Westbound Boarder

As I’m sure you’re all well aware, we here at Westbound Boarder love sweet deals, and we love them even more when they involve season passes!!  Vail Resorts (read our review here) is offering their 2nd annual ‘Epic Season Pass‘ deal through Sunday, April 12.  The pass costs $579 for adults and $279 for children, ages 5-12, for skiing and snowboarding at all five Vail Resorts – Vail, Beaver Creek, Breckenridge, Keystone and Heavenly – as well as at Arapahoe Basin.  While that price might seems a bit steep at first glance, season passes normally run well over a grand, and the Epic Pass grants you access to, not one, but six resorts!  (A day lift ticket to Vail runs nearly $90, for comparison, so six times up and it pays for itself).  

The people at Vail Resorts realize that these are tough times for everyone, so to help even further, they are giving guests the option to lock in these 2008-2009 prices with only a $49 down payment per pass with the remainder of the balance due in September, 2009.

This pass debuted last March and shocked the industry with how great the deal was.  They’ve never offered a pass that included all five of their resorts, so this is really an amazing deal.  Last year they sold 60,000.  While Vail is feeling the shock of the economy a little (sales this year were down around 5% from the same time last year) its great to hear that they can continue to offer these types of deals to the most diehard ski and snowboard fans.  Vail Resorts are truly amazing, so if you live in or near Colorado or NorCal, I’d highly recommend you check this out.  And don’t forget, last day’s Sunday so I suggest you get on it!