Sunday River opens tomorrow

I wasn't addressing individual skier preferences. I am curious in general if K did more business pre-Thanksgiving or post-May 1. We know that both periods are small potatoes in terms of revenue compared to the thundering hordes at Christmas, President's week, etc.

An interesting point about Sunday River using yesterday's publicity to generate advance reservations for the upcoming season. Since Killington is abandoning the early/late season brand, perhaps Boyne sees an opportunity to claim it.
 
Tony Crocker":9c619fkc said:
I wasn't addressing individual skier preferences. I am curious in general if K did more business pre-Thanksgiving or post-May 1.
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I was talking more on terms of attracting non-pass holders on the margin of the season, because arguments always used against a long season has always been that it's only season pass holders that show up, not day tickets buyers. I was a day ticket buyer, I was not alone. If it wasn't for the long season, I would not have skied Killington period. I skied Kmart only 2 times (2004-05) in the last 7 seasons, not much when you compare to the total 46 days since 1983-84.
 
Since the Patrick-type skiers were a clear-cut and easily measurable revenue add-on to Killington, I have to believe there were not enough of them. Otherwise Killington under ASC would have continued to operate to Memorial Day. I think you have to factor in some season pass revenue plus marketing branding to justify the very early/late seasons. My point is that Boyne thought it was worthwhile to run Sunday River on Halloween purely for the marketing with practically no marginal revenue.
 
Tony Crocker":3t76ewsh said:
Since the Patrick-type skiers were a clear-cut and easily measurable revenue add-on to Killington, I have to believe there were not enough of them. Otherwise Killington under ASC would have continued to operate to Memorial Day.
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The question should be: "How many Day tickets sold does it need to break even?" I believe that mid-week would have been dead, of course, however on some weekends? I stopped going at Kmart went the price of the ticket was high (plus exchange rate) and the end of the season was maybe only one weekend later than the competition. Killington didn't make much money out of us because we didn't stay at the resort, didn't eat their food and rarely drank their beer. It was all in ticket sale for us. I also believe that a few American fanatics would have bought passes when the price starting being very competitive, thus making day tickets sale marginal.
 
The question should be: "How many Day tickets sold does it need to break even?"
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Not if we want anybody to operate outside the Thanksgiving to mid-April time frame. That's the ASC/Powdr Corp mentality.
 
Tony Crocker":5wibd0s3 said:
The question should be: "How many Day tickets sold does it need to break even?"
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Not if we want anybody to operate outside the Thanksgiving to mid-April time frame.
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Sorry, but K was only running the Superstar quad. There was no grooming (back then), Base Lodge was pretty much shutdown. Of course, this "How many..." was prior to cheap passes. You would have been surprise how many people were on the hill when the sun came out in late May.
 
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