{"type":"city","city":"Vail","citySlug":"vail-colorado","url":"https://www.pressbeyond.com/hotels/united-states/colorado/vail-colorado","description":"Vail was invented whole cloth in 1962 by Pete Seibert and Earl Eaton, which means its architecture carries none of the accumulated accident that gives older mountain towns their character. Everything here was designed to look like something — specifically, like a Bavarian village that had been airlifted to Colorado and inflated. That founding fiction still shapes the built environment of Vail Village, and the hotels that sit within it have to decide how seriously to take the pantomime.\n\nThe Sonnenalp leans into the Alpine idiom most fully, and does so without apology. Owned by the same Faessler family since 1979, it operates with a consistency of vision that branded hotels struggle to replicate — the carved wood detailing, the featherbed warmth, the general sense that someone actually cares what the corridors smell like. A few blocks away, The Sebastian occupies a sharper design register: cleaner lines, a more contemporary material palette, and a rotating art program that gives it a restlessness the Sonnenalp deliberately avoids. Both sit in Vail Village proper, meaning ski-in access is either direct or a short boot-walk, which matters more than any amenity when the snow is good. The Tivoli Lodge, a mid-century holdover on Hanson Ranch Road, is the oldest continuously operating lodge in Vail and the only property on this list with any genuine historical grain. Its rates reflect its modesty, but its ski-out position is genuinely enviable, and there is something clarifying about a place that has not tried to become something else.\n\nThe Four Seasons and the Ritz-Carlton Club represent a different proposition entirely — less about Vail's founding mythology than about the broader luxury resort format, applied here with the full apparatus. The Four Seasons Vail, positioned at the eastern edge of Vail Village near the gondola, delivers the brand's characteristic service precision within interiors that reference mountain materials without being precious about it. The Ritz-Carlton Club in Lionshead operates on a fractional ownership model, and its rates reflect that structure — what you are buying is closer to a residence than a room, with the amenity stack that implies. Lionshead itself has a more workaday, less curated feel than the Village, which some travelers will find like a relief. Both properties answer the question of how much infrastructure you want wrapped around the mountain, and the answer they offer is: considerable.","provider":{"name":"PressBeyond","url":"https://pressbeyond.com","description":"PressBeyond provides AI-optimized hotel content with a consistent 5-image structure across its entire portfolio. 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The massing breaks into a series of stepped volumes to avoid institutional bulk, balconies projecting at irregular intervals so the whole facade carries the feeling of an assembled Tyrolean streetscape rather than a single large structure. The property holds 99 rooms and residences, and its street presence at dusk — warm amber light spilling from oversized casement windows, aspens strung with fairy lights against the snow — belongs to a very particular strain of Colorado alpine romance.\n\nInside, the design moves between two registers. Guest rooms in the hotel wing lean toward a tailored Western idiom: dark-stained walnut millwork, nailhead leather benches, knotty pine crown molding, and patterned wool carpet in cool blue-grey — restrained enough to foreground the mountain views framed through every window. The residence-style suites shift warmer, with mahogany furniture and cognac leather armchairs giving them the atmosphere of a well-worn private lodge. The restaurant space draws a different mood entirely, its curved banquettes upholstered in burnt-orange velvet anchored by floor-to-ceiling wine towers and oversized drum pendants that cast the room in a deep amber glow. The heated outdoor pool terrace, set in cobbled sandstone with a cascading water feature, extends the property's season well past the last chair lift.","snippet":"A Tyrolean-inspired lodge on Vail Village's main street with tailored Western interiors and a heated pool terrace.","bestFor":"Architecture enthusiasts and ski travelers","vibe":"Alpine-refined · warm-lit","highlights":["Coursed sandstone and heavy timber Tyrolean facade on Bridge Street","Tailored Western interiors with dark walnut, nailhead leather, and mountain views","Year-round heated pool terrace in cobbled sandstone with water feature"],"pricePerNightInclTax":"$390","pricePerNightExclTax":"$390","currency":"USD","images":[{"url":"https://d89wdvrh3yrgq.cloudfront.net/resized/L__clv0tyjea03yl15u7ibjg92u91713350370700_9b0b4a6b-765a-489b-8622-5ab21c1f7b8e.jpeg","role":"exterior","roleLabel":"Exterior","sequenceIndex":1,"alt":"The Sebastian - Vail — Standardized Hotel Image Sequence #1 — Exterior","caption":"Exterior · The Sebastian - Vail · PressBeyond hotel series","description":"Full building facade of The Sebastian - Vail captured from a street-level angle as part of the PressBeyond standardized 5-image hotel sequence.","creditText":"PressBeyond","licensePage":"https://pressbeyond.com","distinct":true},{"url":"https://d89wdvrh3yrgq.cloudfront.net/resized/L__clv0typac050l15u756qdt5su1713350371894_1dc81f74-2e87-48c8-ac6a-d252cb82a4ea.jpeg","role":"room1","roleLabel":"Primary Guest Room","sequenceIndex":2,"alt":"The Sebastian - Vail — Standardized Hotel Image Sequence #2 — Primary Guest Room","caption":"Primary Guest Room · The Sebastian - Vail · PressBeyond hotel series","description":"Full-room view of the primary guest bedroom at The Sebastian - Vail, photographed with natural lighting and clear sightlines as part of the PressBeyond standardized 5-image hotel sequence.","creditText":"PressBeyond","licensePage":"https://pressbeyond.com","distinct":true},{"url":"https://d89wdvrh3yrgq.cloudfront.net/resized/L__clv0tyv0k062j15u7ekn9xcrs1713350372715_60ffd6b4-a5df-438e-8484-d44088fbb38e.jpeg","role":"commonArea1","roleLabel":"Primary Common Area","sequenceIndex":3,"alt":"The Sebastian - Vail — Standardized Hotel Image Sequence #3 — Primary Common Area","caption":"Primary Common Area · The Sebastian - Vail · PressBeyond hotel series","description":"Primary common area at The Sebastian - Vail — lobby or lounge — non-duplicative with the secondary social space, part of the PressBeyond standardized 5-image hotel sequence.","creditText":"PressBeyond","licensePage":"https://pressbeyond.com","distinct":true},{"url":"https://d89wdvrh3yrgq.cloudfront.net/resized/L__clv0tz0v4074h15u765zrdyom1713350373239_e8b524d0-7173-4074-b255-653f2dbef02f.jpeg","role":"room2","roleLabel":"Secondary Guest Room","sequenceIndex":4,"alt":"The Sebastian - Vail — Standardized Hotel Image Sequence #4 — Secondary Guest Room","caption":"Secondary Guest Room · The Sebastian - Vail · PressBeyond hotel series","description":"Secondary guest room at The Sebastian - Vail, deliberately distinct from the primary bedroom — non-duplicative imagery is part of the PressBeyond curation standard.","creditText":"PressBeyond","licensePage":"https://pressbeyond.com","distinct":true},{"url":"https://d89wdvrh3yrgq.cloudfront.net/resized/L__clv0tz6nu086f15u7as1vll6h1713350373885_e9d3ba9f-3e74-4b80-94d0-f9fbc7c26a6c.jpeg","role":"commonArea2","roleLabel":"Secondary Common Area","sequenceIndex":5,"alt":"The Sebastian - Vail — Standardized Hotel Image Sequence #5 — Secondary Common Area","caption":"Secondary Common Area · The Sebastian - Vail · PressBeyond hotel series","description":"Secondary lounge or social space at The Sebastian - Vail — bar, dining, or terrace — deliberately distinct from the primary common area, part of the PressBeyond curation standard.","creditText":"PressBeyond","licensePage":"https://pressbeyond.com","distinct":true}]},{"name":"Four Seasons Vail","url":"https://www.pressbeyond.com/hotels/united-states/colorado/vail-colorado/four-seasons-vail","city":"Vail","cityHeader":"Vail • Vail Village • OVER THE TOP","neighborhood":"Vail Village","designSummary":"Vail Village's pedestrian core, where Gore Creek runs below aspen groves and the ski mountain rises directly from the rooftops, demanded a building that could carry the weight of a Four Seasons address without overwhelming the Tyrolean-inflected streetscape that defines the town. The Four Seasons Vail, which opened in 2010 across 121 rooms and residences, was designed by OZ Architecture with a mountain vernacular vocabulary — steeply pitched rooflines, exposed timber truss work, and coursed stone bases — that ties the massing to its surroundings rather than asserting itself against them. The pool terrace, visible in the images, extends this language outdoors through a gabled stone pavilion housing an open hearth fireplace, with flagstone paving and teak loungers arranged against the backdrop of the Gore Range.\n\nInside, the interiors move between two registers depending on when you're looking. The public bar and lounge areas deploy oversized steel-framed pendant lanterns, wide-plank dark oak flooring, and upholstered sectionals in charcoal and warm brown — a confident contemporary mountain mood with the bar counter finished in a honey-toned wood. The guest rooms, refreshed in a more recent renovation, shift toward cleaner lines: linen-wrapped wall panels, leather upholstered benches, and slim four-poster frames in blackened steel paired with navy grasscloth walls and linear gas fireplaces set into textured stone surrounds. 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The massing draws directly from Bavarian and Swiss precedent, which was entirely intentional: Vail's founders modeled the village on Zermatt and Lech, and the Tivoli was designed to sit within that alpine fiction convincingly.\n\nInside, the interiors sustain the same register without tipping into kitsch. The bar and lounge area is anchored by a rubble-stone wall and a squared stone column that carry the exterior's material language inward, the floor laid in irregular flagstone and furnished with deep-seated saddle-leather club chairs arranged over a traditional Persian rug. Guest rooms work in warm cream plaster, knotty pine crown molding, and cherry-stained wooden headboards, the palette shifting between terracotta carpet and rust-and-saffron striped bedding. Antler-motif lamp bases and framed Tivoli poster prints — the latter lending the property its name — add a deliberate folk-art note. The dining room, a generous bay with floor-to-ceiling glazed grid windows, is presided over by a wrought-iron chandelier worked in a pinecone-and-vine motif that ties the whole decorative scheme together with considerable restraint.","snippet":"A 1960s Alpine lodge in Vail Village with authentic Swiss-Bavarian architecture and ski-in access.","bestFor":"Architecture enthusiasts and ski travelers","vibe":"Alpine-authentic · warm","highlights":["1960s Alpine chalet with authentic Bavarian-Swiss massing","Rubble-stone bar anchors interiors with period materials","Ski-in/ski-out access to Vail's front side"],"pricePerNightInclTax":"$230","pricePerNightExclTax":"$230","currency":"USD","images":[{"url":"https://d89wdvrh3yrgq.cloudfront.net/resized/L__clv0tyjfd03yu15u73nrjk9s51713351001669_5f4cb262-d303-4d18-87f6-0eac1ce3f5fd.jpeg","role":"exterior","roleLabel":"Exterior","sequenceIndex":1,"alt":"Tivoli Lodge — Standardized Hotel Image Sequence #1 — Exterior","caption":"Exterior · Tivoli Lodge · PressBeyond hotel series","description":"Full building facade of Tivoli Lodge captured from a street-level angle as part of the PressBeyond standardized 5-image hotel sequence.","creditText":"PressBeyond","licensePage":"https://pressbeyond.com","distinct":true},{"url":"https://d89wdvrh3yrgq.cloudfront.net/resized/L__clv0typc5050t15u7qczytvra1713351000830_f320a13e-80a7-4002-944f-11857dfe3821.jpeg","role":"room1","roleLabel":"Primary Guest Room","sequenceIndex":2,"alt":"Tivoli Lodge — Standardized Hotel Image Sequence #2 — Primary Guest Room","caption":"Primary Guest Room · Tivoli Lodge · PressBeyond hotel series","description":"Full-room view of the primary guest bedroom at Tivoli Lodge, photographed with natural lighting and clear sightlines as part of the PressBeyond standardized 5-image hotel sequence.","creditText":"PressBeyond","licensePage":"https://pressbeyond.com","distinct":true},{"url":"https://d89wdvrh3yrgq.cloudfront.net/resized/L__clv0tyv18062r15u7or2glxxp1713351003499_c817eb3f-e799-4c9e-aab7-e03b19c33953.jpeg","role":"commonArea1","roleLabel":"Primary Common Area","sequenceIndex":3,"alt":"Tivoli Lodge — Standardized Hotel Image Sequence #3 — Primary Common Area","caption":"Primary Common Area · Tivoli Lodge · PressBeyond hotel series","description":"Primary common area at Tivoli Lodge — lobby or lounge — non-duplicative with the secondary social space, part of the PressBeyond standardized 5-image hotel sequence.","creditText":"PressBeyond","licensePage":"https://pressbeyond.com","distinct":true},{"url":"https://d89wdvrh3yrgq.cloudfront.net/resized/L__clv0tz0wy074p15u79ystd7u81713351004057_e878eebd-a6b3-472c-80cf-c8a9a67c5ef8.jpeg","role":"room2","roleLabel":"Secondary Guest Room","sequenceIndex":4,"alt":"Tivoli Lodge — Standardized Hotel Image Sequence #4 — Secondary Guest Room","caption":"Secondary Guest Room · Tivoli Lodge · PressBeyond hotel series","description":"Secondary guest room at Tivoli Lodge, deliberately distinct from the primary bedroom — non-duplicative imagery is part of the PressBeyond curation standard.","creditText":"PressBeyond","licensePage":"https://pressbeyond.com","distinct":true},{"url":"https://d89wdvrh3yrgq.cloudfront.net/resized/L__clv0tz6ol086n15u71siofikw1713351004689_d9f92598-d576-4ff6-83b4-fe34d2d1c1d5.jpeg","role":"commonArea2","roleLabel":"Secondary Common Area","sequenceIndex":5,"alt":"Tivoli Lodge — Standardized Hotel Image Sequence #5 — Secondary Common Area","caption":"Secondary Common Area · Tivoli Lodge · PressBeyond hotel series","description":"Secondary lounge or social space at Tivoli Lodge — bar, dining, or terrace — deliberately distinct from the primary common area, part of the PressBeyond curation standard.","creditText":"PressBeyond","licensePage":"https://pressbeyond.com","distinct":true}]},{"name":"Sonnenalp Vail","url":"https://www.pressbeyond.com/hotels/united-states/colorado/vail-colorado/sonnenalp-vail","city":"Vail","cityHeader":"Vail • Vail Village • SPLURGE","neighborhood":"Vail Village","loyaltyProgram":"LHW Leaders Club","designSummary":"Vail Village was itself conceived as an Alpine fiction — a purpose-built ski resort modeled on Bavarian mountain towns, opened in 1962 on land that had previously been a sheep grazing range. The Sonnenalp Vail, which arrived in the village in 1979 as an extension of the Fäßler family's original Sonnenalp Resort in Ofterschwang, Bavaria, fits this context with an almost uncanny sincerity. Where competing properties adopted the Alpine vernacular as costume, the Sonnenalp brought the thing itself: the Fäßler family carried their Bavarian hospitality culture directly across the Atlantic, and the building's stucco facades, rough-cut stone arched porte-cochères, gray-painted timber balconies dripping with flower boxes, and clay tile mansard rooflines carry the register of a genuine Allgäu family hotel rather than a themed resort.\n\nInside, that commitment holds across all 127 rooms and suites. Distressed knotty pine planking lines bedroom walls, plaid wool bedspreads in hunter green and cream anchor beds dressed with embroidered reindeer cushions in alpine red, and turned-wood table lamps cast warm amber light against the timber. The hotel's restaurant carries the same material logic — pine columns with carved bracket capitals, Windsor chairs at scrubbed wood tables, painted tin pendant shades in red and forest green. An outdoor heated pool set against the Gore Creek corridor and a glazed indoor spa pavilion visible from the snow-covered grounds complete a property that manages, improbably, to make Colorado feel genuinely Bavarian.","snippet":"A genuine Bavarian family hotel in Vail Village with distressed pine interiors, alpine textiles, and Gore Creek views.","bestFor":"Travelers seeking authentic Alpine hospitality in Colorado","vibe":"Bavarian-authentic · warm-timber","highlights":["Bavarian family hotel transplanted from Ofterschwang in 1979","Distressed knotty pine interiors with embroidered alpine textiles","Heated outdoor pool overlooking Gore Creek valley"],"pricePerNightInclTax":"$517","pricePerNightExclTax":"$517","currency":"USD","images":[{"url":"https://d89wdvrh3yrgq.cloudfront.net/resized/L__clwt8y6tp010r85uwvcoozlez1717079251917_0b820cdc-eda8-4bf4-b40b-6a6721ffd21d.jpeg","role":"exterior","roleLabel":"Exterior","sequenceIndex":1,"alt":"Sonnenalp Vail — Standardized Hotel Image Sequence #1 — Exterior","caption":"Exterior · Sonnenalp Vail · PressBeyond hotel series","description":"Full building facade of Sonnenalp Vail captured from a street-level angle as part of the PressBeyond standardized 5-image hotel sequence.","creditText":"PressBeyond","licensePage":"https://pressbeyond.com","distinct":true},{"url":"https://d89wdvrh3yrgq.cloudfront.net/resized/L__clwt8zbmj01gd85uwmvayg4de1717079229812_e8ff7f54-fa44-4b23-b99f-a811b41e6d03.jpeg","role":"room1","roleLabel":"Primary Guest Room","sequenceIndex":2,"alt":"Sonnenalp Vail — Standardized Hotel Image Sequence #2 — Primary Guest Room","caption":"Primary Guest Room · Sonnenalp Vail · PressBeyond hotel series","description":"Full-room view of the primary guest bedroom at Sonnenalp Vail, photographed with natural lighting and clear sightlines as part of the PressBeyond standardized 5-image hotel sequence.","creditText":"PressBeyond","licensePage":"https://pressbeyond.com","distinct":true},{"url":"https://d89wdvrh3yrgq.cloudfront.net/resized/L__clwt90gjj01vz85uwtruuad6d1717079237331_14fbec16-7640-4772-9422-f24cd199481d.jpeg","role":"commonArea1","roleLabel":"Primary Common Area","sequenceIndex":3,"alt":"Sonnenalp Vail — Standardized Hotel Image Sequence #3 — Primary Common Area","caption":"Primary Common Area · Sonnenalp Vail · PressBeyond hotel series","description":"Primary common area at Sonnenalp Vail — lobby or lounge — non-duplicative with the secondary social space, part of the PressBeyond standardized 5-image hotel sequence.","creditText":"PressBeyond","licensePage":"https://pressbeyond.com","distinct":true},{"url":"https://d89wdvrh3yrgq.cloudfront.net/resized/L__clwt91lfb02bl85uwhivlmsbx1717079244423_05bbef5d-a1e5-4f9a-ae03-ffc226cb94e8.jpeg","role":"room2","roleLabel":"Secondary Guest Room","sequenceIndex":4,"alt":"Sonnenalp Vail — Standardized Hotel Image Sequence #4 — Secondary Guest Room","caption":"Secondary Guest Room · Sonnenalp Vail · PressBeyond hotel series","description":"Secondary guest room at Sonnenalp Vail, deliberately distinct from the primary bedroom — non-duplicative imagery is part of the PressBeyond curation standard.","creditText":"PressBeyond","licensePage":"https://pressbeyond.com","distinct":true},{"url":"https://d89wdvrh3yrgq.cloudfront.net/resized/L__clwt92q3h02r785uw9e49uq381717079259388_b0137d5d-8b32-41f7-967e-fadc6aa4e59f.jpeg","role":"commonArea2","roleLabel":"Secondary Common Area","sequenceIndex":5,"alt":"Sonnenalp Vail — Standardized Hotel Image Sequence #5 — Secondary Common Area","caption":"Secondary Common Area · Sonnenalp Vail · PressBeyond hotel series","description":"Secondary lounge or social space at Sonnenalp Vail — bar, dining, or terrace — deliberately distinct from the primary common area, part of the PressBeyond curation standard.","creditText":"PressBeyond","licensePage":"https://pressbeyond.com","distinct":true}]},{"name":"The Ritz-Carlton Club, Vail","url":"https://www.pressbeyond.com/hotels/united-states/colorado/vail-colorado/the-ritz-carlton-club-vail","city":"Vail","cityHeader":"Vail • Lionshead • OVER THE TOP","neighborhood":"Lionshead","loyaltyProgram":"Marriott Bonvoy®","designSummary":"Sited at the base of Vail Mountain in Lionshead Village, where gondola traffic and pedestrian life converge at the mountain's edge, the Ritz-Carlton Club Vail presents a massing borrowed from the Bavarian alpine vernacular that Vail's founders consciously chose for the resort when it was established in the 1960s. The ochre and cream facade, punctuated by dark timber balconies and a copper-roofed corner turret, rises seven stories against the Gore Range — a scale that manages to feel residential rather than institutional, its mansard-capped roofline breaking the upper floors into a rhythm of dormers and setbacks.\n\nInside, a recent renovation calibrated the interiors toward a more contemporary mountain register without abandoning the warmth the property has always traded on. The double-height great room works a cathedral window wall framing aspen-covered slopes, furnished with chunky upholstered club chairs in slate and charcoal grouped around live-edge coffee tables and stone side tables. The bar area pairs a herringbone hardwood floor with exposed knotty timber coffers and leather-wrapped bar stools in a pale taupe, a double-sided fireplace anchoring the transition between bar and lounge. Guestrooms carry the palette through in plaid wool throws and geometric-patterned carpet, headboards arriving in either deep forest green or amber gold depending on the room category — small chromatic decisions that give the spaces the atmosphere of a well-considered mountain lodge rather than a generic ski hotel.","snippet":"A Bavarian-style Ritz-Carlton at Vail's gondola base with contemporary mountain interiors and slope views.","bestFor":"Skiers seeking Bavarian-inspired alpine luxury","vibe":"Alpine-contemporary · warm","highlights":["Bavarian vernacular facade with copper-roofed turret at gondola base","Double-height great room with aspen-slope views and stone fireplace","Guestrooms with forest-green or amber-gold headboards and plaid wool throws"],"pricePerNightInclTax":"$1,413","pricePerNightExclTax":"$1,413","currency":"USD","images":[{"url":"https://d89wdvrh3yrgq.cloudfront.net/resized/L__clv0tyjhu03z515u7g6hpfsqq1713349314842_8b05b8f3-58e9-45bb-a44c-8cdea378fba4.jpeg","role":"exterior","roleLabel":"Exterior","sequenceIndex":1,"alt":"The Ritz-Carlton Club, Vail — Standardized Hotel Image Sequence #1 — Exterior","caption":"Exterior · The Ritz-Carlton Club, Vail · PressBeyond hotel series","description":"Full building facade of The Ritz-Carlton Club, Vail captured from a street-level angle as part of the PressBeyond standardized 5-image hotel sequence.","creditText":"PressBeyond","licensePage":"https://pressbeyond.com","distinct":true},{"url":"https://d89wdvrh3yrgq.cloudfront.net/resized/L__clv0typdk051315u7tjj4oxn21713349316111_4c0ebacd-c6eb-481d-ae2b-4e5d55ee04a2.jpeg","role":"room1","roleLabel":"Primary Guest Room","sequenceIndex":2,"alt":"The Ritz-Carlton Club, Vail — Standardized Hotel Image Sequence #2 — Primary Guest Room","caption":"Primary Guest Room · The Ritz-Carlton Club, Vail · PressBeyond hotel series","description":"Full-room view of the primary guest bedroom at The Ritz-Carlton Club, Vail, photographed with natural lighting and clear sightlines as part of the PressBeyond standardized 5-image hotel sequence.","creditText":"PressBeyond","licensePage":"https://pressbeyond.com","distinct":true},{"url":"https://d89wdvrh3yrgq.cloudfront.net/resized/L__clv0tyv3h063115u7tvz16mlz1713349316632_eace7906-610f-4c57-b5e1-fcdcb0c231ea.jpeg","role":"commonArea1","roleLabel":"Primary Common Area","sequenceIndex":3,"alt":"The Ritz-Carlton Club, Vail — Standardized Hotel Image Sequence #3 — Primary Common Area","caption":"Primary Common Area · The Ritz-Carlton Club, Vail · PressBeyond hotel series","description":"Primary common area at The Ritz-Carlton Club, Vail — lobby or lounge — non-duplicative with the secondary social space, part of the PressBeyond standardized 5-image hotel sequence.","creditText":"PressBeyond","licensePage":"https://pressbeyond.com","distinct":true},{"url":"https://d89wdvrh3yrgq.cloudfront.net/resized/L__clv0tz0y4074z15u7p8p1318n1713349317306_d772ef24-a9ad-4eae-9e8b-b7f052d7194b.jpeg","role":"room2","roleLabel":"Secondary Guest Room","sequenceIndex":4,"alt":"The Ritz-Carlton Club, Vail — Standardized Hotel Image Sequence #4 — Secondary Guest Room","caption":"Secondary Guest Room · The Ritz-Carlton Club, Vail · PressBeyond hotel series","description":"Secondary guest room at The Ritz-Carlton Club, Vail, deliberately distinct from the primary bedroom — non-duplicative imagery is part of the PressBeyond curation standard.","creditText":"PressBeyond","licensePage":"https://pressbeyond.com","distinct":true},{"url":"https://d89wdvrh3yrgq.cloudfront.net/resized/L__clv0tz6rd086z15u7cexpda6u1713349317899_4dbc7b9a-afd6-4124-bc6f-3247c976a63d.jpeg","role":"commonArea2","roleLabel":"Secondary Common Area","sequenceIndex":5,"alt":"The Ritz-Carlton Club, Vail — Standardized Hotel Image Sequence #5 — Secondary Common Area","caption":"Secondary Common Area · The Ritz-Carlton Club, Vail · PressBeyond hotel series","description":"Secondary lounge or social space at The Ritz-Carlton Club, Vail — bar, dining, or terrace — deliberately distinct from the primary common area, part of the PressBeyond curation standard.","creditText":"PressBeyond","licensePage":"https://pressbeyond.com","distinct":true}]}]}