cableitoh

Originally Posted By: Mamabear BoC, I think the picture is a little deceptive...as I have never found the Family course particularly narrow - it is certainly not a W.I.D.E course, but it is plenty wide enough. I HATE narrow with a passion - the skinny steep cat tracks all over the place in Switzerland really ticked me off, especially at peak hour. Even at Peak Hour I have found that stretch generous enough. I think most of the way down you would be able to stand 4 to 6 boarders side by side on their heel edge without too much of a problem. From my very spatially spastic recollection..

I am not sure about the building regulation in Japan, they should have raised the structure 1 floor higher so that the basement level is in-line with the slope. This will truly be a ski in & out apartment. Also I would like to mention, the sulphur steam from our private onsen at the balcony has really eaten away the steel fixture at the external wall. If they keep the onsen running all year long, I would really want to find where the fixing bill will go to.

I will try that next season.....

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I've stayed in both Alpen Ridge & The Vale before. In terms of location, both place are great. Personally I'd prefer the Alpen Ridge because of the locker room & basement entrance is level out to the Ace Family Lift. On the other hand, the Vale bar is on the level with the slope but the locker room entrance is a couple of stairs down below by the outdoor swimming pool. After a long day of snowboard & ski and with a very slippery floor maybe an accident is waiting to happen (falling off the stairs). This is only my personal opinion.

Yup, I have the pics of the rooms. I will upload them later tonight when I'm home.

The door said it all.....

The hallway to the lobby

The controls again.....

The full view from my living room at night

Here is the control panel.

Room 401 we stayed

Ok, try to upload another.

Hey, this is the first time I've post the pic(s) in this forum. Please enjoy.!!

Here are the pics of the Vale

Originally Posted By: SJ#2 Hi there cableitoh Thanks for doing that - I have approved the account so you should now be able to login. More info on posting photos here: http://www.snowjapanforums.com/ubbthreads.php/topics/342305/Uploading_photos_to_SnowJapan_.html If you have any problems, please just let us know. Thanks for sharing and look forward to seeing them. Thanks, I will try to upload tonight.

Originally Posted By: RobBright Is it a massive stack into powder? There is only 1 day of powder when I was in Niseko. All the other days was wet with rain & warm like spring. I want to upload the photos I took at the Vale.

Got it, just waiting for the confirmation. Will upload the pic tomorrow.

Will try, thanks

I have some photos want to up here to share. How can it do it please?

Originally Posted By: Jimmer Originally Posted By: Tubby Beaver yeah I agree.........trying to pin the brakeage on the customer so quickly after they got it is pretty shoddy. Regardless of whether they've had some dodgy customers from Singapore trying to chance it, if they are serious about being a top business they should've dealt with it better. Next time Cabletoh, take your business elsewhere Cableitoh said that it got replaced, no mention of them trying to 'pin it' on his friend. What it sounds like to me is that not too much went wrong that the rentals guys could have controll

Originally Posted By: Mamabear Nothing beats good customer service. You can get poor product and still leave quite satisfied - as long as the service is appropriate. As for bindings breaking ... heck we bought a pair of top end Burton bindings in Tokyo that broke on the high back on day one and the toe strap on day two - it happens. And there was no 'abuse' to the product going on with us! Many many years ago when Papa and I were just strating out we rented (first an apartment, and then a house) - and the thing I hated the MOST about that was the rent inspections. The feeling that som

Originally Posted By: Go Native Originally Posted By: cableitoh Originally Posted By: Go Native Sounds like the big issue was that The Vale guys didn't confirm your booking with NBS. Maybe is the Vale that got the booking all mixed up. Either way, the customer service at the NBS was bad too. When the staff started to question my friends, they sounds like we are stealing for equipment or something. Probably because they've had a lot of that this season, mostly from the Singaporean customers though. I've seen a lot of Thai people this season.

Originally Posted By: Jimmer Also it sounds like your friend broke his binding, which is easy to do and not really NBSs fault. As has been said though, bottom line is you went away unhappy, which should have been dealt with by the staff. Yeah, the main thing is that I went away unhappy.

Originally Posted By: Black Mountain It's easy to break your binding?? Are you serious! I think you have to work pretty hard at breaking your binding on the first run of the day! I think the binding is wearing out at the buckle end. The spring inside the buckle did not hold the plastic strap in place, so the strap came loose when my friend was on a heel side edge.