Most you have ever paid for a day ticket

[riverc0il]

Let's have it out, billski's recent price threads has me pumped up. What is the most you have ever paid for day ticket? For this year, what would be the most you would pay for a day ticket?

Ever: $58ish I think
Would this year: $60 (if I actually needed to buy any day tickets)

 

[Zand]

1 day: Stratton, $63 for mediocre Christmas week skiing last year with everyone and their brother on the mountain. To put the crowds into perspective, we had to park at Sun Bowl which wasn't even open.

Otherwise, some expensive weekend tickets include something like $155 for 3 days last year at Killington and quite a bit for 2 days at Stowe as well.

This year, the most expensive will probably be my school's weekend trip to Stowe which is $240 ($40 more than the 6 week program at Wachusett... ridiculous). Otherwise, I've been exploring the Skiing on the Cheap threads to look for deals and I'll look elsewhere as well over the winter. I want to compensate for the continuously raising gas prices (prediction here in MA is $3.30 by Christmas) with cheaper tickets. I'm hoping to visit Berkshire East a bit more which is cheaper than going north.

 

[snowmaker4191]

paid $75 at killington I want to say two years ago

i ended up paying about $600 in vail co last year
not sure what the ticket was but my private lesson was $500 for an all day advanced lesson with lunch included best lesson i have ever gotten my instructor was the most amazing boarder i have ever seen in person.

 

[bvibert]

I guess it was around $60 or so mid-week at Snow a few years back. I thought it was higher, but that wouldn't make sense unless it was a holiday, which I don't think it was. I hope to not pay more than $50ish this year.

 

[deadheadskier]

I want to say $68 at Stowe two years ago. I know I haven't eclipsed the $70 mark

I hope to not pay more than $50 this year if everything goes to plan by mainly only skiing on twofer days

 

[Warp Daddy]

$50

 

[deadheadskier]

Speaking of twofers......question here

It's been a LONG time since I've purchased them as I usually have a pass, but this year I do not. For those who use them, do you typically find someone in the parking lot who is interested first before you go to the ticket window or do you go to the ticket window, purchase the two tickets then return to the parking lot to sell your extra?

 

[GrilledSteezeSandwich]

Last season I had a package for Jackson Hole that included 6 ski days..I skied a day at Grand Targhee and had one remaining ski day left where I had to purchase a one day ticket for Jackson Hole mountain resort..and I paid 72 dollars which is totally worth it for such an incredible mountain.

 

[roark]

sixty something at mammoth a few years ago.

Since moving back east... $25 at Cannon.

 

[riverc0il]

Speaking of twofers......question here

It's been a LONG time since I've purchased them as I usually have a pass, but this year I do not. For those who use them, do you typically find someone in the parking lot who is interested first before you go to the ticket window or do you go to the ticket window, purchase the two tickets then return to the parking lot to sell your extra?

I almost always find someone between the car and the ticket window. Usually on two-fer days, people just ask around in the lodge... looking to triples and singles.

 

[drjeff]

Mid $60 range at Stratton a couple of years ago. Everything else the last couple of years has been on a pass, or via the nicely discounted rates I get in Utah through the guest services desk at the timeshare I own in Park City (both The Canyons and Deer Valley were a just over $50 ticket last year)

 

[thetrailboss]

$54 at Sugarbush in January 2000.

 

[hammer]

I think I paid full price at Sunapee once...$54? Paid full price for the whole family that day, though...overall cost was pushing the $200 mark.

 

[ccskier]

$80 something at Vail last year, pretty sure I paid $70-80 something a few times last year at Stowe, Copper and Breckenridge.

 

[skibum9995]

Not sure, but I don't think I have ever paid over $60.

 

[billski]

I pay what I have to, when the conditions are good to great and the timing is right. I never pay top dollar if the conditions stink, unless it's the last day of the year and it's my last voucher. But like Steve says, if you look hard enough you can (probably) find a deal. Rarely, but sometimes, I am way too impatient to schlep in the parking lot for a deal - I want to be on the slope NOW!

I am very opportunistic and last-minute. I load up with discounts and with bulk rate tickets for the areas I am most likely to ski at in a year. Mostly day or weekend. On a powder day, or a day arranged with my buds, we spin the wheel: who has good conditions? I look in my pocket, see if I have a discount coup or a voucher (I always have two), and the area looks good/great, we go there. If not, we find the best option and go, even if it means paying window rate (which probably happens 1-2 days a year.) Some years I don't use every ticket I have in my pocket. I have $5 Middlebury tix in my pocket right now. Maybe I get there, maybe not. If it looks like I'm not gonna get there, I offer it up for free. I have a large enough network I can find someone to take it. Another year, quid-pro-quo; a bud may offer me a ticket. It all works out, if you don't get too hung up on the bucks. Even if I throw some vouchers away, I end up having paid a lot less than walk-up.

I am lucky to live in NE (not lucky, I moved here for this reason!) and to be in close proximity of so many ski areas. You should see me at 4am on a ski morning - I fire up the weather and conditions, check for recent reports, stick the schnoz out the window, and decide which resort looks great. I then pull out my wad of vouchers and discs, and look at what is left. I then decide where to go, depending also on who is with me that day. If it's really looking grrrrreat at an area that I have no paper for, well, we go anyways. On many daytrips, I have changed my mind as we approached the area, and re-routed to somewhere else if the conditions looked better elsewhere. (I am probably a resort owners worst nightmare/except maybe for those parents suing Wachusett) It all averages out. Rather a free spirit in all this and lucky that my buds are game for last minute farming. It's always worked out well.

 

[deadheadskier]

I look in my pocket, see if I have a discount coup or a voucher (I always have two), and the area looks good/great, we go there.

If ya always got two in your pocket....how come your not posting in the skiing on the cheap thread??? fess up dealer

 

[billski]

If ya always got two in your pocket....how come your not posting in the skiing on the cheap thread??? fess up dealer

nevah! I don't sell them I USE them! :-D Get them through my club. No dealer here! Least I can do when someone pays the gas, or puts me up for the night, etc.!

 

[kbroderick]

$45, Alta closing day 2006. Well, I think it was $45--it was definitely full-price for the day.

 

[2knees]

close to or just over $70 for stowe a couple of years ago. but when i ski killington this year, i guess i'll have a new record.