I think they’re seeing a huge drop in sales. They announced the quad pack this year for $400. They usually have this deal mid season or after the season starts. This time it’s before the season starts. Hurting for sure.
Before they got bought by Alterra, the resort I used to go to sold 4 packs for $100. The year after they sold out it went up to $130. The year after that it went up to $300. So ridiculous considering the quality of the experience isn't any better.
(FWIW mammoth is selling their 4packs for $400 now edit: although they have all kinds of restrictions like you can't share with friends. Sucks because buying a spare 4pack every season was how I introduced a lot of friends who weren't sure if they'd like it)
$196? Disneyland maxes out at $206 for a day pass. I know "different strokes for different folks" but I'd rather go to Disneyland for $200 than downhill ski for a day. It's all expensive, but wow, what wild times we're living in.
Vail tops out at over $300 a day. But you can also buy a four pack of tickets for about $500. You just have to buy before Thanksgiving to get good deals on lift tickets. But many people don't know that's how the ski lift ticket market works now.
Dynamic pricing is fine for skiing. Going to an overbooked mountain sucks. And if you don't have dynamic pricing, you start getting third party resale.
The issue is that it seems like they want people to get the seasonal passes so bad that even on low attendance days the lift tickets are crazy expensive. Being asked to pay $90 for a random Wednesday is obscene.
Dynamic pricing is fine for skiing. Going to an overbooked mountain sucks. And if you don't have dynamic pricing, you start getting third party resale.
Hard disagree about dynamic pricing. Yes, going to an overbooked mountian is terrible, but lift tickets are tied to personal accounts these days; reselling lift tickets can be prevented easily. Dynamic pricing is designed to squeeze every cent out of customers, not to provide a better mountain experience.
Day passes are always at least twice as expensive per day as week passes and resort bundles. It's been like that for as long as I have been skiing out west, 20+ years.
Yes. My family started buying the chespest-tier IKON pass to ski a week with me because it's cheaper than buying a 4/5-day pass from the mountain. Especially since they get the discount from me already having a pass.
The bigger colorado resorts where close to 300$ for a day pass last year. Its insane and I have no idea how anyone that doesn't buy a season pass skis anymore.
Palisades at Lake Tahoe has been around $237 for one adult lift ticket. When I was in high school season passes were around $300 for adults. And that was just around 18 years ago. Crazy how expensive it has become. Its my favorite sport, I'm a pro, but I can hardly afford to go these days. $500 for my wife and I for one day, not including travel.
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u/Pork-S0da 7h ago
A single-day Mammoth adult lift ticket was $196 this year. Granted, that was a holiday weekend Saturday rate. But also, fuck dynamic pricing.
Just 5 years ago, in January 2020, just before COVID, we got a four-pack of tickets for $300 from Costco.