While the club has a lovely 82-room hotel that is adults-only, it offers appealing family-friendly options that include 38 Villa Suites and the even more alluring resort-within-resort Estate Residences.
Stick within the resort boundaries and you will always come back to a lift line or track.
For the less vertically inclined, there is a trout-stocked pond for fishing, and more than a dozen trails originating within the resort's boundaries.
Even without booking a day's catskiing, there's a huge choice of uncrowded tree, glade and gully skiing within the resort's 2,500 acres, and in between the 106 marked pistes.
Two restaurants lie within the resort: Bay Phsar, which concentrates on bringing local flavours to the table, and Hang Bay, which draws from across the globe to deliver international favourites.
Most of the runs Knut and I tackled were safely tucked away within the resort boundary; whenever we reached the bottom, we'd simply grab a lift and go back up for more.
MOUNTAIN CREEK, a New Jersey ski area about 50 miles from Manhattan, took a bold step last summer: It announced that it was relocating all its terrain-park features to a separate, almost stand-alone peak within the resort, but one mile from the main base area.
Although the length of Downtown Disney is comparable to that of several city blocks, the shopping street remains a comparatively tiny event within the resort districts, which cover a two-and-a-half-square-mile area of the city and include three of the city's busiest corridors.
Purchasing within the resort's 18,000 acres, where 1,750 houses and 812 condominium units sit, means incurring membership fees that start around $1,100 and can include unlimited skiing or golfing, depending on the level you select (lift tickets for nonmember adults start at $59).
Port Ghalib provides three different settings within one resort.
