 Poster: A snowHead
|
So we're hoping to pop over on Wednesday, and lo and behold (I think we knew it was coming) - surge pricing!!
We will see how that works out!!
We'll also see how the online ticketing works. Different pages for Aosta and Piedmonte first accesses, for some reason.
|
|
|
|
|
|
Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
|
|
This was a little eye opener for me. We had booked a week in March in Alagna. I went in to check the situation for ski passes this winter and on the Alagna site it says that they will have limited amount of ski passes available. When going in to online ticket site on Monte Rosa, there are no tickets available for February and early March. I cancelled the airbnb reservation and also cancelled the transportation from/to Malpensa. I had booked this with the tourist information. They replied that they did not understand why we had cancelled our trip to Alagna as they could book the ski cards for us. Hashtag: confussed!
|
|
|
|
|
|
Well, the person's real but it's just a made up name, see?
Well, the person's real but it's just a made up name, see?
|
| under a new name wrote: |
So we're hoping to pop over on Wednesday, and lo and behold (I think we knew it was coming) - surge pricing!!
We will see how that works out!!
We'll also see how the online ticketing works. Different pages for Aosta and Piedmonte first accesses, for some reason. |
What the hell is surge pricing? 
|
|
|
|
|
|
You need to Login to know who's really who.
You need to Login to know who's really who.
|
|
@Bergmeister, whacking up the prices (presumably of the lift pass?) during popular times.
|
|
|
|
|
|
Anyway, snowHeads is much more fun if you do.
Anyway, snowHeads is much more fun if you do.
|
|
Also referred to as dynamic pricing. A la Easy and Ryan.
|
|
|
|
|
|
You'll need to Register first of course.
You'll need to Register first of course.
|
| under a new name wrote: |
So we're hoping to pop over on Wednesday, and lo and behold (I think we knew it was coming) - surge pricing!!
We will see how that works out!!
We'll also see how the online ticketing works. Different pages for Aosta and Piedmonte first accesses, for some reason. |
Do you think this has to do with the limited access the bubble cars give from Alagna as is the non availability from there in February?
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Italian law now stipulates that lifts now run at 80% capacity to protect from Covid
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
| Timmycb5 wrote: |
| @Bergmeister, whacking up the prices (presumably of the lift pass?) during popular times. |
Thanks. I see. So what has been known for years as "supply and demand" now has a new name 
|
|
|
|
|
|
You'll get to see more forums and be part of the best ski club on the net.
You'll get to see more forums and be part of the best ski club on the net.
|
|
I have never understood why lift passes aren't higher in times of high demand. Everything else is.
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
snowHeads are a friendly bunch.
snowHeads are a friendly bunch.
|
| pam w wrote: |
| I have never understood why lift passes aren't higher in times of high demand. Everything else is. |
yep now that the tech is available to administer dynamic charging but I think it has more to do with moving to the American model of high daily charging vs lower season passes, as it provides forward funding, encourages fidelity with more visits, and given my experience, more missed payed for days as I always worked on 23 days at Monte Rosa which is a commitment if the desire to ski anywhere else other than the resort ticket is to be indulged...
|
|
|
|
|
|
And love to help out and answer questions and of course, read each other's snow reports.
And love to help out and answer questions and of course, read each other's snow reports.
|
|
@Crevasse dweller, pretty powerful medicine that. Better than vaccines?
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
And Indren will be extra (as is now)?
|
|
|
|
|
|
You know it makes sense.
|
|
@mooney058, as has been for a few years
|
|
|
|
|
|
Otherwise you'll just go on seeing the one name:
Otherwise you'll just go on seeing the one name:
|
|
@under a new name, indeed, that is what I meant. Nice place though - to the left from lift exit went on my own. To the right went with a guide. I like the right side much better, but would not do it in my own (just yet)
|
|
|
|
|
|
Poster: A snowHead
|
|
Talking about increasing the prices. It's already an expensive sport and the demographics are hardly encouraging. Even in Austria 60% of the population have never skied (read in an article about the closure of a small area). Looks to me like they're listening to the wrong people
|
|
|
|
|
|
Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
|
|
Look at skipass prices in the US and be horrified.
|
|
|
|
|
|
Well, the person's real but it's just a made up name, see?
Well, the person's real but it's just a made up name, see?
|
|
Wonder what this means for the Aosta valley pass ? (which we would be getting if we can get there in feb).
|
|
|
|
|
|
You need to Login to know who's really who.
You need to Login to know who's really who.
|
|
|
|
Anyway, snowHeads is much more fun if you do.
Anyway, snowHeads is much more fun if you do.
|
|
@skitow, Those numbers seem high, there was a recent statement from the new president of the French ski federation that only 8% of people in Haute-Savoie ski.
|
|
|
|
|
|
You'll need to Register first of course.
You'll need to Register first of course.
|
Even tho the prices are not the same every day it's still a very cheap area pass. Daily from €38 over next few weeks- more at weekends and over NY week understandably.
Quite a few weeks of the season seem to be blanked out/not available tho
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Strange timing for introducing this new dynamic pricing model. Adding uncertainty in an already unpredictable winter seems counter-productive! I was in contact with the tourist information yday and according to them, they can sell 12000 ski passes daily. Strange then that sevaral weeks/months are unavailable at the moment on the web-page.
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
@alasdair.graham, I've just been on updating our cards, and I saw no blacked out dates?
|
|
|
|
|
|
You'll get to see more forums and be part of the best ski club on the net.
You'll get to see more forums and be part of the best ski club on the net.
|
@under a new name,
I think you have searched only for one or two days. When you are trying to buy a week pass you will see that several weeks are not available.
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
| Woosh wrote: |
| Strange timing for introducing this new dynamic pricing model. Adding uncertainty in an already unpredictable winter seems counter-productive! I was in contact with the tourist information yday and according to them, they can sell 12000 ski passes daily. Strange then that sevaral weeks/months are unavailable at the moment on the web-page. |
It is quite logical in my view.
Due to covid, you will need to have a system for reservation because the number of lift passes to be issued, is bound to a maximum.
This is a standard part of dynamic pricing systems. You can buy a certain number of lift passes at dynamic prices, beforehand. And the remainder is sold to the highest bidder.
Maximum number of passes sold? No more passes for sale.
The only thing they need to arrange properly, is that you can buy your skipass far enough ahead in time, for instance 6 months before arrival, at the same time when you are booking.
Not much sense in reserving a hotel or appartment, when you are not sure you will have the skipass.
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
FAQ
. Sort of surprised that we are at 10% to be honest. Maybe it's because I live in the less prosperous north ? No idea how reliable the data is but it's from here 
