The last time we were there over Christmas, we had a rental car. At Target (we were stocking our condo with drinks & snacks) I found a cute little tree for about $5 or less. I put it up in our room (had packed our stockings from home as well as stocking stuffers and used command hooks, which by the way, kept falling off the wall!).
I agree about either packing one or shipping it and some decorations maybe. Depends on the airline - we fly Southwest so an extra small bag was free to check).
I just packed it back in the box and left it as well as our other leftover stuff in the room for housekeeping that year. I figured someone may want it, and I didn't want to bring it home (it was so cheap anyway).
So cute though - I saw several folks checking into the BWV who were obviously driving there with much larger trees in boxes! They must have decorated their condos so cute!