Thanks for the update. This has been really helpful as just before the points changes we booked 4 nights on points in late February.

Wondered if you could help with a couple of things? Did you get the hotel to arrange your bus travel from Chitose? There seem to be several bus operators and I didn't know whether we should try to prebook.

Also looking at the ski village website there seems to be a 'points' option (not HHonors points!) for the lift passes. This might work better for us if it's one point per lift trip rather than buying a day pass. Not sure if that's how it works though.

Glad you'd a good time and thanks again for the report.