Following is a sampling of ski packages. Prices are starting rates per person, double occupancy, unless otherwise stated. They may or may not include taxes, service fees, gratuities and other fees. Packages are subject to availability, blackout dates, booking deadlines, validity dates, minimum stays, and their prices and terms are subject to change without notice.

• Gunnison-Crested Butte: For the first time since 2000, Crested Butte is bringing back its Ski Free program, under which skiing and riding are 100 percent free Nov. 25-Dec.15. Just go to the ticket office and you'll get a lift ticket. Several lodging deals are available during that period, with rates starting at $33 per person per night. 800-814-7988, www.gunnisoncrestedbutte.com.

• Aspen: Rates per room start at $515 at the five-star Little Nell resort from Nov. 22 to Dec. 17. Included are ski concierge service, boot warming, ski and snowboard storage, inter-mountain ski transfers, morning beverages and snacks. 970-920-4600 or 888-843-6355; www.thelittlenell.com.

• Sun Valley: Stay in slopeside Warm Springs studio and loft for $120 per person per night, from Nov. 21-Dec.14, including lift ticket. Also, kids 15 and under ski free if staying in a Premier Resorts property; maximum one child per parent, Nov. 21-Dec. 16. 800-635-4444, www.premier-sunvalley.com.

• Telluride: Early Season Bonanza at the Inn at Lost Creek includes three nights' lodging at $135 per person per night for a studio, $153 for a one-bedroom, two days of skiing, 30 percent off ski rentals, concierge service, on-slope ski valet, nightly ski or snowboard waxing, boot drying and ski storage, Telluride airport transfers. Valid Nov. 22-Dec. 14. 888-601-LOST (5678), www.innatlostcreek.com.

• Ski.com: Six nights in a two-bedroom condo at the Ranch at Steamboat Springs, five days lift tickets, five days equipment rentals for two adults and two children 12 and under, including roundtrip air from Miami and shuttle transfers at Hayden airport, starts at $831 per person for a week, good for travel Jan. 8-Feb. 14. Must be packaged with Kids Fly Free program. 800-916-9463, www.ski.com.

• Whistler: Three-night Stay and Ski package includes one-bedroom Valley View suite in Pan Pacific Whistler Mountainside, two days lift tickets for two adults, breakfast for two, $445 per room per night, Nov. 23-Dec. 13. 604-905-2999 or 877-324-4856; www.panpacific.com.

• Innsbruck: One-week stay Jan. 11-18 in this Austrian ski mecca, offered by World on Skis, includes roundtrip air from Miami, lodging at the Hotel Maximilian in town, airport transfers, daily buffet breakfast, hotel taxes and service charges. Lift tickets (about $190 a week) and bus to ski area are extra. Rates start at $1,023 per person. 866-678-5858, www.worldonskis.com.

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