Vail Valley Real Estate Blog

Both the locals and the tourists were talking today about the announcement from Vail Resorts.  For $579, you can purchase the Epic Season Pass.  This is an unrestricted pass for the 2008-2009 ski season.  It is valid to ski at all the Vail Resorts properties including Vail, Beaver Creek, Breckenridge, Keystone and Heavenly.  Currently, a one day lift ticket costs around $95 per day which means that you only have to ski 5 days of the entire season for this pass to pay for itself.  This is not only an extremely attractive deal for the locals, but for the people from Denver, known as Front Rangers, who ski Vail on weekends and vacationers who can plan more than one trip, given the pass’s flexibility.

 In fact, the goal of this new Epic Pass appears not only the desire to reward loyal customers with a less expensive pass, but also to try and generate more excitement in the sport of skiing and snowboarding by allowing people such flexibility to come and visit when and how often they want and to stay as long or as short as the want. 

The Epic season pass must be purchased before November 15^th of 2008 and will be non-transferable and non-refundable.  The current prices are set at $579 for adults and $279 for children ages 5-12.  Stay tuned for more information on this Epic announcement.