We have a friend who was at Vail very recently.
So second hand info
- lift queue: Mostly 5-15min wait. Gondola had long lines and they were putting two different parties into the same cabin.
- bathroom situation: I guess my friend expected every other urinal to be blocked off, but that wasn't the case.
- cafeteria: Indoor dining allowed but they cap numbers at low capacity and apparently you need to book reservation to have lunch indoors on the mountain.
- shuttle bus: His hotel has a shuttle bus that has a sign saying 15-person capacity, but he said the bus only has ~20 seats.
- were people compliant with masks / social distance?: Apparently most were compliant with masks, but not much social distancing.
Originally Posted by
economyplusfan
I think most come here wanting to ski and forget about Covid, and so pretend it doesn’t exist. I predict that we will shut down skiing in the next few weeks because of hospital capacity running short from people arriving infected and needing care.
Covid's on my mind all the time and I take it very seriously and try to be responsible. But we all need outlet at some point. I was looking forward to a big trip out there right about now, but in the end I cancelled. I'm feeling restless at home. If we went, I think it'd have been natural for us to want it to feel like a vacation and possibly let our guard down. It's a tough situation. We want skiing to remain open, want everyone to act responsibly, want ourselves to have a good time, want there to be less crowd from Covid standpoint, want there to be ski reservation availability for yourselves... but some of these things conflict with one another.