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Skiing on the Cheap - 2009-10 Thread

billski

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HOT! Save $350 off Stowe Season Pass - shop Burlington Sep 11-Oct 12 2009

It looks like a little 'crack' on Stowe discounting...

http://www.stowe.com/vacation/specials/page1357/

Church Street Marketfest 2009

SAVE UP TO $350 AT STOWE!!!
Collect your receipts from participating Church Street Merchants in Burlington VT from September 11-October 11, and save what you spend during Marketfest (up to $350) on your Stowe Season Pass (Adult StoweSeven+, StoweSeven or StoweSix) .
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Or apply your savings toward Stowe Points Cards (each a $75 value). You can earn one FREE card for every $25 you spend (up to a maximum of 8 cards). With the Stowe Points Card you can get Stowe Points for nearly every purchase you make at the resort by providing your card during checkout. Use it in the summer on golf, summer attractions and retail. And use it in the winter on rentals, demos, lessons, retail and select on-mountain food and beverage purchase (alcohol excluded).

How to redeem your savings:
Fill out a Season Pass application found at participating vendors.

Collect your receipts, dated between 9/11/09 and 10/11/09 from participating Church Street Merchants.
 

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More CT Ski Council Deals

Northern Tier bulk discount tickets good any day:

Stowe Adult $50

Jay Adult $37

Burke All Ages $35

Must be ordered by early October through a CSC club.
 

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Northern Tier bulk discount tickets good any day:

Stowe Adult $50

Jay Adult $37

Burke All Ages $35

Must be ordered by early October through a CSC club.
Is that new? All the stuff I saw just had Bromley, Magic, Stratton, Bush, Snow, Sunapee, Ascutney, and Okemo. The offerings didn't exactly get the blood pumping or make me reconsider a season pass but $50 Stowe tickets and Jay at $37 (below even my minimum season pass break even point) with a few Burkes at $35 and a Bush or two might have me reconsidering a season pass for a club membership with prepaid vouchers instead. :-o
 

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Is that new? All the stuff I saw just had Bromley, Magic, Stratton, Bush, Snow, Sunapee, Ascutney, and Okemo. The offerings didn't exactly get the blood pumping or make me reconsider a season pass but $50 Stowe tickets and Jay at $37 (below even my minimum season pass break even point) with a few Burkes at $35 and a Bush or two might have me reconsidering a season pass for a club membership with prepaid vouchers instead. :-o

Yes, my club just sent out the "Northern Tier" information this week. The orders have to be in by October 1st for my club so there isn't much time. I like the variety the club bulk tickets provide.
 

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Northern Tier bulk discount tickets good any day:

Stowe Adult $50

Jay Adult $37

Burke All Ages $35

Must be ordered by early October through a CSC club.

which clubs offer these resorts? I went through about 5 CSC clubs and they were only offering things like southern VT.
 

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I ain't gonna be able to dish out cash for vouchers at this point so I think I will be going the season pass route after all. Wish I had cash on hand but needing to get S a new car and take care of some other financial arrangements is leaving me loading up the credit card for only the second time in my life. :(
 

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This is exciting. Can't wait to see if their prices are as fair as some of the others I've found on Liftopia:

Among the new resorts to sign on this year:

■Whistler/Blackcomb, BC
■Killington, VT
■Mammoth, CA
■Winter Park, CO
■Copper Mountain, CO
■Stowe, VT

http://www.techcrunch.com/2009/09/2...llion-for-variable-ski-resort-ticket-pricing/

Don't get too excited. Often the uber-exclusive resorts only offer packaged deals, not just a lift ticket by itself. I hope I'm wrong, but that's the way it played out over the past two seasons.
 

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After reading that, just noticed they have tickets for Whiteface, Thanksgiving weekend, 29$. :-D
 
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I know Nutmeg, Alstom, Newington and New Haven are offering the tickets. The letter I saw was from the president of the CSC.

Danbury is also.

These deals apparently were negotiated after the main voucher deals were made, and I bet a lot of clubs didn't get around to updating their web sites with the new offerings.
 

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After reading that, just noticed they have tickets for Whiteface, Thanksgiving weekend, 29$. :-D

I might make it up that weekend. Do you think that rate will still be good a week or two prior to the holiday? I'm not sure how that site works, do they have a block of tickets and just sell till there gone, or what?
 

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Good deal at Killington for Connecticut ski council members:


Killington Club Card

• No blackout days.

• Offered exclusively to ski club and ski council members. Cards are picked up at the Killington Resort Center at Snowshed and you must present your club/council ID and a photo ID at that time.

• Redeem up to 4 days at a time.

• 4 days of skiing/riding for $199 plus tax if purchased by December 15, 2009.
4 days of skiing/riding for $219 plus tax if purchased between December 16, 2009 and January 15, 2010.

• Reload in increments of 2, 3 or 4 additional days at the originally purchased price.
o If your first order was purchased by December 15, 2009, 2, 3 or 4 additional days at $49.95 per day plus tax

o If your first order was purchased between December 16, 2009 and January 15, 2010, 2, 3 or 4 additional days may be purchased for $54.95 per day plus tax.
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• More information will be available at www.killington.com/clubcard in September 2009.
 

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Those that hit the annual TJ Maxx annual ski sale...

Saw a sign while out at lunch that the annual ski sale starts next Thursday.

Usually good deals on goggles, gloves, and lots of other soft goods items. (I've had particularly good luck with base layers the past couple of years).

-w
 
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