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Re: Dedicated Express Access Lanes

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LINE SHAMING! Can't wait to see some of these confrontations...
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Lame. Mike do something about this. I didn't buy my 365 pass knowing that privileged (there's that trigger word) people can cut the line I am patiently waiting in.

All the money should go to charity or to a liftie college fund to make this not stink.
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Watch out, Bay 1 parking passholders.

Don't be surprised if you get an email at the end of this season, stating that seasonal parking passes have been discontinued.

Why let some middle class rube have that spot for a few hundred bucks a season, when they could sell it to the uber-wealthy for $200 a day?
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throbster wrote: Oct 11th, '21, 10:22 Lame. Mike do something about this. I didn't buy my 365 pass knowing that privileged people can cut the line.
100% Agree with this ! L A M E !
throbster wrote: Oct 11th, '21, 10:22 All the money should go to charity or to a liftie college fund to make this not stink.
There is NO way to cover the stink from this . .
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Re: Dedicated Express Access Lanes

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WHAT COULD GO WRONG WITH THIS IDIOTIC IDEA ?????
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On the other hand... K's margins must be getting hammered by labor costs... Maybe this is meant to help close the gap.
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Perish the thought of the jaded locals not moving the fastest thru the loading zone.
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Stormchaser wrote: Oct 11th, '21, 09:52 LINE SHAMING! Can't wait to see some of these confrontations...
This. A few bronx cheers from the unwashed masses and express lane sales drop to zero. Waste of space.
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They've posted the info on the website now. https://www.killington.com/plan-your-tr ... ast-tracks

It's at the following lifts, available 7 days a week, from November 19 to April 10:

K1
Snowdon 6
Superstar
Ramshead
Snowshed Express
Skyeship Stage 1
Skyeship Stage 2
Needle's
Bear
Skye Peak Express

This means it won't be at North Ridge early season, nor Superstar late season. They also make it very clear that there are no refunds or cancellations, so if you buy it on a day when all the lifts are ski-on, then you've flushed your money down the toilet. That's the case on all weekdays and some weekends. Hopefully that is a common occurrence and the whole thing flops.
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Re: Dedicated Express Access Lanes

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No season pass option? BS. Snowballs and insults will be flying!
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snoloco wrote: Oct 11th, '21, 17:03 They've posted the info on the website now. https://www.killington.com/plan-your-tr ... ast-tracks

It's at the following lifts, available 7 days a week, from November 19 to April 10:

K1
Snowdon 6
Superstar
Ramshead
Snowshed Express
Skyeship Stage 1
Skyeship Stage 2
Needle's
Bear
Skye Peak Express

This means it won't be at North Ridge early season, nor Superstar late season. They also make it very clear that there are no refunds or cancellations, so if you buy it on a day when all the lifts are ski-on, then you've flushed your money down the toilet. That's the case on all weekdays and some weekends. Hopefully that is a common occurrence and the whole thing flops.
So it starts at $49, how much for x mas week, $100/day?
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I suppose you'll find out November 1. At amusement parks, the skip the line pass usually has dynamic pricing. If they are charging the minimum price, that usually means you don't even need it since all the roller coasters will be walk-ons. If the same is true here, the $49 will only be charged on days you don't need it, and it will be more otherwise.
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Why not just raise the season pass prices a little and everyone pays a little more and everything goes as normal. Not this b.s we’re it seems like you’re just a walking wallet and causes problems.
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Remember, these are the same "corporate" folks who forgot to resign a stupid sweet lease deal and had to literally watch their crown jewel be taken from them by Vail. So I gather based on that moment of idiocy plus a lot of other things in their time on the east coast that they really don't understand the market...
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