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Revenue they get from someone else is preferable to getting it from me. What if the Crystal petition is successful and they decide to jack up the parking or pass fees instead?
Well, we did rebel at SR when they tried this several years ago. Experiment was ditched, wonder if they try again? Tremblant 's is very pricey (even in CAD$) but at least it also gives the most add on. Much more than SB.
Maybe I am getting my wires crossed, but Alterra and IKON already has destroyed Crystal when it comes to crowding and parking. To the point where they charge a lot for parking on the weekends and have IKON reservations. So that goose is cooked.
Horrible. I really think this is a threat to skiing in terms of generating illwill, or at least a threat to Alterra. If I'm a non-passholder that cant afford an extra $2,000, or a passholder who can but just thinks this is 100% wrong, I'm going to boycot Alterra owened properties.
Perks are Perks, and my point was more you are not required to buy them. Maybe I'm wrong but I think these line cutting programs have been around in some form for a while at various places. Amusement Parks have had them for a while and I would agree they are noticeable there but I haven't seen the same in skiing. But I believe that a place like Copper has had them for a while and I don't remember them being anything more then a ski school class getting ahead of me in line.
Stratton has had it for roughly the last 10 years (at least) and on most of the lifts. It is basically invisible.
They could always increase the price. Sooner or later they will if they can get away with it.
Sounds accurate.
Definitely. I don't know who invented it, but the first I recall seeing it was at Disney in Orlando about 25 years ago.
AdironRider coming in twisting people's words to mean something they didn't say in another trolling attempt.
I think “pay more to skip chairlift lines” is the worst thing in skiing, so I’ll take the bait! I don’t understand how the Disney skip the lines perk compares with skiing…if you get to skip the line for Peter Pan’s Adventure ride and go in at 8:00, and then 8:30, and then 10:00 or 2:00, the ride doesn’t change. If you ski at 8:00, 10:00 and 2:00 the skiing has changed. I also don’t feel the private hiring of an instructor to skip lines even compares to “fast pass” as you still have to wait/ski with the instructor. And not trying to dis Stratton, but “fast pass” is much worse at a challenging mountain than an easy mountain, as the best challenging terrain gets ripped up early with fresh snow, but a mountain like Stratton doesn’t attract those type of skiers for it to matter as much.
For $699 (in addition to your pass price) Solitude is offering a new lift line cutting product. This sounds similar to the Fast Tracks pass at Snowbird. I don't like the concept, but fortunately it hasn't had an obnoxious amount of takers at Snowbird. The one time it really gets to me is on crowded days when I'm using the singles line at Peruvian, Gadzoom, or Mineral chairs. The few fast trackers directly compete with singles line users and take spots on chairs that we would normally get.
