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Perisher 2015 Season Pass $750 Now Includes Vail Group Season 15/16

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Perisher 2015 Season Pass $750 Now Includes Vail Group Season 15/16
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Ldjapek on 31/03/2015 - 09:54 shop.perisher.com.au (262 clicks)
Last edited 31/03/2015 - 11:39

It was announced today that the Vail group has acquired Perisher.
http://news.vailresorts.com/article_display.cfm?article_id=2…

They have re released the Persher Freedom Pass for early bird rates but it now includes a season at Vails subsidiaries, the mountain resorts of Vail, Beaver Creek, Breckenridge and Keystone in Colorado; Heavenly, Northstar and Kirkwood in the Lake Tahoe area of California and Nevada; Canyons and Park City in Utah; Afton Alps in Minnesota and Mt. Brighton in Michigan.

Credit to sirob1: Only includes 10 days at both Vail and Beaver Creek

Adults - $750, +$100 Skitube
Children/Student (6 y/o - Year 12) - $429, +$50 Skitube
Senior (65 y/o and over) - $429, +$100 Skitube

It was cheaper for about a week during the early bird sales in Novemeber (ish?) but the Vail resorts werent included.

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  • 2ndeffort on 31/03/2015 - 10:14
    +2

    If you ski NSW and then head across to the US in Feb that is a great deal, particularly with the AUD in freefall affecting the cost of next year's US lift tickets! I skied Vail, Breck and Keystone in Feb and have skied Beaver Ck on a previous trip. On a good day backbowls at Vail are, in my opinion as good as it gets! If I didn't live/ski in Victoria I would be all over this!

    • aec on 31/03/2015 - 13:27

      The plan was to ski in Japan just because of cheap Aussie dollar against USD. Now the plan needs to be reconsidered.

  • sirob1 on 31/03/2015 - 11:27
    +1

    Good deal for a ski bum, but please note the t&c's state only 10 days at Vail and Beaver Creek.

    • djapek on 31/03/2015 - 11:40

      Good find, updated

    • danyool on 31/03/2015 - 13:47

      You can buy the US Epic pass for unlimited Vail/Beaver creek, and unlimited Perisher, but it's more expensive. US$769 = ~AUD$1,025
      You'd need to decide where you want to go and for how long. 10 days is still pretty good at 2 resorts, plus unlimited at the others.

      http://www.perisher.com.au/tickets-passes/freedom-pass-with-…

  • diamondtouch1 on 31/03/2015 - 13:03
    +3

    The vail resorts are also included for those who purchased their passes last year

  • Flurogreen on 31/03/2015 - 13:06

    Why are they only $49 at the moment?
    -Ah oops that is when you select the payment plan.

  • SydBargainer on 31/03/2015 - 18:59

    Whoever said skiing is expensive in Australia?

    • 2ndeffort on 31/03/2015 - 19:57
      +1

      Actually the lift tickets are expensive overseas as well it is just that you get much more snow/mountain for your $$ over there! Less waiting in a long lift queue to fight it out with hundreds of others for the same 2 runs that are open compared to Whistler or Vail which are absolutely massive, better chance of good snow and many more runs/lifts.

      For anybody thinking of using this new facility I would recommend staying at Breckenridge and use your pass to ski the Vail reports in the area. As long as the road is open it is an easy drive from Breck to Vail, Beaver Ck and Keystone. Vail Resorts have also just bought Park City in Utah and they own Heavenly and a few of the Tahoe resorts as well. I've skied Tahoe and Colorado and I would recommend Colorado, just be prepared for altitude sickness (no joke).

      • danyool on 01/04/2015 - 14:00

        Most time's I've been to Perisher the lift queues are very short (Even on Sunday's.) Aside from the main Village 8 which can get long cause most people start there (10min wait time), but elsewhere, usually only a few people at the queue 1-2 mins max, or even straight on. There are 40-something lifts when all going over 4 areas - so people can spread out.

        I've found Thredbo is a bit worse than Perisher, especially Kozi Express lift.

        (Haven't been to Vic resorts)

  • cornucopia on 31/03/2015 - 20:32

    The $429 Seniors pass that gives you access to Perisher and Vail Resorts properties is an unbelievable deal. However, put in perspective, it's saving your perhaps $500 to $1000 (depending on how you do the sums) on the cost of skiing in both Perisher and (say) Breckenridge in the one year WHILE the crash of the Australian dollar in the last eighteen months has added about $2000 to the cost of a ten day Colorado ski trip. So it's swings and roundabouts and even with this lift price break you're still going to be considerably worse off than two or three years ago. Change of subject. Colorado Rockies skiing for Australians. If you've skied Oz and you're going to Breck/Vail/the Beave for the first time don't even think about going straight to altitude (Breck TOWN is at 9000 feet!!!),spend a day or preferably two acclimatising in Denver (which by the way is at about the same altitude as Falls Creek). Rockies altitude sickness is seriously debilitating and can just ruin your expensive ski trip…. BTDT.. :-) .. !!

  • thedriver on 31/03/2015 - 21:11

    I think the best thing about this news is that we we hopefully get new management at Perisher. Having worked at Perisher, I know just how badly they need direction and guidance to actually get an awesome resort in the southern hemisphere, one that is good for the customers and the staff.

    • danyool on 01/04/2015 - 14:01

      Yeah, shame we didn't know it was for sale. If you had a spare $176 million you could have bought it yourself!

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