ULEN - Just a thought

Joined: 04 Apr 2008 Posts: 49

It's occured to me that if ULEN were to invest a nominal amount of money in installing a beginners tow lift from the base of the gondola to approx. where the log fence is (four gondola stantions up) this could well help with reducing the amount of beginners needing to utilise the gondola to access similar areas further up the mountain. The slope is pretty gentle (maybe too gentle for boards) and it's 100% covered by snow canons.

They could also charge greatly reduced 'beginner pass' fees to access this lift, whih could help ease the gondola customers and may also reduce to the number of 'I'll just go up and get down the best way I can' brigade, thus promoting safer skiing/boarding practices.

In addition to the above, it may also help daytime business for eateries/bars around the gondola station, one of them being the inaptly named 'Happy End'. Obviously, this most ill managed outlet would need to begin working to an at least basic recogniseable standard but if it were to happen, then ULEN would again benefit, because they own it.

It's a shame ULEN don't employ a Business Development Manager eh?

Wink

Always seek the truth

Joined: 19 Nov 2006 Posts: 234

The Truth wrote:

It's a shame ULEN don't employ a Business Development Manager eh?

I could not agree more. there are soooooo many missed opportunities in Bansko

Cheers
Smag

Joined: 16 Jun 2005 Posts: 3657 Location: Bansko

If the local people would have a clue about business Bansko would not be Bansko any more. That's part of the charm. Every coin has its two sides.

Joined: 05 Jul 2006 Posts: 428 Location: Bansko

This is what Chalin Valog is for. I'd say that the bottom of the gondola is just a little bit too low and not quite steep enough.

Joined: 21 Jan 2008 Posts: 155 Location: doncaster

Any good business has a mechanism for customer/employee input.......... I made a good living by purloining good ideas.
Recession is just the time to develop business opportunities. A simple suggestion box at the gondola base would be a step forward.
One of my duties as a student working at Butlins, Filey was to open the suggestion box and there were plenty of good ideas coming forward. Even Butlins implemented some of them!! (but not the one written on a box of matches which read "burn the fxz@ing place down!)

Joined: 16 Jun 2005 Posts: 3657 Location: Bansko

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Any good business has a mechanism for customer/employee input......

is, of course, one of the basics that every (Western) student learns.

In Bansko we are a bunch of hopeless peasants that recently became rich by selling land to greedy property developers (not me, unfortunately). There has never been good business or business sense in Bansko (at least not since the medieval ages) and there won't be any for the foreseeable future. But I still love these stubborn, religious, hard-headed and hard-working mountain people with their free spirits and always ready for a fight for who they are.

I have given up hope for any business here but I am planning to continue enjoying the local way of life. Once this will have changed I may as well move back West (or further East).

Not-regretting-ly,

Frank

Posted: Tue Nov 03, 2009 6:28 pm

How about a series of drag lifts up to Chalin Valog to reduce the queues.?
How about filling up the seats ?
How about singles queues to help this ?
how about free beer for skiers ?

Joined: 10 Oct 2007 Posts: 852

Better still ban all learners and all skiers .....job done LOL

Joined: 04 Apr 2008 Posts: 49

As much as I concur with Frank regarding retaining the 'old ways' in Bansko, I somehow think that ULEN is not run by Banski folk and those in the seats of power are driven by the sound of cash hitting the tills. If they're not they're in the wrong job.

As for trying to prevent beginners venturing onto the slopes, as implied by winterfun, my suggestion is raised to completely offer the opposite, in that it would encourage would be skiers to give it a go, at a reduced cost. This type of thing was on offer many years ago in Andorra and provided me with the incentive to do just that and here we are many years later still trying to tackle blue runs - well maybe!

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Always seek the truth.

Joined: 18 Jul 2007 Posts: 547

Ban winterfunman ya cock Laughing

Joined: 10 Oct 2008 Posts: 19

how about a whole fleet of helicopters, that should do the trick.

Joined: 21 Jan 2008 Posts: 155 Location: doncaster

Snowbird says:
"Ban winterfunman ya cock "

I completely agree with her unless winterfunman buys me a beer!

Joined: 16 Jun 2005 Posts: 3657 Location: Bansko

That automatically disqualifies you, David. Snowbird and I will have a cocktail together, instead.

Joined: 18 Jul 2007 Posts: 547

Or 3 Frank Laughing

Joined: 18 Feb 2008 Posts: 182 Location: Littlehampton.

Frank wrote:

If the local people would have a clue about business Bansko would not be Bansko any more. That's part of the charm. Every coin has its two sides.

Cuckoo Land. Laughing