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Activities in South Lake Tahoe (by Phil L.):

debd34 wrote:

I am trying to get reservations at the Marriott Timber Lodge or Grand Residence in South Lake Tahoe for the week of October 18-25, 2008 but that month "seems" to be completely booked up. Is there a convention or something going on at that time?

Deb try Tripavisor, we use that site even more than Tug or Redweek for vacationing information and have for years. Also great site for information and opinions on hotels,air, rentel car companies and places to eat and sight seeing idea's.

Go on that site and go to the Lake Tahoe Forum and you can find anything you want to know in that area.

We own in Tahoe at the Ridge but we go July 4th week most years so not sure what the hold up is for Oct. We went to the resort for four bonus days this last Oct and it seem dead in Tahoe so maybe your just getting bad information!

If there is a convention it would probably only keep you from staying there but there are many great resorts to stay at in Lake Tahoe.

I know that in Oct there seems to be many honeymoons going on. There is chance for some snow but not enough to ski most years.

I checked out Oct and most things going on are local and not things to bring vacationers into town.

This last Oct we did drive around the lake and it was cold and heavy rain. We had lunch at Gars in North Shore where there was only five people eating and most times of year its almost full for lunch.

We still went around the lake and there was alot of traffic with people taking pictures and sight seeing because the gates were going to be closed for the winter in a couple weeks or with bad weather.

It seems you just picked a resort that has something going on that week!

Remember that many owners have not picked their week for 2008 yet! When you get closer to your date there will be owners trying to rent.

Couple months ago on the Tug last minute there was a two bedroom for the resort and the owner only took $600. This works great if you can wait and hope for a deal.

PHIL