Best Family Friendly Winter Christmas Vacation?

The overall best mountain for kids we have been to is Winter Park but if one of your prerequisites is nightlife then count it out. That said, I would go with steamboat, Vail, Breckenridge in that order.

Not sure about you, but we don't bother with night life in ski towns anymore because we are just so damn tired from skiing all day that going out and about among the social scene became a thing of the past. Besides, every ski town is going to have a handful of laid-back pubs to go have a cold beer....so any big ski resort you choose will have those type of things, I would not over complicate your trip.

Aspen has a pretty solid nightlife and tons of cool shite to do off the mountain.

Check out the Wisconsin Dells!