If you’re an owner or a manager of a vacation rental in Whistler, BC, Canada, and seeking to fill your vacancies throughout the Whistler 2010 Olympics - this post is for you, read on.

You manage a vacation rental in Whistler and seeking (or considering) to rent your accommodation during the Whistler Olympics in 2010 cash in on the hype. However, you’re unsure how much to charge and/or still needing to fill those vacanies. If this sounds like you, Bamja.com has your answer.  Over the weeks and months leading up to 2010, Bamja.com has received a number of inquiries from individuals, couples, families and businesses seeking to rent in Whistler during the 2010 games. So what does Bamja.com (Owner Direct Whistler Accommodations) do with these inquiries….well, we’ll give them to you of course. Here’s how… (more…)

Whistler Blackcomb Receives No.1 Resort And Parks Rankings From Transworld Snowboarding Magazine ReadersOnthesnow.com readers rank Whistler Blackcomb their favourite North American resort

TransWorld SNOWBoarding Magazine readers have named Whistler Blackcomb the best overall resort in North America for a third year in a row; have given its Nintendo Terrain Parks the coveted No. 1 designation in the Top Ten Best Parks category; and have named Whistler Blackcomb Top 5 in an additional nine categories

“Whistler Blackcomb’s unstoppable three-year w (more…)

New trend effective, according to two of Whistler’s newest batch of seasonal workers

Tim Page knew that it was going to be almost impossible to find accommodation in Whistler.

House Hunter Kristian Waller takes out an ad for accommodation on a stroll last week, and finds a place to live. Photo by Erin Littlewood

For the past two years, the Australian citizen heard rumours about Whistler’s difficult housing market. People worldwide were talking about it. If you are going to come to Whistler, he was told, you’ve got to be really lucky.

So when he finally arrived in Whistler two weeks ago, he decided to get creative with his housing search. Instead using more traditional venues — local newspapers and Craigslist listings — Page made a “seeking accommodation” ad out of cardboard, taped it to his body, and began walking through Whistler Village.

“I was originally going to use (the cardboard sign) as a last resort, but then I thought ‘Why?’ so I put it on straight away,” said Page, 23.

Even though Page was a bit embarrassed about the sign, his unusual method worked. Within one day, he and his girlfriend had a found a place to lay their head for the winter season, for about $1,100 a month.

“I went to a notice board at a café, and I was standing looking at it, when someone saw my sign and approached me,” recounts Page.

“He said ‘Are you looking for a room?’ and I said ‘Yes’, so I sat down and had breakfast with him. He told me to come up and see the room at four o’clock that afternoon. I did, and he said yes straight away.” (more…)