Book your NZ 2021 ski trip now and pay later –...
This year is definitely the year to plan ahead, ready, willing and able to hit the slopes of New Zealand in 2021. Expect some crazy...
Six of the best backcountry snow adventures in New Zealand
New Zealand offers some killer off piste terrain for the hardy skier and boarder looking for some backcountry snow adventure from heli skiing to...
How to predict the coming southern winter season snowfall…
Can't decide where to book for the upcoming ski season? Have you asked the moon? How about your next door neighbours dog? Sam Pullos...
Be warned, the Sofa Ski Camp will make you a better...
Austrian ski instructors scare me. All that extreme schussing and turning perfection drilled into them from their qualification days in a country where skiing...
The Rees Hotel Queenstown’s deal for SnowsBest readers
The luxury Rees Hotel Queenstown on the shores of Lake Wakatipu is rewarding you just for reading SnowsBest.
I love a luxury hotel at the...
Camp in an ‘igloo’ and ski tour New Zealand’s backcountry
A Geo Dome Heli Camp has been set up in the McKerrow Range as a base for guided ski touring activities over winter and...
That time I had a cocktail named after me, twice.
Drinking comes with the ski territory but some drinks are better than others. Rachael Oakes-Ash discovers a bespoke cocktail bar in Aspen where no...
Stuck in a ski rut? Sofa Ski Camp can fix that
I am the ultimate intermediate skier with really bad habits - or so I found out when I enrolled into Klaus Mair’s Sofa Ski...
NZ’s next level cat skiing – with a side of Amisfield...
There's something about Soho Basin, the wide rolling basins of premium untouched snow behind Cardrona on New Zealand's South Island. With spectacular mountain views...
The Rees: The Queenstown hotel you’ll never, ever want to leave
Endless, gorgeous lake views. Lush hotel rooms with all the little touches. A lobby that’s straight out of the pages of a magazine.
I’d only...
7 things to love about flying to Queenstown airport to ski
Really, we could make this entire blog post about the views, the vistas, the landscape. Is there any other airport as stunning as Queenstown?
You...
Insiders guide to Wanaka: Hamish Acland
He's a professional skier, magazine publisher, entrepreneur and global brand developer. Meet Wanaka resident Hamish Acland publisher of NZ Skier and the name behind...
World first heli ski wellness retreat
New Zealand's luxury Aro-Ha Wellness Retreat on the shores of Lake Wakatipu in Glenorchy just upped the heli ski ante this southern winter by...
Live like a gazillionaire in Wanaka from $210 a night
Some days my job sucks. Today is not one of them.
I am writing this from my villa on the outskirts of Wanaka in New...
New Zealand’s secret ski field you need to know about
I had heard rumours of an active volcano in New Zealand that doubled as a ski field long before I saw it for myself....
New chairlift for Porters
Porters Ski Area announced today the installation of a new four-seater chairlift to replace its first T-bar. It will be the closest chairlift to...
