Park Hyatt Beaver Creek

Sure, we still love Aspen with all its glitz and glamour, but for those who prefer a more understated, low-key ski resort there’s Beaver Creek in the stunningly beautiful Vail Valley in the great Colorado Rockies. It’s an awe-inspiring landscape – big and bold – and the skiing is just as spine tingling. Roast S’mores over blazing firepits and sip brandy-laced hot chocolate, then it’s boots off and slippers on in the spa with its subtle use of natural wood and local stone. The focal point is the Roman-style bathhouse, with a cooling rainfall shower, sea-salt-infused warm and hot thermal pools, an iridescent-tiled hammam and a tepidarium with heated beds. You’ll feel like a mass of jelly with skin soft as a baby’s bottom by the time your therapist calls you for Rocky Mountain-inspired treatments such as the Indian Spring Clay Ritual or the Colorado Wild Rose Cure.