This is the second time we have stayed at the Mountain Chalet snowmass. Our first time was a great experience, but after this trip we will never be back.
The ski in, ski out location is the only great thing about this place.
The rooms are run down and have mold on walls and in showers and strong chemical smells to them. The pool / hot tub is under construction, we were sent to another property anytime we wanted to use that amenity. This wouldn't have been too bad, except for the fact that they did not have robes we could use to walk through the snowy air to get to the other property - they were always "in laundry."
The sauna is very clearly not up to code standards, it gets so hot that even trying to open the door will physically burn your skin. There's equipment falling out of the roof attached to the sauna and mold growing around it.
We paid for two rooms and on one we paid an additional fee for an "upgraded room." When we arrived the upgraded room was actually in no way upgraded from the second room. In fact it appeared smaller, older and dirtier. When the manager was asked, they explained the reason it was considered upgraded was because of the newer furniture. The television did not work in the room and when we called and asked for them to look at it, they basically made it our problem to figure out antennas. In the evening of the second night our 150 pound girlfriend laid down on the bed and the entire thing collapsed to the ground. Broken boards splintered all over the room, someone could have been severely injured. When discussed with the manager we received no apology, just an offer to pack up our stuff and move rooms in the middle of the night. We refused to pack in the middle of the night so the next morning we spent over an hour getting all our stuff back packed to move rooms - which was a massive inconvenience given all our ski gear and took away from the cost we had paid to be on the mountain.
The next day when we chatted with the manager we asked if he would be willing to all the issues we've had and his response was "I guess." We explained our problems and his response was again incredibly rude and full of excuses - he even made it a point to tell us they nailed the bed back together that fell with our friend as if it somehow invalidated what happened to us. We eventually got him to agree to remove the upgrade fee and he gave us 10% discount on one room - which is hardly worth all the hassle and rude demeanor we received. Frankly for what we had to ensure we should have had half our stay comped at min.
When chatting with the manager we asked for a late checkout on the last night. He agreed but asked us to call the morning of, we called 4 times down to the office from 9:30-10:00. No answer and voicemail all full. As we were getting ready and packing up around 11:30, he came down to our room and aggressively told us he never agreed to a late checkout and "we never called." That we had 30 min to be out of our room or we would be charged again.
We rushed, got down to the front desk and when we explained to him that we had discussed the late checkout the night before and called to no answer all morning he called us "liars".
This place needs a complete overall haul. It needs to be completely renovated starting with the people that are hired to communicate with the guests.
The only individual we spoke with the entire time that was not condescending or rude was John.
Take your money elsewhere, the ski in/ out location is not worth the danger, dirtiness and rudeness of this location.