Background
- We stayed in early summer
- Two adults, three kids
- First time to Vail
The location
- About a five-minute drive to Vail City center - not inconvenient to us
- Local Joe's Pizza / Bar right across the street - good pizza and drinks!
- City Market, Krogers and gas stations about four minutes away
- Third floor, no direct elevator access (you still have to go up or down a half-flight of stairs if you use the elevator)
- Adjacent to a stream that provides excellent background / white noise
- Partially faces the mountains / gondola that are across the freeway. Great views!
Avantstay
- Among the best service we have received
- Extremely quick to answer emails / texts
- Soon after we booked, they sent an email asking us for a little information about us and our trip. They had a welcome kit that specifically incorporated elements of our response - and I'm not talking a $5.00 gift basket either!
- Hand-written welcome note.
- Book with Avantstay and you'll be taken care of
The place / condo
- Older but still very functional
- Kitchen is small but has everything you need (utensils, pots, pans, coffee maker, blender, Tupperware, etc)
- Oddly, some of the apartment slants. Barely noticeable which makes it kind of funny.
- It has an office space! But that office space has NO outlets.
- No air conditioning (again, we stayed in the summer), but Avantstay provides multiple, portable, easy-to-use AC units that help.
- Balcony offers great views, a gas grill, some chairs and a table for hanging out. The stream is a bit noisy but we enjoyed it.
- Some interior doors have locks; others don't. Master bedroom and bathroom have no locks. Main floor guest room does. (Don't worry - the main entrance door and sliding door have good locks).
- Pool and hot tubs are small and old, but get the job done.
- Exercise room is a 3 out of 10, but it has one!
- One TV in the entire place - above the fireplace in the living room. No rooms have TVs. At first this bothered me. By the end, I appreciated it - it kept us together.
- Parking was never an issue (we had a minivan). I noticed some extra long parking spaces in case you were towing something.
- Rooms were clean.
- We always felt safe and comfortable.
Overall
- Thanks to the value and to Avantstay's excellent service, I will stay again!