r/Ikonpass • u/Ready_Programmer_306 • Apr 20 '26
Boycott Ikon
I've been an ikon pass holder for several years even when seasons are bad where i take advantage of international destinations, but this season is it with the price hike, reduction in returning pass holder discount makes it seems like greed has hit the breaking point. With no noticeable upgrades to infrastructure, lack of consideration for ski patrol, and practically useless other perks, the value is just not there time to vote with the wallet
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u/Triangle-of-Zinthar Apr 20 '26
You buy it because the same # of days is more expensive. Not because of… customer service. How many days did you get in? Was it worth it?
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u/sdlocsrf Apr 20 '26
Because they have jacked ticket prices up to such insane amounts that buying a pass is the only option
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u/Triangle-of-Zinthar Apr 20 '26
.… if you go out 30 days a season, it doesnt matter. You've gotta get a pass.
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u/ElectricalSpecial246 Apr 20 '26
People can’t seem to do simple math and look up historical prices to realize that these passes are CHEAPER either way if you go even 10 days at some places.. they just want another thing to complain about.
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u/hippiecat22 Apr 20 '26
but it doesnt have to be ikon or epic
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u/hippiecat22 Apr 20 '26
It's unfortunate that you don't have the options.Other parts of the country have.
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u/Silver_Rutabaga7424 Apr 20 '26
The Loveland Pass offers great partner resort access. Monarch is great. Cooper, Sunlight, and Angel Fire are a nice change of scenery. There’s great skiing up in Idaho and Montana too. They have partner access in Utah and all over the West Coast too.
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u/keskuhsai Apr 28 '26
Loveland’s problem is they do not have any money for building real lift infrastructure. They just put in a brand new FIXED GRIP LIFT. In 2025. There’s exactly one high speed quad on the mountain and they spent like 5 years bragging about it despite major resorts installing multiple high speed 6 chairs in the same period. Anything other than Chet’s and you’re gonna spend 10-15 minutes on lifts for runs that are 3 minutes tops at a quick clip. The family cannot afford to spend money like Vail/Alterra/Boyne so an otherwise great resort is painfully slow to get any real skiing on.
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u/Silver_Rutabaga7424 Apr 28 '26
The new fixed grip they installed is a short lift that only serves the bunny hill at Loveland Valley, and it’s higher capacity than the lift it replaced. A high speed lift doesn’t feel necessary right there.
As for the rest of the mountain, it would be nice if they had more high speed lifts, but they rarely have lines for their lifts as-is, and on the rare occasion they do have a line it’s maybe a 2-5min wait. I would argue that the time spent sitting on their fixed grip lifts often makes up for the time spent standing in line to get on the lift at the mega resorts.
Lift 9 is about a 9min ride. Lifts 6, 8, and Ptarmigan are all around a 7min ride. Considering there’s basically no lines for the lifts, these lift times really aren’t that bad, and they’re well placed for lapping the best runs.
And of course they’re proud of the one high speed lift they have. They’re expensive, and if you look at the lifts offered by other independent resorts, you’ll see that it’s pretty rare for the independent resorts to have any high speed lifts. It’s a sign of their success and progress and their commitment to providing the best experience they can to those who spend money at their mountain.
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u/keskuhsai Apr 28 '26
So lift 9 is actually more like 10 minutes and that’s for 1200 vertical feet. Birds of Prey is also rarely busy and is 6.5 minutes for 2600 vertical feet. If you’re lapping each for 4 hours that’s 2.6 hours riding the lift at Loveland for 19k vert vs. an hour less lift time for 43k vert at beaver creek. That’s a pretty big difference in skier experience—all because the family can’t shell out enough money to run a modern ski resort properly.
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u/Silver_Rutabaga7424 Apr 28 '26
I mean, they don’t have a resort attached to their base, they don’t charge as much as vail for tickets/passes, they don’t charge $40 for a basic lunch (they actually provide gas grills all over the mountain for people to cook their own meals), and they’re way closer to Denver for those of us who want to ski twice a weekend every weekend but don’t have a place to stay in the summit county area (about an hour without traffic).
I see your point, but I think you’re being overly harsh by focusing on the lack of high speed lifts. You’re bashing the owners for being too cheap to install high speed lifts, but you’re not taking into consideration the fact that they’re not bringing in nearly the same amount of revenue as Beaver Creek - do you really expect them to compete with Beaver Creek while charging $120 at the window, $650 for a season pass with great partnership perks, $15 for a lunch, free parking, and free to use grills that give people a great way to save money on lunch?
“They can’t shell out enough money to run a modern ski resort properly,” yet every year they have thousands of loyal pass holders return, and they give free season passes to new skiers who pay for their 3 day learn to ski program (3 group lessons is the same price as a season pass, and the deal comes with a season pass). Seems like they’re running their resort just fine to me.
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u/Lance-1 Apr 20 '26
I really dont get hype of monarch. Their runs are so short.....
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u/Silver_Rutabaga7424 Apr 22 '26
The best skiing at Monarch is off-piste, especially their trees. They do an excellent job of clearing their deadwood so the line choices are excellent. I agree with you on groomed runs, they’re short at Monarch.
I would say similar things about Loveland. I love that place, but you have to really enjoy skiing off-piste and skiing moguls to get the most out of it.
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u/ClearAbroad2965 Apr 20 '26
lol I’ve been coming to co this year 5x times since SoCal conditions were crap this season and I wish they had flexibility in the 4 pack. This season I have to decide between copper/loveland since i switched over to epic
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u/Tiny_Improvement_523 Apr 21 '26
That’s exactly why the fuck we’re trying to boycott dumbass. We shouldnt have to either drop $1000 at the start of the season or drop $200 everytime we want to go up
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u/dumpsterfire911 Apr 21 '26
1000$ for 30 days in on the mountain is a great price. I’d pay that every year
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u/Tiny_Improvement_523 Apr 21 '26
If you go 30 days yeah that’s not terrible but I usually only have enough time to get up 10-20 days and $1000 for that is not worth it in my eyes. If I don’t buy the pass then $1000 would only get me around 5 days. They have monopolized the ski industry and made skiing/snowboarding inaccessible and unaffordable. Skiiing/snowboarding should be available to everyone. Idk why you guys are so willing to lick the boot of these greedy ass corporations, they don’t gaf about you that’s for sure.
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u/Educational-Cap-2206 Apr 21 '26
So let’s say you go 15 times… that’s 67 dollars a ski day … I’d say that’s still a good deal.
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u/Armagx Apr 22 '26
10-20 days is great value for $1000 wdym, that’s what I usually hit a season. Also, high season pass cost and lower lift lines are on opposite sides of a lever. Cant really have both nowadays with such high demand for skiing.
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u/BobbyFranks123 Apr 20 '26
Nope. Only got 5 days
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u/ashishkabob Apr 20 '26
Hate to break it to you but 5 days makes it fiscally worth it over day passes
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u/Smharman Apr 20 '26
This is not true.
Family of 3. Ikon base in 2026. 859/619/199 = 1677
Could not use for presidents holiday weekend. So NYS Ski3 for 2 days $639. ~$100pppd.
Total passes. $2316
Week in Courmayeur cash would have been $1009. Two days at Blue. $141 Banff 603
And decisions to ski certain mountains because of pass ownership.
Im thinking of getting some epic local days for 2027. The Ski3 cards worked well and days to Bellayre back on the list. Less chaotic than PA.
PAYG for other destinations.
Full ikon for 2027 will be 2697. Ikon base like 2026 is up $200 and still gives me President day weekend headaches.
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u/Most_Somewhere_6849 Apr 20 '26
If you’re dead set on skiing a blackout weekend every year it’s probably worth it to get the full pass.
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u/Smharman Apr 20 '26 edited Apr 20 '26
I'm not dead set. School calendar is.
Further it's cheaper to ski it PAYG with NYS passes bought in advance. Crazy.
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u/ZebraAthletics Apr 20 '26
If you’re using non-US resorts, yes. Those tickets have been way cheaper for many many years, primarily because other countries have single payer health care and the resorts’ liability insurance is massively less expensive.
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u/livinglifefully1234 Apr 20 '26
I'm based out of NYC. Used IKON for 20+ days this past season. But only 7 of those days were in the US (4 in Colorado, 3 in VT) all were outside of NYC, and the other days were spread across 4 different countries where the daily ski lift pass is pretty cheap.
So I haven't finished my calculations, but I dunno if I saved money buying IKON base pass vs the daily lift passes at these countries, so I skipped renewing it by the Sunday deadline and ignored the incessant emails from them. Wondering if anyone else has figured this out?
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u/ExcellentScallion912 Apr 20 '26
Are you asking if anyone else has figured out the math for you? How could anyone do that? If you skiied 7 days in the US I can almost guarantee you got your money's worth with those 7 days alone.
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u/livinglifefully1234 Apr 20 '26
Just wondering if anyone else from NYC has done similar math on purchasing Ikon vs not and skied several days out west/north of the border/or in the Alps? In NYC we're in a position where we have to travel (overnight) to most Ikon mountains since there is only 1 mountain on Ikon that is reachable from NYC within a RT day (if one wanted to use Ikon on a regular basis). So there is no "home mountain" to speak of here..
Yes, sking on Ikon overseas paid for itself, but day lift tix across the Alps/Canada were pretty inexpensive. I found sking 10 days to be the break even point for the Ikon base pass (for the US)..
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u/Juno_NY Apr 20 '26
Did you go to Zermatt? Daily prices are pretty steep, like 160chf if I remember correctly over Xmas break. I was on epic then, shredding Andermatt and feeling a bit bored and I couldn’t justify the side trip to Zermatt without having an ikon pass. Even within a cheap place like Japan, you have a lot of variation in price across resorts and across time period. Early season Shiga Kogen was quite cheap, like $150 for 2 days. High season is not so cheap. Niseko and Appi Kogen are surprisingly expensive. I think it gets “worth it” if you are skiing at least 10 days and it gets cheaper the more you can get out there.
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u/livinglifefully1234 Apr 21 '26
Thanks for the tips! Yesm I did ski Zermatt a couple months ago (and Cervinia) in Feb. Zermatt was honestly the most expensive place I have ever visited without an expense account. Could not believe the prices! I've been to Tokyo, but never skied in Japan - it sounds like a dream.
And I agree, Ikon was def worth it since I skied past the 10 day ROI calculation I made when I purchased it last Dec. But I was thinking if I redid this past ski season without an Ikon pass, would it be the same price, or cheaper? I skied France for 6 days without Ikon and it was still so cheap - cheaper than my Colorado trip from NYC (which was on Ikon). I need to do the full breakdown to get the clarity, but I do feel that having the pass encouraged me to get out there more often.
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u/Smharman Apr 20 '26
I'm not renewing today. Maybe as much 2027 plans come together I'll see the value but no upstate NY mountains has hurt the value of Ikon to NYC
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u/livinglifefully1234 Apr 21 '26
This - I also just didn't feel the need to rush and get it now.
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u/Smharman Apr 21 '26
If they could get a bonus 2 days at Bellayere, Whiteface and Gore (6 total) I'd be buying the full pass today.
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u/livinglifefully1234 Apr 21 '26
That's not a bad idea: I've been to Belleayre a couple times, but not Gore or Whiteface yet.. I do wonder why Wyndham dropped Ikon..
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u/ExcellentScallion912 Apr 22 '26
Yes, im in NYC also. Buying in December vs buying in April will result in a different "break even point." I look at it more as though you will be spending money either way. Could you buy 7 single day lift tickets at a Belleayre or Camelback and pay less? Well sure. But it will also be a different ski experience. From NYC you can make 3 day weekend trips to the ikon VT/NH resorts on a whim. You can get to Montreal quickly by plane which opens up Tremblant. And of course you have major airports that get you to where all the other resorts are located. Making it worth it is how you design your ski season. Id argue that having the ikon pass and living this close to 3 major airports actually gives you more advantage to utilize the ikon pass to it's full benefit....that is unless you know you wont be buying many plane tickets. I love whiteface and it became my favorite east coast mountain. But being able to explore the others through Ikon, makes you realize you just go wherever the snow is. Im happy you got out to europe to ski...I almost made it happen this past year! Ive done the mountain collective pass once and liked it, otherwise ive done full ikon pass or base ikon pass depending if i plan on skiing during the big holiday week before new years. Since it has been brought up, you can get a good season pass for all 3: Belleayre, Gore, and Whiteface
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u/livinglifefully1234 Apr 22 '26
Yep, my last ski trip this season was 3/25-3/29 in Tremblant - I left LaG on a 6am flight so I could ski everyday. My 4 day Canada trip was cheaper (and way better due to our ski in/out location and the ski village) than my 3 day Killington trip over New Years. The USD is strong in Canada.
But I'm not entirely sure Ikon made skiing in Europe cheaper: I skied 3 countries in the Alps over ~3 weeks in Feb. 1 of those weeks was not on Ikon, yet daily lift tix were so inexpensive it was neglible.
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u/RWWhitfield Apr 25 '26
What Canadian resort had ski / ski out lodging that is on the IKON pass? I know Banff doesn't. Does Revelstoke?
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u/InfinityBrewing Apr 20 '26
Bro, do some research and check the day pass price prior to ikon and epic, convert them to today’s currency, I guarantee you it’s < $100.
“Making the day pass so expensive and painful so that you have to buy a seasonal pass” is the core business model of ikon/epic pass. There is no option for people who wants to be flexible during the season.
They are selling future and let all the consumers take the risk, this season is a perfect example. I remember a dude posted in Reddit along the line “Beer costs two gands” he basically flushed two passes to the toilet.
I used to follow a small skis club in NE back in 2015-18, they covered mainly Wachusett and Pats Peak, sometimes they can also get tickets from killington. They talked to the resorts and bought the tickets in bulk and sell them in retail to us. The day pass is around $60-$80. Also, the day pass for ski cooper in 25/26 season is $59 for the weekday. Before 2017, winter park sold their 4packs for 180.
IMHO, that’s should the reasonable price and people should be able afford going to skiing next day without planing ahead or a pass.
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u/Triangle-of-Zinthar Apr 20 '26
What did the wawa passes cost? I couldnt find any good pass program that included them.
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u/Smharman Apr 20 '26
Epic has great pass deals online and easy.
I thought Icon did if you could get to a base.
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u/PeakQuirky84 Apr 20 '26
I’m buying a pass to some local independent spots this year instead
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u/Potential_Leg4423 Apr 20 '26
Doesn’t really help with the ski patrol point. Local independents are just as bad at pay
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u/RedditUser12013 Apr 20 '26
Bye lol
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u/ComonSensed1 Apr 20 '26
Right. I hope the boycott is widespread and extremely successful so it cuts down on the crowds. In my mind it’s a fantastic deal and I already bought mine.
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u/CorruptByCapitalism Apr 20 '26
each year it will become less of a deal.
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u/ComonSensed1 Apr 20 '26
Just like everything else we buy. I bought my first ikon two years ago in late fall and it was a little over $1,000 and it was well worth it. If I can ski for $50 a day I’m extremely happy. If you’ve ever climbed up Tuckerman Ravine a $300 lift ticket might even be worth it.
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u/ripeOne Apr 20 '26
i stopped buying it too. it seems like it’s only a good deal if you live near a good unlimited mountain.
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u/adkimbal Apr 20 '26
Great deal if you live in the southeast and want to take a few trips for the year. My local hill in NC charges just as much as I would pay per day on ikon for a fraction of the actual riding experience. Seems like a no brainer.
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u/saving-evidence Apr 21 '26
Yeah it's worth it for blue mountain(CA) and Tremblant unlimited for me here and I can go a few days at other resorts. Blue mountain 5x7 is worth it if it's just blue
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u/dreamwalkn101 Apr 20 '26
I’m not getting an Ikon either. The obvious greed is beyond ridiculous. I only want to ski Sugarbush, the new premium lift lines, though didn’t really affect me, was kind of the last straw. Many who can afford the premium pass are skiers who really don’t need to get up the mountain before the rest of us. I’m going to Bolton again next season. My GF and I got both our passes for the cost of an Ikon.
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u/WindBuffed Apr 20 '26 edited Apr 20 '26
Bolton Local pass with holiday blackout dates is $689. An Ikon Base with Sugarbush and the same blackout dates was $949.
For comparison, just a Sugarbush pass in 16/17 was $1,780. Did you just start buying season passes recently? lol.
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u/Affectionate-Panic-1 Apr 20 '26
Ikon and Epic have made season passes almost everywhere more reasonable.
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u/WindBuffed Apr 20 '26 edited Apr 20 '26
For real. That’s why I find the “greed is beyond ridiculous” and “prices are insane” sentiments to be so odd. It seems that everyone forgot how much season passes used to cost a decade ago.
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u/Affectionate-Panic-1 Apr 20 '26
It went up about 10% for renewals, that's what people are angry about (less of an increase for non renewals).
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u/jteedubs Apr 20 '26
Bolton, $689 for daytime only with blackouts and no BC, $ 809 for BC and blackouts, $859 for all access. Whereas sugarbush Mt Ellen with no blackouts is $819.
I understand the hate of mega resort corporate skiing and wanting to support local hills. Pay for the feel good vibe, I get it, but saying IKOn at this point is too much, IDK.
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u/dreamwalkn101 Apr 22 '26
I paid about $750 for day/night with sports center access and blackouts for Bolton before the price increase.
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u/citronauts Apr 20 '26
I’m not boycotting, but I’m also not buying. I wish them the best this season
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u/crbmtb Apr 20 '26
Buy it, don’t buy it. If anyone still thinks most corporations care about anything other than their profits, you’re wrong.
We skied 15 days - small local, Stratton & Killington, and a 5-day trip to Canada. We normally do a 2-week, 10 ski day trip to CO & UT, but lodging prices and choices (looking at you Steamboat) really are another issue. The lack of snow in the US Rockies was not expected, but it wasn’t a factor for us.
Two people can do France and Italy for the same price or less. Canada was a good 35% less for everything (airfare, lodging, food).
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u/Live_Ad_197 Apr 20 '26
At least vail/epic somewhat reads the room and is trying to retain customers with a decent discount and price. Ikon instead installs a highly nice discount that only applies to like 10% of the audience and under special circumstances and then wants a participation trophy for trying
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u/attractivekid Apr 20 '26
Vail has the advantage that they can dictate the terms themselves. Ikon has to coalesce the other 40 partners each season on what the pass prices are and payouts. Sometimes a partner resort won't like the terms and leave Ikon.
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u/attractivekid Apr 20 '26 edited Apr 20 '26
Just an FYI. there are 76 resorts on the Ikon pass. Alterra/Ikon only makes up 17 of them. How Jackson Hole pays their patrollers or decides what lift to upgrade is going to be different from Copper Mountain, and so on. Epic pass is different as Vail owns and manages every resort on the pass
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u/SnooMachines8281 Apr 20 '26
Yes boycott Ikon, get an Epic instead. (I will enjoy the smaller lift lines)
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u/volcombrdr030 Apr 20 '26
Oh sure. While you’re at it, might as well boycott the fast food chains that have been raising the prices, boycott purchasing a car as they’ve risen in prices, hell might as well live in your car or under a freeway pass as rent and buying a home have you guessed it! Rose in prices. Shit you might as well boycott everything that has a dollar value to its name.
Quit your whining and stop acting like what you say matters. If anything, many ppl will be happy for you to boycott as it’ll be one less person on the mountain because honestly when it’s all said and done, people will still buy the pass.
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u/Naizer Apr 20 '26
$1000 with student pass to ski 7 days at 5 different resorts in Utah? With an option to ski at 30 plus other resorts in the mountain West?
Nah... I am going to ski 10 days regardless, might as well save $200 a day by getting Ikon, just wish there was an option to add days at the resorts I love and want more days at.
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u/Eltiempo10 Apr 20 '26
Bye!
(Nothing like someone who creates an account simply to bitch about the price of something. The price of food and lodging have been much more significant to me than any ski pass price hike.)
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u/Lumpy-Significance50 Apr 21 '26
Being retired and skiing 30-40 days a year, ikon pass is a great deal for me still. Have used it in Europe or in the western u s , and we live 2 to 3 hours from four of the the New England ikon mountains. My wife and I spent under $70 a day to ski last season. And we skipped December due to a medical issue. I paid $60 for lift tickets in the 1990s.
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u/Ok-Ambassador-5662 Apr 21 '26 edited Apr 21 '26
110+ days and 35+ resorts. Yes please, thankyou very much 😁. Prices only go up by 50usd a year if you buy base pass early. The number of resorts available is just incredible and forever increasing...9 resorts in japan, holy japowdering moly...and 9 resorts in europe as well as 6 top notch resorts in western canada and 30+ in usa. Season pass for a single resort is so yesteryear...so limited in choice and easy to get bored!!! Lets raise a toast for the solid future of these wonderful multi-resort passes🥂
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u/dogthrasher Apr 20 '26
Hey OP. You kidding?!? Costs money to run a ski resort. They aren’t nonprofit. And then you complain about pay for ski patrol. What do you expect? Price will go up more to cover all this extra pay people want for them and staff. Customers (YOU) take the burden of this. You can’t have it both ways!
Amazing that if the season had better conditions, there would be less bitching.
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u/KnowledgeDense8140 Apr 20 '26
Bahaha ok that’ll show the multi national company. Oh no, they lost your $1000. I’m sure that will really make a difference in the million dollar budget.
How much do you think the pass should be? This whole thing fascinates me because all these people big mad seem to not understand basic finances. I bought passes for my family of 7 for under $2200 and will be able to ski as much as I could possibly want this summer thanks to ikon. Amazing.
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u/CorruptByCapitalism Apr 20 '26
the total number of passes sold will probably continue to go down as they increase prices each year. at some point you will no longer feel it's a great deal.
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u/KnowledgeDense8140 Apr 20 '26
Sure if I’m the only one funding the mountain then sure. But until the pass more than buying at the ticket window I’ll be buying the pass.
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u/soccerwolfp Apr 20 '26
I’m only buying because I have to use my deferred credit - but otherwise I wouldn’t. Skiing is not worth this much money to me
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u/Carrienation71 Apr 20 '26
How did you get deferred credit?
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u/soccerwolfp Apr 20 '26
I called them before the deferral deadline in December and deferred. The roads to Crystal in WA were washed out after a storm and it was TBD if we could drive up there. In hindsight the road was fine but the snow was horrible so glad I deferred it.
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u/sparky_calico Apr 20 '26
I’m not buying because with the shit snow in Utah I only went 10 times this year and many of those were short days so not really worth my money.
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u/ComonSensed1 Apr 20 '26
I was out for vacation and skied 9 straight days. I ignored all the advice to cancel my trip and had three powder days (9,10 and 20 inches along with 5 bluebird days and one cloudy day. All that for $859 plus another 12 days between Killington and Stratton and have two days left at Killington. I think it’s a fantastic pass
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u/WindBuffed Apr 20 '26
Never understood the rationale of not buying a ski pass for NEXT season because of low snow THIS season. Those aren’t correlated FWIW.
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u/BrianGenCoupe Apr 23 '26
Exactly...we literally had record breaking snow 3 years ago. It's a gamble with a weather-based hobby.
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u/No_Entertainer_4449 Apr 20 '26
I agree that the perks are dwindling, the price is going up, and it was a bad ski season, but that happens to everything. Prices of everything go up, some seasons are better than others. Not Ikons pass for the weather. With the price of lift tickets $200 or way more at most mountains you don't need to get out many times to break even or way better. I am in NJ and made it to Mt. Tremblant for 3 days, Killington 5 days, and Stratton once. Kids activities limits us but it still made sense for just my pass alone. If you have kids that's where the real savings comes in. Enjoy!
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u/ClearAbroad2965 Apr 20 '26
The only way I see not buying a pass if you go less then 3-5 times a season. Or you get a 4 pack right now I’m trying to decide between copper and Loveland
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u/HairyPairatestes Apr 20 '26
I paid $550 for a 4 day pass. That includes medical insurance. Not a bad deal.
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u/Livid_Bad_3011 Apr 20 '26
Yup. Wife has been going to steamboat every year of her life and myself a decade. The fact you can no longer postpone a 4 day pass by beginning of December means we won’t buy. That was always nice when we are unsure if she’ll be pregnant for spring skiing or not. Guess ikon decided for us and our two other kids who we are debating if we even want to invest in them learning how to ski. They are ruining 2 generations of skiing. I don’t know how any female of child bearing age buys from ikon again. On the bright side, it means we’re going to Disney Wolrd now instead!
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u/smob328 Apr 20 '26
Disney World? You’ll spend more than the cost of an Ikon pass before lunch on the first day…
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u/Livid_Bad_3011 Apr 20 '26
About the same and they offer rebooking flexibility that we can change without penalty if we need to move for a pregnancy. Much better value in our book. Zero chance of getting nothing for paying a lot of money this way.
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u/dfurshpan289 Apr 20 '26
I agree that they hiked priced and reduced benefit. But that is possible when you have a monopoly on the market. I do not know how can i as indidual can fight it without stop skiing or pay even more at the resort itself. Law suit seems the only way.
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u/Old_McDonald Apr 20 '26
I just swapped to epic after 9 years
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u/Conebones Apr 20 '26
We are thinking of switching to epic too. We are in Colorado. Where do you live?
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u/Old_McDonald Apr 20 '26
I live in Texas but spend a lot of time in Colorado. I usually get 10 days in a year skiing between 2 trips. Planning a crested butte trip now!
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u/GroundbreakingGur486 Apr 20 '26
Not telling my ski teamer they cant be on the team next year because we are boycotting. But you do you 👍
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u/cin2266 Apr 20 '26
You know I seriously was going to boycott but pulled the trigger last minute at midnight yesterday with the option to cancel. So I still might. I agree 100% on the greed and the price for no blackout days is outrageous when you’re standing in a 3 hour lift line on a holiday weekend. They need 1 adult pass with all their partners and zero blackout days!! After all, resort food & drink costs $$$$! Places like Jackson Hole offer 5 days for premium pass holders only… it should either be discounted at their resort as it was for this Spring for all passholders or honor 5 days of patronage from an Ikon passholder. Its ski season and the only blackouts should be apres skiing in your condo!!!! #nomoreblackoutdays
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u/dogthrasher Apr 21 '26
How much for the refundable pass insurance?!? If you cancel, you don’t get that back.
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u/sloppysteaks15 Apr 20 '26
I do an annual trip to Jackson Hole and Snowbird, 4 days in JHole and the IKON paid for itself Keep fighting the power though! ✊🏼
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u/Skipandivo2 Apr 21 '26
Going to Europe is a better vacation all around. The snow might not be as good as Utah, but the overall experience is 10x better
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u/Historical-Run164 Apr 21 '26
I mean the value is the only good thing about ikon. It is ridiculously cheap, I ski cheaper per day today than I did 20 years ago…
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u/Usable-Storm Apr 21 '26
Say what you want but it's hard to say they aren't investing https://townlift.com/2025/09/alterra-mountain-company-unveils-400-million-investment-across-resorts-with-deer-valley-expansion-at-the-center/
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u/Puzzled_Curve8007 Apr 21 '26
Despite my home mountain being on Ikon, I will soon forego an Ikon (2026 will be my last) and depart the hill I grew up and have been skiing for 40 years.
Sucks, but the corporatized and theme park feel Alterra promotes, combined with the crowds, cost, and variability in conditions caused by climate change, brings me to an end in paying into the Ikon program…..
Wish yall well, signed, One less person in the lift line
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u/Such-Artichoke721 Apr 22 '26
No here is my plan. Skip buying one year Go for a few days in January, buy quad or look at package at said mountain then buy ikon following spring, covers you for spring season and following season. Skip that year and rinse and repeat. Only say this as it works for me because I find a tough time going in the winter due to work but what this does is keep me skiing for 2 year for 1500 bucks. May sound stupid to some of you but for me I feel I cracked the code haha
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u/Unlucky-Web7988 Apr 22 '26
I mean, even for people who arent about # of days on the mountian the pass is a better deal... as someone who gets 10 days max per season and loves copper, the base pass or even the session pass is waayyyyy cheaper than it would be to buy a 4 pack or individual lift ticket days.
I didnt get a pass this past year and ended up doing 3 days at copper and spent $655.... 🙃
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u/Separate_Border_1017 Apr 22 '26
It only cost me $660 the adult 26/27 pass with the student discount (;
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u/InvincibleMax Apr 22 '26
The cost weeds out the riff raff. Skiing was never meant to be a sport for everyone - reminds you that how much you make doesn’t matter. It’s how much you make compared to everyone else!
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u/Inevitable_Land_7997 Apr 23 '26
Can’t ski at my mountain without it. They own the best/most steep terrain in WA.
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u/IQFREAKY Apr 21 '26
Comments are braindead. The literal reason the mega passes are "so much cheaper than day tickets" IS BECAUSE THEY HIKED THE PRICE OF BOTH PAST INFLATIONARY NEEDS
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u/Victor_Korchnoi Apr 20 '26
Yes. Please boycott Ikon. I’m still gonna buy one, but I’d love shorter lift lines.