Happy New Year! 2014!

Hi there Doll Faces! 

Happy New Year! I hope everyone had a fabulous time celebrating and ringing in another exciting year! 

This year, friends and I traveled up North to Canada to ski at Mont Tremblant. We later ventured to Montreal where we celebrated New Year's Eve. 

I have never visited either places so I was really excited to take a long weekend and explore a new area. 

The drive from Philadelphia to Mont Tremblant takes about 8.5 hours. It actually took us slightly longer, around 10.5, both there and coming home due to unexpected road conditions and traffic. We spent about an entire day driving there. We arrived at Mont Tremblant at about midnight our first night. 

We stayed at Le Kandahar in the pedestrian village. The hotel was very quaint and we had minimum trouble checking in.

Our pre-purchased lift tickets were supposed to be available for pick up at the front desk. Unfortunately, they were not. After going from one ticket office to another, we ended up at guest services. An associate was unable to find our reservation, mentioning that it had been cancelled. 

The lifts open at Mont Tremblant at 8am and close at 3:30pm. We were finally able to reach a temporary resolution around 12pm our first day, leaving us with only a half day of trail time. Our lift tickets were compensated for that day. Seeing as how we had purchased our tickets in advance, we were pretty upset. Guest services asked us to return when we were finished to resolve the issue. We returned the following day to guest services. Our lift tickets were cancelled by mistake, which we were unaware of and were unable to figure out why, seeing as how they were already paid in full a month in advance. Guest services refunded us for our first day of lift tickets and we were finally able to hit the slopes, after a few phone calls and a couple hours of waiting around, instead of skiing. 

The mountain itself is beautiful. Aside from all of the trouble with the tickets, I very much enjoyed myself.

We joked while we were there saying Mont Tremblant is like the Disney World of mountains; everything was very expensive. 

We visited both bars, lounges and night clubs while there all of which were really fun. 

My only negative review other than the trouble we had with our lift tickets, would be how incredibly rude everyone was! I was completely surprised. 

After 3 nights on the mountain, we drove to Montreal. 

Montreal was so much fun! The city is about the size of Philadelphia and absolutely beautiful. It was beyond cold while we there which was the only downfall. I would love to visit again when it's slightly warmer. 

New Years eve we went to Muzique. The city was packed that night and we ended up waiting in line for about 45 minutes, even with pre-purchased tickets. We eventually ended up purchasing bottle service and skipping the rest of the line. We literally walked in as the entire club counted down "3-2-1". 

Once we were all inside, we had a blast. The first room that you walk into was all EDM and house music and the DJ was awesome. I did see that there was another room near the bathrooms, which was even bigger, playing hip hop. I also heard there was a roof top terrace which I did not check out since it was -5 degrees. We met 3 people from Montreal while waiting in line who joined us at our table. They were tons of fun. 

New Years day we made the long drive back home. Although it took a while driving, it was totally worth it. We all had a fantastic weekend and even made some new friends. 

I would definitely recommend visiting Montreal. I would also suggest Mont Tremblant for the experience however, I don't know that I need to go back. 

Next year, I think we'll just host some people at our house :) 

Stay Fabulous! 

-R