silver star mountain resort

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  45edwardw

  Recent trip with cross country ski club brought us to this beautifully charming resort. While most resorts cater to alpine skiers I was pleasantly surprised by the daily nordic tours available with their hosts. Trails were sufficiently challenging and numerous.The kitchenettes in our suites were well equipped with all the necessities we needed. Rooms were spacious and relatively comfortable. However, even with large flat panel TV's, broadcasts were mostly in horrible standard definition, painful to watch.Food was standard fare although I fell ill for a few days and had nothing but soup, which was very good, for three days. The downside of the resort was that U.S. dollars were not converted to Canadian money, thus if you paid dollar for dollar, you'd be overpaying. Unless you have Canadian money, use your 'no foreign transaction fee' credit card for the next best deal or use a regular credit card and pay the 3% fee. It beats paying an extra 24% of the bill when paying with U.S.dollars

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  Violaferry

  All the facilities are close together in the village. The ski area of the village is car free so very safe for children. Good ski in/ ski out, even the car parks! Great guiding the best we have experienced.

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  parkso

  My husband & I first skied Silver Star Mountain in 1999, we immediately fell in love with the area, the mountains runs & the intimate village. In 2014 we returned with our children and had such a memorable visit we promised we'd return again. We did! We just returned from our families 3rd visit and loved every moment of it! This year we celebrated my 40th Birthday by taking the unique sleigh ride to Wild Horseman's Cabin. This experience is unique to Silver Star. Its run & operated by an amazing local husband and wife team. He cares for the horses and runs the sleigh rides while she works selflessly in the remote cabin prepping the home made meal for each guest. Our children 10 & 5 were so excited with anticipation of our 1st sleigh ride. We informally gathered in the village to select our seats, sitting where ever we felt comfortable. We enjoyed the 20+ minute ride out of town and up hill to a remote and private cabin. As we made the journey we enjoyed the beautiful sun set & complementary wool lap blankets. As we entered the wood heated cabin we were greeted & asked to make ourselves comfortable. Served warm apple cider and enjoyed chips & salsa till dinner was served. My husband enjoyed a 1/2 rack of "Kansas City" Ribs while myself and 2 kids savored every bite of the Baked BC Wild Salmon. The sides were buffet style, every bit home made and delicious! At meals end my husband complemented the staff "those were the best ribs I have ever eaten"! After about an 1 1/2 hours our dinner time had come to an end, it was dark, clear skies and time to load up and return to the village. This time more confident in the ride we chose a front seat with our driver and dedicated Horseman! We talked story about his horses, wife's cooking talents and Silver Star. I was thankful for this memorable experience & intimate way to celebrate my birthday. I appreciated the other guests who joined us singing me "Happy Birthday". It was magical. Earlier I noticed other guests had BYOB. It hadn't even crossed my mind to pack a bottle of wine or 6 pack. I was thrilled when another guest handed me a glass of red in honor of my Birthday! Cheers friends & Thank you Mr & Mrs Horseman for a memorable family experience!

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  KingsMountaineer

  We rented a ski-in, ski-out cottage in this quaint resort. The skiing was marred by warm weather and lack of snow making the back side too icy and the front side too slushy. It was particularly bad on the weekend when many locals from Vernon and Kelowna came up to ski, making it far too crowded for the snow conditions (although far too crowded in Silver Star is nothing compared to crowded in California resorts). Nevertheless, my son had several excellent lessons--the first one he said was the "best ever". There are lots of places to eat, it's not overly expensive. Overall, we had a great time and hope to go back again in a better snow year.

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  christinesD1704CS

  I love this resort for it's beautiful long well groomed downhill runs for all abilities, extensive cross country trails all of which are also well groomed. The resort is unpretentious and provides a very family friendly atmosphere. Even when skiing conditions are less than ideal the skiing is very satisfying.

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  Foreverliz10

  My boyfriend and I spent an amazing afternoon at silver star today, our first visit. We knew we only had a few hours so we chose the beginners lift ticket which was amazing value at $35. This gave us access to the summit chair and the Milky Way blue run, plus the blacks under the chair lift and a few more blues that join the main St ski way back to the chairlift. We were really happy sticking to one lift as the line moved so quickly and it was the lift closest to the main village. When we finished skiing/boarding we had a late lunch at The Den Bar & Bistro which was great, I loved the burger!We didn't get to the mountain until 11:30am and all the main parking lots were full. We ended up in Lot E and skied down to the village via the silver queen chair to buy our tickets. Coming back we jumped on the resort shuttle which was quick and efficient (at 4pm). Silver star is also very dog friendly, lots of dogs walking round the village!

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  shilohmilo

  A lot of skating was required between runs and three are a lot of cat tracks. Back side of the mountain had some good runs, but again a lot of flat terrain. I think after a few days, you would want to move on. I was ready to after two full on days of skiing here. However, the village is cute and quirky with good food choices.

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  Stanski2015

  Stopped here as par of a Canadian biking road trip in September 2014. Of all the places we visited (Panorama, Kicking Horse, Sun Peaks, Whistler and Coast Gravity Park) I think Silver Star had the most hands down fun trails around. Nothing too lairy or absolute do or die, just point downhill and smile all day long.All the staff were super friendly all the time and the lift access back to the top faultless and barely even any queuing time even when busy.Saw plenty of bears though, but I guess they're more than used to bikers and they generally moved on quite quickly. I'm sure you locals are well used to it but coming from a country where the most dangerous animal is an agry badger, a hefty old brown bear sat in front of you can be a little unsettling so we had bear spray with us.

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  azzski

  Great range of runs from beginner to expert, groomers, steeps and bumps all on offer. We had a warm spell in late January that saw the cover in poor condition across BC, but from what I could tell Silver Star's held up about the best. Fantastic ski school, highly recommended. Village is small but has everything you need. Dining options a little similar but some quality restaurants available (1609 recommended). Silver Star on-hill food options a bit pre-packaged, and the amount of groomed trails was sometimes lacking midweek, but that is about the only negatives I can think of to this wonderful and very reasonably priced ski resort. Would ski here again!

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  janegf

  Our family enjoyed three days of skiing at Silver Star in the midst of the great West Coast snow drought. In spite of warm day time temperatures and no new snow in more than a week, the runs that were groomed were in pretty good condition. Anything off the groomed track was unpleasant, but after new snow, it seemed like there would be a massive amount of skiable terrain. One thing I liked about the area was the number of ski in/out properties available. But it didn't feel like you were skiing through a subdivision (like Deer Valley, for example). There are many activities included in your ticket (ice skating, intertubing, mini-snowmobiles for kids) and the nordic tracks looked great.