PLEASE BE AWARE:

PLEASE BE AWARE:

My family and I visited Beech Mountain Ski Resort this past weekend for a day of fun. Unfortunately we were consumed constantly by stress filled situations instead. Upon our arrival at 8:30am we were so excited to get on the slopes and onto the fun of the day. Little did we know that we would wait in lines, mostly outside in the cold, for 2 hours just get get our lift tickets and equipment. At 10:45 we were finally able to gear up for the slopes. After gearing up we found ourselves surrounded by what seemed like thousands upon thousands of people with no room to move. Every lift line long and people falling all over each other. My wife and family who had no experience on skis had no real opportunity to practice due to the enormous crowds of people. The stress of spending so much money with no real way of getting any use for it got to be too much for some of the family, so they decided to leave. We stuck it out and since our passes were good until only 1pm, we tried to make the best of our last 45 minutes to an hour. My wife helped our 7 year old on the crowded play yard while me and the other boys decided to take a lift to the top.

Long Story shortened:
The lifts were great and the more advanced slopes not bad at all.

Not a good place for beginners. The parking lot filled up super quick and overflow were shuttled from a muddy steep sloped parking lot a couple miles away. The bus that was used for shuttling people was in poor repair and barely got us from point A to B. When we finished for the day the overflow parking lot was full of cars sliding and spinning with a few that had crashed into each other because of the steep incline and muddy field like parking.

Too much money made to not be able to accommodate people better with more efficient and effective ways of doing this type of business.

It was also made clear that there would be no refunds....

It would be nice to be reimbursed so that we could take our hard earned money elsewhere.