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Hermitage club
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Puck it
Well-known member
Six pack is overkill for a private club!
gmcunni
Active member
i read you can get a 1 year trial membership for $15,000.
Jcb890
Active member
Am I the only one who sees this as rather insane?
gmcunni
Active member
i don't think it is insane but it certainly caters to a specific market, one i'm not part of.
I can understand their market after having seen the lines at Okemo and Stratton on my rare visits. I do not understand how people can tolerate the prices and crowds of Southern Vermont. I can understand someone from the mid-Atlantic paying a higher price for an escape from the crowds. I don't see real New Englanders paying that kind of money when you could just drive elsewhere and escape the lifelines.
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Agreed. If I were a member, I'd rather see a HSQ and the cost savings invested elsewhere.
gmcunni
Active member
i think it is a matter of " the guys up the street have this stuff, why don't we"
driving a toyota costs less than the lexus but i'm guessing there are more lexus in the parking lot @ HC than toyota
vonski
New member
And I want to sit and ride with my other friends in comfort on that lift. I hope Magic can make a deal for the chairs off that triple could use them on the Black lift maybe!!!???
drjeff
Well-known member
You have to remember that many of their members like, and are very used to the Bluebird at Mount Snow and want the same type of lift for their comfort at The Hermitage
Jcb890
Active member
Not gonna lie, I love the feel of the chairs for the Bluebird at Mount Snow. Nice padding all around, no holes for anything to fall through behind you. Solid back-piece for your back and ass to sit up against. It is a nice chair. The lines suck and I'm not a huge fan of being 6-wide, but other than that the lift is awesome.
ThinkSnow
Member
Just wondering, where this "statistic" is coming from?
drjeff
Well-known member
No concrete data, just what I hear from a few friends that I have that are members and what they say that they've heard from the ownership there. They realize what many members, who just by proximity sake have been, and in many cases still are Mount Snow skiers, got used to with the Bluebird, and they (the Hermitage) want to make sure that their members are happy - so my info is literally from multiple members mouths
BenedictGomez
Well-known member
If you were a member, I doubt you'd care about the price difference between a Quad bubble and a Hex bubble.
Good lord, that's like Manhattan pricing!
slatham
Well-known member
$15k insane, unless you can be there all the time and have lots of friends who will pay you for your 100 comp tickets and 10 rounds of golf.
Assume $75 lift tickets. 100 free passes =$7,500.
Assume $50 round of golf. 10 free passes = $500
So now you're at $7k for a winter of skiing, plus the other benefits. So all you need to do to break even at $75 ticket price is ski 93 days!
Or course I will bet good money that none of the membership skis 93 days.
Me, I'm buying passes to Bromley and Magic again and keeping the nearly $14k for other purposes!
Assume $75 lift tickets. 100 free passes =$7,500.
Assume $50 round of golf. 10 free passes = $500
So now you're at $7k for a winter of skiing, plus the other benefits. So all you need to do to break even at $75 ticket price is ski 93 days!
Or course I will bet good money that none of the membership skis 93 days.
Me, I'm buying passes to Bromley and Magic again and keeping the nearly $14k for other purposes!
Newpylong
Well-known member
If they have the money, what's the point of not going for a 6 and letting the whole family sit on the same chair? Price increment from 4 to 6 is couch change for these people.
Did they really need quads to get from the Inn and Lower mountains to the main mountain? No.
Throw normal resort economics out the window with the Hermitage.
Jcb890
Active member
I don't disagree, but we can't think like this when it comes to operations like this. The Hermitage Club is for the 1%'ers who most likely could not care less about the cost of the membership. They just want to be able to take the family up to the mountain and not be bothered by anyone who is not a 1%'er like they are. If they were really worried about the price and other things, they certainly wouldn't be signing up for a club like this at an inferior mountain.
Like others have said, it isn't about the economics of it or the terrain you are skiing. It is basically an exclusive social club.
