Cheap, but Intolerant
By A Yahoo! Contributor, 11/13/07
Saw the reviews and brought it to the attention to our company ski club. As we were planning a trip in February, I was elected to check out the lodge beforehand. I expected to have a nice mini midweek ski trip. Unfortunately, I received just the opposite. As soon as I walked through the door, the smile vanished off the face of the girl at the check in desk. Unfortunately, this was a harbinger of things to come. For the two nights I stayed there, the staff was ambivalent, inhospitable and tried its best to ignore me during my stay. When I went to relax in the hot tub after skiing, it was suddenly "closed." I was roundly ignored in the dining room for breakfast and when I finaly got someone's attention, I was told that they were out of most of the items and instead had to settle for stale pastries and warm coffee. When a simple request was made for fresh towels, the cleaning lady acted like she was afraid of me and left the towels outside the door without even knocking to let me know they were there. Nobody on the staff smiled in my presence (actually the smiles were dropped as soon as I looked in their direction), or made me feel welcome, even though I was one of only 3 guests in the entire lodge during my stay (early Jan'07, rainy & warm). The only time I did get a smile was upon checkout (relief perhaps?). The hostility I encountered made it feel more like Selma during the '50's rather than a ski trip in Vermont 2007. If you are a person of color, I recommend that you do not stay here unless you enjoy being ignored and treated like a third class citizen.