and included a hot tub (looking out into the village), free continental breakfast, and most impressively free thongs. 
The accommodation on the hill is great, it is soo nice to be close to the bars and hang around with all the lift workers and what seemed like endless Australians. The night life on the hill is pretty good, but it is a smaller ski village and there are not that many people hanging around but there is enough to have a good party. The village itself has a good feeling and I enjoyed walking around as a new layer of snow fell down around me. The first day of skiing was good, the hill layout is excellent, there are 115 runs and only 3 were closed. The snow base was 163cm when we arrived which made good skiing even though there hadn't been a good snow fall in a couple of days. The skiing was mostly on a hard base but it was well groomed. I was able to complete about 29 runs the first day, which is even a lot for me, no lift lines, just good skiing. That night back at the hotel started by relaxing in the hot tub and soaking the mussels, then a drink at the bar. But this is all the warm up for what was awaiting for me when I woke up the next morning. I walked out of the hotel the next morning and dropped my ski's into 15cm of, fresh, fluffy, beautiful snow. 
It was the best day of skiing I have ever had, it was like skiing on a cloud, carving back and fourth through untouched snow, it wasn't the wet and heavy, it was dry, light, and crisp. 
The day ended and we returned to the car to pack up and drive to Big White near Kelowna, I wish I could have stayed but big White was calling but Silver Star so far has stolen the show.Final stats for Silver Star
-Lift ticket $73
-Ski and Stay package $85 a day
-runs 115
-longest elevation drop 850m
-6 chair lifts and 1 t-bar
Run map can be found here http://www.skisilverstar.com/
Total score 10/10
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