"We booked early this year during that ghastly heat wave because we needed to reassure ourselves that it would eventually be winter lol."
LOL classic! Cool, so that means you don't have to get in right when ski season this year ends (someone told me that you did lol). but early bird pricing sounds good to me hehehe
Thanks for those company names, and the gay ski week, looking that up now, i knew they had a Canadian one, didn't know about NZ!
Ok, so I'm the only one who has actually been skiing out of the rest of them (nieces will be 13, 16, 17) so while *I* know I would spend all winter up there, they're a bit ify about a 10 day dedicated ski trip, and think they'd like to do other things.
Do you think it would be better to stay on the mountain, and travel down for day trips OR stay in a town, and travel UP to ski? I don't really know, would accom. be cheaper on the ground? And would travelling up just make it just as expensive? I guess if the weather is hairy you'd be better off on the ground cos you couldn't ski but then you coldn't really get off the mountain either?
Maybe *I* can stay on the mountain, and the rest can stay on the ground hehehehehe.
Ski in ski out accommodation is pretty rare in NZ. Mostly it's the club fields that have it and obviously club members are given priority. NZ clubs are kind of like Australian lodges in that usually you're expected to get in there and clean the place and so on. I like to be lazy on holiday so it's not really my cup of tea. Cardrona has accommodation on the hill but if the weather comes in none of the lifties will drive up the hill so you'll be walking to the top of the hill if you want to slide down it.
All the resorts have shuttles from the towns nearby so you don't have to drive if you don't want.
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