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Show t ,t'V X " ' ' ' ' I' i n , j-. J "H-tttsaant Abkw -ji i'V , - - ' f , the Landmark Inn has more than 100 big rooms, some with game tables and all with oversized beds, as well as Ja" Pe"y an indoor pool and a workout room. Best Western landmark Inn is a destination designed for skiers by JANICE PERRY Record editor Best Western has come to the edge of Park City and tailored its newest hotel to tap into the lucrative ski vacationer market. With 106 rooms and stepped-up amenities, the new Best Western Homes' Landmark Inn at Kimball Junction opened last week. General Manager Mike Matthews said he hopes to attract middle-income , ' skiers with rooms priced at about half the usual condominium rate in Park City. "All the rooms are oversized and have king-sized beds or double queens," Matthews said, noting most of the rooms with king-sized beds also have couches. And, he said the rooms with queen-sized beds have a game table and a soft, easy chair with a reading lamp. The larger rooms are designed to accommodate skiers, who "will want a little more room," he said. "We'll be expecting people to be staving more than overnight." Each of the rooms has ski racks and satellite television, featuring ESPN, the Turner Network and the Movie Channel as well as the 1 standard televsion fare available in Salt Lake City. The hotel also features an indoor pool, a hot tub, laundry facilities for guests and a soon-to-be-finished workout room with weight machines and exercise bikes. The Landmark Inn also includes Jedidiah's Famous Utah Dining patterned after the successful restaurant at the Homes' Rodeway Inn in Provo. But the Kimball Junction restaurant is decorated with Park City in mind, he said. Level Two Design in Salt Lake City decorated the new Jedidiah's with old Park City mining pictures and artifacts, invoking the theme of Jedidiah Grant, the first district mayor of Salt, Lake City, Matthews said. , . 2,'i J3H5 The hotel's major handicaps are its distance to Park City and jts lack of a package agency license, f Matthews said the hotel is negotiating on a couple of fronts in hopes of getting shuttle service to the slopes for his patrons. "We have a 15-passenger van and we're in negotiation with Powder-wood Powder-wood (the condominium development develop-ment next door) which has a 30-passenger bus," Matthews said. But the liquor license is a stickler issue. Matthews said. "We now have received a beer license and now we will just have to go to the Liquor Commission each month and plead our case." Matthews said the hotel also is , considering "sharjng" a liquor v license with another resort in ' southern Utah during that area's off-season. The Landmark Inn rooms rent for $48 to $58 nightly, a price that is expected to climb to $90 to $100 nightly during the ski season, he said. |