Whistler Blackcomb is North America's biggest playground, two giant peaks linked by the Peak 2 Peak Gondola, hosting Olympic memories from 2010 and Pacific powder that falls in feet, not inches. A pedestrian village at the base hums all winter long, ninety minutes from Vancouver.
Whistler Blackcomb is a ski resort with genuine ski-in/ski-out hotels in Canada, in the Coast Mountains. The village sits at 675 m and the lifts top out at 2284 m, with 460 km of pistes and 38 lifts. Its BestSnowHotels snow score is 94/100, and the season usually runs Nov 23 → May 25.
How we score and classify resortsRun counts and piste kilometres are indicative. Green runs only exist in France, Spain, Andorra, Norway, Sweden, Finland, Japan, the United States, Morocco, Algeria, Lesotho, South Africa, Egypt, Canada, South Korea, Australia, New Zealand and Chile; Italy, Austria, Switzerland and Germany start at blue. Indicative average snow depth near the top of the resort, in cm.
A handful of well-rated hotels in and around the resort. Pick one, then compare live prices across Booking, Expedia and Hotels.com.
Excellent · 6.1k reviews
One of the highest-rated places to stay in Whistler Blackcomb, with guests singling out the service and comfort.
Guests rate this hotel as excellent (4.7/5 from 6,098 reviews). It sits about 800 m from the slopes. A upper-scale option for Whistler Blackcomb, with live nightly rates shown for your exact dates so you always see the best price.
Excellent · 2.1k reviews
One of the highest-rated places to stay in Whistler Blackcomb, with guests singling out the service and comfort.
Very good · 2.8k reviews
A long-standing favourite in Whistler Blackcomb, trusted by thousands of guests before you.
Excellent · 1.8k reviews
Moments from the lifts in Whistler Blackcomb, so you can ski back to the door and skip the morning queues.
Excellent · 1.7k reviews
Moments from the lifts in Whistler Blackcomb, so you can ski back to the door and skip the morning queues.
Very good · 1.9k reviews
A long-standing favourite in Whistler Blackcomb, trusted by thousands of guests before you.
Very good · 1.9k reviews
Moments from the lifts in Whistler Blackcomb, so you can ski back to the door and skip the morning queues.
Great · 2.5k reviews
A long-standing favourite in Whistler Blackcomb, trusted by thousands of guests before you.
Very good · 1.8k reviews
Moments from the lifts in Whistler Blackcomb, so you can ski back to the door and skip the morning queues.
Very good · 1.3k reviews
A long-standing favourite in Whistler Blackcomb, trusted by thousands of guests before you.
Excellent · 999 reviews
Moments from the lifts in Whistler Blackcomb, so you can ski back to the door and skip the morning queues.
Great · 1.6k reviews
A long-standing favourite in Whistler Blackcomb, trusted by thousands of guests before you.
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True ski-in/ski-out is concentrated on the Upper Village around the Blackcomb base and the Whistler Creekside gondola. Most Whistler Village lodgings are a short walk or shuttle from the lifts, very few have skis-on-the-snow access despite the marketing.
Saying Whistler is big does not really capture it. The two mountains together cover around 3300 hectares and 460 km of marked pistes, with 41 greens, 109 blues, 90 reds and 30 blacks. The Peak 2 Peak Gondola stitches them in eleven minutes across the valley, glass-floor cabins included. You can ski groomed motorways on Blackcomb's Solar Coaster ridge, drop into the Spanky's Ladder backcountry chutes, then finish with sun-warmed turns on the Horstman Glacier well into May. Beginners get gentle wide carpets at Olympic Plaza, intermediates own the place, experts have alpine bowls and steep tree skiing for entire seasons. Down at the base, Whistler Village is fully pedestrian, an Intrawest creation with restaurants, hot tubs, breweries and live music every night. The Pacific maritime climate brings heavy, abundant snow, occasionally rain-on-snow lower down, dependable cover up high. Vancouver airport sits ninety minutes south on the Sea-to-Sky Highway, making this resort the easiest world-class destination on the West Coast.
Hotels and apartments around the lifts. Compare prices on Booking, Expedia and Hotels.com.
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Whistler Blackcomb offers 460 km of pistes across 38 lifts, from 675 m to 2284 m. Whether it suits beginners depends on the dedicated learner zones at the base of the slopes, so check the local ski-school options for green and blue run access.
The season runs from Nov 23 to May 25, with a snow score of 94/100. The best conditions are usually from late January through February, while spring skiing in March and April brings longer days and softer afternoons.
True ski-in/ski-out is concentrated on the Upper Village around the Blackcomb base and the Whistler Creekside gondola. Most Whistler Village lodgings are a short walk or shuttle from the lifts, very few have skis-on-the-snow access despite the marketing.
Whistler Blackcomb has 460 km of marked pistes served by 38 lifts, between 675 m and 2284 m of altitude.
Whistler Blackcomb counts about 270 marked runs in total. The colour breakdown above shows how they split by difficulty, a good guide to whether the resort fits your level.
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