F Vail

[MarzNC]

Yup. I’m so turned off with what skiing has become now that I have practically zero interest in it anymore.

Depends on where you look. I'm having good fun with the Indy Pass and places like Timberline in WV and Wolf Creek in CO.

 

[Milo Maltbie]

Depends on where you look. I'm having good fun with the Indy Pass and places like Timberline in WV and Wolf Creek in CO.

You think you are insulated from the epic problems of corporate resorts, and maybe you are for now. But sooner or later those Park City crowds will find the Indy mountains the owners will figure they can charge epic prices. Even the bottom end of the market moves with market, and the market is epic now for better or worse.

mm

 

[tirolski]

Who do you despise more? The person selling it or the person who buys it?

Could be the brainiac in Broomfield HQ who mighta figured it’d a quick ancillary attachment for some EZ bottom line bucks. Fails' cash flow may need an injection this quarter.

 

[takeahike46er]

If thought pay to park was a money grab how about selling a space for $70K?

https://www.powder.com/news/whistler-70k-parking-spot

Who’s brainstorm in HQ came up with this?

This is rage-bait.

There’s actually a decent amount of free day parking in Whistler—both in Creekside or the Upper Village. Vail actually doesn’t charge for any of the parking on its land. All the paid lots are owned by the village.

The exorbitant cost of this parking spot has more to do with the high cost of real estate in Whistler (and BC in general) and almost nothing to do about rising costs of skiing.

 

[tirolski]

This is rage-bait.

It gets clicks.

There’s actually a decent amount of free day parking in Whistler—both in Creekside or the Upper Village. Vail actually doesn’t charge for any of the parking on its land. All the paid lots are owned by the village.

The exorbitant cost of this parking spot has more to do with the high cost of real estate in Whistler (and BC in general) and almost nothing to do about rising costs of skiing.

It appears to be in Blackcomb & underground at the Glacier Lodge joint which appears to be linked to Vail Resorts Inc.

100 Stall 106-4573 Chateau Boulevard

Never have to deal with the headache of looking for parking when you go skiing, hiking, or biking. Don’t miss out on the fresh powder because you had to drive around to find a parking spot! Here is your opportunity to purchase a fully secure, underground parking stall in the Glacier Lodge, just...

whistlerrealestate.ca

https://www.whistlerblackcomb.com/Plan-Your-Trip/stay/details/Glacier-Lodge.aspx?location=1307369
The point was they appear to be selling parking spaces nowadaze. Whataway to run an airline.

It has to do with collecting money. Skiing is their ancillary attachment.

 

[takeahike46er]

The Glacier Lodge consists of condos and the seller could be anyone. You’re assuming the seller is Vail.

More details on how valuable parking is in Whistler here.

There are a lot of things to blame Vail for, but the high cost of a parking space in Whistler isn’t one of them. Prices throughout BC are sky high and have been for some time.

 

[Peter Minde]

Shit's out of control

I hope that $76k is at least for a permanent spot, rather than something that ya gotta renew every year.

Daughter of a friend lived in Whistler back in the day. She missed making the Canadian snowboard team, 2002 Winter Games, by a few hundredths of a second. She was a boarding instructor on the mountain and tended bar at night. Two jobs, and she was still sleeping rough. They may have Fail beat for outta control cost of living.

 

[Woodski12]

I hope that $76k is at least for a permanent spot, rather than something that ya gotta renew every year.

Daughter of a friend lived in Whistler back in the day. She missed making the Canadian snowboard team, 2002 Winter Games, by a few hundredths of a second. She was a boarding instructor on the mountain and tended bar at night. Two jobs, and she was still sleeping rough. They may have Fail beat for outta control cost of living.

I have seen bartenders take home $3k-$5k per night in places like this, with the servers well above $1k/night on the good days. The assistant server who did the bread would walk with at least $500.

 

[Woodski12]

This is rage-bait.

There’s actually a decent amount of free day parking in Whistler—both in Creekside or the Upper Village. Vail actually doesn’t charge for any of the parking on its land. All the paid lots are owned by the village.

The exorbitant cost of this parking spot has more to do with the high cost of real estate in Whistler (and BC in general) and almost nothing to do about rising costs of skiing.

Too much truth, getting in the way of this thread's purpose.

 

[Ripitz]

I have seen bartenders take home $3k-$5k per night in places like this, with the servers well above $1k/night on the good days. The assistant server who did the bread would walk with at least $500.

Yeah but do you know how much cocaine is in mountain towns?

I call bullshit on this. I bartended a bunch in Big Sky, MT and Jupiter Florida, two of the wealthiest places in the country. The best nights I had were never much more than $1,000 and those were blue moons. When it all evened out I could consistently make more at my hometown dive bar in NY.