Who's In For Opening Day?

[rogman]

So, any chance of opening superstar to the masses before the World Cup?

Sure, just head down Launch Pad and duck in. The bottom gets dicey, though. Real dicey. Have a getaway plan.

[skiadikt]

here's the on-line ticket pricing for the next couple weeks. gotta be really desperate to pay $86 to ski rime.

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[snoloco]

Pent up demand, and only 2 trails = high ticket prices. Most people will be passholders or Ikon anyways, since no other Ikon areas are open in the Northeast.

[twilkas]

here's the on-line ticket pricing for the next couple weeks. gotta be really desperate to pay $86 to ski rime.

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Not that bad, for a one off. take catamount in NY last season for instance - 'demand pricing' - couldn't even get a number from them. at least at K you know what you're committing to. enjoy!

[skiadikt]

Pent up demand, and only 2 trails = high ticket prices. Most people will be passholders or Ikon anyways, since no other Ikon areas are open in the Northeast.

if i was an ikon passholder i wouldn't waste a day to ski 1 1/2 trails at k and short ones at that.

[Low Rider]

Pent up demand, and only 2 trails = high ticket prices. Most people will be passholders or Ikon anyways, since no other Ikon areas are open in the Northeast.

if i was an ikon passholder i wouldn't waste a day to ski 1 1/2 trails at k and short ones at that.

Don’t forget - a lot of ikon pasholdsrs are sugarbush and Stratton skiers who get access to our mountain but we get no reciprocal benefit in return at theirs. Why not come use a day if you want to get an early start to the season?

[Big Bob]

Pent up demand, and only 2 trails = high ticket prices. Most people will be passholders or Ikon anyways, since no other Ikon areas are open in the Northeast.

if i was an ikon passholder i wouldn't waste a day to ski 1 1/2 trails at k and short ones at that.

Don’t forget - a lot of ikon pasholdsrs are sugarbush and Stratton skiers who get access to our mountain but we get no reciprocal benefit in return at theirs. Why not come use a day if you want to get an early start to the season?

Correct me if I am wrong, butt an IKON Base Pass that comes with the Beast 365 can access Sugarbush and Stratton for 5 days each, correct?

[Low Rider]

Pent up demand, and only 2 trails = high ticket prices. Most people will be passholders or Ikon anyways, since no other Ikon areas are open in the Northeast.

if i was an ikon passholder i wouldn't waste a day to ski 1 1/2 trails at k and short ones at that.

Don’t forget - a lot of ikon pasholdsrs are sugarbush and Stratton skiers who get access to our mountain but we get no reciprocal benefit in return at theirs. Why not come use a day if you want to get an early start to the season?

Correct me if I am wrong, butt an IKON Base Pass that comes with the Beast 365 can access Sugarbush and Stratton for 5 days each, correct?

I’ll rephrase - they get benefits at our mountain for free - we have to pay a significant up charge to get benefits at theirs.

Also it lame that Ikon pass holders get the same opening day benefit as we do. Opening day should be reserved for true Killington pass holders - that would be a better thank you to the most loyal killington customers.

[ski]

Correct me if I am wrong, butt an IKON Base Pass that comes with the Beast 365 can access Sugarbush and Stratton for 5 days each, correct?

Base Ikon gets you full access at Sugarbush and Stratton EXCEPT holiday blackout periods... So the 365 pass is pretty much like a full pass to three VT ski areas

[ski]

here's the on-line ticket pricing for the next couple weeks. gotta be really desperate to pay $86.45 to ski rime.

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What is with the nickel and dime approach to these prices ? I get it that the pricing flexes with demand, but do we really need the "cents" on the end.

Typical Killington nonsensical stupidity

[newpylong1]

Are you going to be paying with coins? What does it matter if it's $86 or $86.45 or $87? Someone obviously did not incorporate rounding to the next whole dollar in the code when applying x amount of discount after +n days. I don't think it has anything to do with nickel and diming. Dumb but not malevolent.

[skiadikt]

here's the on-line ticket pricing for the next couple weeks. gotta be really desperate to pay $86.45 to ski rime.

lift prices.jpg

What is with the nickel and dime approach to these prices ? I get it that the pricing flexes with demand, but do we really need the "cents" on the end.

Typical Killington nonsensical stupidity

just math. the full price is $95 and you get a 9% discount. comes out to $86.45. even a 10% discount would be $85.50.

not sure why they've settled on all these odd discount percentages 9, 12 17 etc. but maybe w sales tax it comes out to an even number or maybe they throw darts at a board. in the end the numbers don't matter much because there's no cash involved now that everything's a credit card transaction.

[Mister Moose]

if i was an ikon passholder i wouldn't waste a day to ski 1 1/2 trails at k and short ones at that.

Also it lame that Ikon pass holders get the same opening day benefit as we do. Opening day should be reserved for true Killington pass holders - that would be a better thank you to the most loyal killington customers.

How many IKON passholders do burn one of 5 days to ski the WROD? It probably isn't very many.

What is with the nickel and dime approach to these prices ? I get it that the pricing flexes with demand, but do we really need the "cents" on the end.

Typical Killington nonsensical stupidity

What price did you pay for gas since forever? Tenths of a cent?

Once you go to dynamic pricing, all kinds of fractional multipliers are involved. If Killington rounded down to the nearest dollar, and each skier did just one transaction per day rounded down an average of 50 cents, at 800,000 skier visits that's $400,000.

[jimmywilson69]

But if they rounded up $0.50 that $400k extra

Is that the price with Tax? I don't think it has been in the past

[wjenness]

I believe I just saw the first paying customer head down Rime on a snowboard via the webcam.
Welcome to the 2023-2024 ski season everyone!