In Vermont, the Department of Tourism and Marketing is promoting "haunted highways" lodging packages, like one at the Green Mountain Inn in Stowe, where rates begin at $96 a night based on double occupancy, through Nov. 30.
Where to Stay During ski season most hotels offer lift and lodging packages.
For lodging packages, call the Vail Valley Chamber and Tourism Bureau at (800) 525-3875, or visit www.vailsummer.net.
LOOK FOR PACKAGE DEALS Sites like ski.com and worldonskis.com, which specialize in mountain vacations, have prenegotiated rates with resorts allowing them to create lift ticket and lodging packages at prices that you are unlikely to get by buying them separately.
SNOWY SPRING From April 1 to 14, the Aspen and Snowmass ski areas in Colorado are selling three-night lodging packages with two days' ski passes and a range of accommodations.
The Ski the Valley ticket is available only with lodging packages that start at $69 a person a night at the Sugar Lodge and go up to $126 a person a night at the Sugarbush Resort.
Crested Butte has free skiing with lodging packages from Nov. 22 through Dec. 15 and again from April 1 to 8. Crested Butte, by the way, has expanded its kids-pay-their-age lift ticket plan to include teens as old as 16.
At Aspen-Snowmass, for example, kids ski and stay free in March with the purchase of a four-day adult lift ticket and lodge package by Jan . 15
Although limited mainly to the East Coast, it provides detailed information about courses, lodging and packages.
In the second half of 2013, there were 2,371 cases lodged involving packaged accounts, compared to 1,629 for the whole of 2012.
