We stayed here for a week as the last leg on our 2 month round the world honeymoon. Symphony is a complex of privately owned apartments with shared hot tub. We stayed in #4 and booked it through allura direct (alluradirect.com/320). They were brilliant and we booked our ski hire & lift tickets through them and got a free 1day lesson each.
The apartments were quite hard to find as there was no sign outside, after a lot of running around we managed to find our room. The door was on a number combination which the apartment owner had emailed us so no check-in required.
The room was wonderful, especially having been on the road for so long staying in different hotels - we had washer, tumble dryer, dishwasher, complete kitchen, big tv with lots of channels & gas fire - it almost felt like home sat in front the tv with pasta dinner watching american version of strictly come dancing!
Our ski hire deal meant we could store our gear next to the gondola station so the 10 min walk didn't matter
Skiing/ snowboarding was fantastic - weather wasn't great but that seems to be normal in BC. Lessons were great and we ended up having lessons 3 days out of 6.
our tips were
- Chicpea restaurant was our favourite on the mountain
- don't bother with vin chaud, go for hot cider instead
- good beers at the Brewhouse
- Supermarkets don't sell booze & bottle shops don't open on sundays
- we stored our skis/snowboard/boots overnight for free but they charged $3 per day to store shoes
- make the most of blue-sky days as they don't come along often!