Showing posts with label Vail. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Vail. Show all posts

Friday, March 27, 2009

FareFinder: Friday March 27

Love breakfast? The good people at the Beverly Hills Conference & Visitors Bureau have a slew of breakfast-themed hotel packages for you.

Vail Resorts offering three- and six-night all-inclusive "Epic Summer" vacation deals that include tours with experienced guides, accommodations in Keystone or Breckenridge, transportation to/from Denver International Airport and all meals.

Speaking of Colorado, The Broadmoor in Colorado Springs is touting a Spring Break for Families package that starts at $85 per person, per night, that includes discounts and resort credit for multiple night stays.

Mandarin Oriental, Riveria Maya, offering a five-night beach package for $2,170 through November, which is $60 less per night than their Web-advertised "Delight" special. Need to call hotel at 52-984-877-3888 or toll free in the United States at 1-866-585-8575.

Tuesday, January 6, 2009

Skier Caught With His Pants Down on Lift. Literally.

I'm not afraid to tell you that I'm afraid of heights. (See what I did there -- a simple offsetting of a phobia with a non-phobia. Whatever. It helps me sleep.) And I'm also not afraid to tell you that if I found myself dangling upside down on a ski lift that something bad would probably happen with my pants.

Although, it's probably not the same thing that happened to the unidentified man in the photos above and below (rescue shots below, duh). See, he completely lost his pants. Via the always amazing and yet still underrated Smoking Gun

The January 2 mishap apparently occurred after the male skier and a child boarded a high-speed lift in Vail's Blue Sky Basin. It appears that the chairlift's fold-down seat was somehow not in the lowered position, which caused the man to partially fall through the resulting gap. His right ski got jammed in the ascending chairlift, and that kept him upended since his boot never dislodged from its binding.
And see, it's even okay to chuckle at the, ahem, size of the problem, because, as you can tell, he was later rescued. We apologize in advance for the excess of anus (for lack of a less crass or scientific word) shots today.