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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][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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FYI, Canadian lift ticket prices are significantly cheaper than US prices...even resorts owned by US companies.

We were considering Whistler and it would have been US$380/adult for 4 days' lift tickets over Christmas.[/quote]

Are you just making crap up or did you hit some weird promotion since December skiing sucks? We are headed to Whistler over college spring break early March and 4 days of lift tickets for 4 people is $3412 USD. We normally avoid Epic resports due to Epic lines. Hopefully since we are doing this during the week it won't be awful.[/quote]
A vacation is as expensive as you want it to be.
I know of one family who went to Disney world. They drove all the way, stayed at a motel in Kissimmee, made their own lunch and stored it in cooler bags. They were not able to bring food inside but were able to leave to go have lunch at their car in the parking lot and go back in again [/quote]

For skiing, time of year when you book is critical.  Many ski resorts give huge discounts if you book your trip before like October…like 50% off daily lift prices.

The problem these days is you don’t know where the snow will be.  It would have sucked to book a CO or UT trip this season.[/quote]

This year, Utah sucks but CO was decent enough. We sent to Vail and while the snow was not as great as it usually is, it was totally fine and the overall experience (especially lift service) was vastly vastly superior to any big East Coast resorts.[/quote]

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