If, like us, you are taking your first trip to Chile to ski the Tres Valles, Casa Farellones is an excellent choice for a home base. It is a 10-minute or less drive to each of La Parva and El Colorado, and a 25-minute drive to Valle Nevado (note these times without ski traffic; expect longer if you are headed to the resorts for first lift). The views from the home/hot tub are incredible, morning, evening and night (you can clearly see the lights of Santiago after the sun sets -- beautiful). We stayed on the ground floor of the house and it was very clean, spacious, well appointed and, most importantly, comfortable. William is an outstanding host and incredibly helpful with advice. His main caution, however, is that if you are planning to stay for a week, you have to either hire a cook/chef for the week or stop in Santiago to grocery shop. There are no grocery stores in Farellones (or at the resorts) but for very minimal provisions. Likewise, the restaurants in town are few and really "unspecial." This is a serious logistical challenge and one big drawback about staying at a house as opposed to one of the hotels in Valle Nevado. If, however, you are looking for a house, this is the place! I do not think there is another home of its quality that is centrally located to all three Tres Valleys resorts. We are headed back, but likely will have William arrange a chef next time!

This house was awesome. Very modern and comfortable with outstanding views! Great for snowboarding/ski trip as it was extremely close to multiple ski areas! William was great and very helpful with advice for visiting farellones!

William is great. You get daily housekeeping. Internet is serviceable, location central. You should have a car and be a strong snow driver and know how to put on / off chains. Williams assistant Sak was super helpful with chains and other items like loading our car and being helpful with the wood fired grill, I had never used wood fired grill before, I'm never using charcoal again!!! Private and secluded. Very nice home. You won't be upset.

The house has that tired feeling and is pretty dirty w dirty rugs and bath matts and dirty towels. Some simple upgrades would make it so much more comfortable and pleasant. For example, there is a window in the bedroom to the shared Jack and Jill bathroom and they taped a black garbage bag to it to block out the light. Yikes! There were cigarette butts littering the ground outside the front door. The bedroom windows let in tons of cold air. The kitchen is so dirty and the stove needs to be replaced—the handle to the kitchen sink fell off three times. The single use washer/dryer is useless—get a separate dryer that actually works and vent it properly. It takes 3 hours do dry a load of laundry. Cleanliness matters!