Book Your Accommodations For Whistler 2010 TODAY!!!

[Senior]

Well you can't actually book it yet but there is a waiting list to book it on www.whistler-blackcomb.com

It's crazy the amount of people that are already trying to book for it!

[MC Hammered]

You think Intrawest is going to jack up prices for lift tickets that year?

I do.

[Senior]

Originally posted by MC Hammered:
You think Intrawest is going to jack up prices for lift tickets that year?

I do.

Olympics aside the prices go up a bit every year. While the Olympics will (and ALREADY have) increase the amount of tourism in our area prices would have kept rising regardless. A benifit for locals is that other ski areas might lower their prices to attract customers.

[MC Hammered]

As good as their advertising says the mountains are I rather take my hard earned dollar and spend it in the interior.

For the same price of a lift ticket at Blackcomb I get a ticket at Big White/Sun Peaks/Silver Star and one night accomodation at the youth hostel.

I also get better snow and less people.

I just have a feeling that the Olympic Games are going to be good for business but the average Vancouverite is not going to be partaking in many of the events due to the costs involved.

And if you didn't read the report they made about ticket allocation... good luck snagging any when they are released. A great majority of them are pre-allocated to VIP, gov't and media, then to selected countries and then after all that they go on sale to the general public.

[cinist]

the value of condo's up there will increase now :c-tard:

[Hot Karl]

mc hammered: it's how the system works. what can you do? besides, if someone wants to go that badly they can start saving money.

[Senior]

Originally posted by MC Hammered:
As good as their advertising says the mountains are I rather take my hard earned dollar and spend it in the interior.

For the same price of a lift ticket at Blackcomb I get a ticket at Big White/Sun Peaks/Silver Star and one night accomodation at the youth hostel.

I also get better snow and less people.

I just have a feeling that the Olympic Games are going to be good for business but the average Vancouverite is not going to be partaking in many of the events due to the costs involved.

And if you didn't read the report they made about ticket allocation... good luck snagging any when they are released. A great majority of them are pre-allocated to VIP, gov't and media, then to selected countries and then after all that they go on sale to the general public.

In my opinion your right as far as going to the interior. I have a free pass to Whistler every year so that's where I go but straight up the interior mountains are way less expensive. A side effect of having more tourists come to Whistler will be an increase in rates (which = more money and jobs coming to our province) which will drive a lot more locals to other ski areas.

As far as going to the actual events what do you expect? Are we to expect that every person in town can go? Of course they are going to be hard to get into! The Olympics are a GLOBAL event and when they're held other places we get a certain amount of tickets like other countries will for our games.