dam Brewery is a cool place to stop with the kids for a break from shopping or if you’re passing through to or from the ski slopes along I-70.

On Little Dam Street across from Christy Sports in Dillon. Get directions here.