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Originally Posted by AllAbourdon
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That's kinda interesting....thanks for the link...clicked to WV....which has twofer Mondays & Fridays at about 34.50/person as a day ticket full price is 69.
So, with that two-fer deal in mind, the WV-liftopia has all Mon & Fri shown as 'out of stock - check back later,' and Tues =35.99, Wed = 36.99, & Thurs = 34.99.
So's at Waterville Valley on Mon-Tues-Wed-Thurs-Fri, the list, pay-at-the-ticket-window price is $69, and the two-fer and liftopia price is either 34.50 or 35.99 or 36.99.
No matter what price you pay to ski WV, the main quad chairlift stops about 400 yards below the summit. From 1987-1996 the lift went all the way to the top, and then some ski marketing brainiac working for the then new owner, Booth Creek, decided to lower the lift in an effort to avoid having to close the lift due to high winds. Talk about a MAJOR BLUNDER! What a major blunder that was, and WV is still losing business due to that. First-timers get off the lift up top, and they say; "Hey, what's with this, the summit is up there, and we are down here, and why don't the lift go all the way to the top? Like, why stop the lift here....and we just paid sixty nine dollars for this....and on a crowded Saturday.......the tops up there.....and we is down here! aaarrrgggg!
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In 1993, WV had a little over 300,000 skier visits, and in 2010 it had about 170,000 skier visits. Does that qualify as a major blunder or what?