Skiing on the Cheap - 2007-08 Thread

[JohnGD33]

I just got back from the expo, not as good as last year:sad:

only free stickers

 

[thinnmann]

Volunteer

If you are a parent with a child in the race program at Belleayre, and you volunteer to help put on events, you get a free lift ticket for each day you volunteer. It only takes a couple of hours, and sometimes it is right on the course where you would want to watch your kid anyway.

 

[jeapskibum]

Sunday River vouchers tickets

I got some at the Sox game and want to buy a pass to Sunday River so these are up for sale.

$30

PM me


They expire on January 18, 2008 and have blackout dates from 11/22-25/2007 and 12/25/2007 - 1/1/2008 or an Saturdays. Sunday through Friday only.

 

[Mildcat]

I got some at the Sox game and want to buy a pass to Sunday River so these are up for sale.

$30

PM me


They expire on January 18, 2008 and have blackout dates from 11/22-25/2007 and 12/25/2007 - 1/1/2008 or an Saturdays. Sunday through Friday only.

You have two posts to sell your free vouchers on the same day. Sounds like spam to me. Have respect for the boards. You are a P.O.S. :angry:

 

[jeapskibum]

Thanks for the extra advertising! I felt that it was relevant to both topics.

Hmmh...... a thread about the Red Sox Sunday River ticket giveaway and a thread about skiing on the Cheap. Both very relevant places for me to mention the opportunity.

I've given many of the vouchers away to friends and people that have helped me out with tickets in the past.

You go have a nice day and get back to your monitoring of threads. uke:uke:

Feel free to PM me back if you have an issue but don't waste bandwith with your b!tching.

:beer:

 

[jaytrem]

Hi all, I'm usually more of a lurker here. Thought I've posted in the past, maybe not though. Anyway, start your CO/NM road trip in Monarch and a $299 season pass will get you lots of free skiing elsewhere. I plan on getting about 12 or 13 days out of it. Only 1 will actually be at Monarch. Not sure if they mail the pass or if you actually have to show up to get your picture taken. Sweet deal though...

https://www.skimonarch.com/season_passes.asp

 

[Hawkshot99]

Bellayre for $12.
Get a Bellayre trail map. The big magazine one I know of, maybe the little ones but not sure. On the second to last page, there is a add for a magazine subscription. I believe it was "conservationist" When I looked on the website for that magazine it was by the same department of NY gov. that runs Bellayre.

The add in the Bellayre magazine, is that for $12 you get a years subscription to that magazine, and it comes with a free ticket to Bellayre.

I will find my bellayre map, and get the exact details.

 

[Mildcat]

I saw this link on Wildcats site. http://www.liftopia.com/
They have some cheap tix. Gunstock $7, Wildcat $23. If you buy the tix though and can't make it you eat the tickets.

 

[Evmo]

I saw this link on Wildcats site. http://www.liftopia.com/
They have some cheap tix. Gunstock $7, Wildcat $23. If you buy the tix though and can't make it you eat the tickets.

Hi all, I just wanted to say hello re: this stuff (I work with Liftopia). Feel free to PM me any questions, or simply email us at info|at|liftopia.com, we will definitely respond.

The deal with our site is that the resorts give us deals for specific days as long as the customers are willing to commit in advance to the deals. It is very similar to how online travel sites function (we used to work at Hotwire, actually), when you buy a hotel for a specific day as oppost to a "standalone" ticket that is good for whenever.

Hopefully we can get you some solid deals this season, and we will be adding more resorts/tickets to the system over the coming weeks (the resorts are still in the process of loading tickets, so the inventory is somewhat spotty right now).

As a side note, there are only 70 of the Gunstock tickets available for each of the days of that weekend (it is their 70th anniversary and are running this promotion through Liftopia).

Here's to a great season!

E

 

[JPTracker]

5th Grade Passport

From SkiVermont. Also from an article in the new Ski Vermont Magazine I just received.

"Ski Vermont, the Vermont Ski Areas Association, wants to give you a winter of free skiing and snowboarding! With the Vermont 5th Grade Passport, you can ski or ride three times each at participating Vermont Alpine (downhill) and Nordic (cross-country) ski areas."

Great deal if you have a 5th grader.

 

[JasonE]

Don't know if this has been mentioned yet, but there are the added benefits of being a Wachusett century pass holder:

3) Stratton, VT
Wachusett Century Pass holders will receive the Stratton X2 Cards (formerly Express Cards) . X2 Cards give you:

Does anyone know *how* you receive the Stratton X2 cards? Do you have to ask for them when you arrive at the mountain, or can they be mailed to you? How do you get them? It almost seems (based on the phrasing "pass holders will receive") like they should have given them to us when we got our passes, but they didn't.

I'd definitely like to ski Stratton this year, and $30 off a midweek ticket is a great deal, but I'd like to know how it works first before I drive all the way up there to find out I didn't have something I needed.

Thanks,

Jason

 

[JasonE]

My local Speedee Oil Change and Tune-Up in Gardner, MA has a deal every year (it starts after Thanksgiving, but I've already asked the manager there if they'll be repeating it and he said yes) to give away free Loon tickets.

The way it worked last year was, buy $150 in a combination of goods, services, or gift cards, and they'd give you a free anytime Loon lift ticket (that's like an $80 value or thereabouts). I plan on getting two (my wife has to get an oil change every month on her car, I get an oil change every couple months, so $300 will do most of the year's worth of oil changes, and we'll get to ski Loon for free). It's pretty much a no-brainer, that's where I get my oil changes anyway.

It's a good deal they've been doing for several years now.

Jason

 

[Mildcat]

Does anyone know *how* you receive the Stratton X2 cards? Do you have to ask for them when you arrive at the mountain, or can they be mailed to you? How do you get them? It almost seems (based on the phrasing "pass holders will receive") like they should have given them to us when we got our passes, but they didn't.

I'd definitely like to ski Stratton this year, and $30 off a midweek ticket is a great deal, but I'd like to know how it works first before I drive all the way up there to find out I didn't have something I needed.

Thanks,

Jason

When I picked up my pass last week I asked about the Sugar Card. I was told when I go to Sugarbush show them my Wachusetts pass and they give me the card there. I would imagine the Stratton cards are the same.

 

[deadheadskier]

Hi all, I just wanted to say hello re: this stuff (I work with Liftopia). Feel free to PM me any questions, or simply email us at info|at|liftopia.com, we will definitely respond.

The deal with our site is that the resorts give us deals for specific days as long as the customers are willing to commit in advance to the deals. It is very similar to how online travel sites function (we used to work at Hotwire, actually), when you buy a hotel for a specific day as oppost to a "standalone" ticket that is good for whenever.

Hopefully we can get you some solid deals this season, and we will be adding more resorts/tickets to the system over the coming weeks (the resorts are still in the process of loading tickets, so the inventory is somewhat spotty right now).

As a side note, there are only 70 of the Gunstock tickets available for each of the days of that weekend (it is their 70th anniversary and are running this promotion through Liftopia).

Here's to a great season!

E

Nice Site. I booked for the $7 Gunstock tickets. I doubt they'll have much open on 12/8, but for $7 it's a deal. Hell, even if I don't go if the weather and conditions are bad, I'm not that worried. I'm pretty pumped, I know Gunstock is smallish, but I've always wanted to check it out. It was on my list for new places to try this winter.

 

[Mildcat]

Yeah, I bought a couple of those too. I might buy a couple of the Wildcat tix too if conditions are looking good by then.

 

[tequiladoug]

Jiminy's card

http://www.jiminypeak.com/win/tickets/t_value.html

Jiminy Peak's Value Card, a discount card that you can use anytime, is a real steal! You pay $39 and then enjoy $15 off the price of your 8-hour, 4-hour, or twilight lift ticket. Purchases made before November 18, 2007 will receive a free lift ticket, valid Sunday-Friday, non-holiday during the 2007/2008 winter season. Purchases made after November 18, 2007 but before February 29, 2008 will receive a free lift ticket valid any day during March 2008. The Card is non-transferable and cannot be combined with any other discounts except you may use your Value Card for additional discounts on Ladies' and Men's Nights and on State Days! It may only be used once per product per day

 

[skiboarder]

Hunter and Windham have the Winter Card, $119 to ski 2 days at each mountain. Stratton Mountain "Inn-clusive" deal: $99 a day for lift and lodge at the Inn at Stratton, good from 11/25-12/20 and 3/23-4/13.

 

[nycskier]

The Hunter/Windham card looks like a great deal!

4 days of skiing for $119!

http://www.huntermtn.com/huntermtn/tickets-passes/winter-card.aspx

 

[Dr Skimeister]

Here's a sampling of the currently available lift ticket deals available through www.workingadvantage.com. This is an organization that offers all sorts of discounts to members. Membership is through your employer or organization/association. My membership is a perk with my NJ Vet. Med. Assoc. membership. Check with your employer about joining. My understanding is that there is no charge to participate.

Attitash Bear Peak Mountain (NH) Save up to $21.05 per ticket
Cranmore Mountain (NH) Save up to $15.05 per ticket
Gunstock Mountain (NH) Save up to $25.05 per ticket
Mount Sunapee (NH) Save up to $20.05 per ticket
Pats Peak (NH) Save up to $15.05 per ticket

By season's opening they typically have discounted tickets to dozens of areas all over the country.

 

[wa-loaf]

Here's a sampling of the currently available lift ticket deals available through www.workingadvantage.com. This is an organization that offers all sorts of discounts to members. Membership is through your employer or organization/association. My membership is a perk with my NJ Vet. Med. Assoc. membership. Check with your employer about joining. My understanding is that there is no charge to participate.

Attitash Bear Peak Mountain (NH) Save up to $21.05 per ticket
Cranmore Mountain (NH) Save up to $15.05 per ticket
Gunstock Mountain (NH) Save up to $25.05 per ticket
Mount Sunapee (NH) Save up to $20.05 per ticket
Pats Peak (NH) Save up to $15.05 per ticket

By season's opening they typically have discounted tickets to dozens of areas all over the country.

We've got that at work. I always forget to look there for tickets. Thanks for the reminder. I checked out the list and either there is a discount listed or it says "check back soon" except for Killington which only says "not currently available". Some discounts there are better than others.