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Vail Resorts is giving travelers a reason to celebrate the holidays this winter on the slopes at Vail, Beaver Creek, Breckenridge, and Keystone and at the Company’s nine RockResorts with a new “Holidays on Us” lodging deal that offers a free night of lodging on the season’s busiest holidays. The ultimate lodging deal for the 2008-2009 season provides guests with a free night on the six most popular holidays during the winter season - Thanksgiving Day, Christmas Day, New Year’s Day, Martin Luther King Day, President’s Day and Easter Sunday - when they purchase four consecutive holiday nights of lodging. The package is restricted Dec. 27-30, must be booked by Oct. 15, 2008 and the guest must stay five consecutive nights to receive the holiday night free.

The “Holidays on Us” package is also valid at Vail Resorts’ managed condominiums, townhouses and other properties at Vail, Beaver Creek, Breckenridge and Keystone, as well as the Company’s RockResort properties, including the Snake River Lodge & Spa in Jackson Hole, Wyo., Hotel Jerome in Aspen, La Posada de Santa Fe Resort & Spa in New Mexico and the beachside resort of The Landings St. Lucia in the West Indies, among others. For a complete listing of participating properties, visit RockResorts, Keystone, Vail Beaver Creek Properties, and Breckenridge Hospitality.

Said Rob Katz, chief executive officer of Vail Resorts, “We know how important it is for families and friends to gather for the holidays and we want to make a vacation to one of our resorts a reality for folks this season.”

Prices start as low as $169 per person for a Thanksgiving “Holidays on Us” five-night package at Keystone’s Forest condominiums based on quad occupancy. Call (800) 239-9290 or visit RockResort's Holdays on Us page.

For additional value on the ski slopes this winter, Katz recommends skiers and snowboarders book the "Holidays on Us" package in conjunction with purchasing the Epic Season Pass that offers unlimited and unrestricted skiing all season long, including all of the busiest holidays, for six great resorts - Vail, Beaver Creek, Breckenridge, Keystone, Arapahoe Basin and Heavenly – at the price point of just $579 for adults and $279 for kids. The Epic Season Pass must be purchased by Nov. 15 at Vail's Epic Pass page.