The new Deer Valley East Village development will be getting yet another new luxury hotel, thanks to a deal that has just been announced…
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East Village will be lame and super far from the core Deer Valley village properties.
Property owners lease the brand name. A specific property can be X now and Y next year. What matters is the quality of the specific property over time and not the brand name
Everyone is hating on the east village but it is one lift and one run from the rest of the mountain. Not all all ‘inconvenient’ if you are actually there to ski and not just be in Park City town / main street
Deer Valley East Village gets very weak snow even in a good snow season. This year it's horrible. Last year, with good snow, it was just slightly better. Turns into a slushie on good days. Great way to overpay for crap skiing or long shuttle drives to the Snow Park Lodge or Silver Lake Lodge. Stein Eriksen/Goldener Hirsch area is best at DV BY FAR.
Note that there is also a Canopy by Hilton in construction at East Village. An additional points property!
its kind of sad to see whats happened to deer valley. its the mountain I grew up on in the late 90s. you used to have so many beautiful open areas of mountain without development. When alterra bought them, what was advertised as "nothing will change" has turned into "everything is changing." Caps on the amount of skiers my ass. the past 5 years ive gone even on non-holiday weekends, the lift lines are out of control. there's condos and mountain homes on every run which have ruined the scenery. the east village, though a cool expansion in theory, gets no snow. all this expansion will create more lift tickets to be available, and these skiers will just clog the better parts of the mountain with more snow. Anymore, the mountain just has a ton of wealthy Floridians or New Yorkers who have never skied but are just there for the "vibes" and are impossible to pass safely on the slopes without their ski instructors yelling at you to slow down. love the food still but sadly its not what it used to be.
Can anyone think of an area with two Waldorf Astoria properties so close to one another? Between this and Park City, that's a lot of WA in a few square miles.
That was my question? It's been around since 2009. To have two WAs next to each other... wild.
This whole DV expansion is a ridiculous real estate play. Who wants to pay $2k a night for "ski in-ski-out" terrain that is way too low cooking in the sun? If you are going to pay those wild prices for new luxury hotels at least go somewhere like Big Sky - Jerry
This area is atleast a decade from being relevant. It’s isolated. Who wants to be limited to eating at hotel restaurants only? There is nowhere to walk and nothing nearby.
I’ll stick with Montage DV and Waldorf PC when I want to ski canyons.
Don't worry, they'll build a CtPa Town next.
(and, plenty of NY and FL folks know how to ski, even if they live in cities or by the beach.)
Oh, Four Seasons won't be the nicest resort in East Village 😉 There's a higher end resort that will be announced soon.
Same question as well! Very interesting. Wondering if the other one will reflag.
What’s the big deal? There are two Waldorfs in central Doha less than a 15 minute drive from each other.
Not sure if more luxury mountain hotel is always a good thing
I love luxury mountain experiences in Europe but in the US they tend to turn into a money grub and nothing too special
Waldorf Astoria is a confusing brand with severely subpar experienced flanked by outstanding ones
This is a glass metal and cement monster punch-in-the face structure to the local environment, built in a spot where lack of snow is chronic.
WA canyons is at least more harmonious to the surroundings even if overpriced and sometimes lackluster when it comes to the offer and its value proposition
WA Canyons will likely transition to a different chain as it will some significant refurb as it has been there since 2009
Other projects in the area just recently opened (yotel) already changed name and owner. Next will be Pendry? Probably since it appears insanely priced fir the offer and dies not get anywhere near full occupancy most of the time
east village is actually a good amount closer to midway/heber city, with how much development is going on in Midway I see the appeal
Daniel M, thank you; I knew there was somewhere else. I recalled the original, WA Doha (West Bay), but had forgotten the new WA Lusail. So, there it is, an actual answer, Doha, Qatar has 2!
And it's quite a trek from the Mayflower location into Park City. If you're paying this much for a Deer Valley trip just stay at the Goldener Hirsch. Or, like other comments have said, The Canyons.
The new east village is just an amazing scar on the mountain with a great view of Jordanelle. The only good thing about it is if you fly your private jet into Heber City, that's close at least