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“Fun” Facts to Better Your Travel Plans

Home » Local Colorado News » “Fun” Facts to Better Your Travel Plans

February 26, 2021 by Kevin W

Traveling to Summit County in the near future?  Here are some “fun facts” that will help you re adjust your trip to the mountains.

DID YOU KNOW??

Summit County is a 2 hour drive from the Denver International Airport in a personal car with perfect weather and no traffic. CaptureThat means that in a shuttle with multiple drop offs the drive will be a bit longer than what you see in google maps.   You also are going from roughly 5,280 feet to about 9,000 feet in elevation.  Needless to say the trip to Summit County is not your typical highway drive.    Please keep this in mind when booking a shuttle, the High Rockies aren’t just a stones throw away from the airport like some would imagine.

Uber and Lyft do operate in the mountains but compared to most areas they are a rarity.  DO NOT bank solely on these services.  Some will even cancel on you before the trip if they see that they are about do a 2.5 hour drive to or from DIA  (Especially if its snowing) . . .and that’s only counting their driving time one way.

With current restrictions we are booking up shuttles quicker than we have ever seen so we have a lot less wiggle room to make last minute shuttle changes.  Make sure to check flight updates, especially with 3 or more passengers.  Moving 3 people together when shuttles are already filled up may not be an easy feat. . .especially with today’s restrictions.  Please do not assume a last minute time change will be an automatic yes.

Summit Express DOES NOT run to the VAIL /BEAVER CREEK area on a shared shuttle.  We only make those trips on a PRIVATE shuttle basis.

Banking on a friend to take you to the airport on a pow day for a 9 am departure flight means they will have to miss a pow day and leave around 5:45 at the latest.  That’s an early start.  Make sure your ride realizes this because it’s a long winding road down to DIA.  ( : If you like to gamble. . save it for Black Hawk. . .not your airport ride : )

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Enjoying a pow day and not a 5 am drive down to the airport

There are only a handful of companies who make a scheduled trip to the mountains.  The mountain carriers are not like a New York City taxi service where rides come often and always.  Make sure to plan ahead or else you will be paying for an over priced emergency ride up to the mountains.

Flights arriving after 10 or leaving before 9:30 am are extremely hard to book shuttles for.  These flights might be cheaper but adding a hotel into your travel plans might end up being more expensive in the long run.  Make sure to keep in mind that for a 9:30 am flight our driver is starting pick ups at 5 am.  A 7 am flight might not seem early but realistically that driver would be starting his trip around 3 am.  Please keep the actual distance to the airport in mind.

Bringing a board bag? Make sure to bring an old bag just in case we are utilizing the outdoor ski racks for your trip.

Just because you’re a great driver does not necessarily mean you are a great snow driver.  Please drive only if you are comfortable in the situation at hand.  If you are worried about driving . . .please. . leave it to us!!!!

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A pretty typical day on i70 during a snow storm in Summit County

We don’t like saying “no” to our guests, so please help us and plan ahead.

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Devin was very nice and accommodating. Enjoyed the ride with him. Will definitely be a customer from now on.

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Our driver, Jeff, was friendly and accommodating. His contributions to our conversations made the ride fun. He tolerated 7 chatty women exceptionally well!

Using the private shuttle to get to the airport was perfect! It was so much easier than using rental cars! Summit Express will be our airport travel mode from now on!

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The communication was top notch, which included a reminder text the day before, a phone call from the driver, and this follow up thank you email. In addition, any time I called the office everyone was very courteous & friendly. I’ll definitely be recommending your company to others & I will use it again as well. Thanks so much for the top rate service!

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Clean, polite, attentive, thoughtful by considering and offering possible need to stop for bathroom break.

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From now on, these guys are my new shuttle service when travel around Colorado. We had a mishap with our luggage while on our way to Breckenridge.  When we realized it, United Airlines called me and explained to me that I had to go back to the airport. Scott, from Summit immediately asked me if he could speak to the rep.

Long story short, Scott tried to explain to the rep that they can go back to the airport and pick up our luggage…they’ve done it before for customers in the past.  Unfortunately, United couldn’t give us a straight answer, so my friend and I had to make the 2 hour drive back to Denver.

Either way, Summit and Scott were amazing. They gave us a great rate to go back to the airport and back to Breckenridge.

Go with Summit if you plan to make trips around Colorado. I highly recommend them.

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We booked a trip to Colorado, and being Florida natives and not used to driving in the snow, we wanted to shuttle from Denver Airport to Copper Mountain Resort. A friend recommended Summit Express. The driver (Christopher) picked us up at the scheduled time, was extremely friendly and helpful. He talked with me the entire 2 hour ride to Copper Mountain and gave me lots of local information and tips that were very helpful during our stay.

The return trip was just as accommodating. I didn’t get our drivers name, but he was friendly and helpful with our baggage and airport transfer. Overall, we couldn’t have been more satisfied with the service. I strongly recommend using this express if you’re not familiar with the area and terrain.

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Absolutely loved working with Summit Express! Could not have been better. We were shuttled from DIA to Breckenridge various times over two months, using 28 shuttles in total. Not once did Summit Express make a mistake, every transfer was perfect. Always on time!

We loved their friendly customer service. They were flexible when we had to change our schedule multiple times at the last minute, courteous to our needs, and they really cared about making us content with what we were buying. They are all about their customers and I could not think of a better company to use.

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Paul was a super driver, courteous and prompt!

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The exceptional personal service provided by everyone in your company from the online chat, phone calls with customer service agent, drivers and representative at the airport, arriving for pick up at the EXACT time, sending text message reminders… Your company excels at everything a customer wants and needs. The bottom line is that you provide a personal experience, in the future we will only use your company.

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She made us feel right at home and that our comfort was important to her!

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