We will book you on three return flights tying in with the school holidays, allowing you the chance to visit us in resort consistently throughout the season.
Private transfers are provided from Salzburg Airport directly to our resort accommodation.
The accommodation we provide will be available to you for the duration of your course on a self-catered basis. Each apartment is modern and well equipped including spacious rooms and welcoming communal areas. Each guest will have access to washing and drying facilities together with a ski and boot room.
Our accommodation is based in Altenmarkt im Pongau – we’ve found its great to be in the centre of where it’s at! Our town offers many facilities all within walking distance:
See our Accommodation page for more information and pictures.
We’re based in the Ski Amadé, one of Europe’s biggest ski areas. The Amadé lift pass offers over 860km of piste and is made up of World Cup resorts such as Zauchensee, Schladming and Flachau together with some other traditional mountain resorts offering some truly breathtaking skiing. Whilst Austria is renowned for it’s love of racing, freestyle skiing has definitely made it’s mark and we’re lucky enough to have the world class Absolout Park on our doorstep.
Austria is recognised as a world leader in all things skiing and it should be no surprise that Austrian instruction qualifications are globally recognised.
After years of being affiliated with various Austrian ski federations, we believe that the Salzburger skilehrerverband offers the most comprehensive course available today. SBSSV offers an intensive 10-day course that you will complete in the final days of your season and after passing you will be qualified as an Anwärter ski instructor (the Austrian equivalent of a BASI L1&2).
Once the course and exams are over, should you pass, you will be a fully certified instructor with the possibility of working anywhere in the world! Former course members have worked in Australia, New Zealand, and Canada as well as throughout Europe.
All course training will be undertaken by Staatlich qualified instructors.
In Austria, the top snowsports qualificaton is ‘Staatlicher’ and in co-operation with our Austrian ski school partner, we guarantee that all of our students will enjoy top quality training from day 1. Our trainers have worked in France, Italy, Switzerland and of course Austria; stints in both New Zealand and Australia are common too offering you unique insight into snowsports downunder!
Module Two – February Break
After returning to us for the second time, the focus of your course changes somewhat. This module sees you accommodated with one of our schools in a three-star hotel on a half-board basis allowing you to see firsthand what a group requires from a holiday and hear directly what matters most to them. Armed with this information, you can continue shadowing your ‘partner-instructor’ all the while preparing for your first time leading a group. During this period, there will also be some intensive ski training building on the successful first module.
