Seems kind of expensive if you're really talking "frugal traveler." Cheap hotel room $50-60, discoun

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"A frugal traveler can take a Salt Lake ski trip for $239... the most expensive destination is Vail, which costs $746. Park City is third on that list at $667, about $6 cheaper than a trip to Aspen. Two other Colorado resorts, Telluride and Steamboat Springs, round out the top five in the most-expensive list."
"The travel site calculating the nightly rate to be $122. That was only 50 cents more expensive than North Conway, N.H., which finished second in the poll, its overall costs coming in at $1 more than Salt Lake City. Vail, once again, had the highest hotel costs, at $582 nightly. Park City's nightly lodging costs were pegged by TripAdvisor at $524."
It is certainly not a cheap ski hobby if you want to do the resort ski trip thingy. I suspect if you really work it, you can get that price down a bit by going at off-peak early season, and late season periods. Got a trip planned to Vail/BC, with air, lodging, lift tix and car rental, I'm already out $209/day. So a skiers got to eat, right? I shudder to think of the cost for food. Going to be lots of eating at the condo and bringing a PB J in the backpack to the slopes. I suspect the demand is there if the prices are what they are these days. And, yes, it was sticker cheap car rentals in new york shock when I was researching Vail...
cheap car rentals in new york Seems kind of expensive if you're really talking cheap car rentals in new york "frugal traveler." Cheap hotel room $50-60, discount ticket to Soli/Brighton $60, not sure how much rentals are ($30-$40?), $15 for a burger and fries (which is what their meal is based on) and $5 for a beer. That's about $140. I realize Trip Advisor is dealing in averages, but the Tribune article should mention that an actual frugal traveler could do the trip for half of what they're estimating.
If you read carefully of the article, cheap car rentals in new york it's the AVERAGE cost of lodging! cheap car rentals in new york Any bear who had attended the Salt Lake City Gathering 2 years ago will testify our lodging cost was 1/3 of the average quoted in the article.
You can always book your travel separate and get discounted cheap car rentals in new york lift tickets at sites like. www.LiftTickets.com . If you can save 50% on the price of lift tickets it should drop your overall travel cheap car rentals in new york cost dramatically.
1. Access to The Canyons. I like Solitude much more than The Canyons. I would not give up Solitude groomers cheap car rentals in new york and ride the gondola to chase Park City powder if a storm ever came in that way? I understand the convenience vacationers would enjoy to gondola over or wealthy wives might ride to shop.
2. Access to Solitude. The Canyons into Solitude adding more skiers in line? No thank you. If they unload the gondola before 9:00 the Solitude locals will be invaded. The gondola brings ticket sales into Solitude so I can see the motivation for the owners, but Solitude skiers should be against it. Ask any Solitude skier how awesome it is when LCC closes and Alta invades.
Borrowed idea: Economy sucks. Less money. Less people ski vacationing. The Canyons is overdeveloped. Solitude is probably overdeveloped. 99% unoccupied. So what can we do to fill these beds and sell lift tickets? Gondola.
Seems kind of expensive if you're really talking "frugal traveler." Cheap hotel room $50-60, discount ticket to Soli/Brighton cheap car rentals in new york $60, not sure how much rentals are ($30-$40?), $15 for a burger and fries (which is what their meal is based on) and $5 for a beer. That's about $140. I realize Trip Advisor is dealing in averages, but the Tribune article should mention that an actual frugal traveler could do the trip for half of what they're estimating.
I don't know where you fortunate souls hail from, but you are lucky bums.  Let's start with $50 airport extended parking or a cab.at least a $250 plane ticket and that will only get you to SLC or Denver or Reno/Tahoe.  Next, pay $110 for a rental car minimum, rent skiis at $30-45 / day, pick up your $88 dollar lift ticket , stay in your $90-139 hotel room at Kimball Junction .  Skiing is not cheap.  You can shave off $30 by skiing some of the lesser resorts in Utah (or Alta), but why go to Utah if you're only going to ski Brighton?
cheap car rentals in new york Now imagine you try to go to Whistler or Big Sky or Telluride?  Yikes.  Big money.  If any of you want to give me tips on doing it cheaper without compromising the skiing- give me some options for Schweitzer or Crystal Mountain- two places I'd like to try if I could afford to go this year.
I don't know where you fortunate souls hail from, but you are lucky bums.  Let's start with $50 airport extended parking or a cab.at least a $250 plane ticket and that will only get you to SLC or Denver or Reno/Tahoe.  Next, pay $110 for a rental car minimum, rent skiis at $30-45 / day, pick up your $88 dollar lift ticket , stay in your $90-139 hotel room at Kimball Junction .  Skiing is not cheap.  You can shave off $30 by skiing some of the lesser resorts in Utah (or Alta), but why go to Utah if you're only going to ski Brighton?
Now imagine you try to go to Whistler or Big Sky or Telluride?  Yikes.  Big money.  If any of you want to give me tips on doing it cheaper without compromising the skiing- cheap car rentals in new york give me some options cheap car rentals in new york for Schweitzer or Crystal Mountain- two places I'd like to try if I could afford to go this year.
The article was pretty specific: lift ticket, hotel room, rental package, meal (burger + fries) and beer. It didn't cheap car rentals in new york include car rental, plane tickets or anything else. So that's $750 for one day without travel expenses.
I don't know where you fortunate souls hail from, but you are lucky bums.  Let's start with $50 airport extended parking or a cab.at least a $250 plane ticket cheap car rentals in new york and that will only get you to SLC or Denver cheap car rentals in new york or Reno/Tahoe.  Next, pay $110 for a rental car minimum, rent skiis at $30-45 / day, pick up your $88 dollar lift ticket , stay in your $90-139 hotel room at Kimball Junction .  Skiing is not cheap.  You can shave off $30 by skiing some of the lesser resorts in Utah (or Alta), but why go to Utah if you're only going to ski Brighton?
Now imagine you try to go to Whistler or Big Sky or Telluride?  Yikes.  Big money.  If any of you want to give me tips on doing it cheaper without compromising the skiing- give me some options for Schweitzer or Crystal Mountain- two places I'd like to try if I could afford to go this year.
Are you talking Crystal WA or Crystal MI?  I see you are from MI, but if you mean WA you can do it pretty cheap (midweek hotel multinights from $220 INCLUDING 2 lift tickets, cont. breakfast, cheap car rentals in new york dinner...condos from $260 again with 2 lift tickets cheap car rentals in new york but not food.  Pick up weekly rentals on your way in for $80/week).  However Crystal WA would not really qualify as "destination" resort as in the article cited.  I would say it is one of the better/bigger day ski areas, although there is on-mountain lodging (above prices for same), limited dining, no real nightlife.  Since I live in the area I don't know much about the lodging qualty.  I just "won" (bought) a 3 night package at a charity auction, so will be staying there sometime late this season - will seem kinda odd when home is 1:15 drive away.
I don't know where you fortunate souls hail from, but you are lucky bums.  Let's start with $50 airport extended parking or a cab.at least a $250 plane ticket and that will only get you to SLC or Denver or Reno/Tahoe.  Next, pay $110 for a rental car minimum, rent skiis at $30-45 / day, pick up your $88 dollar lift ticket , stay in your $90-139 hotel room at Kimball Junction .  Skiing is not cheap.  You can shave off $30 by skiing some of the lesser resorts in Utah (or Alta), but why go to Utah if you're only going to ski Brighton?
Now imagine you try to go to Whistler or Big Sky or Telluride?  Yikes.  Big money.  If any of you want to give me tips on doing it cheaper without compromising the skiing- give me some options for Schweitzer or Crystal cheap car rentals in new york Mountain- two places I'd like to try if I could afford to go this year.
I honestly don't know why Crystal is as expensive as it is. There is not much in the way of lodging cheap car rentals in new york at the mtn, and maybe that's why the prices are high? We skied with some friends of ours fm Eastern WA, who wanted to stay at Crystal, and there were no discounts for lift tickets for weekend stays. Although I think you can get mid-week cheap car rentals in new york lodging and ticket deals at Crystal. (Check the website, or sign up for e-mail specials.) I always recommend people stay in Bellevue, WA, rent a car, and then you can ski Alpental 50 minutes away. Stevens Crystal depending on road conditions cheap car rentals in new york are