skiNH July ticket sale

[billski]

Tickets go on sale July 11, 2007 9am!

Now you can pool your purchase with friends legally. Minimum purchase, 20 tix, no more than 50% of tix to one area. First come, first-served, "quantities are limited."

Last year, Bretton Woods sold out in three hours and Wildcat sold out on the second day. Many of the other larger mountains sold out by the end of August.

*Tickets are transferable, so you can share them with family and friends.

*Tickets are valid any day, including weekends and all holidays.

*Ticket price offers an average savings of 25-50% off the ski area's weekend/holiday rate.

*Three tiers of mountains to choose from:

-- $45 per lift ticket for Attitash, Bretton Woods, Cannon Mountain, Loon Mountain,
Mount Sunapee & Wildcat Mountain

-- $35 per lift ticket for Cranmore Mountain Resort, Crotched Mountain,
Gunstock Mountain Resort, Pats Peak and Waterville Valley
(Pats Peak tickets not valid for Saturday Night POP program.)

-- $20 per lift ticket for Balsams Wilderness, Black Mountain, Dartmouth Skiway,
Granite Gorge, King Pine Ski Area and McIntyre Ski Area

- "Volume discounts" apply

http://skinh.com/deals.cfm

 

[thetrailboss]

Interesting. No Whaleback?

 

[hammer]

Not the deal they used to be...

I've been purchasing tickets through SkiNH for the last several seasons, but I may pass this time...the passes for Crotched and Pats Peak used to be in the $20 range, which made them a good deal even for the kids.

At $35, they are only a good discount for the adult rates, and if the Pats Peak AZ discounts are offered I can get tickets close to SkiNH prices without having to commit to buying passes.

 

[thebigo]

Interesting. No Whaleback?

and no tenney or ragged, lets hope it doesnt mean anything

 

[hammer]

and no tenney or ragged, lets hope it doesnt mean anything

I saw a note in the mailing I received from SkiNH that Ragged may participate...don't see anything on the web site, though.

 

[thetrailboss]

Tenney: nobody has heard or seen anything. Fears it may be dead.

Ragged: they WILL be opening....under Bob Fries' management team. He is the former owner/later managing partner of Bolton Valley. He is also the former manager of Waterville Valley and Stratton. VERY good thing in my opinion...he is a good guy and did a great job with BV turning it around.

If he does the same thing he did with Bolton (low frills operation geared on getting locals to the mountain and offering reasonable rates for all people), then I think it could really work. Ragged just was having a hard time competing with the likes of Sunapee and Loon and is in serious need of some snowmaking work from what I hear and read.

 

[billski]

and no tenney or ragged, lets hope it doesnt mean anything

Usually it's only because the management team couldn't get their act together early enough to meet the program deadlines. With the re-organization going on at the abovementioned resorts, it's no surprise. For this tier of mountain, any money is better than no money, and even more important early cash flow to keep 'em going.

 

[hammer]

Usually it's only because the management team couldn't get their act together early enough to meet the program deadlines. With the re-organization going on at the abovementioned resorts, it's no surprise. For this tier of mountain, any money is better than no money, and even more important early cash flow to keep 'em going.

Based on what I read over at SJ last year, I thought that the SkiNH passes were actually one of the ways that participating resorts paid for SkiNH advertising and that the resorts actually don't get any money for them.

 

[billski]

Tenney: nobody has heard or seen anything. Fears it may be dead.

Ragged: they WILL be opening....under Bob Fries' management team. He is the former owner/later managing partner of Bolton Valley. He is also the former manager of Waterville Valley and Stratton. VERY good thing in my opinion...he is a good guy and did a great job with BV turning it around.

If he does the same thing he did with Bolton (low frills operation geared on getting locals to the mountain and offering reasonable rates for all people), then I think it could really work. Ragged just was having a hard time competing with the likes of Sunapee and Loon and is in serious need of some snowmaking work from what I hear and read.

You're right, they will have to work to keep it "local" much like BV has done. Look at Berkshire East. They used to market to the metro Boston crowd, and nearly completely alienated the locals. They turned that around now. With the local learn to ski and race programs, it can be a huge moneymaker. Bring in busloads from the local schools, you can make it up in volume. And the local's aren't particularly concerned if you have cushy seats or expresso. Crank em in and out, keep those turnstiles spinning.

I am still amazed at the all-day-and-night ticket at BV. Brilliant marketing. the cars just stream in from Burlington.

Having said all that, BV had a much bigger revenue opportunity in Burlington market than Ragged will.

 

[thetrailboss]

Good call there, billski. And FWIW Bob Fries WAS the guy who turned BV around. The DesLauriers and later Mason Dwinell, and later Peter Glenn couldn't do it....they just, for whatever reason, did not seem to market to the local backyard crowd. Now all you hear online and in Burlington is the buzz about Bolton and its terrain....now is getting a cult following almost like MRG, but with snowmaking, nightskiing, and a quad chair.

 

[billski]

Based on what I read over at SJ last year, I thought that the SkiNH passes were actually one of the ways that participating resorts paid for SkiNH advertising and that the resorts actually don't get any money for them.

My ski club purchases 10's of thousands of dollars worth of tickets through SkiNH.

That said, if what you say is correct, that model an excellent quid-pro-quo, and a very inexpensive way to generate high visibility, much more than Ragged benches at an occassional ski shop.

 

[hammer]

SkiNH has posted their ticket package info.

http://winter.skinh.com/anywhereanytime.cfm

http://winter.skinh.com/fonhstix.cfm

The discounts aren't what they were in years past, but the minimum purchase requirements are lower.

Of course, if you want to get these passes without minimum purchase requirements you can just join ACE and get them through their annual ticket sale...