We had lunch at the Cliff House, at the top of the Gondola. Great lunch place, nice waitered restaurant, really good food, fab views, attentive and well dressed wait staff, and reasonable prices. How reasonably priced? The fancy lunch entrees, chef prepared, were the same price as the regular sandwich or burgers served in the *cafeteria* of the ridiculously overpriced... more

We like to ski hard! 1st time in Stowe. Skiing with family 2 kids (6 & 8). 8 – 12 Feb 09, but no snow for over a week and the mountain seemed skied out. If you are a confident skier, a third of the mountain at Spruce Camp, will offer you little excitement, but may warrant a quick visit... more

The stowe is really great resort, i started to learning snowboarding this year! You can't bet the deal packages at stowe, you get two 90 minutes lessons and lift tickets for about $ 90! Lessons were really great, Stowe has lots of instructors so there were no more than 5 people on each group. I was able to go down... more

(Problem with resort information only, Stowe is still a wonderful place) Stowe used to pride itself on its title as "the ski capital of the east." But trying to get pricing information at the resort's 800 number seems less capital and more like a corner game of three card monte. On the stowe.com website, when you look at lift ticket... more

I learned how to downhill ski in Stowe last week. Not only that, but I liked it., and I had gone into this vacation with a poor attitude about learning to ski: "I'll try it, but I'm telling you, I'm not going to like it." Well, count me converted. We travelled in two families - none of us great skiers,... more