December 28th not a lot of choices for last minute bookings. We were at the delta and wanted to extend our trip. I used whistler.com and got a rate of $330.00 per night at the bear lodge. Spacious 1 bedroom very clean and an excellent location right near carumba...garfinkles. It's really not a hotel experience as these are private condos. Downside is that the hot tub is in the next building. I also just found out there is no housekeeping during our stay. I'd still recommend this place as the rooms are large clean and central. Most one bedrooms are between 350 and 500 per night this week.

The prior reviewer did such a good job expressing my sentiments, I am not even going to try to outdo him/her. I am currently staying in Bear Lodge. If it wasn't for some epic (and pre-paid) skiing, I would blow the hell out of here in a heartbeat. I am in a unit right across from the nightclub mentioned in the prior review. Woke up last night to the gaggle of 20-somethings yelling and screaming...then fighting. Finally got quiet at 3AM when one guy was out cold in the street. DO NOT...I repeat...DO NOT stay here. Spend a few bucks more to get a nice place....The Pinnacle looks nice, btw!

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I stayed in Bear Lodge, the blue building, on the second floor overlooking the village stroll in December of 2010.

Garfinkle's nightclub was right across the stroll, a stone's throw from my balcony. Forget sleeping! A minimum six nights a week from about 10 p.m. until 2:30 a.m. you are subjected to super-loud club music pumping out of the wide open front door, and large gatherings of young riff-raff screaming, shouting, singing, fighting, hollering, cursing and even fighting, as the hour gets later. If you are serious about skiing and need to get up early to head for the lifts, staying in Bear Lodge will absolutely ruin your vacation, as it did mine. I was actually shocked by the fact the Whistler town council must comprise mostly morons. With their zoning laws, and the fact that the police are not interested in doing anything with these people, it clearly indicates to the public at the large and the tourist spending his hard earned dollars that they are more interested in catering to young riff-raff than the people who are clearly supporting Whistler financially. I seriously doubt that it is the young, obnoxious riff-raff on the street every night who are renting all the pricey condos in Whistler and eating in the high end restaurants of Whistler. I have stayed in many great ski resorts in both Canada and the U.S., and have not experienced any place that is as disgusting as staying on the village stroll in Whistler. In fact, in comparable resorts in the U.S. I have seen signs that made it clear that you had better shut your hole after a certain hour or you'd be hit with a $500 fine. The powers that be in Whistler should be ashamed of themselves for promoting Whistler as a low-grade sewer, rather than a premier, world-class ski resort.

I am not lazy, but walking to the lift was pretty far. It took about ten minutes if you really hoofed it, but with all your gear that 10 minutes is painful. I started wearing my shoes to the lifts and carrying my boots and paying for storage for my gear. To make it worse, after your feet are wrecked and killing you from walking back to the condo, you get there and the card keys for the front door do not work! This happened again and again, and there were constantly guests standing around hoping that someone else would come along with a key the worked. Then, in your wrecked feet, you had to walk to a different building where the front desk was to get a new key card, and of course, leave your skis sitting on the sidewalk to be stolen. The desk people kept advising that we should not carry our keys near as credit card or cell phone, but I was doing neither of these things, and neither were some of the other guests that I spoke to. My whole experience in this condo was just a bleeding nightmare.

Garbage is far away and hard to find in some kind of underground maze. Also, the front desk had been told to accept my skis from FedEx before I got their. They had a note on my booking, and FedEx was given my unit number and all necessary info; however, when FedEx showed up, apparently the incompetents on the fronts desks said, "We don't know anyone by that name," and my skis went back to Vancouver!

Some people mention the good points of the condos as being that they have full kitchens and washer and dryer. Yes, they do, but I would hardly call that a "pro" point; that is what I paid for, that is what I was told I was getting, and neither of those things are hard to get in Whistler. What was greatly disturbing, and what ruined my vacation were the things I was not told that I was getting: the abominable noise, the dysfunctional key cards, and a walk that is longer than advertised.

I would recommend this condo only to low-life, poor, party animal, young people.

Pros: good location (Eagle), good kitchen with lots of glasses, pans and big refrigerator, very good lay out for 2 bedrooms (one with queen size bed, the other with two single beds), 2 bathrooms. Cons: terrible service, ask at the check in where the parking is located because it is very difficult to get there and the map they give you is totally useless and the lady at the front desk is not friendly at all. Housekeeping is terrible, no top sheet in one of the beds (it took me 3 phone calls to get it!), not very clean, fireplace doesn't work, faucett at the sink of the kitchenette doesn't work, no TV on main room, outdated decoration. Last time I went to the Delta and is FAR FAR better!