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Decided to take a 2 day ski trip to App Ski Mountain that consisted of a night session on Friday and an all day session on Saturday. In my limited skiing experience this seemed like a small place, but definitely a great venue to learn if conditions are right. The first night sucked for learning because it got so cold that everything was ice. However, the next morning was much better when they were making fresh snow.
Everything about this place was bi-polar. We would discover something awesome about it, only to have it countered by something negative. First, the staff. We met a nice woman named Diane who set us up with the one set of clothing we needed to rent between the two of us. She was happy to hook us up with a woman's pair of ski pants for my partner and a men's coat for myself. She was very polite and got us excited for our time there. Next we went downstairs to rent skis, a locker and buy our lift tickets. WHAT A HASSLE! The staff down there were incredibly rude and short with us. We were 20 minutes early for our night session and they wouldn't let us rent our equipment OR lift pass until 5pm. They would only give us our locker. I'm sorry, but that is bullshit... Especially when they told us on the phone to come AT LEAST 90 minutes early. The lift ticket I understand, but the equipment? What the hell? After waiting, we finally received our skis from some nice people who chatted me up regarding my Ski Dubai hat. I'm telling you, half the people were real jerks and the other half were really awesome folks. They were also terribly inefficient! So much paper mumbo-jumbo to deal with. They need to do themselves a favor and buy a computer system to streamline everything. It can't cost that much and I know they're not broke charging $55-60 for a lift ticket. It was a decent mountain and we had a nice time tearing up their slopes, but we definitely wont be returning. I would suggest this place only if someone is paying for you. The Google reviews speak for themselves.
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