Sublime Snowbasin

[Marc_C]

But the MarcC equation now shows you could buy 22 day upgrades for the price difference in the passes.

The only down side is that if you intend to ski Snowbird exclusively on a given day and you have an Alta pass, you have to purchase your upgrade at the Alta skier services desk in the admin building. Basically they read your Alta pass and tell the Snowbird computers that the bar code on your Alta pass is good at Snowbird that day. You can also upgrade at the border kiosk at Sugarloaf Pass (only when the connection is open).

Same deal if you have a Bird pass and want to upgrade to a combined for the day - you need to do it at the Bird ticket office.

 

[Evren]

the fact that neither resort gets full price for their share of the pass , leads to ill feelings about selling it .

It is never about revenue from a single pass but total revenue. If there are enough people who would otherwise buy just one season pass -- and that from the other resort -- it makes sense for them financially. The way it is priced now, if only 15% of AltaBird passholders come from the other resort's clientele, they are not losing revenue.

On at least two instances this winter, a Snowbasin employee rode up with me on the gondola while I filled out a survey on an iPad. On both, there were questions that specifically differentiated between "immediate-local" and "local-within-a-day's-drive" i.e. SLC.

What Snowbasin is doing is quite courageous. They have a largely "captured" clientele in Ogden whom they are willing to charge much less, in the hope of making themselves attractive to SLC. I hope it works out for them. Going by the fact that they repeated it this year (and cleverly running the promotion now, before any other resorts) they must think it has potential.

 

[Admin]

The only down side is that if you intend to ski Snowbird exclusively on a given day and you have an Alta pass, you have to purchase your upgrade at the Alta skier services desk in the admin building.

Another downside, and correct me if I'm wrong, but I'm pretty sure that the upgrade privileges end once Alta closes up shop for the season, right?

 

[Admin]

FYI I spoke this week with a Snowbasin official who had nothing but good things to say about this topic thread, which he's been following since it began. He felt that all points raised were valid, factual, accurate and fair.

And he brought up the subject, not me.

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[Marc_C]

The only down side is that if you intend to ski Snowbird exclusively on a given day and you have an Alta pass, you have to purchase your upgrade at the Alta skier services desk in the admin building.

Another downside, and correct me if I'm wrong, but I'm pretty sure that the upgrade privileges end once Alta closes up shop for the season, right?

I think that's correct, but I honestly don't know for certain. For me though I can more easily justify the Snowbird spring pass products - esp. the April to end of season for $349 - than the Mountain Collective pass.

 

[jamesdeluxe]

a Snowbasin official (...) felt that all points raised were valid, factual, accurate and fair.

What did he have to say about this?

Snowbasin's self-reported is 400 inches

The reality is that Snowbasin averages 309 inches

 

[Admin]

He addressed the topic only broadly, saying what I mentioned above, that all sides made valid points about the relative strengths and weaknesses of each area, and that there were some really well informed contents being made. He didn't address any one point specifically.

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