Wow, we have visited my brother and his family who live in Ameherst as we are British and live in the UK. He took us skiing at Holiday Valley. We have skied in Europe and most of it is queue jumping and pushing. Well Holiday Valley.. you are polite, friendly and cheerful. We thoroughly enjoyed our 2 days skiing with you. The snow was excellent and the people both skiers and Holiday Valley employees were friendly and nice. It was great fun (the lady on the chairlift at the nursery slopes well YOU ARE ABSOLUTELY NUTS!!). The only negative is that the nursery slopes are a little short and snow canons could go on both side of the chair lift to give more space!!.

Thanks again. We hope that it was our first BUT CERTAINLY NOT OUR LAST. Wouldnt mind moving to Amherst permantly. See you all soon we hope. The Rigg family.

I'm 52 years old and grew up in New England and have skied at most of the resorts there and worked at quite a few to get through college. HV doesn't have much vertical but, it has a wide variety of terrain and good uphill capacity. The older I get my brain writes checks my body can't cash. So the shorter runs are fine. I put as much emphasis now on the lodges (bars) as I do the skiing and and at HV and Ellicottville they rival anything anywhere for a good time. My wife Julia and I are Realtors on Chautauqua Lake 45 minutes away and we like Ellicottville so much we just purchased a fractional at the Tamarack Club.

It's a good resort for the location. They make a lot of snow so even when you get the crappy northeastern weather you can still ski. There are a lot of runs for the size of the hill most are short but the lifts move pretty fast, and most are quads. There is a variety of terrain for beginners to advanced skiers, there are some steep hills they are just a little short. It is a little expensive but night skiing is pretty cheap and they do a good job of lighting up the mountain. They do a pretty louse job with the terrain parks. Generally the landing are horrible and the table tops tend to be too big for the average person who is going to hit it. Over all though a nice place to go for skiing.

Went up on Sunday and Monday (MLK Day) and the conditions were great. However, many slopes still not open....base is not very deep. Many glade runs closed, but you can make your own in several areas. They seem to offer good packages when not all the slopes are open. We got $55 tickets for 2 days (2nd day until 4:30pm). If you need good deal on rentals there is a shop close by....it's more expensive at the mountain.

Great time! What a good little resort. There was not much vert but a good variety of terrain for the area. And I've got to agree with a few of the comments below in saying the town is fantastic. One of the best little ski towns I've been to.