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03-21-2020, 11:10 AM #1Registered User
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EPic Pass or Ikon - Discount for Covid?
Are either of them offering any discounts for next year - since half the season's been cancelled.
Has anyone called to find out
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03-21-2020, 11:14 AM #2retired ed
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Half the season????
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03-21-2020, 12:12 PM #3
I’m sure they’re waiting to see how this plays out. If/when the economy is in the shitter, they may have to reprice their passes. Or we may be in the same situation next Fall, with nothing open.
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03-21-2020, 12:51 PM #4
EPic Pass or Icon - Discount for Covid?
If you didn't get your money's worth out of your season pass by March, were you really going to?
By the way, most resorts define getting your money's worth by breaking even on the price of a pass vs. day tickets. They don't care that you didn't get your pass down to $10/ski day.
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03-21-2020, 12:54 PM #5
I think it's probably worthwhile to wait a bit to see if they might give a break on next season's passes to those who had passes this year.
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03-21-2020, 01:00 PM #6
Half the season? So most ski areas were supposed to be open until July or August? Who knew!?
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03-21-2020, 01:58 PM #7Registered User
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Well! don't mean to quiblle - but I skied fresh powder on May 15th last year at Squaw
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03-21-2020, 07:28 PM #8
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03-21-2020, 07:37 PM #10
And I only burned one A-basin day - saving the remainder for April and May. Who knew
This'll save me money in the long run. No travel next year, except to tour. A-basin only pass if I get anything at all, and the way things are looking, I won't have to make a pass decision until January (if at all).
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03-21-2020, 08:11 PM #11Registered User
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03-21-2020, 08:30 PM #12
Gonna see some crybabies in this thread. Line up has some Allstars appearing already.
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03-21-2020, 10:14 PM #13Registered User
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Agreed. No whining and bottom feeding. Choose one only. But paying for something that you don't receive is not fair. Of course its not the fault of the resorts that they have had to close early, but you're missing an important part of this. Once the resorts close, fixed costs continue but operating costs are reduced to near zero. Not offering some form of refund or discount actually creates a windfall profit for them, not a loss.
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03-21-2020, 10:42 PM #14
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03-21-2020, 11:00 PM #15
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03-21-2020, 11:06 PM #16
If the only thing you have to cry about is not getting the full value of your pass this year consider yourself extremely lucky
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03-21-2020, 11:12 PM #17
EPic Pass or Icon - Discount for Covid?
Uncle is assuming that lowering operational costs offsets lost revenue in the form of lodging, events, lift ticket sales, food/bev etc. Depending on the resort the math doesn’t pencil out that way
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03-21-2020, 11:16 PM #18one-track mind
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Why is that so hard for you to grasp? Some of us are Mammoth skiers. Mammoth did not even make it halfway to last year's number of days open. 127 days open this year, 261 days open last year = 48.7%. Not even halfway yet.
Absolutely YES. Some people miss a month or 2 during the first half of the season due to illness & injury & surgeries etc. (and whatever other reasons), and were planning on the 100+ remaining days that got cancelled at Mammoth. It's not so difficult to grasp, is it?
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03-21-2020, 11:19 PM #19Registered User
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While you are losing money, in a sense, because you lost the last 25-30% of your season...the resorts are losing money in a much more direct way.
Both sides are getting screwed equally, by no fault of their own. Get over it
FWIW, the resorts can’t salvage their season by going backcountry skiing.
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03-21-2020, 11:24 PM #20Registered User
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03-21-2020, 11:54 PM #21Registered User
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it's not so difficult to grasp someone's disappointment. it's just hard to grasp how they think someone else is to blame or that they demand compensation instead of accepting that life just be that way sometimes.
people break legs midseason too. that's the gamble. except now, your gamble doesn't just give you days at mammoth and it gives you a comically high value at dozens of other resorts. you spent the money, and you can't get it back. stop obsessing over it and move on, use it as an opportunity to grow as a human. or, if you want, stew in your own sense of helplessness knowing that you're gonna come crawling back to alterra anyways because you know they're still giving you value, and they know it too. and in 2021/2022 you'll pay $100 more, because you'll be hooked and you're not going back.
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03-22-2020, 12:26 AM #22
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03-22-2020, 12:48 PM #25Registered User
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I figure there would've been enough snow for Squaw & Mammoth to offer skiing into May which is close to a 6 month season. They shut mid March, so I've got no problem if it was said we missed out on 1/3 of the season. No way we were gonna make it til July 4 so any claim of 1/2 the season is just not honest.
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