Smellytele
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Has anyone gotten their Vermont Ski 3 / Ski 5 passes yet?
Not I
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Has anyone gotten their Vermont Ski 3 / Ski 5 passes yet?
There's three things I think you're either not factoring in or not factoring in enough.
1) The market for discount items is savvier than most and aware of other deals. For instance, from my perspective this went from a "must have" item to "I can and will do better than this" and don't want it.
2) You really need to expand your geography quite a bit to realize the 6 trip value you speak of, and I'm guessing a small minority got 6 punches on this card (I know I didn't). Frankly, 5 is probably a more realistic number folks will hit, and in years past, I'm going to speculate 4 punches might have been a truer average, which is $42.50 a ticket. Yuck.
3) For a bunch of people, are there even 6 places on this card they 100% want to hit? There's 6 places I suppose I could hit, but only about 4 I 100% want to hit.
Never been to Snowbowl. Hear it's great on a powder day.
I enjoyed Suicide Six a lot too. Bet it also would be a cool hideout on a Powder Day. I'm not always looking for the mega-resort experience
I agree with that too, but since we have a season pass at Cannon it does not fit in well any longer. S6 lodge is a mad house - lots of racing and they could careless about anyone's stuff. We skied it using the Fox 44 card but never made it to Middlebury. We did realize that year that we had many two fers and used it late in the season so the savings were not all that great. While the card while it was still cheaper, it made me re-evaluate it last year.
Basing out of Stowe worked for me. Burke, Smuggs, MRG, Bolton and Jay all within 90 minutes or less. I found it quite easy to pair up 2-3 mountains per trip.
Has anyone gotten their Vermont Ski 3 / Ski 5 passes yet?
Not I
There you got Burke, Smuggs, MRG, Bolton would be my choices and Jay is gone - so not worth it! As it stands I will ski Burke and Bolton on the cheap!
Has anyone gotten their Vermont Ski 3 / Ski 5 passes yet?
Has anyone gotten their Vermont Ski 3 / Ski 5 passes yet?
Not I
I wouldn't worry.Nope
Not worried just letting him know he's not alone
Would be interesting to hear from them why Jay opted out
Jay seems to be growing increasingly highfalutin, with their empire built on "free" money. My sense is Jay has significantly cut back on numerous deals the last few years, and I'm guessing doesn't want to be viewed as a place that offers numerous discounted offers.
There's a contact email on their webpage if you (or anyone else) wants to email them and ask why Jay Peak isn't involved in the offering this year.
You nailed it. They don't want to devalue their product. And they don't think they have to discount anymore because they've got the volume that they want.
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