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Originally Posted by Flyers999
Significant senior discounts have gone the way of the dinaseur, it seems.
I remember 50 years ago when I started downhill skiing, I noticed that the senior discount for lift tickets was enormous. I couldn't wait. However as I approached the age, it got less and less and today it hardly exists.
What was happening back then was, our parents/ grand-parents didn't ski. So of course they could offer a discount to people who never used their product. Then real skiers got older and became seniors, poof, the discount went away.
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My knees never made it long enough to get a senior citizen skiing discount, all those dam ice moguls destroyed them. A good friend, who still has functional knees, gets an annual mid-week non-holiday ski pass that includes several Vermont ski areas for only $500. On the other hand, I played 18 holes at Southampton, MA last Wednesday with three of my northern golfing buddies, and we all got the mid-week $37 senior rate with a cart included. Up north there are substantial senior citizen golfing discounts midweek, usually before mid afternoon when the horn blows and the workers slide down the dinosaur tail and go play in the golf leagues. It’s amazing how empty many of the northern courses are midweek between about 9 AM to 2 PM, when seniors can get a great deal. Many places only offer the senior deals Monday through Thursday, non-holidays.