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Stratton: AZ Challenge-2006 Response/Feedback Thread
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Guess this means we are not going to Stratton this season....can't afford it.
Stratton - package deals?
I am part of a small group that has been skiing in Vermont for the past 10 years now. We have evolved into a group of 4 to 6 people, who like to ski mid-week trips. That is we arrive on Sunday, ski Monday thru Friday, and drive home Friday afternoon.
We've found that we can get 5 days of lodging and 5 days of skiing for about the price of a 3-day weekend, without the crowds!
Stratton has been able to offer us some real nice package deals the past 5 or 6 years. We loved the ski-in/ski-out lodging options. Our trips came to about $500/per person, which we felt was appropriate for what we were getting (5/5).
This year, was a different story. We began our ski-trip planning in late August, early September like we do every year. Stratton did not have their "packages" ready, but they would sell us lodging only. The problem with this was that "lodging only" came out to more than we ever paid for lodging and lift tix packages! Yikes! They promised that if we booked the lodging now, that when the packages were finally "released", that we would get the difference back to us. But they couldn't promise how much that would be. We kept calling up to sometime in October, and they still didn't have their package prices available.
We finally gave up, and booked our trip to Killington this year. We've been to Killington before, and they had their package deals up and waiting for us. The prices are even better than Stratton. We "settled" for Killington, and will make the best of it. No ski-in/ski-out at Killington, but we're still skiing.
So we have a "bad taste" in our mouths about Stratton. We'll miss the fun slopes (we're mostly intermediate skiiers), the ski-in/ski-out condos, and the 6-pack lifts taking us to empty mid-week slopes. But they were either too disorganized to get their package deals ready, or they were being too "greedy" and getting early-bookers like us to pay exhorbant lodging-only prices for their condos. We didn't bite.
We'll try again next year, but if we get the same run-around about not having their package deals ready early, we'll be off of Stratton for good. Then we'll be just like all the other folks out there bashing Stratton for their high-prices, which we've never done until this year.
Whew! Sorry for the novel! Just had to get that off my chest....
Roy
I am part of a small group that has been skiing in Vermont for the past 10 years now. We have evolved into a group of 4 to 6 people, who like to ski mid-week trips. That is we arrive on Sunday, ski Monday thru Friday, and drive home Friday afternoon.
We've found that we can get 5 days of lodging and 5 days of skiing for about the price of a 3-day weekend, without the crowds!
Stratton has been able to offer us some real nice package deals the past 5 or 6 years. We loved the ski-in/ski-out lodging options. Our trips came to about $500/per person, which we felt was appropriate for what we were getting (5/5).
This year, was a different story. We began our ski-trip planning in late August, early September like we do every year. Stratton did not have their "packages" ready, but they would sell us lodging only. The problem with this was that "lodging only" came out to more than we ever paid for lodging and lift tix packages! Yikes! They promised that if we booked the lodging now, that when the packages were finally "released", that we would get the difference back to us. But they couldn't promise how much that would be. We kept calling up to sometime in October, and they still didn't have their package prices available.
We finally gave up, and booked our trip to Killington this year. We've been to Killington before, and they had their package deals up and waiting for us. The prices are even better than Stratton. We "settled" for Killington, and will make the best of it. No ski-in/ski-out at Killington, but we're still skiing.
So we have a "bad taste" in our mouths about Stratton. We'll miss the fun slopes (we're mostly intermediate skiiers), the ski-in/ski-out condos, and the 6-pack lifts taking us to empty mid-week slopes. But they were either too disorganized to get their package deals ready, or they were being too "greedy" and getting early-bookers like us to pay exhorbant lodging-only prices for their condos. We didn't bite.
We'll try again next year, but if we get the same run-around about not having their package deals ready early, we'll be off of Stratton for good. Then we'll be just like all the other folks out there bashing Stratton for their high-prices, which we've never done until this year.
Whew! Sorry for the novel! Just had to get that off my chest....
Roy
billski
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after the fact
Roy,
Good story. So now that it's cold, does Stratton have their packages ready? If so, did they come up with a a good deal after all that foot dragging? Sounds like they gave their marketing program to either a newbie or a sleeper. Early bird catches the work (corny but true) - Stratton's competition won this time!
Roy,
Good story. So now that it's cold, does Stratton have their packages ready? If so, did they come up with a a good deal after all that foot dragging? Sounds like they gave their marketing program to either a newbie or a sleeper. Early bird catches the work (corny but true) - Stratton's competition won this time!
