After researching houses in the Tahoe City area for months (and initially renting another house that we cancelled to rent this one), we could not have been happier with our choice!! Every spare moment over the past 4 months I have been "geeking" on ski houses (via VRBO, Home Away and Vacasa), and feel like I know most of them by heart, so I was pretty confident in ultimately choosing this house, but you never know. We had 5 couples and 4 single guys, all long time friends, get together for a ski trip, and the pressure was on me to get it right. As soon as we walked through the door I knew I did. The house is so well designed, and was perfect for hanging out together, with a card/game/hangout table and amazingly huge and comfy couch in the great room (along with a killer fireplace), sandwiched between the elevated kitchen and the huge deck, so everybody could hang out in one of those "zones" in their own little group, but be essentially all together. You have amazing lake views from the kitchen, great room and both Masters, and of course the deck. The house has two identical 3 bedroom wings on each side of the common area, each with a Master bedroom with its own bathroom facing the lake, and two guest rooms that share a bathroom on the back side. Downstairs was the Pool Table/Rec Room, with another bathroom, and a Sauna, which somehow we forgot to use. The fireplace was stocked with wood when we arrived, and was "match ready" (which our friends were SO impressed with). It was going most of the time we were there, and we never ran out of wood, as it has a big wood storage area built into it, which was fully stocked up. We had plans to go out to dinner but never did, preferring to cook together and just hang out and eat and drink, which the kitchen/great room was very well suited for. This turned out to be key, as we skied hard and didn't feel like going out after. We would wake up and cook breakfast, ski hard, Apres Ski hard, and head "home" for the evening to cook, drink and hang out together. Everything you could ask for was in the kitchen, including a double coffee pot machine! Did I mention the giant comfy couch?! We had 10 of us on it at one time, it is HUGE!! The bedrooms were all comfy too. We so enjoyed waking up to rosy sunrises over the lake and mountains, and watching the beautiful sunsets and moongazing from the deck at night. Communication from the owner was outstanding, and we even reached the cleaning lady when we had a question.