Sunshine Village Condominiums

Wow did this place make a huge turnaround! The new property managers are 1000x better than the terrible people who used to run this place (I’m not sure how they kept their jobs for so long). This grounds and the condos themselves were always nice, but the old property managers were like a black cloud that tried to ruin your vacation.
Glad to see this place is finally in good hands! I’ll definitely be coming back again soon.

This place has definitely improved as they have just received new on site management. Some of the other posts are describing how «things use to be», but now things are much better here. The grounds are cleaner and the new management cares about the guests and their needs.

Stayed at the condo couple weeks ago. Condo itself was ok, old appliances, but acceptable. The staff vas unbearable and rude. We were treated like pests, who are in the way of them «doing their jobs». We were relaxing in sauna and it was around 9:55pm (they officially close at 10). The guy walked in without knocking and told us to leave immediately, because he «needs to close promptly at 10». He showed up again at 10 making a comment, that we are «making his job very hard». The light was shut on us and we had to crawl out the sauna in the dark.
Service personnel, remember, you have a job because we are paying for our stay. And you should do your job right, or not do it at all and quit. Your job is to make our stay pleasant, not to give us hard time.

My family and I have been coming here for about 8 or so years now. We usually go for Veterans weekend but this year we went for Veterans in 2010 and then in the summer 2011. The owner is beyond friendly (btw she has two of the most gorgeous huskies that sometimes are there in the office to greet you).
We’ve stayed in various rooms as sometimes our group sized was varied from 4 to 8 people. We generally stay in their largest room for two nights. This room in particular is two rooms and a loft upstairs with four beds. Total three full baths. Had a very family cabin type feel, if that makes sense haha. Free wifi might I add. Plenty of firewood on the balconies. It was nice to have the fireplace continually burning during the winter. My only real complaint is that the water pressure is low, at least in my bathroom it was.
The office has two arcade games and a ping pong table. I love the location, just a quick walk to the main part of town. Von’s and the theater is probably a quick 5 – 7 min walk. Mammoth mountain and the Village are about a 5 minute drive. Yosemite is only about 30 mins away, at least the entrance to it is, the main tourist part is about 2.5 hrs away). By the way, watch out for bears! We were stuck in the office playing ping pong one trip as a mama bear was hanging out in the parking lot.

This review is specifically for unit # 120.
Booking for New Years Eve any time past November 1^st is not easy or cheap in Mammoth. So when I spent several hours one evening trying to nail down a place for me and my friends, I was happy to find a place at Sunshine Village. So instead of messing around with the reservation deposit I went ahead and payed in full to secure the condo.
Well, apparently that doesn’t matter. A week later I get an email from paypal saying that the full amount was re-​deposited back into my account. Apparently, someone had reserved the condo before me, cancelled the reservation, and then, as the owner put it «backed out of his cancellation» and therefore would be getting the condo for New Years.
What does that even mean? Backed out of their cancellation?
She apparently never returned their reservation deposit and felt that it was the right thing to do to give them the condo.
It seems to me the right thing would have been to say that as a result of the cancellation, the condo was re-​rented out.
The owner gave me the number to the Sunshine Village rental offices and I got another condo and she acts like she did me a favor. No, I think the right thing would have been to maybe offer me a discounted rate for another time during the season for being greedy.
I realize she is the owner of that unit and can do whatever she wants but she should consider her audience.
So. .. be aware. She has a very blasé’ attitude about leaving you in the lurch and is likely to do it again.

This place is ok. I have been into two different condo’s and nothing special here.
There is a hot tub and ping pong table so that is a plus.
All of the décor is from the 1980’s indian era.