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    Home Uncategorized New Tamarack Club offers much for vacationers and investors
    New Tamarack Club offers much for vacationers and investors
    July 6, 2010

    New Tamarack Club offers much for vacationers and investors

    By Jeff Cole Venue Writer

    ELLICOTTVILLE — Need a vacation? Would you enjoy a relaxing,
    30-minute Swedish massage, a chance to try out those new golf clubs
    or a lazy dip in a heated pool?

    If the answer to these questions is yes, then the Tamarack Club may
    just be the place to stay while taking advantage of all the
    amenities offered by the Holiday Valley resort.

    Holiday Valley opened its doors in 1958 and has been growing ever
    since. Today, visitors can take advantage of a variety of facials,
    massages or any number of Falling Waters’ spa packages. The Double
    Black Diamond golf course offers a 6,500-yard, par 70 experience
    which includes modified fairways, new bunkers and improved cart
    paths.

    Holiday Valley is also consistently ranked among the top 10 resorts
    in eastern North America by SKI Magazine, and includes 56 slopes
    and 13 lifts which are spread over four distinct faces. Richard
    Sandler, general manager of the new $40 million Tamarack Club, says
    prime location is a key feature for the club.

    “We are very centrally located here, being at the base of the (ski)
    slopes, right on the golf course and adjacent to the Holiday Valley
    pool complex,” said Mr. Sandler.

    Named for the Tamarack trees that huddle together by the nearby
    snow pine village, the originally-planned location for the club,
    construction of Tamarack was completed Dec. 12, 2009 after an
    18-month process.

    Lodging is certainly a component of Tamarack, but don’t call it a
    hotel.

    “A lot of other ski areas had been starting this fractional concept
    where you don’t own the condominium a hundred percent, you share it
    with other owners. Each owner gets a week every five weeks, so you
    have ownership throughout the year,” said Jane Eshbaugh, director
    of marketing for Tamarack.

    Mr. Sandler says the concept behind Tamarack is “multi-faceted,”
    adding that simply renting fractional units, or fractions, is also
    an option.

    “For rental guests, it’s the same idea as if you were to rent at
    the inn (at Holiday Valley), where it’s nightly rentals. For
    owners, they purchase a fifth of the year. They own (the
    condominiums) for life,” Mr. Sandler said. “It’s real estate, so
    it’s just like purchasing a home.”

    Though the timetable for construction was merely months, it took
    years of planning to make this slopeside, four-star
    condominium/hotel a reality. Once Holiday Valley’s land planning
    consultant suggested construction of a fractional ownership
    property four years ago, the resort conducted extensive research
    and chose to partner with Terry Elsemore of Fractional Strategies.
    Richard Fox of Weber Murphy Fox was given the design/build
    contract. In April 2008, the groundbreaking ceremony began.

    According to Mrs. Eshbaugh, people from far away have bought
    fractions without even visiting Tamarack. Mr. Sandler added that it
    has drawn people from Buffalo, Toronto, Cleveland, Pittsburgh and
    even Florida.

    So what does the Tamarack Club offer?

    The area of the club totals 160,000 square feet and offers a
    variety of unit types, including studio units, one- and two-bedroom
    lockouts and three-bedroom units, totaling 79 units in all.

    What’s a lockout?

    “If you had a two-bedroom unit, one side is the suite side, which
    has a bed, living room and kitchen, and then there’s another
    separate side that looked like a hotel room. That’s the lockout
    portion,” said Mr. Sandler.                                      
    Studio units offer 475 square feet of space and carry a monthly
    maintenance fee of $76 and a property tax of $486. At the opposite
    end of the spectrum, a three-bedroom executive suite offers 2,179
    square feet and comes with a price tag of $292 for the monthly
    maintenance fee and a property tax of $1,864.

    “We’re part of the RCI network, Resort Condominiums International,
    which is a vacation exchange network. You have companies like ours
    all around the world and you can trade your week here for a week
    somewhere else,” said Mr. Sandler.

    Mr. Sandler added that this option is very flexible, since exchange
    doesn’t need to take place on a week-for-week basis.

    “The resorts are very similar to ours and the rates are the same,
    but (the other companies) make their money by charging an exchange
    fee of $125,” he said.

    Besides space, affordability and convenience, other perks of
    Tamarack include valet service, bell service, underground parking,
    ski lockers, beautiful scenery and 24/7 desk operations. Owners and
    guests may also enjoy the full service at John Harvard’s Brew House
    and families can enjoy the club’s proximity to the Creekside Lodge
    Children’s Ski School and the Day Care Center.

    Though the winter season is Ellicottville’s busiest time of the
    year, plenty of events and festivals allow the small village to
    attract visitors year-round.

    “(Ellicottville is) a great spot and really, really fun. It has
    everything you would want on a vacation, including places to shop
    and yet it’s a friendly place with a lot of stuff going on with
    festivals throughout the year,” said Mrs. Eshbaugh.

    With available space fleeing faster than a tee shot at Double Black
    Diamond, vacationers may want to make reservations as soon as
    possible to ensure a terrific time at the Tamarack Club.

    “The level of service that you receive here at the Tamarack, the
    quality of construction, it’s all high-end,” said Mr. Sandler.
    “It’s just a quality project and we offer a really, really nice
    vacation experience.”

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