Front Desk Lead - Rock Resort Hotels in Beaver Creek - Front Desk Lead Vail Resorts Employee Review

1.0
7 Oct 2015
Recommend
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Pros

Flexible hours of working 3pm - 11pm makes skiing all day very easy. Job is typically not stressful or strenuous. Leave work at the end of the shift and do not need to think about it again until the next day; zero stress to take home. Free ski pass - advertised as unrestricted but they will revoke your pass when snow pack is low. Cool people to work with, sometimes. About half VR employees are college grads working minimum wage jobs for the sole purpose of skiing. About half of VR employees are there to smoke the green and never aspire to more.

Cons

Pay - I began this job in winter of 2012 at a rate of $10.80 per hour with no overtime, no commission, no incentives. For a point of reference, McDonalds in West Vail paid $12 / hr, and Walmart was at $13.50ish. Hotel guests can be extremely rude, and often rewarded for their behavior. Less a knock on the company and more a knock on the hospitality industry. Extremely high turnover rate. All employees are only a number. You are and always will be 100% replaceable to VR. Pathetic 3% annual pay increase - about $0.32 in my case.

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5.0
12 Jun 2026
Recommend
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Pros

The managers were really cool and the work was fun. Pretty relaxed environment.

Cons

It was cold sometimes and long hours standing but that was all in the job description and we got jackets.

2.0
14 May 2026
Recommend
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Pros

- Most people are smart, passionate, and enjoyable to work with and be around. - Fairly frequent opportunities for development and advancement through the internal job board. - Nice perks if you're into skiing or riding.

Cons

- There's an unspoken expectation to regularly work significantly more hours because the majority of employees are very passionate about the ski and ride industry, which isn't great for work life balance. There's not much down time either; you're either hustling in season or hustling to prepare for the next season. - Climate change poses a significant threat to the future of the company. The season pass model mitigates some of the impacts, but not as much as senior leadership asserts. And, since bonuses are tied to company results, you can end up working super hard all year and still end up getting half of your bonus target due to uncontrollable weather conditions. - The culture has taken a serious hit since enterprise transformation work began. Lots of people are constantly stressed out and the atmosphere in the office is depressing. - Most of the time, it feels like senior leadership makes decisions in a vacuum without consulting any of the people that would be responsible for the downstream work associated with the decision. For example, I've seen senior leaders decide on a savings target multiple times without consulting the experts, who then have to scramble to figure out how to make it work. It creates chaos and negatively impacts morale. - This organization has a wordsmithing problem. I've never worked at a company that spends such an inordinate amount of time on the framing of a message compared to the actual substance of the message.

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