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The greatest benefit of choosing Vail Ski Vacations to handle your lodging needs is undoubtedly our loyal partnerships with the widest variety of property management companies, hotels, and condo associations in the Vail Valley. We receive the earliest notifications on sales and promotions, and work exclusively with fractional residences, with constant alerts on matters such as availability, future development projects, and new offerings. If you’re in the market for a fractional ownership, make sure you speak with our friendly, knowlegeable local staff to receive unbiased information on all of the properties in Vail. We do not recommend purchasing a property through one, single property management company or hotel, for they are only offering you one option, which may not be the best fit for you at this time. We are locals operating locally, with the sole, abiding objective of making our customers the happiest they can be, and catering their every vacation need.

The featured fractional property of the week is the Vail Mountain View Residences on Gore Creek, one of the premiere destinations in Vail Valley since the winter season of 2006. Perhaps the most dramatically luxurious residential project to emerge prior to the Solaris launch, Mountain View offers spectacular views of the Gore Range, unbeatable opulence, luring elegance, and panoramic views of Vail Mountain and Gore Creek. Vail Mountain View Residences is one of the greatest fractional lodging options, with six luxurious penthouses with cathedral ceilings, 12 three- and four-bedroom condominiums, and 6 pieds-a-terre with walk out terraces. One of the rarest properties at Vail Mountain View Residences is a 3 bedroom, 3 bathroom air conditioned condominium with approximately 1840 square feet, facing the south with gorgeous views of Vail Mountain. This penthouse residence with high coffered ceilings includes one assigned parking spot in the heated, underground garage, a separate storage unit, a pool, and a Jacuzzi!

What visitors to the Valley may not know is that every fractional residence in Vail and Beaver Creek offers a unique ambiance and an authentic experience. The friendly, knowledgeable sales staff at Vail Ski Vacations—having such an intimate knowledge of all the properties in the area—will be able to best help you choose from the plethora of hotels, condo, and rental homes in the area. Vail Ski Vacations is the fractional ownership specialists in the Vail Valley. Our clients come directly to us with every detail of their vacation, and we take that information, and shop the valley for the best possible fit for each client. Unlike a property management company, our third party vacation rental company will supply you with insider, unbiased information to help you make an objective decision on where is the best place to stay in Vail.

If you have a particular property in mind that appeals to you, we can match you up with similar properties, so that you can get a feel of different price ranges, locations, and qualities. Similarly, we can advise you in properties that are unlike your preferred options, narrowing down the alternatives to best fit your needs. Vail Ski Vacations—soon to be Rocky Mountain Vacation Rentals—has thrived in the Vail and Beaver Creek area for the last three years, exploring new heights with highly developed, cutting edge vacation rental online software, progressive thinking, and persistent customer satisfaction. We are committed to marking a sophisticated and innovative milestone in the Vacation Rental Industry, hence our expansion to 6 new markets in the Rocky Mountains by the upcoming winter season!

Nestled between Vail and Beaver Creek and lined with beautiful Victorian homes is the quiet, historical town of Minturn, where locals from both Vail and Beaver Creek, alike, gather with friends and family for Eagle County’s longest-running outdoor market event, The Minturn Farmer’s Market. Over 100 local vendors line the streets and alleys of downtown Minturn, children join together to partake in free, fun activities, and about 45,000 people each summer travel to historic downtown Minturn to enjoy the freshest, organic produce, live bands at two stages, handmade jewelry, authentic home goods and much, much more for 11 consecutive Saturdays between June and September. The Summer Minturn Market started as a small, hidden novelty, but has transformed into a top destination to spend Saturdays in the Rockies for over a decade. Treat your taste buds to authentic meals and preparations like the Alpine Avocado Vinaigrette Salad, Squash-Potato Medley, Great Goji Mango Smoothie, or the famous-to-Minturn, Zucchini Upside-down Cornbread! Presented by the Vail Daily newspaper and the Town of Minturn, the Summer Minturn Market is held on the same day as the Town of Edward’s Farmer’s Market, followed by Vail Valley’s Farmers Market and Art Show on Meadow Drive held every Sunday of the summer, so you can spend an entire weekend enjoying the Bavarian ambiance of quiet mountain towns, delicious Colorado specialties, live music, perfect breezy temperatures, Vail Mountain views, and endless fun with friends and family.

You can enjoy local delicacies like intricate crepes, schnitzel, freshly made breads and pastries, freshly picked organic fruits and vegetables, homemade jams and olive oils, and more, at the Vail Farmer’s Market and Art Show, located in the billion-dollar, newly renovated re-birth of Vail Village. The Vail Farmer’s Market attracts over 100,000 summer visitors each year, traveling to the Rockies to enjoy Music festivals, art exhibits, local Colorado tastes, and beautiful views, and is a reason in itself to spend a week, month, or entire summer enjoying endless outdoor activities and events in the greatest mountain resort in North America.

Call our friendly, knowledgeable local sales agents (970-477-1777) at VAIL SKI VACATIONS (soon to be Rocky Mountain Vacation Rentals) to let us plan every detail of the perfect Colorado vacation, or visit www.vailskivacations.com to browse the most extensive and comprehensive look at lodging alternatives in Vail. We are a third-party vacation rental company that works with the widest variety of privately-owned homes, property management companies, hotels, and condo associations in Vail and Beaver Creek, along with the finest, world-class concierges to meet your every vacation need. Whether you’re in the market for a fractional investment, or just looking for a budget-friendly weekend getaway, Vail Ski Vacations will meet the every need of our widespread clientele! Pet-friendly lodging? No problem. 8-bedroom slope-side chateaux? Just tell us when. The local, inside-scoops on promos and summer discounts? Come to us. There’s no task to grand for our local specialists at Vail Ski Vacations, and our greatest joy is giving you the perfect vacation—everything from the perfect lodging, dining reservations, rafting tours, Nature hikes, and more. Your wish is our command.

Waking up early in the morning for a job that you aren’t psyched about the night before is never a good thing. You should love the people you work with, and you should love the actual work. And I can safely say that I love my job. If this were doodles on a page rather than content for a blog it would just be “Vail Ski Vacations” written all over the place with a bunch of hearts and smiley faces. I digress, but it’s still a fairly accurate comparison. I work 45 hours a week as an intern at Vail Ski Vacations.com, and I work for free. This is my first summer in Vail, and hopefully not the last. So taking this job wasn’t just a random, spontaneous action. I knew that it was a career move, in which I would hopefully build professional relationships with people that would want to work with me in the future, eventually, after I graduate from CU and move two hours west to the beautiful, wholesome, revitalizing town I call Vail, Colorado.

I moved here for the excitement of what’s to come after I graduate, when I’m on my own, nothing holding me down except the personal barriers I set for myself, of which I hope to have very little. Before I got the job, though, I thought about the possible options for my summer plans. Leaving all of the impractical equations aside, I came up with two feasible choices (for which my parents wouldn’t absolutely disinherit me). They were: Moving to Vail and getting a bartending/serving job that would pay fairly well, or moving to Vail and accepting the competitive internship position, here at Vail Ski Vacations, but earning not one dime all summer. Though the former option would allow me more pocket cash for concerts, bar-hopping, overnight trips to Aspen, etc, it didn’t take me long to choose the latter. While strumming my fingers across the cup of tea I was holding in my cozy Boulder living room, I began to think about why I’m in college to begin with. Yea, yea, my parents always drilled it into my head that once I graduated from high school I would invariably head to college. Both parents went to Ivy Leagues, my four older brothers were at great schools…really, everyone I knew had been, or was going, to college. To be completely (and embarrassingly) honest, before I got to college, I had no idea that only about one quarter of the American population ever graduates from an undergraduate institution. I brushed that first motive aside, knowing in my heart that just because my parents engrained college into my brain my whole life, it wasn’t the reason I was there, making the effort, doing the work, living the “college life”. After all, I’ve never been one to take the paved roads to get to where I’m going. I walk down a new road, at my own pace, making unprompted stops along the way.

Ultimately, I moved to Boulder because of an intrinsic urge to prepare myself for the future, to ensure that I am the best “Connie” I can be. Now that does not exclude room to grow and learn in other various chapters of my life, including, even, my eventual inclination to be a “ski bum” so to speak, spending the majority of a year or two (or three?) outdoors in the wild. College, alone, will not make me the best I can be, and of that I’m sure. But had I not gone to college, (and same applies to this internship—had I just become a bartender for the summer), I would be selling myself short. I would be assuming that I never have to put myself in situations that are out of my comfort zone, but from which I will learn, not just about myself, but about life, other people, other ways of the world I wasn’t formerly accustomed to. If you do the same things and hang out with the same people day after day, year after year, how are you putting yourself in a position to grow? To become whole ? In my opinion, you don’t know what you have until you don’t have it anymore, and you can’t appreciate your life without seeing another side of it. It’s the existential outlook on life—or the Batman outlook, whichever metaphor you prefer—you are what you do, not who you say you are, or how you feel. It is one’s actions that define who one is.

So I gladly accepted the internship position, and it is probably the best decision I’ve ever made. Why? Because it was solely mine. It was off the rocker, nowhere in sight to what my parents, brothers, or friends expected me to do, but it was a position I worked hard for, and earned on my own. No way was I giving something like that up. I spoke to James Bengala on the phone for my first interview, and I loved him right away because he totally got me. Though I was only an English major, with no real estate or marketing experience on my resume, and only waitressing jobs to speak of, I had the drive, the passion, the intellect, and most importantly, the enthusiasm. I wasn’t some burnt out, over-worked sales associate with a “been there, don’t that” attitude. I was ready and eager to learn from the best in the vacation rental industry, and to work my way from the ground up. I didn’t mind starting as an unpaid intern because what else can I expect entering a brand new career field, of which I have no background or experience?

In only the month I’ve been here, I’ve learned that limits to what I can achieve are simply out of the equation. I can do anything I put my mind to. I can sit in front of a computer screen for 6 hours and write thousands of words of content for our expanding websites. I can enter an office not knowing anything about the people I’m working for and how they do what they do, but figure it out by the end of the week, only to walk into the office the following Monday morning feeling cool, calm, and collected. I can come up with an idea about the future development of the corporation and take full ownership for it, knowing that just one month ago, I had only far-off aspirations of how my summer job would unfold. And lastly, I can feel genuinely involved, partly responsible, even, for the progress of the company and for the working relationships within the company. We are a family, and I am the “sister” link. I’m so happy to call Vail Ski Vacations my home for summer, and I’m eager to see what unpaved roads this chapter in my life will lead to. What’s most important—I won’t know where I’ll be until I’m already there.