VAIL SUCKS

[thetrailboss]

Vail Resorts struggling as lift ticket sales fall, visits down

Shares of the Broomfield-based resort giant, whose Colorado holdings include Breckenridge, Keystone, Vail, Beaver Creek and Crested Butte, are down 30 percent from this year’s high in February.

www.cpr.org

 

[ThatGuy]

Slower next season is fine with me, have my Epic Pass and Mountain Collective so Ill be getting some more great days in Utah no matter what

 

[jaytrem]

I may be hitting that up next Tuesday.

Cool, been really enjoying that place ever since they started making bumps once a month. Discount tickets can be purchased at Groupon. Looks like $42 right now. They seem to vary a bit, were $39 last time I checked. And every so often they sell 6 packs for $100 or $129.

 

[djd66]

Cool, been really enjoying that place ever since they started making bumps once a month. Discount tickets can be purchased at Groupon. Looks like $42 right now. They seem to vary a bit, were $39 last time I checked. And every so often they sell 6 packs for $100 or $129.

How long do you usually ski for?

 

[jaytrem]

The tickets are good for 2 hours. So usually a little over that. They're not picky about kicking you out on time. The same people keep showing up for the bumps, so it's a good social scene.

 

[jimmywilson69]

They have a sale going right now. 1/2 off for individual sessions if you purchase now through 6/21. I will be booking a session for next Tuesday afternoon.

 

[thetrailboss]

Understanding Vail Resorts' Epic Pass/Day Ticket Equation - Ski Area Management

SAM Magazine—Broomfield, Colo., June 19, 2024—Just how far can season pass sales take a resort? That's surely a question that many areas have been asking themselves. And it was a topic that was explored in some depth during the Vail Resorts conference call with analysts following the company's...

www.saminfo.com

 

[jaytrem]

They have a sale going right now. 1/2 off for individual sessions if you purchase now through 6/21. I will be booking a session for next Tuesday afternoon.

Very nice, enjoy! The mall does have sine cool other stiff also. Some overpriced, some not so bad, especially when on sale.

 

[4aprice]

From my understanding the 2 hour limit is really only for the locker. I think it may unlock automatically at that point. They do some scanning of the bracelet but not all the time. Are they posting those mogul dates on the web site Jay?? Wish they opened the thing earlier on weekdays but it is what it is.

 

[jimmywilson69]

I saw mogul dates on their facebook page I think. one was last weekend, which kind of bumps me out that I'll miss that.

 

[jaytrem]

From my understanding the 2 hour limit is really only for the locker. I think it may unlock automatically at that point. They do some scanning of the bracelet but not all the time. Are they posting those mogul dates on the web site Jay?? Wish they opened the thing earlier on weekdays but it is what it is.

Yeah, the scanning isn't too frequent most of the time. The next two mogul weekends scheduled are July 5th and August 30th. Both holiday weekends unfortunately. I wouldn't be surprised if they added another in between. They post the dates on their Facebook and that always ends up on the Bumping Big Snow Facebook group. Would be great meet up with you there one of these days!

 

[thetrailboss]

Very nice, enjoy! The mall does have sine cool other stiff also. Some overpriced, some not so bad, especially when on sale.

From my understanding the 2 hour limit is really only for the locker. I think it may unlock automatically at that point. They do some scanning of the bracelet but not all the time. Are they posting those mogul dates on the web site Jay?? Wish they opened the thing earlier on weekdays but it is what it is.

I saw mogul dates on their facebook page I think. one was last weekend, which kind of bumps me out that I'll miss that.

Yeah, the scanning isn't too frequent most of the time. The next two mogul weekends scheduled are July 5th and August 30th. Both holiday weekends unfortunately. I wouldn't be surprised if they added another in between. They post the dates on their Facebook and that always ends up on the Bumping Big Snow Facebook group. Would be great meet up with you there one of these days!

Folks, please continue the discussion on Big Snow in this new dedicated thread (like Sugarbush). Thanks,

Big Snow Indoor Ski Area Thread

Please discuss Big Snow here.

forums.alpinezone.com

 

[jimmywilson69]

thanks TB I thought of starting one once we got off the rails pretty far from how VAIL SUCKS

 

[JimG.]

Yeah...

because Big Snow does not suck.

 

[BodeMiller1]

Vail wins 5 awards? Impossible sauce?

Vail Resorts Wins Five National Ski Area Association Awards

Vail Resorts is honored to receive five awards from the National Ski Areas Association (NSAA), the trade association for ski area owners and operators. It represents over 300 alpine resorts that...

news.vailresorts.com

 

[thetrailboss]

Vail wins 5 awards? Impossible sauce?

Vail Resorts Wins Five National Ski Area Association Awards

Vail Resorts is honored to receive five awards from the National Ski Areas Association (NSAA), the trade association for ski area owners and operators. It represents over 300 alpine resorts that...

news.vailresorts.com

It's called they needed to get some good press after their recent earnings call.

 

[BenedictGomez]

That's fine, but your initial comment was "most resorts". That's what I disagree with.

Splitting hairs really.

I bet "most" is accurate if we simply go by Skier Visits.

 

[BenedictGomez]

Dude, you have been playing the same record for a decade. I know you want to say you are always correct, but for 10 years you've been wrong.

I literally said almost a decade ago that it would take at least a decade or more for the problems to show up in operating results. I literally JUST said in my last comment (repeating that fact) that that is still my belief. Debt bomb is real. Calendar is real. Roll-up companies take a long-time to fail. I still think I'm correct.

What is wrong? Your reading comprehension.

 

[BenedictGomez]

The places that are Vail and Alterra run are the destinations 90% of people want to ski.

EXACTLY!

This is not a fact that simply should be ignored by adding 384 "ski places" that see virtually no traffic per year.

 

[BenedictGomez]

I agree, but a lot of people don't have the money it takes to get to these places. So they're "stuck" skiing places closer to home. As far as I can tell, most of those places have reasonably priced day tickets. Thus they're not trying to shock people into buying a season pass.

So Cochran, Whaleback, and Shawnee aren't charging $285 a lift ticket due to their benevolent heart & sense of altruistic duty to mankind?

I'm not really sure you've thought this through.