Cascade Village · Grand Hyatt Vail · Est. 2015
Grand Hyatt Vail Car Service.
Private transfers to 1300 Westhaven Drive from Eagle County (EGE) and Denver (DIA). Our office is two minutes west of your room.
Cascade Village · Grand Hyatt Vail · Est. 2015
Private transfers to 1300 Westhaven Drive from Eagle County (EGE) and Denver (DIA). Our office is two minutes west of your room.
35 miles. The closest commercial airport to Vail.
120 miles on I-70, flight tracked by Kyla.
Cascade Village, on Gore Creek.
Down the stairs and onto the lift.
The Property
The Grand Hyatt Vail Resort and Spa sits at 1300 Westhaven Drive, Vail, Colorado 81657. That is Cascade Village, the west side of town, a good distance from the Vail Village core and it feels like it. Westhaven Drive and Westhaven Circle are two of the nicest residential roads in Vail. Big houses, big trees, no through traffic, and it is quiet in a way the middle of the village never is.
The hotel is built right on Gore Creek. The pool deck and the outdoor areas look down onto the water, which is the thing people remember about staying there. In February you sit in the hot tub and listen to the creek run under the ice. In July you can hear it from the room with the window open. Not many Vail properties can say that.
Makoto Vail, the Japanese restaurant from chef Makoto Okuwa, is on the property. The hotel runs its own complimentary shuttle into Vail Village and Lionshead.
Our own office is at 3105 Bellflower Drive in Intermountain, the next neighborhood west. In big snow years we have even skied to our own front door from the terrain off the top of Chair 26, which is how close we are to this side of Vail Mountain. We are not describing this property from a website. We drive past the entrance on the way home.
The Reason to Stay Here
Chair 20 is the Cascade Village lift, and it is a few steps from the hotel. It is one of the last fixed-grip chairs left on Vail Mountain, which means it is slow. That is exactly why it is good. It almost never has a line, including on powder mornings when the mazes at Chair 8 and the Eagle Bahn Gondola are wedged.
We used to drop our own kids here. You pull up at the top of the stairs, everybody gets out, skis come off the rack, and they walk down the stairs and get on the lift. No parking structure, no shuttle, no walking three blocks in ski boots. If you have a group with small kids and a lot of gear, there is not an easier load in Vail.
Here is the part most guests do not know. From the top of Chair 20 you can ride Chair 26, the Pride Express, which is a high-speed detachable quad. That puts you at Eagle's Nest, the top of the Eagle Bahn Gondola. On a big morning you can sometimes be standing at Eagle's Nest before the people who started at the Lionshead base have made it through the maze at the bottom of the gondola. That is the whole trick. Two chairs from a quiet lift, and you have skipped the crowd entirely.
Chair 20 does not run the whole season, so check the current lift status if you are booking around the edges of winter.
One Thing to Be Clear About
Everything Chair 20 and Chair 26 serve is patrolled, controlled Vail Mountain terrain, and that is what a guest at the Grand Hyatt should be skiing. Experienced Vail skiers also know this side of the mountain for the West Vail trees and the sidecountry beyond the ski-area boundary. That terrain is uncontrolled backcountry, not patrolled by anyone, and we mention it as part of the character of this end of the mountain, not to hand out routes or access.
June Through October
Summer is underrated at this property, and the reason is the same reason winter works: the location. The Town of Vail recreation path, the Gore Valley Trail, runs right past the hotel along the creek. You walk out and you are on it.
Go east and the path follows Gore Creek under the Eagle Bahn Gondola and into Lionshead. Go west and it drops toward Donovan Park, which is a big open lawn with a pavilion and a playground and almost nobody on it on a weekday morning. Neither direction puts you on a shoulder next to traffic. It is a paved creekside path through pine, and it is one of the better walks in the Town of Vail.
It is the same path on a bike, and the same path if you want to ride toward Dowd Junction and back. Add the pool over the creek and the quiet residential streets around Westhaven and this end of town is a better summer base than the middle of the village, where you are sleeping above a construction project half the seasons.
Denver Airport to Grand Hyatt Vail
Denver International Airport to the Grand Hyatt Vail is about 120 miles and roughly 2 hours in clear conditions. You leave DIA, run the north side of Denver, pick up I-70 and head west. Then the climb: Floyd Hill, Georgetown, the long pull to the Eisenhower-Johnson Memorial Tunnel at 11,158 feet, down the far side into Summit County past Frisco and Copper, over Vail Pass, and down into town. The Grand Hyatt is the west end of Vail, so on a bad night it is the last few minutes of the drive that decide when you actually get to bed.
That 2 hours is the clear-road number. On a Sunday in February, with the Front Range driving home and CDOT metering the tunnel, the same trip runs 3 to 5 hours. We tell you that before you book instead of after you land.
Kyla watches your flight. If you sit on the ramp in Denver for ninety minutes, we already know, and the car moves with you. Nobody is charging you a wait fee for a delay you did not cause.
Eagle Airport to Grand Hyatt Vail
Eagle County Regional Airport is about 35 miles from the Grand Hyatt and roughly 40 minutes in normal conditions. It is the closest commercial airport to Vail and the reason a lot of families fly United or American into EGE instead of connecting through Denver.
Here is the geography that actually matters to you. Coming from Eagle you are driving east, so you arrive at the west end of Vail first. The Grand Hyatt comes up before Lionshead and well before Vail Village. Guests headed to the Sonnenalp or the Sebastian drive past your door to get to theirs. In a storm, when the last two miles of town are the slow part, that is a real difference.
If you are flying private, we meet the aircraft at the FBO at Eagle and stage the car before you land. If weather closes Eagle, Rifle is the fallback, and we run that too.
Flat-Rate Pricing
| Route | Suburban up to 6 | Sprinter up to 14 |
|---|---|---|
| Eagle County (EGE) → Grand Hyatt Vail | $290 | $430 |
| Denver Airport (DIA) → Grand Hyatt Vail | $595 | $895 |
Vail Powder Cars charges a flat $595 for a Chevrolet Suburban carrying up to 6 guests from Denver International Airport to the Grand Hyatt Vail, and a flat $895 for a Mercedes Sprinter carrying up to 14. Every airport rate includes driver gratuity, fuel, airport fees and taxes. Pickups between 10 PM and 7 AM add $100. These are the summer rates. Winter rates run higher, so send us your dates and we will quote the exact number before you book. The price we quote is the price you pay, and it does not move because it started snowing.
The Winter Drive
Nothing dramatic here. The road climbs to 11,158 feet at the tunnel and crosses Vail Pass at 10,662, weather moves through in bands, and conditions at Georgetown tell you almost nothing about conditions on Vail Pass forty minutes later. Colorado keeps a traction law in effect on this stretch of I-70 through the winter, so every vehicle needs snow-rated tires, all-wheel drive, or chains, and CDOT still closes the corridor outright a few times a season when it gets bad enough.
Our Suburbans run Bridgestone Blizzak DM-V2 winter tires from October through mid-April, and the Sprinters run studded snows. Our drivers have run this corridor for decades, and George has been driving I-70 since the mid-1990s. That is not a sales point, it is the reason the car shows up. We have written up what the drive actually involves in our I-70 winter driving guide, including the traction law and when it is worth waiting an hour instead of pushing through.
The Rental Car Question
If your week is Vail, you probably do not need a car at this property, and the Grand Hyatt is the clearest example of that on the whole mountain. A private car brings you to the door. Chair 20 is the ski day. The creek path is the walk. The hotel shuttle covers Vail Village and Lionshead, and the Town of Vail bus covers the rest for free. Meanwhile a rental sits in a space you are paying for, under snow, for six days.
We are not going to oversell it. If you want to drive to Leadville, run over to Beaver Creek on your own schedule, or make a Costco trip in Avon, a rental is genuinely useful and we will tell you so. We ran the real numbers for a Vail ski week in Do You Need a Rental Car in Vail?, including parking, and the answer is not always no.
Off the Record
Why Guests Choose Us
Your vehicle is yours alone. No shared shuttle, no strangers, no four other hotels before yours.
Quoted before you book, and it does not change at drop-off. No surge.
Kyla watches the tail number. Land early or three hours late, the car moves with you.
Suburbans take 6 guests with skis and bags. Sprinters take 14. Nobody rides with a boot bag on their lap.
Infant, toddler and booster seats in every vehicle, every ride, at no charge.
Family-owned since 2015, and George has been in this valley since 1994. Our office in Intermountain is the next neighborhood west of your room.
Good to Know
Denver International Airport to the Grand Hyatt Vail is a flat $595 in a Chevrolet Suburban for up to 6 guests and a flat $895 in a Mercedes Sprinter for up to 14 guests. That rate includes driver gratuity, fuel, airport fees and taxes. Pickups between 10 PM and 7 AM add $100. Winter rates run higher than the summer rates published here, so send us your dates and we will quote the exact number before you book.
The Grand Hyatt Vail is about 120 miles from Denver International Airport and roughly 2 hours in clear conditions. The route runs west on I-70 through the Eisenhower-Johnson Memorial Tunnel, across Summit County, over Vail Pass and down into Vail. In heavy winter traffic the same drive can take 3 to 5 hours.
Eagle County Regional Airport is about 35 miles from the Grand Hyatt Vail and roughly 40 minutes in normal conditions. EGE is the closest commercial airport to Vail. Because the Grand Hyatt sits at the west end of town in Cascade Village, guests arriving from Eagle reach the property before they would reach Lionshead or Vail Village. Eagle County to the Grand Hyatt is $290 in a Suburban and $430 in a Sprinter.
The Grand Hyatt Vail Resort and Spa is at 1300 Westhaven Drive, Vail, Colorado 81657. It is in Cascade Village, on the west side of Vail, sitting directly on Gore Creek.
Yes. Chair 20, the Cascade Village lift, is a few steps from the property and loads directly onto Vail Mountain. It is a fixed-grip chair, so it rides slower than the gondolas, but it usually has little or no line. From the top of Chair 20 you can take Chair 26, the Pride Express high-speed quad, up to Eagle's Nest at the top of the Eagle Bahn Gondola.
For most guests staying in Vail the whole week, no. You can take a private car from the airport straight to the door, ski from Chair 20, walk the Gore Creek path toward Lionshead or west toward Donovan Park, and use the hotel shuttle to Vail Village and Lionshead. If you plan to drive out of the valley on your own schedule, a rental car still makes sense.
We meet you at the main entrance on Westhaven Drive and handle the bags. On a ski morning we can also pull up at the top of the stairs to Chair 20 so your group can unload skis and walk straight down to the lift.
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Book Your Ride
Call or text George and Kyla directly. No hold music, no dispatch queue. Tell us your flight and we will handle the door at 1300 Westhaven.
Prefer to write? Email VailPowderCars@gmail.com and Kyla will get back to you personally.
See you on Westhaven. — George
Getting to the Grand Hyatt Vail