Mr. Kirtzman's hope this summer is to get people thinking of the Pines as a seven-day-a-week resort, not just a weekend party.
What do you get for a £12k a week Oz resort?
Having watched them endlessly sidestep up and down the nursery slopes, after a week in resort, most universities can expect to leave with scores of freshly hooked skiers and snowboarders.
In 1997, Caroline Gibson, a retired New York City probation officer, bought a week at a resort in the Bahamas, priced at a mere $700, for exchange purposes.
Yes, and I was thinking how great it would be to be a subject for a study like this… A week in a resort with yoga and meditation in addition to beaches etc. !
Last month Thomas Cook, the UK's second-largest tour operator, was selling a week in the resort of San Antonio in Ibiza for £75, including flights and accommodation.
I couldn't have been much happier, yet astonishingly, when my girlfriend and I arrived at the Kos Imperial the day before, we had wondered if a week in a resort hotel was our kind of holiday.
Fifty years ago this season, the Rocky Mountains resort's director of skiing, Billy Kidd, became the first American to win an Olympic medal for alpine skiing, and he gives free clinics at 1pm, at least once a week, on the resort's Heavenly Daze run, as announced by the sign at the top of the gondola.
I should say that I saw the place about as empty as it gets: late November, just a week after the resort opened for the season, before all the lifts were running, when just three of the village's five restaurants were serving dinner and two of the four casual eateries on the mountain had yet to open.
So with spring break around the corner, I tested three sites — Travelocity, Expedia and Orbitz — by searching for packages for two people for three vacation scenarios — a long weekend in Washington, D.C.; a weeklong getaway to a resort in Cancún; and a week at a luxury resort in Scottsdale, Ariz.
