Review: Market Place Lodge, Whistler

General appearance

Market Place Lodge is housing several apartments and is quite big. Right at the entrance is the reception with friendly staff.

Location

The lodge is right at Market Place in North WhistlerVillage - it's just one, two minutes off the Sea to Sky Highway. But to the lifts you have to walk the Village Stroll (pedestrian zone) for about 10-15 minutes.

At Market Place you will find all necessities like post office, grocery store, Starbucks, McDonalds, KFC, a bank, a candy shop and ski outfitters.

Room

We had a one-room-apartment on first floor looking out on the Market Place. As you walk in you have the bathroom with a tub on the right and the laundry room with washing machine and tumble dryer inside on the left - that's we put our skis for the night.

Next there was an open kitchen with a big refrigerator, micro-wave, dish-washer and stove.

The bed was hidden in a cupboard and our clothes we could put in a walk-in cupboard next to it.

To the end of the room is the fireplace, couch and TV set. Most important channel: the Weather Network. The firecplace was only operated with gas and only with a countdown, so it did not heat up and was just for setting the atmosphere. You could also enter the balcony there which was freezing cold.

Breakfast

We prepared it ourselves, so it was either fried eggs, vegetables, rolls and jam or German pancakes with apple sauce.

Other

The lodge offered also complimentary wifi internet & international long-distance calls, free undergroud parking and a hot tub.

You could access all areas only with a key card.

The only downside was that the Market Place was snowplowed every morning at 5 am when snow fell earlier and the peep-peep of the reverse gear was driving you crazy.

So ask for a room to the backside!