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Goin to Lake Louise for 10 days in jan looking forward to the skiing but not the lift pass price to ski 9 days £415 does anyone know why they are so expensive 
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Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
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I'm afraid the pound's got trashed the last couple of years and the safe-haven Canadian Dollar has strengthened (no insane banking and plenty of natural resources). A few years ago you would get C$2.40 to the pound, now about 1.70.
All you can do is find a cheaper way of buying, is the Tour Op doing a better deal?
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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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Hey Luigi,
That was the tour operator price! will just have to bite the bullet and hope the skiing is as good as everyone tells me!!
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and people complain about the lift prices at Whistler.
9 day adult lift pass for middle of Jan = CAD$645 which at current rates (internet calculator) is 372 UK pounds. That is booking through WB online, you can probably get cheaper if you book with lodging.
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Anyway, snowHeads is much more fun if you do.
Anyway, snowHeads is much more fun if you do.
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joshua, that must be the tri-area pass (it's C$ 705 for a 9 out of 12 day pass, so no discount at all) that allows you to ski at Sunshine and it includes the shuttle buses.
Shame us brits don't qualify for these:
http://www.skilouise.com/louise_cards.aspx
You might also want to consider a daytrip to Kicking Horse, these don't cost much more than the day pass. Will you want to ski 9 days straight? Is a shorter duration pass better value? They sometimes do 7 days for the price of 5. You can always add more days locally.
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joshua, Lake Louise always has had an over-priced pass considering the quality of the facilities RCR puts in. It is also very difficult to get cheap deals on any RCR passes, unlike many US resorts.
Where are you staying?
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b]stoatsbrother[/b],
RCR have only a minority holding in LL now. It was sold back to Charlie Locke who I think had some sort of option to buy back. RCR prefer to concentrate on resorts where money is to be made in real estate, no real options for development inside the national park.
His first move was to reopen terrain park with jumps. We saw him when having breakfast last spring.
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Hey Stoatsbrother,
Staying in Lake Louise inn, its our first time skiing in canada normally stay in europe. Am looking forward to it but just seems a little excessive. Luigi have seen the ski cards! never mind may have a go at kicking horse gotta hire some fat skis though, have not seen the 7 for price of 5 passes where do you get these?
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gryphea, hope it improves...
joshua, we have stayed at the LLI 4 times now for a total of 44 days. Nice pool, good breakfasts, food is ok in the restaurant, pizza place and bar downstairs, convenient shuttle bus. The railway restaurant about a mile away is worth a walk, and there are a couple of other places in LL itself - plus restaurants up at the Chateau LL (which is worth a visit).
Hope you are not going to Party - because LL redefines "quiet" at night... but we liked it as a family place.
Best skiing is over the backside of the mountain - and the Whitehorn II gulllies are great.
KH is worth a day trip if the snow is good.
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| have not seen the 7 for price of 5 passes where do you get these? |
I've seen some tour ops do these from time to time.
We got a good deal on a 4-day tri-area pass for £132 off our tour op Thomson 2 years ago, but that was when you were getting $2 to the £. We then did the bus trips to KH and Panorama (from Banff). Had a car for a few days , had a break from skiing, got out into the wilderness and did snowshoeing, icewalking, snowmobiling and skating instead.
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