We'll in heading to the NSW snow fields between 24 and 28 June. Looking for 2 night accommodation for 2 adults and 2 kids (age 4 and 5). Nothing extravagant, just somewhere to sleep and shower.
Snowboard/ski hire and lessons would be a bonus.
Cheap midweek snow accommodation
RangaWal on 22/05/2013 - 09:25
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and if you're going to hire, don't do it @ perisher. they are relatively expensive.
try www.skico.com.au - they are located in cooma (if you're driving from Sydney, you'd pass through Cooma anyways). reserve your gear in advance to get 10% off their rates.
happy snows. I CAN"T FRIGGING WAIT FOR THE SEASON TO OPEN
It goes teh same for any resort. Hiring anything at the resort will cost you an arm and a leg, but it is mighty convenient for switching gear if there's something wrong or it doesn't fit. Usually these ski hire places are quite good at fitting your gear out though.
Thanks heaps. The only slight downer is the wife wanting to wake up in the snow. Being at Jindabyne, that wouldn't allow this would it?
You might get snow in Jindabyne but you won't be waking up to those postcard images. It'll be minimal at best (so little the path outside will be closer to it's natural colour than white).
If you want to wake up in the snow, you'll have to stay either in Thredbo village or somewhere a lot closer to the ski fields and that comes at a price.
yep, no snow in jindy (maybe overnight frost/frozen dew - will she be able to tell?). your best bet is to stay in thredbo/perisher village, it's best to go directly to their websites and see if they have early bird deals.
to be honest, it's probably 24-28 june soound a bit early in the season to get big dumps that reach the village. you might get lucky, fingers crossed.
jindabyne would be fine.
if she wants to wake up to snow -http://tinyurl.com/lhucj8l
As a longstanding Ski Tragic and current committee member of a ski lodge (at Mt Buller in Victoria) I recommend that you look for a good club lodge. I dont know the NSW lodges very well but our lodge struggles to find mid week guests during the season so I assume there would still be loads of capacity for bookings.
If you ask the question on ski.com.au forums there will be somebody there that can recommend a NSW lodge. As an example, for guests our club lodge has bunkrooms with en suites. Most lodges have a communal living area with shared cooking facilites etc. Some provide free breakfast, some even provide a cooked meal on Sat night etc. You have to be a little bit careful if you have kids that you dont find a club lodge that is a snow version of a backpackers complete with music and parties but most are very family friendly and certainly ours is a private lodge that vets all bookings carefully.
I dont know what the NSW lodges charge but our lodge charges $80 a night per adult and $40 a night for kids to give you an idea. I have heard some crazy stories about people paying $1K a night for a basic hotel room at the snow! Some club lodges even hire a permanent lodge manager for the season to look after upkeep/issues and a range of services for guests.
Club lodges arent hotels but many people like the communal facilities as it gives you an opportunity to meet new people and share a glass of red and some ski stories with others at night. Having shared cooking facilities also lets you take your own food and avoid having to eat out and pay the expensive restaurant rates at the resort. Having a fridge also lets you take and store your own drinks at the lodge and avoid having to buy them up at the snow. A lodge will probably also have some 'old timers'there that have skied the mountain for 20 years and can give you some direction on the best runs/pubs/restaurants etc.
look for stuff at Airbnb.
try scouts nsw jindabyne @ $40 p/n each same as a lodge with shared facilities http://www.nsw.scouts.com.au/alpine/index.php?option=com_con…
are you bias towards any particular snowfield? planning to do perisher?
http://www.scoopon.com.au/deals/40500/nsw-2-day-perisher-ski… - you'd be able to get acommodation up to thursday (27th) night.
i've been doing this deal for the past 3 years - fantastic value. since it's midweek, there should be plenty of avaliability. call up the station before you buy the voucher to confirm it. I'm pretty sure they'd let the kids stay free.
hope that helps