You can rent out Magic Mountain?
I think it's only $2500 or so, too early for me to do math... but how many Puggers would we need for that......
You can rent out Magic Mountain?
You can rent out Magic Mountain?
$750 for a season pass? And you can’t even ski on one of the few ”powda days” we’ve had this season!?!?! Btw, weren’t they closed last week for a day or two as well?
Magic has about 10 different season passes so something for everyone. They also have a powder pass. Any of the passes will allow you to ski a powder day provided the day doesn't fall within a black out period on your pass such as between christmas- new year's on the black out pass. They did close on friday to preserve snow pack.
April is the time to buy passes as you can get a blackout pass for around $440. They are cheaper than that depending on what your needs are.
I think it's only $2500 or so, too early for me to do math... but how many Puggers would we need for that......
I think it's only $2500 or so, too early for me to do math... but how many Puggers would we need for that......
You would only need 50 at $50 per Pug.
I appreciate the insight, but if you are not going to be allowed to ski when you want to - not to mention not being able to ski when conditions are about as good as they are going to get - then paying $450, or anything at all, would seem like a waste.
I would think that Magic would really want to focus on establishing a strong base of season pass holders and property owners and "invested" customers like yourself and focus on providing them with the best experience possible to establish a solid foundation and recurring revenue stream before they started closing down the mountain and doing these one off events.
I believe you bought a condo there - I would be pissed off as all hell if I had bought season passes, a house and was spending all sorts of money at Magic and they told me I could not ski last week (Friday) and that I could not ski today, Wednesday. They already opened over a month after many other places (Dec 8th).
That’s a bargain.
You would only need 50 at $50 per Pug.
For reference, the most people we've ever had for the annual New England Gathering is about 20. Given the infamous variability of New England weather and conditions, I think you'd have trouble getting anywhere close to enough Pugs to make it "cheap" on a per-person basis.
I wonder how often they're able to rent the place out. Does sound fun though to have your own private resort for the day.
For reference, the most people we've ever had for the annual New England Gathering is about 20. Given the infamous variability of New England weather and conditions, I think you'd have trouble getting anywhere close to enough Pugs to make it "cheap" on a per-person basis.
I wonder how often they're able to rent the place out. Does sound fun though to have your own private resort for the day.
I appreciate the insight, but if you are not going to be allowed to ski when you want to - not to mention not being able to ski when conditions are about as good as they are going to get - then paying $450, or anything at all, would seem like a waste.
I would think that Magic would really want to focus on establishing a strong base of season pass holders and property owners and "invested" customers like yourself and focus on providing them with the best experience possible to establish a solid foundation and recurring revenue stream before they started closing down the mountain and doing these one off events.
I believe you bought a condo there - I would be pissed off as all hell if I had bought season passes, a house and was spending all sorts of money at Magic and they told me I could not ski last week (Friday) and that I could not ski today, Wednesday. They already opened over a month after many other places (Dec 8th).
The mountain is only rented out Mondays, Tuesdays and Wednesday so you would likely get even less people.
Still, if you could get 10 people at $300-$400 a pop it may not be such a bad deal. The question is how much of the mountain will be open and how many lifts will be running. If the mountain is 100% open (all 45 trails, plus glades) and you have all three lifts operating, then it seems like a good deal to me.
I think most people realize what they are doing when they choose to buy a pass at a smaller mountain. As a small business owner, I feel much better handing over my money to a mountain like Magic or Plattekill vs. any one of the multi resort passes. I mean you gotta do what you gotta do to ski, but actually supporting the little guy feels good, not like a ripoff.
...Although the place is so fabulously uncrowded on any given day you almost have the place to yourself on a regular day.
This isn't always true though... I believe @mdf, @JohnL, and @Tony S has a terrible time with lift lines on MLK weekend... 20-30 minute lift lines as they only had one lift running. (Not sure how unusual it is to only have 1 lift going...) Might have been a perfect storm of holiday, conditions, and lift issues.
I called Magic a few months ago to ask if they have a discount for people with season passes at other places. They said no, check out our website for specials. I understand their position on this, but since i have to by 4 tickets and have two kids that plan on going to college my generosity can only go so far. For $50 each I would have been happy to go for a day and buy lunch etc.
Pretty funny or sad that $200 is drop in the ski bucket these days.