After staying at the Sheraton Wall Center, I thought I would be spoiled for the rest of the trip. That's until we checked into the Pan Pacific, an all-suites hotel that looks more like a lodge than a hotel. Even during the summer, you get that warm feeling of going back into your cozy mountain lodge. We landed a studio for C$110, but that was in 1999. I checked the price for the summer of 2005, and it's at US$106. Not bad! The hotel also has one-and two-bedroom suites.
The studio was roomy and classy with a nice living room, a balcony (overlooking the pool and the mountain), a fully equipped kitchenette (which blew my mind because I’ve never seen that before, it was my first trip in North America), a four-person dining room table, a sofa-bed, and, the neatest of all - a queen-size Murphy bed. Now, where else would you find that in a hotel? But you realize you're in a high-end hotel when you check out the goodies in the bathroom - Aveda products!!! And the nice touch - lip blam, always useful after a day in the mountains regardless of the season. The hotel also has a pool and a hot-tub that I personally tested (strangely, it was deserted despite the beautiful weather).
Now, I wish I could, after a day spent "shushing" down the slopes in the winter, go back to my beautiful studio!