Multi-Resort Trips
Getting Between Resorts,
Not Just To Them
Most transportation pages stop at the airport. A multi-resort week is a different problem, and the drives are shorter than people expect.
Private resort-to-resort transfers in Colorado are booked hourly with the vehicle dedicated to your group. The common pairings are short: Vail to Beaver Creek is about 20 minutes, Breckenridge to Keystone about 25, Aspen to Snowmass about 20, and Breckenridge to Vail about 45 minutes to an hour. Summit County to the Vail Valley crosses Vail Pass at 10,662 feet, which is the only weather-sensitive leg in the set.
The drives, and how short they actually are
People plan multi-resort weeks as though each move were an expedition. Inside a county they are not.
Distances from Denver for reference: Keystone 93 miles, Copper 102, Breckenridge 104, Vail 121, Beaver Creek 133, Aspen 222.
Three ways people actually use this
The multi-resort week. Four nights in Breckenridge, three in Vail. One transfer in the middle, with luggage. This is the most common version and it is a single hourly booking of about two hours.
The day trip. Staying in Breckenridge, skiing Keystone or A-Basin for a day. Two short transfers, or one dedicated vehicle that waits — which for a group is often cheaper than it sounds and removes the last-chair anxiety entirely.
The Ikon or Epic pass tour. Groups working through a pass in a week, moving every day or two. Worth booking as a package with one point of contact rather than as five separate reservations.
Why not just rent a car
Sometimes you should. If you are moving every day, parking at your lodging is free, and nobody minds driving in the dark on Vail Pass, a rental is cheaper.
What tips it the other way, in our experience:
- Resort parking. Vail and Beaver Creek parking in high season is expensive and awkward, and Beaver Creek's gate is not designed around day parking.
- Vail Pass in a storm. Doing it once in a rental sedan on all-seasons is a story. Doing it four times is a probability calculation.
- Après. The whole point of a ski week is defeated by one person having to stay sober from 3 p.m. onward every day.
- The airport bookends. If you were already booking two airport transfers, the middle legs are marginal cost rather than a new decision.
Vail Pass is the only leg that misbehaves
Within Summit County, and within the Vail Valley, the roads are short and low-drama. The leg that actually carries risk is Breckenridge or Frisco to Vail, because it crosses Vail Pass at 10,662 feet — a stretch that closes for weather, avalanche mitigation and crashes several times a season.
Vehicles run state-approved winter tires and four-wheel drive, which satisfies Colorado's Traction Law without chains; two-wheel-drive vans and buses carry the traction devices the state requires. Chauffeurs are asked to carry a cold-weather kit — flares, triangles, solar blankets, water, food.
In a storm the thing that changes is the route, not the trip. Closures are checked before departure and adjustments are made en route at the chauffeur's discretion, and the chauffeur tells you what changed and why. There is no vehicle swap and no cancellation from our side.
The practical planning rule: if a mid-week resort change has to happen on a specific day, move in the morning. Closures cluster in the afternoon and evening, and a morning transfer that gets delayed still lands before dinner.
Luggage, gear and the mid-week move
Seasonal capacity rule: from November 1 through April 30 the Luxury SUV is booked at five passengers rather than six. The sixth seat becomes luggage space, which leaves room for roughly seven or eight pieces inside. The Executive SUV is five passengers year round.
Skis, boards and boot bags go on an open roof rack on the SUV, or in a covered box; anything that does not fit comfortably inside goes up top. Boot bags ride inside — nobody wants frozen boots. Exact capacity varies by vehicle, which is why we ask for a gear count at booking rather than guessing. Vans take up to eighteen suitcases with oversized items on the roof.
A resort change is the one leg of a ski trip where everyone has all their gear and all their luggage at once, which makes it the leg most likely to be undersized. If you booked an SUV from the airport and picked up a week's worth of shopping, tell us — the mid-week vehicle may need to be a van.
Rates are hourly and all-inclusive except gratuity, with the first 40 miles of each booking included. Executive Sedan $150/hr (3 passengers, 2-hour minimum), Executive SUV $125/hr (5), Luxury SUV $150/hr, Luxury Coach Van $250/hr (12, 3-hour minimum), Executive/Jet Van $325/hr (9) on a 4-hour minimum. Stretch limousines, party buses and coach buses are quote only. The rate is locked when you book and does not move with demand, weather or the hour of the night.
Booking a multi-resort week
Book it as one conversation. Give us the itinerary — airport in, resort nights, the moves, airport out — and we build the whole set, which means one point of contact and consistent vehicles rather than five reservations that do not know about each other.
Work runs on Arion's own vehicles and on Arion-trained 1099 affiliate chauffeurs and vetted Colorado PUC-certified operators, depending on the date and the vehicle. Every one of them carries a PUC permit and commercial insurance, and every one is dispatched and answered for by Arion. Colorado PUC permit LL-04689, $1.5 million commercial auto liability, $5 million general liability.
Cancellation terms are the same on every booking: full refund at 48 hours or more, up to 50% inside 48 hours, nothing inside 24. Tours run on a 7-day window.
Questions we get asked
How long is the drive from Vail to Beaver Creek?
About 20 minutes: I-70 west to the Avon exit, then up Village Road through the Beaver Creek gate. Give us the property name at booking so the gate stop takes seconds.
How long is Breckenridge to Keystone?
About 25 minutes, north on CO-9 to Frisco and then east on US-6 from Dillon. Arapahoe Basin is roughly 15 minutes further east from Keystone.
How long is Breckenridge to Vail?
Forty-five minutes to an hour, over Vail Pass at 10,662 feet. This is the only weather-sensitive leg in a typical multi-resort week, so move in the morning if the day is fixed.
Can you do a day trip to another resort and wait for us?
Yes. The vehicle and chauffeur stay for the day and come forward on a text. Billing is continuous hourly with waiting time included, which for a group is often cheaper than two separate transfers.
Is it cheaper to rent a car for a multi-resort week?
Sometimes, if you move daily and have free parking. It stops being cheaper once you count high-season resort parking, driving Vail Pass repeatedly in winter, and losing one person to sobriety every afternoon.
Can you move us mid-week with all our luggage and gear?
Yes, and this is the leg most often undersized. Everyone has all their gear and all their luggage at once. Tell us the piece count — the mid-week vehicle is often a van even when the airport vehicle was an SUV.
How far is Aspen from Snowmass?
About 20 minutes. For transport purposes they operate as a single destination.
Do you serve Arapahoe Basin?
Yes, from Keystone, Breckenridge, Summit County lodging and Denver. A-Basin sits at roughly 10,940 feet at the base, the highest lift-served base area in the state.
Can you handle a group moving between resorts on an Ikon or Epic pass week?
Yes, and it is worth booking as a package with one point of contact rather than five separate reservations that do not know about each other.
What happens if Vail Pass closes during our transfer?
We wait it out with you and adjust the route where an adjustment exists. There is no vehicle swap and no cancellation from our side, and the chauffeur explains what changed.
Do you charge by the trip or by the hour?
By the hour, with the vehicle dedicated to your group and waiting time included. The first 40 miles of each booking are included.
Can you take us to a restaurant in another town for dinner?
Yes. Vail to Beaver Creek, Breckenridge to Frisco, Aspen to Snowmass for dinner and back is a normal hourly booking, and the vehicle waits.
Sources
- CDOT COtrip — live I-70 conditions, closures and Traction Law status
- CDOT — Traction and Passenger Vehicle Chain Laws — vehicle requirements on Colorado mountain corridors in winter
- Colorado Public Utilities Commission — Transportation permits — regulation of luxury limousine and charter carriers in Colorado
Give us the whole itinerary.
One conversation, one point of contact, consistent vehicles.
Last reviewed: August 24, 2026 by Arion dispatch. Rates, policies and Colorado Department of Transportation rules are subject to change; call (970) 703-4995 for current details.