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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]This seems like some lala land weird idea of what family life should look like. We have an 8 figure hhi yet don’t take that many vacations, and it’s nothing to do with money. You seem to have an idealized version of life and want to slot kids into it, but that’s not how it works. Maybe when the kids are very young, but if your kids do serious sports or school activities, a lot of your schedule will revolve around that. For vacations, it depends what level of nice you want, but we have 4 kids, and a ski week alone is well over half your travel budget. You also seem to be ignoring sleep away camps, sport camps, etc. I think you want some instagram version of parenting. [/quote]

Where do you ski if you spend 40K on a sling trip??? We've done a lavish skiing trip in Canadian Rockies at $10K for the whole week and fantastic nordic spas this year[/quote]

For 5 people?  No you haven't.  [/quote]

yea what a joke. We just went up to stowe for the 4 day holiday. Flights were $1600, truck rental was $350, lodging was 2,220 (and this was 10min drive from the resort), lift tickets were $3744.  And Food was god only knows, I don’t even want to think about it. So before food and whatever miscellaneous crap we were $8k for 4 days in friggin Vermont. No family of 5 is traveling from DC to “the Canadian Rockies” to ski for 7 days for 10k. Lift tickets alone will put a family of 5 close to 10k for lift tickets alone.

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You can purchase an EPIC pass that gets you unlimited skiing at Stowe and like 40 other resorts for $850/adult at the beginning of the season and $500/kid…including Vail, Whistler and many others for the entire ski season.

If you are a big skier, this is what you would do and you will save thousands per season as a result.

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You know what’s funny? we all agreed after this trip,  we will never visit another epic or icon resort again. The over crowding is horrendous.

we did this same trip last year to Powder Mountain and it was so so nice. for us we don’t really care to budget at the expense of a good experience. We had never been to Stowe and only picked it because skiing this winter in the rockies has been hit or miss with snowfall. [/quote]

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