Vacation Village in the Berkshires

500 sqare ft is pretty roomy for a couple; it has everything I need to enjoy my vacation and is nicely furnished, kitchen stocked with everything I need to prepare my meals Pots And pans and new plates and cups, very clean the only problem I had was… the kitchen counter is small. Vacation Village even have free laundry on every floor a free movie rental… wifi for an additional charge. The phone reception in the area is bad, depending on your carrier I have t mobile ;there is no service here for that carrier.

I haven’t stayed at many RCI resorts, but this is my favorite vacation place. I’ve stay at the Wyndham across the street. But I like Vacation Village much more. Rooms are quiet, and the scenery is beautiful. Not a whole lot to do locally, but there are some things around if you look. Plus the resort itself offers a lot for the kids, so my son is pretty happy. We are thrilled to be able to take our family dog with us on vacation — That’s a big plus for us! Overall, a great resort!

Pros:
Great clean place, tastefully decorated. Pool & grounds were well maintained. Activities for kids (arts & crafts, bingo) adults (water aerobics, yoga) family (movies). It’s right across from Jiminy Peak.
Cons:
front desk women were NASTY & RUDE! In person & on the phone with any question we had. We witnessed others being treated nasty as well. They were horrible!!! This is a family vacation spot & visitors have questions. They werent helpful. Make sure NOT to ask any questions about Jiminy Peak they will snap! Also rooms were not insulated well. We could hear everything & everyone above us, next to us & below us. Wi-​Fi was out & was slow, jacuzzi jets blew black stuff out & toilet never stopped running (I didn’t dare call front desk to complain) too scared!

Always a great stay since buying in when it was new. A unique vacation where you can prep your own meals or explore Pittsfield for a number of choices. Swim, work out, hike or relax. Hit The Peak across the street for all sorts of options all year long. Great proximity to destinations like Lee, Stockbridge or longer scenic rides to places like Manchester VT (stop at Pownal View barn on the way up for a peek and maybe say hello to their giant doggy who’s name I forget at the moment). The property is holding up well sans for some worn out wallpaper or cracked joints in the walls. Always very clean, you can never tell if someone was staying just before you. Bathrooms and kitchens always spic-​n-​span. Maintenance is done well. The stairwells in bldg 12 are being recarpeted as we speak. Missing the snow this time around but you can’t control the weather!

Surly unfriendly staff to check us in. Room smells awful. The queen sized bed guaranteed in the room is the smallest queen size we have ever seen. Its boxspring is two thin sheets of plywood Carpeting old. No maintenance or upkeep in a long time. Ancient RCA in bedroom. Ugghh Disappointing and unpleasant

Pros:
— Beautiful area especially for a fall weekend trip.
— Huge room. Ours had a full kitchen, dining area, sofa and two chairs, a fire place, King bed, full bathroom, and a jacuzzi tub.
— Close to Pittsfield and North Adams.
Cons:
— paying for wifi. Ten dollars a day gets you access to their slower than average high-​speed internet. I didn’t know what the cell phone service was like in the area when I agreed to the wifi fee, but it’s fine. Would have been cheaper to add more GBs of data to my cell plan.
–The grocery store, or any store really, is at least 20 min away. We planned our grocery stops into our day trips so it wasn’t a big deal, but if you forgot something it’s at least 40 min round trip.
–Noise. Maybe they saved money on skipping the insulation in the walls, but you can hear almost everything you neighbors are doing.
Overall not a bad place in a beautiful area. Great spacious rooms with a jacuzzi tub. Just bring ear plugs when you want some quiet and maybe a book to skip the wifi fee.

Rooms are spacious and the area is pretty. The beds and furniture are pretty outdated and not comfortable. We were both itchy on the furniture and in the bed.
The area is pretty boring and there is not much to do or open. There is no restaurant onsite, so expect to drive a few miles for anything you may need.
We found a lot of places were not open much of the week and close early.

My wife and I stood here with our dog for 4 days/​3 nights during the Labor day weekend. We stood in building one, which was a distance away from pools, main desk, etc… Overall, staff is friendly enough. Grounds are clean and well kept. Rooms were clean upon our arrival. Couch was uncomfortable, bed was OK. We had a minor leak coming from the kitchen sink and the outside main door latch was broken. Outside door was not able to shut and lock properly. Latch on frame was broken. I notified maintenance of both the above-​mentioned. Leak in our unit was addressed and fixed. Broken latch was never addressed and was still broken when we left. Now on to the wi-​fi or lack of. You must pay a $ 25 wi-​fi fee, for wi-​fi that is very inconsistent and barely functional. It truly is more aggravation than anything else. Wi-​fi sucks here, it is a fact. Accept that and you’ll be better off. I gave up trying to connect to the wi-​fi for the most part. I contacted the main desk to inform them of the wi-​fi and request a refund. They did refund our $ 25 as it was not working. Otherwise, decent stay. Few hiccups that took place won’t stop us from visiting again. We enjoyed our stay and will return again next year. It offers beautiful scenery and is in a great location. While staying here, be sure to visit My. Greylock, best part of our vacation. Mt. Greylock is an awesome place!!! Have fun and enjoy.

This is our last night staying at the vacation village in the Berkshires we’ve been here for seven nights in a one bedroom C unit —
Very nice people run this Rci gold crown resort we originally were supposed to check in on a Saturday and they allowed us to move it to Friday. This is a great place to come if you have a family either with children or older parents it’s well managed and it’s easy to get around to the different buildings. There’s an indoor pool as well as a large outdoor pool that are both open till 11 PM there’s also an exercise room game room with whose ball pool table pinball machine and some other games– tons of barbecues anything you can possibly want is here but there is no restaurants on the premises.
However the units are extremely comfortable our one-​bedroom unit came equipped with a beautiful kitchen to flatscreen TVs and a surprisingly extra large bathroom with a Jacuzzi tub. Who needs the hot tub downstairs when you have that?
The furnishings were fairly comfortable the couch was not as comfortable as it should be but everything else was fine.
It’s nice because it’s right in the mountain and there’s a balcony off the bedroom with a table and chairs and it’s so quiet and the air is so clean up here it’s really beautiful.
They have DVDs at the front desk that you can rent for free. The Wi-​Fi it works pretty well I think they just upgraded it. All in all I’ve stated many RCI resorts and this one is indeed up to gold crown status.
I’d highly recommend staying here anytime of year for skiing or for the fall leaves changing or for the summer to use the pool and the many wonderful things going on in the Berkshires.

The bad:
–The WiFi is terrible.
–Your stay is very dependent on your neighbors (if they are playing touch football upstairs) you’ll feel the vibrations
The good:
–it’s absolutely beautiful. The scenery, even now in the summer is incredibly lush, the grounds are very well maintained and the drive is serene.
–the staff really tries hard. Sometimes you’ll have the same person doing poker and water aerobics but they try and make your stay pleasant
–uh free movies!!! You can rent them for free and they have a fairly decent DVD selection
–the rooms are very nice, they are kept clean (you know when they are just polishing crap as we’ve all had BAD ROOMS).
–it’s vacation. All shops are within 8 – 10 miles and there is a lot to do
Enjoy your stay

Vacation Village in the Berkshires is a small but nice timeshare operation situated on a hilltop just across the road from Jiminy Peak ski resort.
I am not convinced that the operation is at RCI Gold Star level, but it is quite comfortable. The devil is in the details to earn the highest rating, in my opinion.
We are staying in an AB suite, which has separate doors off a common, private entrance way. The layout is generally convenient. The view out of our windows is quite nice. Negatives: The furnace is in the living room and rather loud while watching tv. The living room coat closet is in an inconvenient corner behind furniture; its doors would probably work better if one could stand more comfortably in front of the closet.
Our suite has a whirlpool tub for one person in the bedroom. Negatives: A Gold Star facility should have a jacuzzi for two, no? Also, the whirlpool jets released volumes of black plumbing debris into two bathing attempts, something we will report before we leave.
The bathrooms are cavernous, so those looking for a large bathroom should be pleased. Our shower worked great. Nice tile floor and modern lighting and shower fan. Big closet. Negatives: No light over the shower in either unit. No light over or near the toilet in the B unit. The wallpapering job in our A unit was poorly done — lots of plaster and unconnected seams. The paper near the bathroom mirror was not fastened down but curled up towards the mirror. I would recommend some sort of furniture in the bathrooms so people have a place to set a newspaper, cell phone or tablet/​iPad, wallet, keys, etc. We had to put the soap on the «seat» in the shower because the shelf made for soap bars was at a bit of an angle and the soap would fall.
A nice big screen tv and DVD player in the living room of the A unit. Your $ 25 fee gives you access to their stock of DVDs — two can be charged out at a time. Two typewritten pages of movies from about two years ago and earlier, including a stock of popular films of the past twenty years. Negative: We had to call the desk to find out how to switch back and forth from TV to DVD. (They sent someone to our room rather quickly and he showed us the ropes. I’d recommend a free standing instruction card next to the tv.)
The tables and counters seem pretty hearty, which might explain the lack of coasters.
The living room came with a boom box that plays CDs and radio. I would recommend modernizing with an alarm clock radio with a dock connector port for iPods and an audio input jack.
Our room had a quiet, nicely functioning dishwasher. Negatives: The kitchen came with only two dishwasher tablets for a week’s stay. The dishwasher door was at such an angle that the bottom drawer would roll back into the dishwasher whenever you let go of it. I eventually resorted to removing the back wheels of the lower drawer from the track while adding or removing dishes and silverware.
The check in building has a lounge and a glass wall so you can see the indoor pool. Some folks enjoy stepping outside to use the hot tub outside. They have a NY Times vending machine in the doorway. The staff is on duty ²⁴⁄₇ and were always pleasant and helpful. It seems odd to me that the check in building gets the best site on the property.
The General Store across the street has some basics you might need. I bought some condiments, plastic wrap, lunch meat, juice, eggs, etc. They also have a large selection of wines and beers. They offer quality lunchmeats which they cut for you by the pound, and they have a board showing sandwiches and soups they make. You’ll want to travel to Pittsfield for meats and most foods. There are several major grocery chains located there.
Many of the museums and attractions have restricted hours or are closed after Columbus Day. Check the fine print, especially if you are relying on Unilocal for hours.
Like most resorts we’ve stayed at, the Wifi situation was complex and annoying. The biggest single issue we have with timeshare resorts is their abysmal wifi service. I’d gladly pay a fee for better service, if that service would be modern and functional. The fee-​based service at this and most resorts is still much worse than a cable company offers its customers in their homes. We may use wifi more than most while at a resort, but even occasional users will want it to work and without impediment. Bad internet can be maddening for people in the timeshare category.
We’re quite pleased all in all with our stay and wouldn’t hesitate to stay here again. Like I said, some mostly little things could be improved to get the highest rating.

We were in an A unit and liked th compfy king bed. All was clean BUT we were intitially told we had wifi but if we paid $ 10.00 more it would be faster. The wifi was terrible and this was a working vacation for my husband so we left one day early. The wifi goes on and off – mostly off. They gave all sorts of lame excuses until finally someone admitted they had a problem with wifi. We would maybe stay again in the same unit only since after reading all these comments I realize not all units are nice. The units are well thought out but too bad they did not use quality construction. Layout and amenities were really good. We did have use of our cell phone the whole time though. We agree about the thin walls too. We could hear everyone walking around upstairs and showering. Hope their new buildings correct all this. Then I would rent there again.

Where to even start, I stayed out here during December 2013, it was really nice, snow there are a lot of things to do around the area.
I say do your research, before you go to this place I say please go Grocery shopping since everything is so far away 20 mins away from the place.
The apartment I got was really nice, clean, fire place, everything was clean.

I would have liked this place much more if the room hadn’t smelled unpleasantly. Upon telling the staff, they did nothing to correct it. They would «look into it».
How nice! How about looking into giving me a discount for spending the night in a room that smells of cat urine? Wouldn’t that be the decent thing to do?

A fun spot for a family vacation.
I came here with the Hubster and the in-​laws including his parents, his younger brother and his girlfriend. We rented an AB suite for a week which includes one large one-​bedroom suite with a full kitchen, living and dining room and patio; and one smaller one-​bedroom with a kitchenette and smaller dining and living room. Both suites have a pullout couch. The suites were great, and it was nice that we had two suites that were sort of attached, giving us the ability to hang out together or have our own space. As an avid cook, I was pretty impressed with the kitchen and all the stuff they had in it (casseroles, variety of pots and pans, plates, etc.) You WILL have to bring all food stuff, including cooking oil, salt and pepper, etc. There’s a Price Chopper in Pittsfield, about 30 minutes away.
The amenities are pretty good, table tennis, indoor pool, outdoor pool and hot tub. There’s also beach volleyball, basketball and a playground for kids, as well as a bit of hiking. They are good with pets, but you’ll be paying a $ 250 pet charge per suite. Decent amount of parking.
The beds were a bit too soft for my taste, leading to some not very restful evenings, but other than that, it was a comfortable place to stay.

I had a really fun time here! The rooms are really nice, and I slept soundly on the fold-​out the whole time. Maybe it was the long days of adventuring in the Berkshires that tired me out, though, because what fold-​out mattress is ever comfortable? The indoor-​outdoor pool thing was a lovely treat, because the weather was unpredictable. Kids loved it here, there is a game room AND tons of pools, grass, swings… I guess it doesn’t take too much to please them.
My only ill remarks are on the lack of restaurant, bar, cabana, or anything offering booze within 5 miles of the place. It’s a good thing there are stocked kitchens in the rooms, or we would have been going hungry in this little retreat.

My Wife and I stayed here for a week at the beginning of September. I was braced for the worst, but was pleasantly surprised. Our suite was spacious, well equipped and clean as a whistle. Loved the jacuzzi in the bedroom and the porch out back. We brought our dog with us, and he liked it too! Nice areas to walk your dog, and the room seemed free of «pet damage». Our place was quiet too, unlike some of the other reviews here. We were there at a pretty slow time of the year though. If the place was packed, I could see noise being a problem.
If this place was so great, why not 5 stars? Well, the bed was hard as a rock. It was really uncomfortable, so much so that I took to sleeping on the couch. Not the pull-​out, the couch itself. The pillows were useless too. Thank Goodness we brought our own.
Also, the water pressure in the shower was pathetic. It was so weak, you never got that invigorating «wake-​up» feeling. The lighting in the bathroom was pretty poor too.
One other negative, thought this has nothing to do with the resort– It is MILES from shopping. The closest supermarket is a good 25 minutes away, so remember to bring supplies with you.
Negatives aside, we had a really wonderful, relaxing time here, and would happily return again.
Especially if they got new beds!

Will never stay there again. The suite was spacious, and clean. That’s the good stuff.
The bad: The bed was rock hard. My wife developed back pain it was so hard. The sheets were like sand paper, too. It’s sad when Comfort Inn holds a higher standard.
The really bad: the plumbing in the tub had issues. The drain couldn’t keep up with the water flow. While showering the water collects around your feet. But does the staff take care of it after you notify them of the problem. No. So when it happens again, and you complain about it, all you get is a disingenuous sorry.
Enjoy your stay.

We stayed here after finding a good deal on Expedia and we liked the idea of a secluded cabin type place for a weekend get away. The staff here is friendly. You go check in at the main building up the hill and they will tell you where your «condo room» is via map. It’s a decent walk so I would drive around the area as opposed to walking. We went during winter too so it wasn’t as busy, which was nice. There’s a small game room with arcade stuff for kids and a good size indoor pool– looked like mostly kids. The outdoor hot tub is fun but I can see how that small tub could get crowded easily.
I wish two things: there were more food options in the area and I couldn’t hear my neighbor going to the bathroom or him coughing all night. Yes, as mentioned by other reviewers, don’t expect a lot of sleep when you come. You can hear EVERYTHING your neighbor is doing and it’s quite disturbing. The rooms are nice and clean. We had a nice fake fireplace and a small balcony too. I don’t think I would come back just because of the noise issue.

The two stars are entirely for the clubhouse design (nice indoor pool, game room, internet room, huge windows with an amazing view), and our tour rep, Bill.
So why are there ONLY two stars? We arrived a bit early for our reservation: 3:45 for a 4PM check-​in. We were told our room wasn’t ready and we should check back in a few minutes. No cell phone reception up here either, so we couldn’t stray too far from the front desk.
Well, one grocery-​store-​run later, it was 4:30. We went back to the front desk and were told, once again, that our room was still not ready — that cleaning service was a bit slow today. We browsed the tourist attraction brochures, went to the bathroom, did anything we could to kill time. Finally, at 5:15pm, our room was ready.
First impression when we walked into our room? Wow, this place is pretty big, especially for a «B unit.» Lots of space, lots of light. Now, we own our timeshare and this was just a quick weekend trip at a sister resort… so have plenty of experience with timeshares. Therefore, this first impression did not last very long. Upon further inspection, there was no stove — only an electric cooktop. The bed was just queen size. It was uncomfortable and creaky and would soon leave me with a stiff back to drive home with. The TVs were nice but actually rather small — we had to strain to see the TV from the bed. The A units were similar except they had a bigger kitchen and a jacuzzi in the master bedroom.
We found out later that night (and maybe our neighbors found out sooner) that the walls are paper-​thin. I could hear my neighbor going to the bathroom, using the toilet, flushing the toilet, washing his hands, sneezing, rinsing his hands. Imagine what our neighbors heard coming from my room?
The next morning, we were supposed to attend a tour. We were sent to the bottom of the mountain to the «Welcome Center» where we were welcomed with a trip back up the mountain to retrieve a sheet of paper that we were not told that we needed to bring. After driving back up and down the mountain (about a 10 minute drive each way), we were told we were sent down the mountain by mistake and were supposed to take our tour at the resort itself (back where we came from, twice).
Well finally took our tour — and as owners, these tours are very relaxed since they aren’t trying to sell you anything. Our rep, Bill, was awesome. an aforementioned star for him. Bill showed us one of the newer buildings — updated with new mattresses that don’t creak or give you back pain. He told us that the rest of the resort will be updated with these mattresses very soon. Nice. Furthermore, the B unit (similar to the one we were staying in) was being replaced by a C unit (practically an A unit). Nice perk for people who own at Berkshires, irrelevant for us.
After the tour? We got the hell out of there.
This place would probably be great in the winter time. The ski slopes are right across the street. Lots of artsy things to do in the area as well. I’m willing to give this place another shot, but only time will tell.