And there it is.... the >$100 lift ticket

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EMSC

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I've been waiting for several years for this report, but the recession interrupted the meteoric rise in Colo lift ticket prices. I guess Vail Inc figures the recession is over for good.

$108 single day tickets during Christmas week at Vail/BC if you walk up to the window :shock: ('only' $99 if you buy online a week or more in advance). Dropping to 'only' $102 walk up pricing during January. I don't think they've finalized the rest of the season just yet (whether it'll go back up or stay at the $102). YIKES!
 
So you're saying you scooped me by a couple of hours? :-k

Ironically, I'm one of the few regulars that does read the news items nearly daily.... #-o

I still figure it merits a thread. Maybe we can tie this back to the MRA thread where the current industry doesn't cater to ski bums.... :lol:
 
There's a lot of whining on Mammoth Forum about the walk-up $92 lift ticket. But it really only applies to holidays because the 2 day price for non-holiday weekends is $171. The bottom line is that people who take destination trips during Christmas week are not very price sensitive as evidenced by what they are paying for lodging and airfare. So if the ski areas want to maximize that revenue in order to fund a long season or offset cut-rate season passes it's fine by me.
 
Tony Crocker":1eczaefw said:
There's a lot of whining on Mammoth Forum about the walk-up $92 lift ticket. But it really only applies to holidays because the 2 day price for non-holiday weekends is $171. The bottom line is that people who take destination trips during Christmas week are not very price sensitive as evidenced by what they are paying for lodging and airfare. So if the ski areas want to maximize that revenue in order to fund a long season or offset cut-rate season passes it's fine by me.
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Speaking of which, due to a change in my employment picture, I can actually spend money on discretionary activities like skiing before I'm back into the work fray in January. As such, I'm heading up for a last-minute jaunt this weekend with my brother and his family. Do you know of any discount opportunities on adult lift tix or do I just bend over and accept the $92 raping for 3 days straight?
 
Mike Bernstein":21pwhyls said:
Do you know of any discount opportunities on adult lift tix or do I just bend over and accept the $92 raping for 3 days straight?
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There is probably a discount for a 3 days straight ticket for only $273.50.

People, Skiing and Holidays. (not that I fall in that category). But many North Americans only have 2-3 weeks vacation a year, so skipping the opportunity to ski at Christmas is too big a cost for them.
 
Mike Bernstein":89lsw0at said:
Speaking of which, due to a change in my employment picture, I can actually spend money on discretionary activities like skiing before I'm back into the work fray in January. As such, I'm heading up for a last-minute jaunt this weekend with my brother and his family. Do you know of any discount opportunities on adult lift tix or do I just bend over and accept the $92 raping for 3 days straight?
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Not a lot of discounting out here by the big resorts - especially this time of year(except full passes during spring and fall of course). Vail Inc's best bet for only a couple of days is to buy a multi-day ticket online. Or if you can find someone on craigslist selling a 4 pack they bought... (be careful with that though. hard to tell if they are legit and most are now picture based 4 packs out here so even if legit you could get in trouble...). The best option that I know of is to know someone who has a pass for either Vail Inc or Powd'r or Intrawest. All of the passes have 'buddy' tickets available/associated with them for usually ~$59 or so. The old grocery store discounts for Colo resorts are mostly no longer offered (at best about what the discount is for buying online ahead of time, for the few that even sell at grocery stores any more).

Since I've got a 1 yr old (well in a week I will), I didn't buy any passes up there this year, just one 4 pack to go with a gems card (not sure if those are still available) and my usual Eldora pass...

The smaller resorts all have discount options available and with some still selling them outright (A-Basin is selling a 3 day 'pass' for $138 all the way through early Jan for example).
 
Mike Bernstein":2n0q7314 said:
Do you know of any discount opportunities on adult lift tix or do I just bend over and accept the $92 raping for 3 days straight?
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Mammoth Forum thread on the general topic:
http://forums.mammothmountain.com/viewt ... =14&t=8946
In general the Costco ticket package (4 out of 5 days for $240) is the best deal for someone in Mike's situation
http://www.costco.com/Browse/Product.as ... allpartial
buit like nearly all promotions it has a holiday blackout.
 
The new $200 four-pack from Winterpark and Steamboat seems reasonable.

Every year I waiver a bit on renewing my Colorado pass, since I don't live in Colorado and know that if I renew it, I won't ski Utah much (if at all) that year. But every year I renew, mostly because you simply can't beat the price. If I get in as little as a week at Vail, I'm at least even with the Peaks online discount. This year my goal is 25 days, and when you ski 25 days for around $400, it's hard to complain.
 
Couple of options for Colorado. The Denver Gold C coupon book has multiple coupons to ski Copper for $59, and also some discounts for other resorts. (For example, Loveland is $50, compared to a $59 walk-up price.) You can buy the Gold C book on Ebay for around $10 I think. You can also buy Copper 2-for-1 coupons on Ebay for around $3 each. The 2-fers are blacked out Dec. 18- Jan 1, I think; I can't remember if the $59 coupons have black-outs or not. For the Vail group, 7-day-in-advance multi-day purchases are considerably cheaper than walk-up rates. Also, season passholders (including 7-packs, like we have) get 6 ''ski with a friend'' tickets, which you redeem on a day-by-day basis. So if you're buddies with a passholder (or can become ticket-line buddies real quick :-D ), you can get a ticket price comparable to the buy-in-advance rates.
 
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