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Anyone know good websites that do packages you can build yourself? Travel agent quoted us $1400 for 7 nights in Queenstown, 3 day pass and flights, I reckon I can do better though, especially with more lift tickets.
I used these guys http://snonski.com.au/ You can either make a package online or phone up and book it with them and get exactly what you want. I phoned up cause it was easier to tell them what I wanted, In the end I got a better deal that I could have booked myself I think even with the $50 booking fee or what ever they charge. Going from the 11th july till the 20th flights with 23kg baggage from Brisbane direct to queenstown, parado 4wd car hire for the whole time staying at a pretty good place (reavers) stayed there last time and 7 days lift pass. for $1500 each with 5 of us going.Anyone know good websites that do packages you can build yourself? Travel agent quoted us $1400 for 7 nights in Queenstown, 3 day pass and flights, I reckon I can do better though, especially with more lift tickets.
Perfect, looks like that's the go. Btw, $109 flights to Sydney from Queenstown on the 13th of August- win!I used these guys http://snonski.com.au/ You can either make a package online or phone up and book it with them and get exactly what you want. I phoned up cause it was easier to tell them what I wanted, In the end I got a better deal that I could have booked myself I think even with the $50 booking fee or what ever they charge. Going from the 11th july till the 20th flights with 23kg baggage from Brisbane direct to queenstown, parado 4wd car hire for the whole time staying at a pretty good place (reavers) stayed there last time and 7 days lift pass. for $1500 each with 5 of us going.
Was about 5cm of snow over night at perisher, cardrona and treble cone. Forecast looking good for the rest of the week as well hopefully there will be a good base by opening day.
Thats pretty much the only way to do it, lift passes are lift passes, they are all done through the same place.Got quoted today;
return flights to QT + 14 nights private accommodation + 10 day lift ticket = $1800 AUD.
Anyone know of a cheaper way to do lift passes in NZ? As far as I can see it's $95 for one day, and $90 or so for each subsequent day, so there's minimal incentive to book 10 days at once.
Book sooner. Season pass: $380. Return flights Syd to ChCh: $300. Etc. Etc.Anyone know of a cheaper way to do lift passes in NZ?
Individual components of my snowboard set up cost more in Australia than the whole thing shipped from the US.Snow is looking pretty good at the moment. I just finished drooling over the photos Perisher put up on Facebook. Did anyone go up this weekend?
I'm looking at getting a pair of 2012 Line Prophet 90s for this season. Has anyone tried them? I'd be interested to see what you think.
If the reviews are anything to go by they are a wicked set of skis and the specs look quite similar to Salomon Lords (which I freaking love).
Also, I love how an identical set of skis is $350 shipped in the US and $850 in Aus..
No, I don't think it's that important. You can hire chains on every mountain, as it's not the mountain resort that offers chains, but a local business that goes and parks on the side of the road.However, I know some days you are required to fit chains even on 4wd as the road reports say chains on all vehicles. I'm assuming that I can hire chains with the car but then theres a possibility that I would end up paying $30 a day and not use them once. So my question is should the place im staying have chain hire? I also know of chain hire on the way up the slopes where you hire them off a bloke on the side of the road and drop them back to him on the way down. Is that a practical option? Is chain hire only offered on certain mountains?