Camelback excludes skiers!

[Timeless]

On my way to work this morning I saw the new CB advertising on the 33/78 junction with the slogan "It's all about the ride", obviously showing a continuation of the trend towards an all snowboard mountain, with a heavy emphasis on the best terrain parks in the East....

 

Nice poster though, looks like something from JC Penney

[Shadows]

i can vouch for "the best terrain park in the east"

its sick

[ColoradoHigh]

I could care less....I ski at Blue mountain....

[Shadows]

come on chippy dont be like that.

dont you want to ski the best terrain park in the east?

[mbike-ski]

is that the one with the ugly green ribbon like graphic? They have a skier one like it up on 80w with some purple stripes or something but i don't remember the slogan other than i thought it was pretty lame....

[poconoceancity]

At least you get to drive by billboards that are snow related in your every day life...I'm tired of living so far away from the Pocs.

[Timeless]

is that the one with the ugly green ribbon like graphic? They have a skier one like it up on 80w with some purple stripes or something but i don't remember the slogan other than i thought it was pretty lame....

Yep, that's the one. Haven't seen the purple skier one yet, does he have a purple helmet?

Me too...Dr. Worm you should come to some PASR days at Blue this season...you can be my Chippy Beyatch.

[mbike-ski]

does he have a purple helmet?

 

hahahahahaha....idk but seein all the billboards going up and the camelback trails from 80 last weekend was givin me a little ski chubb

[Barb]

At least you get to drive by billboards that are snow related in your every day life...I'm tired of living so far away from the Pocs.

 

 

yeah, but we get to drive by billboards of all the has-beens performing at the casinos. Lucky us.

[Ski]

yeah, but we get to drive by billboards of all the has-beens performing at the casinos. Lucky us.

Ha, we live a few miles from one of the Pocono honeymoon resorts where you can take a bath in a giant champagne glass and groove to Perry Como and one of ther original Ink Spots in the lounge.

 

I guess we have the best of both worlds.

[Ski]

Caesars Cove Haven. Is that the hardest easy word to spell, or what? The champagne tub room is $520 a night...it's a cheesy, scratched plastic tub...for $520 a night!

 

I did a quick search for opinions regarding the room and found something kind of funny at britishexpats.com. I'm posting this because it is a perfect example of the New Yorkers who come to the Poconos and bring some sort of superior attitude, when they are actually total morons. Here's what Sindy, an upper-crust 20-something from a special part of Manhattan wrote:

 

 

 

For the longest time i was planning a nice romantic getaway for my boyfriend and I. I

was doing a lot of research before hand just to see what my options where. I thought

about the Hamptons (seemed to ritzy not romantic) a nice bed and breakfast (boring to

spend time in someone elses bedroom) Then i thought to take a look at the Poconos,

even though i know some of the tacky things people say about it, i checked it out

anyway. That is when i stumbled upon Ceasers Pocono resorts. I have to admit that

when i saw the pools in their rooms it immediatlly caught my interest. I started

browsing through newsgroups took get some real people feedback. There wasnt that much

bad to sat about it except that it was tacky, but i figured that's what the Poconos

is all about.

 

I just want to give quick backround info just so everyone can get a clue to what type

of people we are... We are both in out late 20's. Live in a better part of manhattan

& have professional jobs. (Just so it can be imagined how much we stuck out in the

Ceasars crowd)

Sindy stuck out because we are uneducated farmers?

 

When we arrived in Lakeville (have to say Cove Haven is the farthest caesars resort

from NY than the rest) There where so many cheesy sighns pointing out our way to the Cove Haven. I was already starting to get nervous. But i kept thinking to myself "How

bad can a pool in a room be" We finally pulled up to the main lobby and it seemed ok,

it was a tiny chalet, i attomatically knew that all rooms where separate

entities.(Which made me feel better)

F*ck me, I've been spelling both of those words wrong for years!

 

Once we walked in i attomatically saw the other couples that where checking in. It

was what i assumed. Typical midwestern couples showing up on there honeymoon.. (i do not want to rag on anyones aspirations, but i could never honeymoon there)

It's their, Sindy, not there. Plus anyone's is possessive. What is typical midwestern? Is that small cowboy hats?

 

We received our key to the Cleopatra Champange suite. I have to admit i was excited..We pull up to our room. From the outside they looked like regular motel rooms.

Sliding my card through the door and opening it and looking around my room I thought

to my self "This isnt what i thought it would be" It looked worse than in the pamphlet.The room was beyond tacky it smelled so bad in there like a nasty funk mixed w/ cigarettes and dirty carpet. The first thing i hadto do was call front desk and ask them for a non-smoking room, they responded w/ that they had no non-smoking rooms. I sprayed as much deodorant as i possibly could.

Wouldn't a fancy metro chick spell it champagne? You sprayed deodorant on the carpet?

 

Next was the Pool. This i have to say looked nice. It was in a seperate glass

enclosed area. The pool was heart shaped and rather small, but nice. This area was

totally enclosed from the rest of the suite which means it was climate controlled.

Lets just say it was alway 90 degrees in this room and the water tempeture was about

the same.We could only stay in this room at momets at a time how hot it was. In this

area was also the sauna and the massage table. (Which we never used)You could view

the pool area from the living room and vice versa, so it was pretty cool

Vice as in porn?

 

Sopposedly it was all enluclusive. Yeah only if you are willing to sit with 10

starngers at a table. They base the place on romance but then they want you too mingle with all of their guests. The rest of the night is private.. But i have to say this... I couldnt sleep the whole night because of the stank in the room...

What?

 

We had more fun leaving the grounds and visiting the animal park a few miles down.

Woo hoo! Props to Claws and Paws! We hear the lions roar from our backyard.

 

It was the biggest rip-off ever. Oh before i forget let me tell you about the wonderful breakfast in bed.. (sense the sarcasm) Lets just say if they served breakfast in Highschools this is what it would be like.

I'll bet that even Skidude can spell high school with his eyes closed!

 

I could have stayed at the plaza for that kind of money.

We'll miss you next year!

 

Best Wishes

Sindy

[CaptDave]

enluclusive LOL

[Ski]

I know it's a little pathetic for me to dig this up and rag on a blog post, but we deal with this attitude on a daily basis...

[Timeless]

At last, someone with worse spelling than (VT)Mark.

[RidgeRacer]

I love it when people call the "Poconos" tacky. That lady should visit Jim Thorpe or stay at the Inn at Jim Thorpe and tell me if that's tacky. Hike or Mt Bike the Lehigh Gorge and tell me if that's tacky. Stay at Sky Top Lodge (as opposed to Caeser's) or The Shawnee Inn, The Sterling Inn, Split Rock etc. and tell me if they're tacky. Hike the Hawk Falls trail or the Boulder Field at Hickory Run and tell me that's tacky too. Ski the north face or East Mt and tell me if that's tacky. A few tacky resorts cannot speak for an entire region. If you think they're tacky and expensive before going why go there...expand your search a bit (end of rant).

[mbike-ski]

Ssshhhh....keep all dem new yawkers at caeser's

 

holy shit ski you got way too much time on your hands....

[Ski]

holy shit ski you got way too much time on your hands....

 

Totally.

[skifreak]

That blog post reminds me of something DaveK would write about his honeymoon. Assuming he has a wife of course...

[sibhusky]

Actually, the spelling kind of gives away this lady's educational achievements, and therefore sort of shows you the demographic that those stupid resorts appeal to. NEVER, at ANY point in my life did the idea of me physically entering one of those Pocono honeymoon offerings ever cross my mind. If you can't make a place look anything but tacky in a print ad, then imagine how awful the reality would be! It always kind of scares me that those places get enough business to stay open! YECCCH!!

[Ski]

Actually, the spelling kind of gives away this lady's educational achievements, and therefore sort of shows you the demographic that those stupid resorts appeal to. NEVER, at ANY point in my life did the idea of me physically entering one of those Pocono honeymoon offerings ever cross my mind. If you can't make a place look anything but tacky in a print ad, then imagine how awful the reality would be! It always kind of scares me that those places get enough business to stay open! YECCCH!!

Ha, there's a billboard for the champagne glass bath tub just outside our community and it's always creeped me out a little. When I sleep in a hotel bed, I like to think I'm the first person on those brand new sheets. And those billboards showing people about to have (wait, 'Dude might be around) relations in the tub you might be thinking about renting for $520 a night is a little gross.

[skifreak]

[Glenn]

Ha, there's a billboard for the champagne glass bath tub just outside our community and it's always creeped me out a little. When I sleep in a hotel bed, I like to think I'm the first person on those brand new sheets. And those billboards showing people about to have (wait, 'Dude might be around) relations in the tub you might be thinking about renting for $520 a night is a little gross.

 

You mean those aren't champange bubbles in the tub?

[Ski]

just dont bring a blacklight if you wanna keep thinking that way

 

Is it called Room Raiders? Where chicks go in guys rooms and check their beds with black lights? Freaking MTV used to be about music...now it's a scientific experiment for @%$& tracks. We're just so headed to Hell.

 

Glenn: nevermind

[Glenn]

Glenn: nevermind

 

Looking for a romantic getaway? Try our champagne tub petri dish room only $499 a night. Hepatitis shots not included.

[sexkitten]

I've always been a little disappointed with the hotel choices around the PA, NY, VT ski resorts. I know, I know, I KNOW that the trip is about skiing but I don't want to stick to the bed damn it. The only hotel I can honestly say lives up to it's advertisements is the one at BC. That place is exactly what it bills itself to be. I only wish I could have found a place in Killington like that joint.