About Ski Travel

A Message from the Director
I’m Dan Callahan, director of Ski Travel. Since 1981, I’ve taken nearly 90,000 area teens skiing every winter, filling a need for safe, chaperoned youth recreational travel. Schools no longer sponsor ski clubs and ski trips as they did when many of today’s parents were growing up. Times have changed; outside vendors now organize and run trips and it can be difficult for parents to gauge a tour operator’s reliability without school sponsorship. I am a father of twelve children, including five teens, and I can appreciate the need for parents to have a level of comfort with a company to which they’ll entrust their children. At Ski Travel, students are the only customers and our first priority is, and will always be, their safety and security.

Ski Travel is the number one group tour operator at Mont Tremblant, the East Coast’s premier winter sports location. Beginning in 2010, Ski Travel will also be a tour operator for another major Intrawest Resort, Snowshoe in West Virginia. We have a reputation there for bringing well-behaved students and a reputation in the D.C.-metro area for running great, safe trips. Because parents and students must agree to our strong policy prohibiting the possession, use or consumption of drugs or alcohol, we start off on the right foot.

Increasingly, the children of many of my original customers are coming on my trips. I started this company back when I was in high school, and now my older children are accompanying me. Skiing is a life-sport that can bring families together and these trips are often the best chance for students in our area to really learn to ski well.

We know kids want the chance to have fun learning a winter sport among friends and the opportunity to exhibit a certain level of independence. We also know parents want safe, chaperoned trips at affordable prices. This is our specialty and why we love this business. Ski Travel, over its years of operation has afforded local students the chance to learn a healthy life-sport while traveling with friends and enjoying first class transportation and accommodations. The entire staff of Ski Travel Unlimited is proud of this long record and hope you will entrust your young adults to our care.

Are Trips Operated by my School?
Schools no longer operate ski trips. They have not since the early 1980’s. This comes as a surprise to parents who enjoyed ski club trips organized by their school when they attended high school. Teacher’s lack of interest in going and injury liability issues have pushed local schools away from ski and snowboard trips.

Parents, therefore, are left to find a reputable tour operator if their children want the chance to take a ski and snowboard trip. It’s a big responsibility to find a company you can trust to plan a safe recreational trip for your child. You want the best—caring chaperones, security, safe transportation, comfortable lodging and a fun trip. Your teenagers want a great ski and travel experience they can share with friends. You know some companies are more reputable than others.

Put your mind at ease and let your children enjoy a great, well-chaperoned travel and sport experience planned by seasoned professionals—Ski Travel.

We believe Ski Travel’s 30 years of experience serving more than 100 local high schools are very good credentials and challenge you to find a company with a stronger local presence and reputation. We can boast of almost 90,000 students who’ve attended our trips. The founder of the company, Dan Callahan, is a travel professional and custom tour operator who built this company because of his own love of skiing. He’s a father of twelve children, including five teenagers, and is a leader in the community.

Today’s technology makes it easy for anyone to have a professional web-site and printed materials. Ski Travel has those, of course, but we also offer decades of experience, a trained professional staff, and a local base of operations at our offices in Fairfax, Virginia. You can come into our offices and see that we are a real business, not just a shallow Internet-only operation. Call our office and talk to real people who know how to relate to teens and their parents.