Silverado II, Colorado
The following is my review on another site...by far the worst we have experienced:
Sep 16, 2007, 9:06 PM
Silverado II, the good the bad and the ugly. We just returned from Silverado II, located in Winter Park, Colorado. The unit we swapped through RCI was a 2 bedroom, 2 bath condo with a fully equipped kitchen and living room with a table for 6, and an island counter with 2 stools.
The good is that the complex has wifi internet service, which helped us keep up with email to family and friends. Nothing like coming home to an email account loaded with a couple of hundred messages. Since there were only the 2 of us, we each had a bathroom, clean with plenty of towels and toiletries. The location of the complex is about a quarter mile from the main street, where there were a number of decent restaurants for dinner. Nothing is close in Colorado, especially in the mountains. But in 40 minutes, we could travel to Grand Lake and Rocky Mountain National Park. In the other direction, over the pass, we could travel to the ski resort towns of Keystone, Breckenridge and Vail.
The bad was the condition of the unit’s rugs. They were dirty and heavily stained, in need of a deep cleaning, better yet replacement, as they and the bedding were very old and nasty. Speaking of nasty, when we went to bed the first night, we found hairs, not ours, on the sheets, a gross out to be sure. The whole decor is very 70’s, dark stained pine moldings, doors and cabinets. Sleeping late would be a problem, as the vertical blinds were not room darkening, and no blackout curtains like you find in most hotels and condos.
The ugly was the condition of the common areas. The roofs were leaking badly from a heavy rain(s) when we got there, and there were buckets and pails all over, catching dripping water. The whole week, workers were just outside our windows and patio doors redoing the roofing. We had the blinds shut the whole week.But at least that should be corrected soon. In the middle of the night, we felt like we were in the movie, My Cousin Vinny, when train whistles would blare, and right outside the complex, these long coal freight trains would come barreling through on their way up the grade through the tunnel that crosses the continental divide. The trains had locomotives in the front, middle and back, and also came through during the day, pretty cool, but not at 2 AM.
All in all, Silverado II, good location, but some serious shortcomings, as compared to our 20 years of timesharing experience.
The following is my review on another site...by far the worst we have experienced:
Sep 16, 2007, 9:06 PM
Silverado II, the good the bad and the ugly. We just returned from Silverado II, located in Winter Park, Colorado. The unit we swapped through RCI was a 2 bedroom, 2 bath condo with a fully equipped kitchen and living room with a table for 6, and an island counter with 2 stools.
The good is that the complex has wifi internet service, which helped us keep up with email to family and friends. Nothing like coming home to an email account loaded with a couple of hundred messages. Since there were only the 2 of us, we each had a bathroom, clean with plenty of towels and toiletries. The location of the complex is about a quarter mile from the main street, where there were a number of decent restaurants for dinner. Nothing is close in Colorado, especially in the mountains. But in 40 minutes, we could travel to Grand Lake and Rocky Mountain National Park. In the other direction, over the pass, we could travel to the ski resort towns of Keystone, Breckenridge and Vail.
The bad was the condition of the unit’s rugs. They were dirty and heavily stained, in need of a deep cleaning, better yet replacement, as they and the bedding were very old and nasty. Speaking of nasty, when we went to bed the first night, we found hairs, not ours, on the sheets, a gross out to be sure. The whole decor is very 70’s, dark stained pine moldings, doors and cabinets. Sleeping late would be a problem, as the vertical blinds were not room darkening, and no blackout curtains like you find in most hotels and condos.
The ugly was the condition of the common areas. The roofs were leaking badly from a heavy rain(s) when we got there, and there were buckets and pails all over, catching dripping water. The whole week, workers were just outside our windows and patio doors redoing the roofing. We had the blinds shut the whole week.But at least that should be corrected soon. In the middle of the night, we felt like we were in the movie, My Cousin Vinny, when train whistles would blare, and right outside the complex, these long coal freight trains would come barreling through on their way up the grade through the tunnel that crosses the continental divide. The trains had locomotives in the front, middle and back, and also came through during the day, pretty cool, but not at 2 AM.
All in all, Silverado II, good location, but some serious shortcomings, as compared to our 20 years of timesharing experience.
