Après-Ride after the 37th Annual Burton U.S. Open Snowboarding Championships
$4 beers
$7 bubbles
$9 specialty cocktails
The Sebastian – Vail is honored to be recognized as #3 in “Colorado’s Top Hotels in 2019” by U.S. News & World Report.
U.S. News ranks the best resorts by taking into account reputation among professional travel experts, guest reviews and hotel class ratings.
Here at The Sebastian – Vail, in the heart of Vail Village, a stay always includes:
Reserve an award-winning stay with seasonal special offers.
The Sebastian – Vail was recently named one of two hotels in the United States recommended by EliteTraveler for a late season luxury ski trip.
“The Sebastian is a boutique hotel nestled in the center of Vail Village. Colorado’s Vail Mountain has experienced a snowy fall and winter, which means there is likely to be plenty of powder throughout spring break. Guests have ski-in, ski-out access to the revered slopes as well as their very own adventure center, Base Camp.
Tired muscles can be treated in the hotel’s Bloom Spa, which recently launched a CBD oil enhancement from a Colorado based organic hemp company. The in-vogue treatment can be added to any of the spa’s services.
Guests can dine at haute bistro and tapas bar Leonora before grabbing a drink at the chic and progressive Frost Bar. The Sebastian’s decadent and signature hot chocolates are a must.”
Here at The Sebastian – Vail, in the heart of Vail Village, a stay always includes:
Reserve an award-winning stay with seasonal special offers.
Valentine’s Day is just around the corner and whether you’re attached or unattached, we have offerings that are easy to love.
Week of Love at Bloom Spa
Why limit love to one day? Prolong the celebration with Bloom Spa's Week of Love February 11th – 15th. Schedule your appointment for 10% off all treatments with a complimentary glass of Prosecco and chocolates on us. To schedule your appointment, please call 970.477.8060.
Prix Fixe Dinner at Leonora
Join us for Chef Tysons’s special Valentine's Day prix fixe, four-course dinner menu in Leonora. Dine for $75 per person with an optional $45 wine pairing enhancement. Indulge your taste buds this Valentine’s Day.
The full Leonora menu will also be available you’d like to make your own tasting.
To reserve your table, please call 970.477.8020 or email [email protected].
Thank U, Next Rendezvous at Frost
No need to dread February 14th. Forego the Valentine's Day routine for a singles day soirée at Frost!
Toast Singles Awareness Day (SAD) with fellow unattached locals and visitors for a night of playful entertainment.
Featured Libations | Drink Specials | Sweet & Savory Love Bites
DJ Krusher Jones spinning tunes 8 – 11 PM
No reservations needed.
It’s winter in Vail, Colorado and there’s so much to do from the 5,289 skiable acres on Vail Mountain to après, dinner, and drinks in the village. New this winter, The Sebastian has a lively schedule of daily events from drink specials in Frost to après-cookies and cider with live music to Leonora’s new dinner menu.
Join us for entertainment and conversation in the heart of Vail Village.
Frost
Join us for daily après specials with live music every Wednesday through Saturday! Daily drink specials include:
Case of the Monday Mules
specialty mules $7
Twosday
two for one signature hot chocolates $18
Wine Not Wednesday
house wines and well drinks $6
Tequila Thursday
select tequilas from $9
Frost Friday
colorado craft beers $4
wines by the glass $4 off
Saturday Sips
bubbles $7
beers on tap $7
Specialty Sunday
specialty cocktail $9
Vail Mountain is now 100 percent open. All lifts at Vail Mountain are operational for the season, providing access to 5,289 skiable acres of terrain, the most currently open in Colorado.
“It has been a legendary start to the season, with the second-earliest opening for Blue Sky Basin in history, to offering all 5,289 skiable acres before the New Year,” said Doug Lovell, Vail chief operating officer. “With excellent early season snow conditions, this has been the strongest start to the season in decades, thanks to the hard work of our mountain operations teams and a little help from Mother Nature.”
Photo credit: Whitney Brofos
The Sebastian – Vail is honored to be recognized as a “Best Ski Hotel” in the 2018 USA Today Readers’ Choice Awards.
Hotels and resorts across the USA were nominated by a panel of ski and snowboarding experts and voted to the top by 10Best readers. We are thrilled to be in great company with fellow high-caliber hotels offering stunning mountain views, serene spa treatments, convenient slopeside locations and ski-in/ski-out access.
Here at The Sebastian – Vail, in the heart of Vail Village, a stay always includes:
Reserve an award-winning stay with seasonal special offers.
A sincere thank you to all those who voted in this esteemed poll.
Less like a drink, more like an experience. Indulge in a handmade, gold-dusted sphere of Valrhona milk chocolate immersed in dark hot cocoa; spiced with cinnamon, star anise, vanilla and cloves with Bailey’s marshmallows, and chocolate crunch pearls.
An incredible early ski season is here in picturesque Vail, Colorado with 95% of the storied terrain open on December 7th. Thanks to nine and a half feet of natural snow so far, Vail has 26 lifts spinning providing access to 182 trails and 5,008 skiable acres.
On Thursday, November 29th, Vail opened Blue Sky basin. That marks the second-earliest opening for Blue Sky in history, behind only the November 25, 2002 opening. The legendary Back Bowls are also open! Portions of Sun Up, Sun Down, China, Tea Cup, Siberia and Pete’s bowls are all open and primed for epic early winter turns.
One thing is certain, the beginning of the 2018-19 ski season has been legendary, including milestones such as the most open acreage in North America, opening early for the first time in more than a decade, the third time in the last decade that the Back Bowls have opened this early in the season, and the second-earliest opening of Blue Sky Basin in history.
Photo credit: Whitney Brofos
Just in time for the first snowfall, this season’s high-country hot list of winter ski escapes includes stylish new accommodations and amenities.
The Sebastian – Vail
Vail Village has never lacked for large hotels and condominium complexes, but until The Sebastian — Vail opened its doors, the boutique-hotel niche had never been properly filled. The Sebastian offers all the elements of a classic slope-side lodge executed with a fresh, hip style. The lobby’s rustic stone walls and wood floors provide a warm backdrop for sleek furnishings and a sculptural fireplace. In the library, oversize works of abstract art hang on black, floor-to-ceiling bookshelves. And at the Frost Bar, an icicle-like installation of frosted-glass shards is suspended above a bar that glows an icy blue.
An incredible early ski season is upon us in beautiful Vail, Colorado with almost 80% of the 5,289 skiable acres open before December. 75” of natural snowfall with 4” in the last 24 hours has contributed to the opening of the legendary Back Bowls with Blue Sky Basin opening yesterday, November 29. This marks the second-earliest opening for Blue Sky in history, behind only the Nov. 25, 2002 opening.
One thing is certain, the beginning of the 2018-19 ski season has been legendary, including milestones such as the most open acreage in North America, opening early for the first time in more than a decade, the third time in the last decade that the Back Bowls have opened this early in the season, and the second-earliest opening of Blue Sky Basin in history. We fully expect this trend to continue as snow is forecasted to continue throughout the upcoming weekend.
Come enjoy these early season conditions along with exciting free concerts at Vail’s Snow Days from December 13-16.
VAIL — In a rare reversal, Born Free was one of the only runs that wasn't open on the frontside of Vail Mountain for Opening Day 2018.
The Wednesday, Nov. 14, opening occurred two days and 10 minutes prior to what was previously scheduled for the year, and it was far from your ordinary Opening Day.
More than 600 acres were available to skiers and snowboarders, much of it ungroomed. After receiving 4 feet of snow in early November, the slopes had another refresh of a few inches earlier this week. Cold temperatures kept the powder fresh, and an abundance of light, fluffy snow could be found throughout the day at Vail.
Locals praised Vail for the early opening, and pointed out that — with temperatures predicted to rise into the 40s over the next couple of days — opening Wednesday rather than Friday might have ended up making quite a difference in terms of snow quality.
Local Cesar Hermosillo, who has lived in Eagle County for more than three decades, said the abundance of snow and cold temperatures has made early November conditions among the best he can remember.
"It was also really sunny today, so really one of the best Opening Days you can ask for," he said.
Hermosillo is a regular on the first chair of the season at Vail; he often arrives in Lionshead Village 12 to 24 hours ahead of time and camps out, and this year was no exception.
Jen Natbony — who arrived two days early last year — was first to arrive again this year. She claimed her first-in-line status in Lionshead at about 2 p.m. on Tuesday.
Over in Vail, skiers and snowboarders didn't start arriving until 6 a.m. on Wednesday, and the Gondola One maze wasn't filled until well after 8 a.m.
Bob Aubrey was among the first to arrive at Gondola One.
Neither a skier nor a snowboarder that day, Aubrey's gear for his first lift-served turns at Vail was a Hovland snowskate with a large nose specially equipped for powder.
"Also, there's some hot groomers that I need to go ride," he said.
FREE PARKING
Top to bottom skiing was available in Lionshead Village via Born Free and Columbine; to access Vail Village a download on Gondola One was required.
The download only access to Vail Village changed the apres scene quite a bit; Lionshead Village establishments were lively with ski-in guests while Vail Village, a bus ride away, was much quieter. This was not only due to fewer crowds, but less of a live music atmosphere, as well, which is expected to ramp up by the weekend with the classic apres spot Pepi's saying guests can expect someone to be playing to an apres crowd by Friday, the formerly scheduled opening date.
The Opening Day was also unusual in that parking was free in the town structures. The Lionshead Village parking structure was full by 9 a.m. and the Vail Village structure filled at about 10:10 a.m. A total of 310 cars spilled out onto the frontage road.
Vail said normal season paid parking will begin at 6 a.m. on Friday.
WHAT'S NEXT?
With loading available from both Vail and Lionshead villages, crowds dispersed quickly in the morning and lift lines didn't exceed a minute or two throughout the day.
Chairs 2, 3 and 4 were also open in Vail, and from the top of the Gondola in Lionshead Village upper Born Free was open before being roped off at the Chair 8 access point, an ironic twist as for many years that section of the run is all that's available to skiers on Opening Day.
The powdery conditions found on so many places at Vail on Wednesday left skiers and snowboarders hopeful for more areas of the mountain to open in the days to come.
Throughout Opening Day, ski patrollers received a barrage of questions as to when Chairs 11 and 7 might open, with some hopeful chatter of "maybe this weekend" starting to spread among gossipers by the end of the day.
However, as one ski patrolman put it, "the newspaper finds out before we do."
Article courtesy of Vail Daily.