For anyone planning traveling to NZ for off season

thehaze

thehaze

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anyone coming over to new zealand for northern hemisphere off season and thinking of skiing a lot of park, snow park nz isnt doing seasons passes this year so could be quite pricy and all other surrounding areas season passes prices have gone through the roof in light of the current world economy fucking itself
 
Unfortunately, that will do them more harm than good

Numbers will fall dramatically because of that - particularly with the skiers coming from the Nth Hemisphere, plus I think they will lose a lot of business to Cardrona
 
Plus season passes guarantee them income whether the passholder skis there or not, instead of relying on a forecast number of guests buying day passes
 
However if you read the more recent news story it says they arn't.
http://www.snowparknz.com/news/march-1--online-sales-delayed.html

"In light of the current world economic situation, Snow Park NZ will be scaling back our operations for the 2009 winter.

"This is a temporary measure to ensure that the Park remains

financially viable and can continue to operate through this very tough

time. We have some great industry support and really value the hard

work put in by so many over the past 8 years. We are considering all

options moving forward,"- Snow Park General Manager, Sam Lee.

The resort will offer day passes this season but as part of the

restructuring will not be selling season passes. Snow Park will be

taking a hard look at our operational model in efforts to maintain

those features that are most popular with our loyal riders. In the

long term we have every intention of keeping our plans for expansion

alive and will continue to source the additional capital needed to do

so.

"We are all affected by the global economic recession, as a family

operation, we realise that we must take action now to ensure that our

84 years of history in the Cardrona Valley is preserved. These are

difficult times, we are optimistic about the future, but must be

realistic about the present. " Sam Lee, General Manager."
 
Dude WTF?

"...all other surrounding areas season passes prices have gone through the roof..."

No, they haven't. NZSki.com pricing hasn't shifted at all from last year. Lay off the chron dude. It's still a very attractive option for people from basically anywhere in the northern hemisphere due to our exchange rate being so low against the greenback.

Treble Cone season pass; $999 before the end of March.

Cardrona season pass; $690 before the end of April.

Coronet, Remarkables and Mt Hutt; $1199 until 5th June

Coronet and Remarks; $999 until 5th June

Anyone planning on coming should have already sorted their passes anyway, they were alot cheaper in Feb.
 
Ummm I really dont know what your on about... I live in Queenstown and have already got my season pass for Coronet and Remarks and just waiting on the cheap deal to come through the school for Snowpark. $99 for SP, Bargin!!
 
no, you can tell them there are no season pass'es, but dont tell them not to come, cardrona is still a legit option for park, you went about it wrong
 
well, he didn't actually say not to come, he just said it was going to be more expensive. but yea I agree there's heaps of other sick options out there aside from snowpark. I'm guessing cardies will be packed this year cause of this.

remarks has a legit park too
 
yeah bit like you said befor, this exchange rate bullshit is gona make things hella cheap for anyone coming from the states, everything is half price, itl be cheaper than other years
 
cardrona's park is legit. they stepped it up big time last year and had a line the whole way from top to bottom with a 4 jump line and more rail features than i can count on two hands. the superpipe was pristine too! are those prices listed above is in NZ dollars because the NZ dollar right now is worth 52 cents to an american dollar so that cuts those prices in half.
 
yea man, those prices are all in NZD. If you were thinking of going to SP get a cardies pass and get a few lift tickets to SP during the season.

Cardies still has a good park, and is right across the road from snowpark so you still get the wanaka experience. Plus you get the bonus of having the rest of the mountain to ski.

Last year the NZD was at about 74c against the USD so things are going to be alot cheaper this season for people from the US
 
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