First Tracks Lodge

Great location for skiing. You will never be closer to a gondola. The place is clean, new and modern next to the creekside gondola. The down side...understaffed. No staff at the desk or bell boys. You will need a car to go to the village every day. (If you like going out after ski). Vail Resorts own the place, and as everything they monopolize the prices are constantly increasing and the service diminishing. I don't understand why British Columbia sold its identity to this global bully. All sense of Canadian identity will be lost at Whistler. They did it in Vail/ Beaver Creek and they do it everywhere the conquer.

The apartment (1 bedroom with den) is just huge! It took a while after arriving just to explore every room - huge living room, dining area and kitchen, big bedroom with tons o storage, huge en-suite bathroom, another bathroom utility room, den... The concrete construction is awesome - you get no noise from units around you at all, and we heard nothing the whole stay. The location can't be beaten - the ski lockers are right off the entrance way, from where it's a 10 metre walk to the Gondola queue. You can ski back home or take the gondola back down if you are tired. Housekeeping were great, loading the dishwasher and making the bed every day. The resort is a very short walk from Creekside, where I can recommend the Southside Diner for breakfast, Creekbread for awesome pizza, a Starbucks for your morning coffee, a supermarket and a liquor store. It's pretty quiet compared to the main villages, so a great place to stay and shop if you're not there for the partying. The staff were great, very helpful and friendly and check in and out was easy. A highly recommended place to stay when skiing Whistler Blackcomb.

not far from the village. this is definitely a home away from home. love the kitchen with all the amenities provided. the living room/dinning room made a great hang out place. nice view. bed is comfortable and love the ensuite as it gave us more privacy.

Stayed here for four nights to go skiing and was really happy I booked here. Was about a two hour drive from Vancouver airport (I rented a car). Upon arriving in early evening, was an easy check-in at the Legends, which is next building over. Then easy to access the underground parking for First Tracks and elevator close by to get up to room. Stayed in a one bedroom unit on the third floor and it was really nice! Very large unit and updated kitchen appliances. Was in an end unit overlooking the pool area and surrounding buildings, which was really nice view. Unit was very quiet, could barely even hear anything outside or in hallways; very pleased with that. Housekeeping did fine job every day I was here without issue. The unit also had a safe in the closet so could lock up valuables when gone. The ski lockers were easy to use and the location is SO convenient to the gondola right outside the back door (maybe 100 foot walk)! Had read some comments about locks being hard to use on the ski lockers, but I had no issues over the four days. Underground parking was great, and no problem getting a space. In fact, I got the same space every time I went out / came back, located right by the door to access elevators. Is heated, so all the snow on the car would melt fairly quickly. Really glad I stayed here, especially with close access to the gondola for Whistler mountain, and also next door to Dusty's bar for drinks and dinner some nights. The location in Creekside area of Whistler is nice as is much quieter and serene versus staying in Whistler Village down the road. If you come mainly to ski and not party a lot, then staying here in the Creekside area is great. Besides, is quick drive to get to the Village or take bus / cab to get there when you want something different. But I would for sure stay at First Tracks Lodge again if get back to Whistler.

We went during low season, there are limited staff onsite. The room service mistakenly took my swim ware along with dirty towels and never returned them despite promising to do so the next day. Upon check out, my credit card was charged for 2 car parkings although I stated multiple times that we only had one care for the two rooms. I called the front deck few days later when I found out about the charges, they apologized and told me a refund has been made, now 6 weeks later there is still no record of the refund. Terrible! Very unprofessional!