Reviews for Okemo Mountain Resort

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Reviews for Okemo Mountain Resort

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Elizabeth
On February 20 a 17 year old boy lost his wallet and did not know where. February 21st he was back on the mountain to snowboard again. I called the Lost and found and spoke to Coleen Dooley, she told me she would look for it and call me back either way. Hours later she called me to tell me another staff personel found it in the snow! She brought it to lost and found. l got a call back telling me the wallet was found!! Wow!! Thank you so much Colleen Dooley you were absolutely amazing!! GREAT staff!! Thank you Okemo for your GREAT SERVICE!!
Great staff at Lost & Found
Jeff Boardman
I have been coming to okemo since I was just able to walk and I love my memories of this place. Now I have brought my son here and all I can say is that I am extremely disappointed. Vail resorts has turned a fun family experience into a soulless corporate slog. Completely disregarding ticket prices (not that it should be disregarded) the experience as a whole has ruined what was my favorite mountain. During the week half of the lifts are closed because they don't want to spend the resources to run them for the reduced volume of skiers. This limits the terrain available to beginner skiers to mountain Rd and various minor tributaries. They steal your bags if you leave them in the lodge, something everyone has always done in the history of skiing, across the world. They scanned my pass while I was standing at the bottom of the magic carpet in SHOES waiting for my son to come down from his practice runs, charging me a full day's worth of my 4 day pass. That was eventually resolved after an hour's hassle and involving the resort manager when they "magnanimously" offered me a "free pass", although it was simply returning the day they had stolen from me without cause. The staff is unfriendly (with a few exceptions of course), the atmosphere is gone, and I won't be coming back. I will avoid all Vail resorts in the future. I will try to do my little part to keep the soul of my passion alive, to keep skiing fun and family friendly, to halt the corporate takeover that has made skiing in the USA so expensive that I can fly to Europe, pay for lodging and life tickets and food, and still spend less than a week on an epic pass at Vail resorts where I have free lodging and cook my own food.
The terrain is good for families WHEN they open all the lifts.
Everything else, Vail resorts is ruining skiing.
R Scott Heckenberger
We have skied Okemo for the last 5 years with our family including grandkids. We have stayed at the condominiums on the Jackson Gore side. They are very nice. Very good. Extras. Nice swimming pools, Jacuzzis, and a decent restaurant at Jackson Gore. The downside of Okemo overall is their lack of opera ski activities.
Excellent family ski area and fantastic staff
Apres ski is almost non existent
Mike R
Great Midweek Mountain!
Kimberly Bischoff
I stayed with another family as a guest, and while my overall ski experience was wonderful, it was very hard to get a good night sleep in the condo we stayed at affiliated with the hotel. The beds were the hardest beds i have ever slept on, the kitchen essentials were terrible (breakfast out of a DOG BOWL) and the house was extremely outdated, like from the 90’s. In regards to my rentals: my experience was amazing. A few weeks prior, i went to Hunter mountain where i had fun, but i was in TREMENDOUS pain from my ski boots. A lovely man named Ray at Okemo measured my feet and informed me that my boots at Hunter were an entire size too big which really messed up my feet/knees. He showed me how to correctly put them on, take them off and essentially made my entire ski experience PHENOMENAL. I was in 0 pain this time and had nothing but fun and it is entirely thanks to Ray! I cannot wait to be back next season!
Very helpful staff
Outdated condo/uncomfortable beds.
roman zhurbin
It was my first time snowboarding Okemo. I was there 27-29th. Overall good mountain with nice groomed trails. It did have a bit of ice patches and made it a bit challenging. Lifts were around 20-30 min to get to the top. Crowded on the way down. people just standing around in the middle. Overall , good times and I will definitely come back
Mountain was in good condition. Lots of trails open with good snow.
Lifts were slow and very crowded at times. A lot of people parked on the way down.
Joseph Nixon
Great experience, will be back.
Plenty of lifts, good mix of terrain. Great Lodge feel.
Connection between Main Base and Jackson Gore seems to be cumbersome.
Allen
Been coming to Okemo for multiple years and have been a season pass holder for the last few years. Prior to current ownership was an excellent mountain and would have highly recommended it (especially for families). It would get busy on peak days but always seemed manageable. I have never seen anything like this last season in terms of crowds, lack of terrain being open & overall quality of conditions. Lift lines for 45 minutes to 1 hour, parking lots completely full, limited terrain open leading to dangerously crowded trails, traffic overwhelming the Town of Ludlow to the extent that it took hours to leave the mountain. The Epic pass is significantly discounted relative to other passes at nearby mountains and its seems to me Vail has turned this into a numbers game without regard to the quality of the client experience....sell as many passes as you can for $600 and expect high client turnover. Very disappointing. Needless to say, we will not be renewing the passes for next year and I would rather pay a premium for a higher quality experience at a different mountain.
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Crowds are out of control
Pat
Been skiing here for over 20 years, prior to Vail purchasing great resort. Lifts are a big problem since they are always stopping, supposedly there were additional safety features added which causes it to stop if you are not seated perfectly. very crowded even midweek.
Great grooming, good layout
lift lines, lifts constantly stops.
Jessica Starnburg
We love Okemo and we used to love it more before Vail took over. Okemo has some of the best intermediate eastern trails and they really take care of their snow. But, the parking is a joke. No matter where you park you are far from the mountain and have to either wait forever in a long line to a shuttle bus at the end of the day or you walk with all your stuff. The lift lines are insane. I ski many other resorts in the area, no one has lines like this. And there is nowhere to go that doesn't have a line. You will spend half of your ski time waiting in line, the other quarter on the lift and the other quarter actually skiing. They used to have decent food, but they've closed down all the nicer restarunts and really only have one very nice and very over priced restaurant and a bunch of fast food type places that charge you an arm and a leg for junk food. To give an example, at another mountain in the area, our family will buy lunch for $40, a little overpriced, but doable. At Okemo, the exact same food was $75. While I like the trails a lot, it is not worth it anymore to even go.
Great Trails, they really take care of their snow
Long lines, lifts stop frequently, food is WAY overpriced.
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