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 Posted: Jun 17, 2007 - 09:02 PM
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anyone know if you can buy a season lift pass on line or early to get a discount?
i'm looking at the whistler blackcomb site but cant find anything. |
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Posted: Jun 17, 2007 - 09:16 PM
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| Yeah lez you can get an early bird pass and online; they don't normally start selling them till about the beginning of september though. You have to book before the middle of October to get the early bird rate, will be about £700. |
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Posted: Jun 17, 2007 - 09:21 PM
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nice one, thanks.
one more question, if someone comes out to whistler for a month and buys a lift pass for the month do they get discount if buy it someone with a season pass? when out in colorado people could. |
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Posted: Jun 18, 2007 - 10:06 AM
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| I have a feeling that you can get some sort of discount on other passes, but you'd have to check - I'm not too sure as I never tried myself. BTW, have you considered getting a midweek season pass? I had one and there a hell of a lot cheaper, the only thing being you can't use them on the weekends. It gets pretty busy then anyway, so it's probably worthwhile! |
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Posted: Jun 18, 2007 - 11:08 AM
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| i thought if you get a mid week pass you cant ride over xmas? |
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Posted: Jun 18, 2007 - 11:17 AM
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| that's true, there are certain blackout times. I arrived 30th Dec in Whistler and couldn't ride till the 3rd Jan or something cos of holiday period. I think that's about the only time tho. Depends how keen you are to ride - me and my mate decided that we were gonna be there all season, we were gonna get plenty boarding in anyway, so thought we might as well miss out on those days. Plus, if there was a specific day you wanted to get, I think you get a free or reduced price ticket for that day. |
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Posted: Jun 18, 2007 - 03:21 PM
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and another question.....
will it work out cheaper to buy new pants and jeacket out in whistler or here in the uk?
i know it would work out cheaper to head out of whistler to buy stuff. |
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Posted: Jun 18, 2007 - 07:01 PM
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| Depending on what you're after, you should save between 10% - 25% if you buy it in Canada and my plan is to get all my brand new spankin' gear in Vancouver. Ok, now for the nerdy stuff. These savings will obviously depend on how strong the £ is vs the CAN$ at the time, but the worse case scenario is that you'll still save a couple of ££....... |
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Posted: Jun 18, 2007 - 07:31 PM
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You should be able to save some. I bought all my stuff in Whistler and still saved a heap compared to over here. For instance - Venue Onyx 161 - over here for £300, bought over there for $350 - ie about £175.
Just remember when you check out the prices in Canada, you've got to add on the sales tax - equivalent to our VAT, but the display prices don't include it. In BC you have provincial and genereal sales tax (PST and GST) which were about 7% each, tho may have gone up now. You can claim this back tho if you make the purchase within either 3 or 6t months of leaving, and it was worth more than 60 bucks! Just remember to add it on in your head cos you get a bit of a shock when you have your money ready, then get asked for another 50 bucks!
Don't forget, with your season pass you'll get a locals discount for stuff, normally about 10% in a whole heap of shops such as Showcase or Westbeach. And if you get a job with the mountain you get a whole heap more money off - eg 45% off sunglasses and stuff like that! |
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Posted: Jun 18, 2007 - 08:11 PM
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| thanks guys. do you recommend any shops, if so do they have web sites? |
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Posted: Jun 18, 2007 - 08:17 PM
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| my faves were showcase or westbeach. Not sure about westbeach, but showcase is www.showcasesnowboards.ca. Comor is a pretty good shop, and there are a bunch of others who i can't remember! All those ones above are owned by intrawest tho, so you gotta swallow hard and realise you;re feeding the corporate machine! |
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Posted: Jun 19, 2007 - 06:06 PM
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| to those who have done a season or planing to do a season with enough money saved, how did you go about it?? was easier kept in your uk bank?? travellers cheques??? cash??? im pretty sure my bank is going to sting me if i withdraw out in canada |
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Posted: Jun 19, 2007 - 08:59 PM
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| I tended to just get cash out on my card. I think the bank I was with charged me a fixed amount per transaction, so if you took large amounts of cash out at a time it works out slightly cheaper. You could take over a whole heap of cash or travellers cheques I guess and open an account over there. It's dead easy to do, just beware of all the options cos you always have to pay a monthly charge, and if you go for a really cheap account, generally you only get a couple of free transactions a month, after which you gotta pay for more! |
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Posted: Jun 19, 2007 - 09:32 PM
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First post: May 30, 2006
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ace_mcgraw wrote:
Just remember when you check out the prices in Canada, you've got to add on the sales tax - equivalent to our VAT, but the display prices don't include it. In BC you have provincial and genereal sales tax (PST and GST) which were about 7% each, tho may have gone up now. You can claim this back tho if you make the purchase within either 3 or 6t months of leaving, and it was worth more than 60 bucks!
Unfortunately you can't claim your tax back anymore ace, the canadian government decided to stop the visitor tax rebate program at the end of this march.
More info here:
http://www.cra-arc.gc.ca/tax/nonresidents/visitors/qa-e.html
In better news though last july the canadian government reduced the gst from 7% to 6%, although the pst in BC is still 7%. Basically means that you will have to add on 13% to most of the prices you see in the shops.
Oh and for everyone going abroad this season not just to whistler; OPEN A BANK ACCOUNT WITH NATIONWIDE. They do not charge for you to get your money out abroad, and there is no minimum limit either; I bought plenty of $1 cookies on my card last season and never got charged a penny to do it. |
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Posted: Jun 20, 2007 - 08:21 AM
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First post: Mar 16, 2006
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^ seocnd that nationwide is the only wat to go.
only bank that dosent charge a penny for withdrawerls and card payments also no loading fee built into exchange rate its true.
so yea definatly only way to go. |
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