Snowsure: 4.1
- Occasionally gets enough snow for skiing
- Is often closed due to a lack of snow
- Occasionally suffers from a lack of snow
- Rarely suffers from a lack of snow
- Whistler Blackcomb is snowsure even in the poorest seasons
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December 13, 2019
Jim
Jim
Whistler used to be an amazing place to ski but with that reputation came the crowds. The previous ownership was pretty good at managing this. Unfortunately, Vail is not.
On bad snow days, and this year looks like it will again be a dog, the lines are only fairly bad. But the skiing is marginal because with the big crowds that come when the snow is good, the mountain is skied to death within a couple of days. On good snow days the lines are so big you really don't get much skiing anyway. So, essentially, you never get a really good ski day at Whistler anymore.
Whistler used to be good (I have been skiing Whistler for 30 years) but with the other options available now: Revy, Fernie, Kicking Horse.....I am not sure why anyone comes to Whistler now.
Vail will likely never sell Whistler so I expect Whistler will never again be a good place to ski. Kind of sad but hey, it’s good for the other resorts.
November 22, 2019
V.Burlik
V.Burlik
April 19, 2019
jerome Griffiths
jerome Griffiths
March 17, 2019
Josh
Josh
March 07, 2019
D. Beko
D. Beko
I got an unlimited season pass for me and my kid in 2017-2018. We were hoping to come frequently and calculated this could be more convenient to have a full season pass. The mountain is great. Management is terrible. Huge lines to upload in the morning. Paid parking even for season pass holders (I thought $1700 for two would be enough to have at least some benefits). Hugely overpriced Roundhouse cafe and stores (a burger will cost $15). Vail is definitely got shovelling a pile of cash. The "best" part was later. When the ski season was over we decided to come and hike. We have been refused to board the lift and were told that our passes are not valid. Vail cancelled all winter passes that are supposes to work the following summer without a note. A greedy corporation takes over.
During following months it was a big noise how Vail is building a new ski lift and about huge investment they are making with this. What an achievement! There is not public transit is going to Whistler, no affordable train service (there is a fully functioning railroad). If you want to get there just drive (or take a rare shuttle bus). The parking now is paid: $10 per day minimum, and it's challenging to find a stop even for this money.
Bottom line: now a day at Whistler (including transportation and food expenses) may cost you $250-300 per person. This is almost a full price of an unlimited season pass (early bird) to Mt. Seymour in Vancouver.
March 05, 2019
Steve
Steve
I echo another reviewers comment. We skied at Whistler yesterday for the first time since the 90's. We arrived fairly late (10am) and queued for tickets at 10:30am. The line wasn't very long but moved very slowly and I didn't get to the counter until 11am which seemed a ridiculous wait for 10:30am on a Monday.
February 18, 2019
Sean McInnis
Sean McInnis
To Whistler/Blackcomb Customer Service,
I write this letter to tell you what a big disappointment your resort has been.
I live in Vancouver and have my extended family of 7 out visiting for the Christmas holidays. They are all ski instructors in Quebec and skiing is part of their life. The only thing they wanted to do while visiting BC is ski at Whistler/Blackcomb for a day. They brought all their equipment out from Quebec and on December 27/2018 we all headed up to Whistler in 3 vehicles.
We arrived at the parking lot at 9:00am, bought all our parking tickets which all together was $30.00 then headed to Whistler village. Because my family are all instructors (ACA & CSIA) we had to buy our tickets at the ticket booth at the base of the ski hills. The line was extremely long when we arrived but we thought it would move fairly quickly. We waited in line until 11:15am and had only moved ¾ of the way.
With the cost of skiing at your mountain ($178/adult, $151/youth) we soon realized that we would only be skiing 2 or possibly 3 hours by the time we actually got to the booth and bought our tickets. We all agreed that it was not going to be worth it at that point. I will say that you had some very unhappy customers at that point.
We made a group decision that we would give up our place in line and go for lunch at Longhorn but it sure made everyone upset that we would not be skiing the day like we had all been planning for the last 6 months. Once we had all finished lunch and were going to head back to our vehicles to head home we looked at the line and we saw people that we had been in line with who were still waiting to get a day pass.
I am a local person and have been skiing Whistler and Blackcomb for the last 15 years and I have never had an issue like I had yesterday. Being that there is new ownership I feel that it is very important that you are aware when you don’t meet your customer’s expectations and you sure made 8 peoples' experience of Whistler and Blackcomb a bad one.
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