Mont Tremblant ... last day

Today was Sister Sarah and my last day in Mont Tremblant.

We headed up to the top of the mountain one last time.

It was quiet ... there was no line-up for the gondola.  Up up up!

There weren't many on top of the mountain.  No waiting for seats.  Sweet!

Here is Sister Sarah ...

Here's me!

 The view from the top ...

 The black flies were crazy, though.  Here's Sister Sarah in action swatting them.

The black flies won and we didn't spend too much time on the mountain.

Our last ride back down to the village ...

Alas, it was time to head home. Here I am getting on my plane waving good-bye to Sister Sarah (her plane left 15 minutes after mine).

Le Sommet des Neiges, Mont Tremblant, QC

Our home-away-from-home while we've been in Mont Tremblant (from May 19 'til today) was Le Sommet des Neiges.

I had looked at different hotels before I booked in January.  This one caught my eye because I could get a two bedroom suite at a decent price and the outdoor salt water pool and hot tub would be open on the weekend.

Here is my bathroom. The tub was awesome ... really really deep and I had a couple baths.

Here is my bedroom (the bathroom was ensuite).

Here is Sister Sarah's bedroom.

Here is Sister Sarah's bathroom (it was next to her bedroom).

Here is the living room/dining room with a balcony.

There was a full kitchen.

The only thing I found lacking was that there was no a desk ... everyone travels with a laptop these days but there was no place comfortable to use it.  I ended up sitting on the floor in front of the coffee table.

This is the view from our balcony when we got here Saturday afternoon.

The suite was comfortable and there was plenty of room for the two of us.

Here is the library in the lobby downstairs.

There is a charge for Internet.  It's provided through an outside company and is about $12/night.  There is no business centre in the hotel so we'll have to print our flight tickets at the airport.

Parking is underground and about $12/night.

The outdoor saltwater pool and hot tub were supposed to be open this weekend.  I had emailed the hotel during the weekend asking for confirmation, which I got.  It was also on the reminder they sent during the week.  We discovered that the pool won't be opening 'til next weekend (the hot tub is open year round).  We weren't pleased with this since I had booked an extra day here so we could have a relaxing pool day.  To compensate, they gave us passes for Amerispa a couple blocks away.

There is a washer and dryer in the suite.  We discovered that the washer was broken.  The hotel gave us the key to the suite next door so we could use their washer and do our laundry.

This hotel is at the top of the resort village. The walk to the gondola to get to the top of the mountain is just next door.  There are lots of restaurants within walking distance.  It was crazy busy over the weekend (a long weekend) and was quiet since then ... restaurants were closing about 9pm.  During the summer and winter it's a lot busier.  There is a liquor store and a grocery store (that sells liquor) a couple blocks away.

I'd stay at this hotel again.

Casey's Grill Bar, Mont Tremblant, QC

Sister Sarah and I had supper tonight at Casey's Grill Bar.  Most restaurants are closed during the week since it's off season.  And since Sister Sarah doesn't eat meat, I thought they would have a wide variety for both of us.

 Sister Sarah ordered Chicken Penne, without the chicken (she doesn't eat meat).  She said it was good (it looked good ... I was sorry I hadn't ordered it).

I ordered garlic bread with cheese and chicken wings. The bottom of the garlic bread was really hard ... I banged it on the plate and it made a loud noise. I just ate the topping and even that wasn't good.

I like hot wings.  Pat, our server, said that hot wings are hot so I ordered medium ... medium was more mild.

They weren't fresh and were overdone ... not good at all.

Our food came out about five minutes after we ordered it ... that's never a good sign.

When Pat finally checked on us about 10 minutes after we were done (and our plates were still sitting on the table), I told him about the garlic bread, banged it on my plate and he had it taken off our bill.  I asked him for our bill at the same time ... 15 minutes later I had to ask his manager for it since we hadn't received it.

 Not a good experience at all and there's no way I'd recommend this place.

La Source, Mont Tremblant, QC

One of the attractions of staying at our hotel was that there is an outdoor salt water pool and hot tub ... and they were going to open this past weekend.

Whoohoo!

When we got here, we discovered that it's actually not opening 'til next weekend.

Boo!

To compensate us, our hotel gave us passes to La Source, which is a couple blocks away, so we could use their pool and hot tub.  Excellent gesture!

Sister Sarah checked it out yesterday for a couple hours ... she loves pools and hot tubs.

We spent a couple hours there this afternoon.  There were only a handful of people there.

Here is the pool.

 Here we are in the outdoor hot tub ...  Sister Sarah and I.

I headed back to our hotel to soak in the tub.  Sister Sarah wasn't finished and was in the indoor hot tub when I left.

Made in France, Mont Tremblant, QC

As we were walking around Mont Tremblant today, it was raining.  Boo!

Sister Sarah got wet!

We stopped in at Made in France ... I didn't want to go home without having a French chocolate croissant.

Here is my croissant ... it was tasty with my glass of milk!