Vail Resorts are advertising a peak season one day lift pass at $151 US dollars at Val and Beaver Creek resorts in Colorado, – or approximately £100 depending on where you exchange your currency.
The advance-purchase online price is likely to be lower than the walk-to-window price charged if you were to buy your ticket in resort on the day you want to use it, which is traditionally the most expensive way to buy a lift pass. The $151 rate is offered at the peak New Year 2016 week.
Vail is famous for having some of the world's most expensive lift tickets, as well as offering some of the lowest price per-day tickets, if you advance purchase the company's season pass.
The other ski area that sometimes posted the most expensive lift pass prices in the world some years, depending on the strength of the Australian Dollar, was Perisher ski resort. It was purchased by Vail Resorts in the summer.
It is also believed that very few people actually buy there lift ticket at the high price, most use the Epic Pass season ticket and/or buy a package which includes accommodation and lift pass at a cost for lower than the cost of combining the published lift pass and accommodation rates.
The Epic Pass, which cover's Vail's 10 US and various leading international resorts, can cost less than just a few single day tickets if purchased during the spring or summer prior to the ski season.
The company also offer much lower regular priced tickets away from the peak New Year week. In low season at the start of winter the advance purchase price is S100 per day.