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Working at NZ resorts

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MFinSLC
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hey. so I'm from salt lake city and I'm moving to NZ from June-October and I am just looking for some information on jobs. I currently applied for lifts/rentals/anything at Corronet and Remarkables and was just wondering if you are allowed to ride on your breaks. I'm not really sure what the best job to try to get may be, i just want to be able to ride and meet people. If you have any insight on cool jobs to try to get please let me know. Thanks.
Mar 3 2010 11:47AM
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Rosbif
Posts: 2543 - Karma: 930
Hey, I work at Remarks (ski school), rentals and lifts definitely get to ride on their breaks, not sure how many they get of them though. I really like ski school, but in the busy periods we don't really get much time to ski for ourselves.

Jobs in town are often actually better for ride time than the mountain jobs, but you may not get passes etc. They can be pretty hard to come by though, what jobs do you have experience doing?
Mar 8 2010 7:36PM
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MasterOz
Posts: 215 - Karma: 36
mt hutt
Mar 18 2010 11:23PM
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sick-as-aids
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no.
Mar 19 2010 5:10AM
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MasterOz
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yes.
Mar 23 2010 10:27PM
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sick-as-aids
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trust me, no

working at hutt and living in methven would not be an enjoyable experience/... so, no
Mar 24 2010 12:59AM
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LIL_WAT
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truth. much better off going down south OP
Mar 25 2010 11:53PM
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sugarloaf
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is there employee housing anywhere? i'm in welly now but i'm gonna get kicked out of my flat in july and welly is no where close to skiing.....
Mar 28 2010 6:10AM
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Rosbif
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Some of the club fields will have employee housing, but in Queenstown, and I'm pretty sure Wanaka, you have to find your own place, not too hard to do though. Just stay in a hostel for a bit and check the Mountain Scene (local paper) when it comes out.
Mar 28 2010 6:44AM
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sugarloaf
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sweet i'm headed down there next week i'll check that out for sure. what resorts are the best?
Mar 28 2010 7:09AM
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Rosbif
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In Queenstown? Or in the south in general? Best/biggest skiing is TC, best park is probably Cardrona, for those two you'd want to live in Wanaka, the best mix (imho) of terrain and parks is Remarkables, the good thing about Queenstown is that you get both mountains( Coronet and Remarks) on the same pass in Wanaka they are all different.
Mar 28 2010 7:26AM
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