A week at Portillo is like a week on a cruise ship docked at a ski resort. The hotel features a large common living room and serves four scheduled meals daily in the dining room. It is impossible to stay here and not make new friends. Among the folks we got to know were members of Austria's national ski team, world famous extreme skier Chris Davenport, and a few really fun folks from NY who we got to know quite well. Tommy HIlfiger was even there, but everybody ignored the fact there was a celebrity in our midst. I won 3rd place in the senior division of the downhill competition.