What advice would you give to the following family:
My family are all first timers.... we are staying in Vail from Jan 5th through jan 12.... So I tought it would be good for us to have instruction from a profesional... maybe all together or not... I need some gidance.
We want to experience skiing and have fun in the process of begining to learn how to do it.
I'm 47 years old, my wife is 44... My kids are 12 10 and 9 years old. We haven't purchased anything yet.
Can you add anything to the advice I gave?
Other than Vail's beginner lift ticket which they haven't been offering online and some ski school products where you can add a pass, it is less expensive to buy a 1 or more day Epic Pass in advance.
https://www.epicpass.com/
The Epic pass also gives a 20% discount on group, (but not private) lessons, on mountain food, rentals and some other benefits https://www.epicpass.com/benefits/epic-mountain-rewards.aspx
Window prices will likely be north of $250/day for adults, so expensive to add days once you're in resort.
For lessons book at vail.com. Unless you feel strongly about keeping the family together, you could start separately and do adult and kids group lessons. One option I'd consider is buying everyone a 1 (or more) day epic pass first. Then, using your 20% discount to book 1 to 3 days of group lessons/lift/rental for each person. Do the group lessons first and use the Epic Pass to ski on your own or in an individual or family private lesson.
Keep in mind, it's hard to know how much you'll ski, and they change these products/pricing from time to time.
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My family are all first timers.... we are staying in Vail from Jan 5th through jan 12.... So I tought it would be good for us to have instruction from a profesional... maybe all together or not... I need some gidance.
We want to experience skiing and have fun in the process of begining to learn how to do it.
I'm 47 years old, my wife is 44... My kids are 12 10 and 9 years old. We haven't purchased anything yet.
Can you add anything to the advice I gave?
Other than Vail's beginner lift ticket which they haven't been offering online and some ski school products where you can add a pass, it is less expensive to buy a 1 or more day Epic Pass in advance.
https://www.epicpass.com/
The Epic pass also gives a 20% discount on group, (but not private) lessons, on mountain food, rentals and some other benefits https://www.epicpass.com/benefits/epic-mountain-rewards.aspx
Window prices will likely be north of $250/day for adults, so expensive to add days once you're in resort.
For lessons book at vail.com. Unless you feel strongly about keeping the family together, you could start separately and do adult and kids group lessons. One option I'd consider is buying everyone a 1 (or more) day epic pass first. Then, using your 20% discount to book 1 to 3 days of group lessons/lift/rental for each person. Do the group lessons first and use the Epic Pass to ski on your own or in an individual or family private lesson.
Keep in mind, it's hard to know how much you'll ski, and they change these products/pricing from time to time.
More advice at
Travel and skiing are carbon intensive and can be enviromentally damaging. Please consider offsetting, charitable donations and making positive impact investments.