Should Resorts Open on Christmas Day????

[JimG.]

I will likely never ski on Christmas...for me at least, there has to be times when the family stuff takes priority.

Skiing with my family on Christmas takes priority... I love skiing with my family.. It brings us closer together...

My most memorable Christmases were spent skiing in the Alps with my family. 2 weeks at a Swiss resort, lots of skiing, lots of friends, midnight church services on Xmas eve, fireworks after, meeting new friends from Europe. Those were the best gifts I ever got.

I don't remember other Xmases nor do I remember any of the gifts I got. Those material things are broken or forgotten.

So I, like dmc, go skiing with my family on Xmas. In fact, this year will be my 3 year old's first on skis. The best gift ever is the smile on a 3 year old's face as Dad shows him/her how to ski the first time.

 

[shenty]

So I, like dmc, go skiing with my family on Xmas. In fact, this year will be my 3 year old's first on skis. The best gift ever is the smile on a 3 year old's face as Dad shows him/her how to ski the first time.

Good Luck.

[Thread-Jack]
We put my daughter on skis at age 3 at Sugarloaf. After spending a long morning teaching her "pizza wedges", we decided to head down to our rental for lunch. She took off on us, deciding she didn't need to turn and that pizza wedges were for babies. I caught up with her, scooped her up to her kicking her little skis and yelling at me to put her down.

Today (seven years later) she races SL and GS as a J-V.
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[VB]

Whalebacks planning on all of the mountain school people to be there on Christmans day to do lessons, guess hoping for a busy day. Im kinda ok with it, ill be able to ski, which i love, but not with the people. :-?

 

[JimG.]

So I, like dmc, go skiing with my family on Xmas. In fact, this year will be my 3 year old's first on skis. The best gift ever is the smile on a 3 year old's face as Dad shows him/her how to ski the first time.

Good Luck.

[Thread-Jack]
We put my daughter on skis at age 3 at Sugarloaf. After spending a long morning teaching her "pizza wedges", we decided to head down to our rental for lunch. She took off on us, deciding she didn't need to turn and that pizza wedges were for babies. I caught up with her, scooped her up to her kicking her little skis and yelling at me to put her down.

Today (seven years later) she races SL and GS as a J-V.
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James Jr. is my third...I taught both of his older brothers to ski at the same age. Part of the fun is chasing them down when they decide turns are for babies. I love this!

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[Lostone]

I'm with the crew that says that Christmas is a mainly Christian holiday, so resorts that serve non-Christians and non-conservative Christians should be open to serve their customers.

To do otherwise would be to force others to follow the Christian religion. And we wouldn't want that... would we? :blink:

 

[Breeze]

Define Resort, Define Ski Area. They aren't one and the same. The thread topic says "Resort" and the poll says "ski area", so make uppa you mind.

Many in this thread have said that Christmas Day is the day of the "holiday week" that fewest people will be on the slopes, therefore it is the day that the "$$$ aspect of skiing/riding... lifts, Ski School, Patrol, Snowmaking/grooming" will have to be completely staffed for the least cash return.

If you have a RESORT, which I define as including lodging/condos/timeshares/restaurants/bars, and PERHAPS night-time events and offerings such as tubing/skating/concerts/bonfire/chem-free Teen-sitting, all of which gets cost into lodging rates... then OF COURSE you are obligated to be completely open on Christmas Day--for the bucks the guests are paying up in those holiday premium rates.

If you have a SKI AREA, just offering lifts/lessons/rentals/ cafeteria food/ and maybe booze, Christmas Day will be a dog on your bottom line. You'll have to be completely open top to bottom, staff all positions, and compete in some insane way with the "Resorts", vis a vis grooming and snowmaking for perfect beginner conditions and wind up paying mucho overtime hours for a day that won't bring in any $$$ to cover costs.

A "Resort" will take in big $$$$ for the Holiday Period, hike the lodging rates and hike the day ticket rate for the holiday period.

A " Ski Area " may just say Christmas Day isn't gonna be a money maker, so why pay massive overtime to workers we won't need because we won't have the guests that day to make up the $$$$ we pay out at the end of the week"


I'm sure anyone who wants to ski tomorrow will find a place to do just that. IF it turns out to be their one and only choice of where they will ski now, forever, and ALWAYS... well great props to any business that can keep a customer forever, never going any where else, just because of Christmas Day.

Put yer boots on and ski/ride where you can, when you can. Be happy you have choices. There is no Universal Ski Warden making choices for you.

Breeze