You know winter is coming around this part of the world when 2 things happen. You get the first frost (last night); and the Killington Resort releases Ski Ticket Pricing.

Via a press release yesterday, Killington announced their winter multi-day ski ticket programs for the coming winter. New this year is a change in operating policy allowing people to by a multi-day ski ticket product which includes a grace day, allowing for non consecutive day skiing and riding. Under the old ticket plan, if a guest were at the resort for 5 days, they would typically purchase a 5 day ski ticket, and wind up skiing only 4 days (usually taking the 3rd day off). The ticket plans announced yesterday allow a guest to purchase a 4 day ticket good for skiing and riding over a 5 day period, allowing for the normal "grace day" which occurs in many ski vacations.

Pricing is higher than previous years, but I did a check on multiday pricing versus last year and discovered that the pricing seemed to compensate for the grace day. For instance this years 4 day with a 1 day grace period ticket is priced at approximately the same price as last years 5 day ticket. While this will raise the cost of skiing and riding for those who would plan on skiing all 5 days in a ski week, for the average person on a ski vacation, the impact would be nominal. Further information about Killington's Ski Ticket Pricing can be found at http://www.killington.com/summer/media/pressrelease.html?pressrelease=pressrelease10.