Any idea if there is a coach / bus / train service from Toronto?

I can't stomach hiring a car because I am a cheap git!

Hiring a car might well be your cheapest option...

There is a greyhound bus to collingworth, but at best it takes 3 hours, and will likely cost you $40...about the same as a days discount car rental, and then you have the hassle of getting to blue mountian itself...

http://www.greyhound.ca/home/ticketc...k2&ID=71916467


Driving is only a couple of hours...and you probably noticed (if you looked) that the blue mountain website "how to get here" page makes no mention of anything but driving
http://www.bluemountain.ca/directions_activities.htm

Thanks Ian- was reticent to hire a car as I thought I would not be able to return it on Sunday. Thankfully good old Budget have locations open on Sunday so this is now a more realistic option.
Actually going up to a friends place close to the resort.
Cheers.

Hey,

I went up to Collingwood January past from Toronto. The drive up is nothing to write home about, it's a fantastic little resort so worth the bland car journey. I stayed at the Weston Trillium Hotel. Boy was it fun messing around in the poor / hot tub at -25 c.

Enjoy!

Depends on the route. Take Airport Road all the way or go through Beaver Valley and it's very nice indeed.

Ah, we stuck to the major roads. Will note it for next time. What are times like if one goes this way?

I suppose you went 410,10,124 and probably took an hour and three-quarters.

If you went 400/9/Airport Rd you'd add 30 or 45 minutes depending on the weather and exactly where you start. To my mind it's worth the time, Airport Rd is wide and paved but goes spectacularly up and down steep hills. It's touch and go in snow but, if none has fallen for 24 hours, it'll be clear. (At a tangent CR17/10 Sideroad from Mansfield to CR124 is a fabulous roller coaster road with deer, taking that at 100mph is the most excitement I get in Ontario).

Beaver Valley Road goes from just east of Flesherton through Kimberley to Blue Mountain. It's at the bottom of a valley with ski slopes on one side and treed slopes on the other. If inclined to test one's car's grip, there are lots of sideroads to drive up and slide back down when traction fails (this is how I know which of our cars goes better in extreme conditions). That route implies Gardiner/427/400/410/10/CR4/Beaver Valley Road. It'll be slow, longer than two hours, but worth doing once I think. Again, you need a clear day with no recent snow falls. Highway 10 (and 124) has permanent "road closed due to weather" signs that are turned on when it's both snowing and windy.

None of this is the Alps, of course, but it aint flat either.