 Poster: A snowHead
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Trying to buy epic passes and mountain collective pass for me and the girlfriend. They are all sold out. I Live in Portugal. Anyone know of somewhere selling ski pass a good price? i need a ski pass for:
Lake Louise 3 days ski pass
Sun Peaks 2 1/2 days ski pass
Whistler 4 days ski pass
VAIL 3 days ski pass
Aspen 3 days ski pass
Telluride 3 days ski pass
The ski pass in USA and Canada is very expensive to compare with Europe
what is the best solution?
Thank
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Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
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Snooze you lose. Epic , Ikon and mtn collective are pretty explicit that they stop selling them once the season starts.
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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?
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I think the Indy pass is still available.
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As said above they've stopped selling those passes. Indy pass could work for a road trip style visit, but it's mostly quite small resorts, not the destination resorts you mention in your post.
You can look at the liftopia website they sometimes have deals, or try the individual resorts websites. At this point though you are not going to get "cheap" skiing in any of the resorts you mention. Some of them are even limiting number of day tickets at busy times as a covid precaution so you might not even get a day pass at all!
I don't know how flexible you are with resorts and times. For example lake Louise usually does a spring pass where you get unlimited skiing from march 1st for around 450 Canadian dollars.
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The ski pass in USA and Canada is very expensive to compare with Europe
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Not really, it's a common misconception. Sure day passes are cheaper in Europe, but no serious skier is buying them in n America. Epic pass is much cheaper than all the big single resort passes in Europe and gets you way more.
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Anyway, snowHeads is much more fun if you do.
Anyway, snowHeads is much more fun if you do.
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I lived out in the US for a few years and I had epic pass before. Personally I found it slightly better value than Ikon but that depends where you are/wanna go. For me I felt that skiing in North America are typically more expensive. Ski passes aside they have much higher cost of living (e.g. food, accommodation etc).
As boarder says, try to get a season pass next year pre-season. Instead of going to do a few days in each of the resorts you mentioned (those resorts are not very close to each other btw), you'd be better off doing a few more days in one. You get a small discount on that. Not much but better than nothing. The alternative is if you don't have a pressing need to go to the US is to to go somewhere in Europe this year and get a season pass pre season next year? You'll make your money back if you ski for a week (probably not even that!)
I've got the Tahoe pass this year and due to fly out in two weeks time if they don't change the border restriction again...!
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@tutosat, if you knew about Vail's Epic pass, you should have paid attention to its deadlines. You missed if by only a week or 2. That's a shame.
Many of the mountains on your list are Vail properties. Vail purposely makes day pass ("window price") eye wateringly expensive to coheres people into buying season pass (or at least buy in advance). As part of that strategy, Vail had also removed all forms of discount on day passes too. You now have very little option to avoid the high price...
Whilst you can't save money, you can however try to get more out of it by buying "packages". Slope side lodging, lessons etc. Mate of mine bought her family full day private lessons which turned out to be almost the same price as the day pass! Why not? So it's 3 days of private lessons!
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tutosat, For lake Louise, you could buy their card if still on sale, it was 1st day free and 20% off others - but check.
Try Liftopia for other resorts they may have some cheap day tickets.
As mentioned you wont get cheap Vail tickets anywhere - Aspen may with your accom. along with T ride.
Doubtful though unfortunately, you really have missed the chairlift this year. Also chances are the areas you mention will be busy - last season was busy and the general thinking is worse.
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