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February 24, 2024
Having never been to Sun Valley, I was curious as to how the town and resort would stack up to the many other mountain destinations our family has traveled in other states such as Wyoming, Colorado and Utah. In short, we were pleasantly surprised as to how much we enjoyed the town and the Sun Valley Resort. The town is quaint and laid back and the resort, set about a mile off the down town area, is very subdued and low key, in a good way. We learned that the founders of SVR intentionally put limitations in place to avoid over building of the area. What forward thinking vision when compared to other over crowded ski towns. We stayed in the original Sun Valley Resort. The resort/hotel is meticulously clean. The staff is friendly and helpful. The resort hotel is the centerpiece of a preplanned walkable “village” that surrounds the resort hotel. This village is charming and accessible. There are numerous dining venues in the resort hotel and in the village. We ate at several, including the Ram, Konditorei, Gretchen’s and the chocolate shop. They were all outstanding with the Ram being our favorite. (Book a table ahead). We booked a celebrity suite. The website leaves much to be desired when booking, as it doesn’t allow you to pick which suite and leaves out important details. When we arrived, we were assigned the “Marilyn Monroe” suite. I’d submitted their pre-arrival form requesting a quiet room that did not have a connected door. Well, I guess the hotel management doesn’t read these forms they send, as our suite had a connected door. That said, the front desk manager was very helpful and arranged a swap to another suite, the “Averell Harriman”. This suite did not share a connected door. The suite was well positioned in the building, having a third floor view of both Bald Mountain, Dollar Mountain and the ice rink. The bedroom is situated in a way where the wall abuts a stairwell so there was no noise. The room consisted of two separate sitting areas, a fire glaze, coffee bar, two closets, bedroom and bathroom with deep soaking tub and shower. The room is very well decorated and comfortable. There are three separate verandas off of the sitting room. The room, named after the founder of SV, has numerous photos and information about Mr. Harriman. We thoroughly enjoyed the room and found it to be quiet. The only down side to our stay was the logistics of skiing. Both ski mountains are separate from the hotel. The hotel is NOT ski in ski out. There are NO ski support services at or in the hotel. The major issues is getting to and on the mountain. The hotel will NOT drive you to the mountain nor pick you up. Seriously! They stuff you off on the public transportation system. We had a rented car and drove our selves one day. It was a disaster, as there was hardly any parking and we needed up having the trudge through a muddy parking lot about a mile from the slopes lugging our ski equipment at Bald mountain and then at Dollar it took over 30 minu