Making this season’s ski plans. New name: Hotel Alpenrock Breckenridge, Curio Collection by Hilton (the hotel formerly known as "Doubletree Breckenridge"). Two weeks ago emailed the Sales Director who bought me and a friend dinner last March, no reply. Today called the hotel, spoke with a very gracious and sweet front desk manager who among other things gave me the Sales Director's new e-mail address and also passed along a message.

The front desk agent was so knowledgeable I chose to pick her brain. Scheduled opening 11/21/24. Renovations nearly complete, only hot tubs still in progress. No more swimming pool, fitness center remains. All rooms, lobby areas, restaurants, bars have completed renovations. They’re going to be “more strict” this year about not wearing ski boots in the lobby. Room numbers remain unchanged, new elevator in the center of the long hallway, side entrance to driveway between hotel and Beaver Run building (which I’ve always used when in ski boots) still open. They’ll bring skis and boots to and from the bottom of the Quicksilver lift.

Incognito mode dummy booking rates for end of January start at ~$450 (inc $45 resort fee) and/or 70k points (5th night free offered), 21 day cancellation. Logged in dummy booking rates for end of January are identical, with many different (confusing) rates, some AAA & AARP rates the same, some higher, all Military & Veterans & Senior rates are higher. February rates higher, March rates much higher.

Room types: 1 King Bed, 1 King Bed Deluxe, 2 King Bed, 4 types of Accessible rooms. Website King Bed Deluxe pictures identical to King Bed, description includes additionally “quaint seating area with queen-sized sleeper sofa.”

Unsure if hotel will still meet requirements for Amex Aspire card Hilton Resort Credit.

(Skiing certainly ain’t getting any less expensive. Pleased I never “earned and burned” my Hilton points, very pleased I squirreled them away, even more grateful to Citi for allowing me to churn ~20 Hilton cards between 2012 and 2015, grateful to AmEx for allowing me to have and churn ~10 different Hilton cards over the past 10 years. It’s definitely a marathon, not a sprint, hope my finish line is still way off in the future.)