Jiminy Peak the Mountain Resort

This place is OK. Its not the best and its not the worst. My kids loved the ski school but at $ 260 a pop to cover them both for a day is a bit of a hit. Otherwise, I liked the lodge best– really good bloody marys

Get BOB as an instructor he is amazing. I love that guy!!! My feet went numb but still had an amazing time!!! The staff is amazing and they all love football!!! Clean, happy people who will give you a great time. I came up here from NYC and am so glad I did. Because man!

I like Jiminy Peak. It’s a moderate in size and stature and that’s good for me because I’m a beginner and get intimidated by expert skiers who race down the bunny slopes. The food options are eh — Christiansen’s tavern is so overpriced and the beers on draught are crappy. John Harvard’s has weird hours. The best food experience is grabbing a beer and sitting by the outdoor fire pit. Score! There are a few double black diamonds to satisfy more advanced skiers and several easy and moderate slopes. Everyone can take the same lifts, which is a nice feature when skiing with friends. Lift passes are reasonable and things run pretty smoothly. Overall a positive experience. Definitely checkout 13 nights at Jiminy if you go around Halloween! The haunted experience is so well done — part of it involves someone chasing you through the woods at the top of the ski lift in the dark with a chainsaw. yep, a thriller.

Was here for a wedding in August, which was a delightful affair. The resort itself is, meh in terms of accommodations, but it is like the only frigin place out in Western mass so what are you gonna do. It is also the only place that allowed my buddy (the groom) to reserve rooms for less than 2 nights.
That being said I spent one night in a pretty nice Condo suite, it seems as if people own these and then the resort rents them out, it was 2 bedrooms with a big living room and kitchen and two bathrooms, it was the nicest of the places I stayed in/​saw.
The typical one room hotel rooms are okay, everything has a kitchen but they are cramped and dated feeling.
We also had the after-​party in an actual house on the resort, the house was rather dingy and old feeling, but for an after party it worked great, for a week away with the family no thanks.
There are also other houses for rent a little farther off and the one I spent a night in was much nicer than the closer after-​party house.
All in all I was only here for 2 days but apparently was in every type of room/​house/​hobbit hole the had.
If you can avoid it go somewhere else, but you can’t so looks like your staying here.

Absolutely awful experience and could not recommend this place to anyone. Let’s run through our experience in details:
We planned to stay onsite for a wedding this past weekend. 3 families in all (including my infant twins and a 2 year old), so a condo was needed. Upon arriving my sister in law, who the condo was booked under arrived to check in. She went to the room only to find still wet and sticky stains on the carpet. The room also included a «loft» with railings ready to fall off, not very kid friendly. She decided with infants and a toddler around that a dirty, unsafe room was not ideal. No problem, let’s change rooms. Upon seeing the front desk they offered us a downsized 2 bedroom condo instead of the 3. Although we knew it probably wouldn’t work she checked it out anyway. Room 2 was just as dirty (literally had chips and crumbs still on the floor). She asked to see another room. All that was available was a deluxe 3 bedroom, and despite seeing the first 2 disgusting rooms the hotel had the audacity to up-​charge her $ 110 a night because we originally booked just a 3 bedroom. She did it reluctantly because she had no other option as dirty rooms and children is a disaster waiting to happen. Fast forward to the morning after and we notice my niece (the toddler) crawling around with literally black bottoms of her feet. We check ours and sure enough, the new deluxe room is filthy (we have proof of this).
I headed down (was planning to anyway because of the ridiculous up-​charge) and complained.
They offered us the room for $ 169 a night instead of $ 330 because of it. Thanks but no thanks, the room was filthy. They also came and «cleaned.» We also took sheets for our infants to be on since the floor was disgusting. Well night 2 and 3 after the cleaning was the same ordeal, black feet (with picture proof).
My three recommendations for anyone staying there:
1. Make sure the room was steam cleaned thoroughly, legitimately we had 3 rooms, all 3 awful.
2. Make sure the room you are in was renovated.
3. Don’t stay in room 852 (it’s a deluxe 3 bedroom condo), it’s DIRTY and for $ 330 a night a used van would have been better to stay in.
#2 above brings me to my final pet peeve and that was that for the same price it’s a crap shoot what level of quality you actually get. Some rooms (like the first one we looked at), looked like it hadn’t been touched in 40 years, while our other friends who booked the same price/​same style got a room that looked like it was renovated 2 years ago. This is a terrible practice for a company to do.
I could never recommend this place to anyone.
My recommendation for the staff:
1. Lose the arrogance
2. Properly clean and look after your rooms, even the privately owned ones
3. Cleanliness matters, especially to people with children who will pick up and play with anything they can put their hands on. At least pretend to care.
4. I understand you are a ski resort, but in the summer, you know, when you host a million weddings with women in high heels would it kill you to have covers on your EXTREMELY dangerous staircases? Seriously? The stupid warning signs are the lazy mans/​cheap way out.
5. Feel free to reach out to me about anything, this was one of the worst $ 500 I have ever spent (and that was the SUPER-​DUPER deal they gave us to remain quiet and deal with a disgusting room).

Stayed here over 4^th of July weekend for a quick last minute getaway. The price was great, but our stay left much to be desired. Its a little off the beaten path, although the setting is beautiful. The inn is in decent shape, but could have been cleaner (cobwebs in the corner in our bedroom!). Although we were told we’d have a mountain view, it was actually on the ground level facing a small hill. Its also very loud, the people above us who I believe were simply walking around kept my husband and myself up for an hour. It’s very kid friendly and not exactly what couples may be looking for, so be aware! May be better in the winter months for some skiing, but I would think twice in the summer!

If you want to sleep, this is not the place to do it. After getting in after 1am from attending a music festival, We were awoken before 7am by the people above us. They had a child who was running, jumping on the bed and screaming. He was so loud the doors in our room were shaking.
After an hour of this we called the front desk, they called us back and informed us that the people were packing to leave…
An hour later the noise finally stopped (more than 2 hours of noise) but not 15 min later (9:15am) housekeeping knocked on our door. She literally said «oh your still sleeping»
Beyond our upstairs neighbors it is just a very loud hotel. If anyone walked up the hall or the stairs you knew. And I am a very deep sleeper so this says a lot!
Positive: the bed was very comfortable, sheets clean and pillows perfect and staff let us check out late

Terrible. The guy at the desk made my stay so stressful. Not helpful at all. He did not care to solve any of the problems I had with my room and was just rude and uninterested. I advice you to stay away from that place.

Stayed at the Country Inn for a night. Definitely not luxe accommodations but it is a slopeside suite and the price is right so let’s not get too greedy. Great children’s learning programs here. I love the small learning area with the short lift and magic carpet. My only complaint is that outside of the learning area it’s not really a great mountain for little beginners. I prefer Mohawk for that. Good little family ski area in the Berkshires! We will be back for sure

Overall it was a decent skiing experience, the snow could have been groomed better and it was rather icy, especially later at night. I purchased night ski tickets for 3 – 10 pm on Saturday. Prior to 4 pm, the lift was rather crowded but after 6, the trails were well lit and not too crowded. I was unimpressed with the parking, the lots were very far away from where tickets were sold and the lodge. I was also unimpressed with the restaurant. It was very expensive and the food wasn’t very good. Service was also lousy. The restaurant was the worst part for me, other than that I would have given four stars.

Drove an hour an a half to use lift tickets that were given to us last Christmas. They said they expired last season.
BUT THERE’S NOTHING ON THE TICKETS THAT SAY IT’S ONLY VALID FOR A SPECIFIC SEASON.
If you want to sell tickets only valid for a season, that’s totally fine — just print that on the ticket like every other ski mountain does. If the ticket doesn’t say it expires then it should not expire… period.
The girls working at the window didn’t see this as a problem and had a «tough shit» attitude. So our family gave us tickets, and we drove an hour and a half, for absolutely nothing.
I’m sure they figured we would just buy tickets, but we just didn’t have the money. We wouldn’t have driven that far if we hadn’t been given tickets in the first place.
Also — the only reason they enforce the leash law on snowboards is to make everyone pay 6 bucks for something that costs them 25 cents. You you are strapped into a binding there’s absolutely no way it’s going to come loose. Anyone that snowboards knows this. It’s more likely your feet would get cut off and the snowboard would go out of control down the mountain than your binding suddenly comes loose.
This is a mountain that clearly only cares about cashing in and doesn’t care about providing a good experience to customers. There are so many other mountains to chose from — try Berkshire East — super friendly and they will value your business unlike Jiminy Peak.

Love the skiing here! First time here and everyone us so nice and accommodating… EXCEPT at Christiansens. My son injured his leg and can’t complete the day and we were literally told we had to give up our table! We would have continued to buy drinks and food but I guess the $ 111 we spent wasn’t enough. Shabby behavior for sure!

If you go only by the words of the man in charge, this place is world class. however… and that’s a big however, this place is Western Massachusetts class at best. Don’t get me wrong, Western Massachusetts class is not bad. I grew up there and lived there for a portion of my adult life. This is a classic case of not making it out to more than it is. This is 44 trails (juiced stats just like Bousquet) of decent terrain with an insane amount of infrastructure piled on at the bottom. I like the village, it is appropriate. My challenge really is not with the facilities, as they have some decent offerings. My challenge is that I have never really gotten decent service from any of the employees there. The lift operators can usually be found talking to each other, and not the skiers. The food and beverage folks are inconvenienced by you and will just choose to treat you like an enemy. The ticket counter workers are indifferent whether you are there or not. Once again, this is not a world class feel. This is a Western Massachusetts feel. I feel like if they just embraced what they were, they would be far better off. You are small resort, very family friendly, just far enough that the Long Islanders will call it a vacation but not too far that they won’t come.
The terrain is nice and they, somehow, always have a great base of snow. I will attribute that to Brian. Which if you have ever met the man, you know he is obsessed with snow making. There is a serious part of me that likes that.
Go back to Jiminy Peak of The Berkshires… Get rid of the World Class mantra that you will NEVER live up to.
–Just my words… after all, I don’t think I matter to them… their service has proven it.

Great for first time skiers! My nine and seven years olds had a such a great time first in GET lessons and then skiing with us. Instructor Jeff was great with them. Very pretty surroundings. Hotel was okay, on site restaurants not great, but fun weekend overall. Less expensive and closer then big Vermont resorts. Having said all this — others guests were incredibly rude to staff — after two and a half days of witnessing a complete lack of manners even my boys thought people should be nicer. Just wow.

Beautiful view. Have stayed here several years. Good service friendly atmosphere. However, never stayed for skiing always in the summer to go hiking locally.

A group of friends & I skied here Saturday night 3÷8÷14. Was happily surprised to find it was Ladies’ Night and saved $ 8 off my lift ticket! I had no idea there would be any discount on a weekend night ever. So lift ticket was $ 37, then $ 35 to rent skis/​boots & poles. Another $ 10 gets you a helmet. The rental equipment was all in good shape and the process of picking it up was fairly smooth. They were a little lighter staffed since it was later in the day but it was under 10 minutes and I was on my way.
Conditions were good overall. It had been warm during the day so the snow was a bit sugary but the trails were still well-​groomed and we saw the grooming continue during most of our time there. We skied from 4−10pm, taking a short break to have a quick dinner at the top of the mountain.
The food wasn’t great. We all ordered a chicken tender basket. The chicken was obviously out of a freezer bag and there were only 2 pieces. The fries were pretty good though — and the portion was enormous. I paid $ 12 for a large fountain drink and this basket of fries with some puny chicken.
But we don’t go here to eat now, do we? We skied until the mountain closed. Along the way we met a lot of very friendly staff who asked how we liked the mountain, how the conditions were, were we having fun… it was nice to see the staff asking things like that — a great personal touch.
Wounded Warrior Project had an event going on during our time there, and there was also a bus full of school kids but it didn’t seem any busier than any other night skiing expedition I’ve been on. The crowd thinned out more by the hour.
Overall nice place, beautiful facilities, friendly staff = a sure thing for a return trip for me.

We arrived at close to 11am on a beautiful Saturday at the end of December and skied for a solid 7 hours! The line to get our rentals and lift tickets was very short; the rental sizing was quick and easy. The staff in the rental area was very helpful, assisting our children with putting on their boots and adjusting their helmets. The 80 minute lesson was helpful to help smooth some rusty techniques. We brought our lunch with us so that we did not have to pay for overpriced food at the lodge. There was ample seating both outdoors and in the lodge for me to relax while the family skied. Bathrooms were clean and plentiful. Ample parking with a flat bed truck/​shuttle to bring people to their car and an area to pick up near the lodge. Parking and pick up were very organized. Lifts were fast and the lines, while long, moved quickly.

I spent four days at Jiminy Peak Mountain Resort for a Summer-​time family culture camp. I got to experience several aspects of the resort, so I feel that I can offer a comprehensive review of the product/​services.
Let’s start off with the positives:
Firstly, there are a lot of fun things that you can do here at Jiminy Peak. Top of my list was the Alpine Sleds! You pay $ 54 for a 6 pack of tickets (used for any attraction). Riders take a 10 – 11 minute chairlift up to the top of that section of the mountain, grab your own Alpine Sled, then go down a 1 – 2 minute ride (depending on how fast you like to go). The ride is FUN, packed with twists and turns. You kinda feel like you were in the Olympis competingin the bobsled race. Other attractions include trampolene-​bungee jumping, ziplines, large swings (where they lift your chair up via pulley and let you go), go-​cart (ish) racing, etc. (HINT: We were told that if you hike up the mountain yourself, you can take a ride down the Alpine Slide for free! Several people of our group did it and it worked!)
Secondly, the scenery is beautiful in the summer. The grounds are well-​kept and beautiful. Beautiful scenery
OK — where do I begin with the downfalls of this place? I’ll be brief on all my comments from here.
First and top of the list for negatives is the FOOD! Our group of about 120 kids and 150 adults ate 3 meals a day here — breakfast, lunch, and dinner. I can say that out of 8 or 9 meals at the main dining hall, I ended up throwing away most of my food. I don’t waste food, but it was bad. Everything from breakfast eggs, hash browns, egg-​cheese muffins, to lunch tacos, to dinner pizzas and spaghetti — it was all made pretty bad (burnt, tasteless, poor quality, etc). One night, the restaurant tried to make a specialty dinner of spicy Thai Shrimp, sweet sour beef, and stir fried noodles. It was horrible — I took one bite of each, and ended up eating fruit for my meal.
My second let down was the rooms. The buildings are very cheaply made. The walls and ceilings/​floors are thin. So the noise from the neighbors above and on the side (and sometimes across the hall) were loud and clear. After an exhausting day of activities, it was difficult to come back to the hotel and relax in the evenings.
My third dissapointment was the attitudes of the staff members who worked here. The receptionists and restaurant staff members were wonderful! But, the employees who worked the outdoor attractions had tons of attitude and were grumpy.
My fourth dissapointment was the cleanliness of the pools. In the main pool of this resort (there are three pools), the water was some kind of milky white color and not clear. It looked a bit dirty — perhaps it was the sunscreen of all the kiddos? Nonetheless, the filtration system must have been pretty weak.
There are other points that I could complain about, but enough belly-​aching. I think you get the point. My friends and I were actually hoping for a great time at this resort. We just with the standards and quality are higher.
My friends and I were super excited to learn that the restaurant/​bar offered a flight tasting-​set of their home-​made beers. It cost you $ 10 for a 7 taster set. Our bartender threw in 1 additional taster for free! Four of us split the taster set. Four of us did not like any of the 8 sampled beers. It was a dissapointment, since all of us enjoy a fun beer and would have gladly patronized the bar. We walked away dissapointed.
Food Grade: D–
Service Grade: C
Worth the Money Grade: B+ (Our large group got a nice rate for lodging).
Overall Impression: C-​/​D+

It’s been a while since my last visit, but I came up to Jiminy Peak about a month ago and shot some video for Island Ski Tours (
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). Island Ski Tours has a pretty sweet deal with Jiminy that includes morning coffee and donuts in a reserved room where guests can leave their bootbags, extra layers, and anything else they wish to leave mountain-​side. Jiminy Peak was a memorable part of my childhood, back to the days when Brodie used to be open too! I want to like this mountain, but with so many better alternatives equidistant from NYC, it’s hard to rate this place too favorably.
Starting with something positive, I’ll give Jiminy some serious props for the snowmaking, but that also comes at the expense of skiing on what feels like granulated sugar. This type of snow forms some seriously squishy moguls in high-​trafficked beginner areas, leading to lots of spills and potential collisions. On the plus side, the black-​diamond runs and their single double black, Jericho, were both skiing really nicely throughout the day.
As for improvements, let’s start with the base area — they have a nicely-​developed village, and one high-​speed six chairlift nestled within that very cramped area. While Jiminy was one of the first New England ski resorts to add a detachable chairlift, they could certainly use another to ease the bottlenecking in this area. Furthermore, they switched to RF ID ticketing so you’ve gotta go through a clunky gate before entering the lift maze. What’s even worse is that they situated the gate in such a way that requires ALL downhill skiers and riders to make a 180-​degree hairpin turn before proceeding through the gates for another lift ride up. Given the crazy amount of skier traffic (remember, this is their ONLY high-​speed lift) and people stopping to wait for their groups, and I’d say the base area is more dangerous than some of their expert-​only runs! Advice: Take the fixed-​grip Whitetail Quad or Summit Triple (both of which will take you to the top) depending on which runs are planned next.
They need to reconsider the base area to allow for more stationary and moving skier traffic, and they need to do a MUCH better job regarding the organization of the lift maze itself. For a six passenger chairlift, it is INEXCUSABLE to not have separate lines for singles, groups of two, and groups of four. Instead, there’s just a chaotic lump of people meandering back and forth all the way up to the lift itself. Only THEN (at the very last minute) does an attendant pair up smaller groups in a best effort to fill each chair up completely. Needless to say, even though the lift line was crowded, several incomplete chairs went up. Whatever they’re doing needs to be re-​evaluated for next season PRONTO. In their defense, I spoke to a ski patroller (they’re all really nice by the way) and he mentioned plans to move some earth around in efforts to increase the base area capacity — I guess I’ll have to wait till next season to see if a review update is in order…
Smaller, and perhaps even borderline superficial, but most of the ski instructors at Jiminy have got to be still in high school. Sure, that’s fine for a summer camp counselor, and maybe I’m old school, but if I were signing up my kid to learn crucial fundamental skills in a sport that’s known to be both fast and potentially dangerous, I’ll choose the ski veteran with 20+ years experience any day of the week. Again, that’s just me.

We came here for one thing and one thing only: The mountain coaster, renamed in my head as the Two Minutes of Terror.
One ride is $ 10. Basically, you sit in a little one person sled that’s on a roller coaster track. You’re taken up the mountain and come down on the sled. You can control the speed with these handles on the side. You’re kept in by a seat belt. The entire time I’m going up, I’m thinking «Oh, this is CLEARLY a kid’s ride. The people before me were 10 years old max. I’m going to go at full speed.» I took the first turn at full speed. After remembering how centripetal force works, and realizing that the only thing keeping me in the plastic box is essentially two straps, I slowed down a bit for the rest of the run. Even then, I could feel myself lifting off the seat at the turns. Apparently, you can get to speeds up to 26 miles per hour. Being Canadian, I don’t know what that means, but I can tell you that it’s pretty fricking fast.
All in all, it was worth the $ 10 just to be scared out of your mind for a couple minutes.