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Australia’s Best Ski Resort is excited to launch its winter 2024 offering today with its new benefit-loaded season passes, lift passes, rentals, lessons, backcountry tours and more now available to purchase at thredbo.com.au.
Kicking off on June 8 through to October 7, 2024, Thredbo will provide the Southern Hemisphere’s most premium winter experience with access to Australia’s best skiing and snowboarding, the launch of the Southern Hemisphere’s first Alpine Coaster, a curated winter events, entertainment, and experiences calendar boasting Australia’s biggest acts plus lots more.
Voted Australia’s Best Ski Resort for the seventh year in a row at the 2023 World Ski Awards, Thredbo makes significant upgrades every year to ensure each season is better than the last and 2024 will be no different. With the all-new Thredbo Alpine Coaster, snowmaking upgrades, new on-mountain machinery, new dining options plus lots more, Thredbo has elevated many aspects of its offering to ensure this will be the biggest and best winter to date.
Thredbo General Manager, Stuart Diver says that the success of the resort’s recently redesigned premium business model coupled with the new developments puts Thredbo in a strong position this winter.
“Our focus on prioritising capacity utilisation on the mountain is continuing to drive a more premium experience overall. Combine this with the new Alpine Coaster, Australia’s biggest winter events calendar plus our incredible skiing and snowboarding offering, and we’re confident that this winter will be one of our best. We can’t wait to welcome all our guests back to make more once-in-a-lifetime memories in the mountains,” said Mr Diver.
Huge New Benefits With The Winter 2024 Season Passes
A limited number of winter 2024 season passes are now available to purchase including the Thredbo Season Pass, the Thredbo Season Pass + Ikon Base Pass, and the Value Season Pass (includes blackout dates from 6 – 21 July 2024).
Purchasing a 2024 winter season pass will provide access to Thredbo’s largest benefits program ever including significant discounts on Alpine Coaster rides, private lessons, food and drinks, rental, retail, backcountry tours, bring a friend vouchers, unlimited access to the Leisure Centre and lots more.
A great value option for those who also want to ski and snowboard overseas is the Thredbo Season Pass + Ikon Base Pass. Enjoy huge savings when you combine the benefits of both passes, providing unlimited access to Thredbo’s winter 2024 season plus unlimited access at 14 destinations and up to 5 days at a further 36 destinations.
More Ways To Save This Winter!
New this winter, Thredbo is offering ways guests can save including:
- Value Season discounts of up to 50% for kids and up to 30% for adults on 3-to-5-day mid-week lift passes between June 8 – 28and September 9 – October 7.
- Great value discounts all season by booking lift passes 7 days in advance, plus 20% off rental hire when bundled with their pass.
A limited number of lift passes, rentals, lessons, backcountry tours and more are now available to purchase for winter 2024. To improve guests’ experiences on the mountain and throughout the resort, Thredbo limits the amount of daily tickets sold and therefore recommends planning ahead and booking early to avoid missing out.
New Alpine Coaster, Snowmaking Upgrades, More Snowcats
Thredbo is committed to continued growth and a premium experience for guests, completing six significant developments since 2022.
Construction is progressing for the Southern Hemisphere’s first-ever year-round Alpine Coaster, opening this winter season. The new Thredbo Alpine Coaster will diversify the resort’s year-round recreational offering as an all-weather, action-packed way to experience the mountain. At 1.5km in length, passengers will be able to control their speed of up to 40km/h as they travel along a mix of uphill and downhill tracks featuring a tunnel, bridges and circles that traverse the alpine environment.
Thredbo is further improving its skiing and snowboarding technology, growing its existing snowmaking, grooming and parks building fleets. Thredbo will replace the pipeline snowmaking gun and add three new fan guns towards the base of the Kosciuszko Chairlift, building upon the fifteen snowmaking guns added in 2022 and 2023. There will also be a new Pisten Bully snowcat and Prinoth Demo snowcat added to the fleet, ensuring Thredbo machinery remains top of the line for grooming and terrain park building.
As part of this wide-scale development plan, Thredbo has a chairlift infrastructure upgrade program in place, launching Freddie’s Snowrunner in 2023 plus the Easy-Rider T-Bar and the Merritts Gondola in 2022. The Snowgums Chairlift is the next lift to be replaced in 2025 as part of this plan.
Australia’s Biggest-Ever Winter Events and Experiences Calendar
Boasting Australia’s largest winter calendar every year, Thredbo’s curated lineup of events, experiences and entertainment will be its biggest and most diverse to date this winter. Elevating the customer experience, guests will enjoy daily live music and entertainment, the weekly flare run and fireworks show, a huge lineup of its famous après events, kid’s festivals, skiing and snowboarding events and a series of once-in-a-lifetime on-mountain experiences.
Thredbo will be sharing further details on the 2024 winter events and experiences calendar over the coming weeks.
