After navigating floating platform staircases, dodging living-room-level bosses, and searching for randomly appearing bathroom keys, most homeowners come to regret purchasing houses built by video-game designers. Today's Groupon offers a respite from the chaos: for $99, you get a one-night stay in a studio room (up to a $195 value) at The Tamarack Club at Holiday Valley in Ellicottville. Groupon holders can choose during the reservation process to upgrade to a different room and pay the difference.

The Tamarack Club condominium hotel offers a diverse array of guest condominium units and myriad luxurious amenities. The studio room is 475 square feet of mountain-nestled shelter, and since it's furnished with amenities including a gas fireplace and a kitchen, guests won't have to lug along the mini-tent and Bert and Ernie sleeping bag. Set slopeside, the Tamarack provides easy access to Holiday Valley's picturesque peaks; the Creekside Lodge and Cindy's quad lift are both nearby, ready to act as the perfect starting point for packs of snowboarding HR managers dutifully testing their company's new extreme team-building exercises. An 18-hole golf course fills in for the ski action in the summer, and Falling Waters Spa is on-site to provide a temperature-controlled alternative to outdoorsy adventure.

The Tamarack Club offers golf and ski lockers for vacationers who want to secure their various, talismanic rabbit appendages rather than risk exposing them to the elements. There are also indoor and outdoor heated pools, as well as a health club. Equally great for romantic valley rendezvous and family vacations that successfully avoid Griswoldian tragicomedy, today's Groupon gives you Holiday Valley's vistas from the comfort of The Tamarack Club.

Not valid for September 17–18 and 24–25, or Friday, October 8, and Saturday, October 9, 2010.

Reviews

Though reviews are limited, The Tamarack Club at Holiday Valley gets a four-owl-eye average from five TripAdvisors:

• My boyfriend and I are both snowboarders and loved everything about the Tamarack Club and Ellicottville. – laurjo
• On our recent trip to Holiday Valley we stayed at the Tamarack Club at it was truly amazing! The resort was first class and the staff was great. – TheRambler08
• We stayed in one of the Studio rooms and found it to be all we could ask for. – Buffalo-powderhound