Liftopia

I received a gift certificate for liftopia and have only used in once in 4 years due to Liftopia not having lift tickets available. They also send you to third party sites where you can't use their gift cards for many purchases and you end up paying out of pocket …it's like a scam

I went to www.liftopia.ca and was redirected to.com. I assumed prices would be in CDN dollars and unfortunately it was not. I ended up paying the same price as the ski resort offers. I would have much rather directly supported the ski resort instead of using this site. The price in USD is only viewable at the end and it is not very prominent. Unless you have a keen eye and are paying attention to details you would not notice, especially since I used a Canadian web address to begin with.

I saw a lot of negative comments regarding LIftopia. I have never had a bad experience with this serviced. You are getting lift tickets at a discount price, you have to use them on the day that you indicate you are going to, there are no refunds and they are not transferable. That's clear when you buy them. I saw a number of comment $#*!ing about making changes to when you could use them. That's not how it works. It's a good deal as long as you are prepared to use them on the day you purchase them for.

My father wanted to get my children a gift card to a water park at a ski resort for Christmas. He tried to purchase it directly from the ski resort but accidentally got it from Liftopia. When he spoke to them they falsely represented themselves as the ski resort and told him that the gift card would work at the water park. It turns out that the water park does not except Liftopia gift cards. We have attempted to contact Liftopia several times and they will not give him a refund.
Liftopia is clearly not a reputable company. We are not wealthy people and lossing $350 to these crooks is a substantial financial blow this time of year.

Here is a complaint - Short story - I purchased for Mammoth, VERY bad blizzard, not safe to ski, Mammoth keeps a couple lower lifts open and Liftopia says they only refund if Mammoth closes entire mountain (which they will never do bc of all the refunds). So, Liftopia says too bad, haha its in the fine print! It is one thing when I do not use the ticket for personal reasons (that would be no refund, of course) but dangerous Mother nature should warrant a refund or raincheck. I will never use Liftopia again, but if you do... you know what you are dealing with...