snoloco
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- Jan 1, 2021
The whole point of having a season pass is to reduce your per-visit cost as much as possible. Paid parking adds a significant additional expense every time you go that you can't avoid. It's really a way to stick it to passholders who visit a lot on day trips. If you only visit Stowe once or twice a year, then maybe paying 30 dollars parking isn't a big deal for that one trip, or you're more likely staying in lodging that has a shuttle. However, if you're skiing on the weekends and going 30-40 times a year, then you're going to pay more for parking than you did for your pass.
As for the guy in the earlier post, it sounds like he was there on that horrible day when the Fourrunner Quad went down. That happened at literally the worst possible time because they didn't have terrain open off the gondola or either of the high speed quads at Spruce. Their shiny new 6 pack also wasn't ready yet. This left them with just a double as the only lift serving non-beginner terrain. This obviously resulted in massive lift lines that only got shorter when people got frustrated and left. While they did refund tickets for anyone who took just one run and gave up, they did not refund anyone's parking fees. This was in my opinion inexcusable. The lift failure was a worst-case scenario where they didn't have any other decent lifts available. It would've been easy to just take a mulligan and refund everyone's parking, but they chose not to. They also could've been less restrictive on refunding tickets.
I remember years ago when Mountain Creek had a disaster of a weekend, marred by frozen pipes in the lodge and multiple lift failures. They refunded everyone's tickets, even those who skied all day. Yes, it cost them more money then sticking it to those who skied the whole day, but it was the right thing to do.
As for the guy in the earlier post, it sounds like he was there on that horrible day when the Fourrunner Quad went down. That happened at literally the worst possible time because they didn't have terrain open off the gondola or either of the high speed quads at Spruce. Their shiny new 6 pack also wasn't ready yet. This left them with just a double as the only lift serving non-beginner terrain. This obviously resulted in massive lift lines that only got shorter when people got frustrated and left. While they did refund tickets for anyone who took just one run and gave up, they did not refund anyone's parking fees. This was in my opinion inexcusable. The lift failure was a worst-case scenario where they didn't have any other decent lifts available. It would've been easy to just take a mulligan and refund everyone's parking, but they chose not to. They also could've been less restrictive on refunding tickets.
I remember years ago when Mountain Creek had a disaster of a weekend, marred by frozen pipes in the lodge and multiple lift failures. They refunded everyone's tickets, even those who skied all day. Yes, it cost them more money then sticking it to those who skied the whole day, but it was the right thing to do.
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