Charlie from the management company did a very good job meeting us and helping with the parking garage. The garage is extremely hard to use. The ramps are narrow--finding your car takes great skill.
The condo feels like a Marriott Residence Inn suite. We had three bedrooms, a kitchen and one common living area. Feels like no one has ever taken the time to actualy live in the unit and therefore it feels completely institutional. For example. When you arrive, there is a long hallway leading into the unit. As someone who will be coming and going in ski boots, this is a logical place for a bench and lots of hooks. But you will find neither. For us, there was so much powder snow, we came back covered in the fantastic light fluffy stuff but left so much of it all over the unit due to the lack of a good spot for leaving our boots.
There is not a single hook for drying ski gear anywhere in the unit. It's like it was set up for urban dwellers living in Manhattan. The unit also lacks a boot dryer or organizer for helmets. You get the point, no ski family of 6 charged with making the unit ideal for a ski experience has ever stayed here for a weekend to make these obvious improvements.
The lighting in the unit is too bright. The LED bulbs are an excellent idea but a simple change of picking a better color for these lights would make the entire unit feel warmer.
The fridge is very hard to keep closed. And although there is an option for a warning bell, it doesn't seem to be working. We had numerous times when the fridge was left open.
The kitchen is poorly laid out with obvious ways to improve this. We created our own trash station at the end of the island because open both doors below the sink to access the trash was a silly spot. Again, just one person from ABL, the management, living as a ski family who is skiing and cooking for a weekend would solve so much of this. We recommend buying a divided metal trash unit for the end of the island--one for recycling and one for trash. We were happy to find that the complex offers recycling. We found it hard to implement that in the kitchen.
There are many other nice touches we found in recent ski condo rentals in Steamboat and Beaver Creek missing here---like adding nightlights in the bathrooms and kitchen. A few nice and updated board games. Maybe some paper books to read.
Overall a nice stay but not a great ski condo.