While you won’t be able to redeem points for stays here, there’s a pretty cool new luxury hotel opening in the United States at the end of the year, which I think is worth highlighting.
Continue reading: Stunning: Montage Big Sky Opens December 2021
Share your questions, experiences, and thoughts below.
Big Sky is one of my very favorite resorts. It's worth noting that this property does not appear to be ski-in/ski-out. I'm sure there's a complimentary shuttle to the resort base but if the location on Google Maps is correct, you won't be able to be able to hit the slopes from your back porch.
First thought it was a typo and should read "Montagne"...
Montage? Go figure...
Definitely NOT a ski in - ski out. I wonder why the Montage is using that description? Unless they expect people to ski the golf coarse. It's almost 1/2 a mile to the nearest lift.
I stayed at the Laguna Beach location for a conference. Honestly I wasn't impressed. Felt a bit "mcluxury" to me. Hopefully this one is better.
That applies to some of the residences, not the resort itself. I agree, it is a bit unclear in the description.
Montage properties are fantastic and I feel like they fly a bit under the radar compared to the other big names out there. They have the ski background with Deer Valley. For those commenting on the ski-in/ski-out access, I believe it's only in reference to some of their residences and not the resort itself.
This is a great addition for an incredible mountain that hasn't really had "luxury" before.
That's more expensive than Amangani/Jackson Hole in December. Let's allow that to sink in.
It looks to be near (maybe a replacement for?) the Spanish Peaks resort. That did have a private lift available on the back side of Andesite Mountain so maybe this place can take advantage of that. I have skied by the base of that lift but never went up to see what was around there.
I just hope it doesn't bring too many more people. One of my favorite parts of Big Sky is that if there are 2 chairs' worth of people ahead of you in the lift line, that's an actual "line".
I don't think that's a good comparison because Amangani is not a ski resort. I definitely would not want to stay there in the winter; would much rather be at the FS or Caldera House right near the mountain. I'd compare those rates to this. As Ben mentioned, these could be inflated as well due to initial demand. The hotel appears to be completely sold out the first few months.
A very fair critique. Amangani is not on a mountain, though it offers on-demand transportation to the mountain. But you're right. The others are moreso apples to apples.
I ski at Big Sky regularly. The Montage is being built at the Spanish Peaks club, which is a private mountain living community. The lift and runs that end at Spanish Peaks are operated by Big Sky and allow access to the larger resort. To get to the main Big Sky base area from Montage/Spanish Peaks base, you would take the Lewis and Clark lift up, then ski down to the base of Sacajawea lift, which takes you to the top of Andesite mountain, then ski down to the main resort base village. It’s ski in and ski out but takes some work to get to the main resort base.
While this might be the only “luxury” hotel, there are several very very nice condo-hotels, the Shoshone, Snowcrest Lodge,etc. that are probably a fraction of the price but great places to stay that are also better located.
You must not have been to Big Sky for a while, the days of no lift lines are already long gone
With only a half-dozen properties, Hyatt should buy them. These would fit with Park Hyatt Beaver Creek and allow us more premium venues to use our Hyatt points at.
Yeah it's been about 4 years. Our club would normally have been back for 2022 but we failed to anticipate the pent up demand and by the time we started booking trips there was no space available in our group's price range. But I think we'll be back in 2023.
Loved staying at The Summit but they've now raised their prices too much so we just stayed at the Huntley last time. At least it's still ski-in/ski-out.