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Visitor reviews for Coronet Peak Ski Resort

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Ski Resort Rating: Rate Coronet Peak

• September 16, 2010
  Anton from Australia
  

  Great place! It may not have the snow quality of the US, Europe or Japan but Coronet Peak definitely isn't put to shame. Great base with decent food, good coffee and good staff.

  Good instructors, especially for kids. Good beginner areas. Good, modern, quick lifts. And the best thing, no crowds (did go out of holiday times so probably need to consider this). Never, ever waited for a lift. And managed to go straight from top to bottom, fast, on some pretty good runs without having to dodge a bunch of gapers!

  Would recommend it completely but drop expectations if you've travelled to the above-mentioned places. For Australasia, this is an excellent resort!

• August 05, 2010
  Scott from Australia
  

  What a fantastic part of the world !!! Absolutely blown away by the surroundings, the services, the friendliness of all of the staff and more importantly the quality of the slopes.
  Coronet Peak is a great place for all age groups and families along with the uber enthusiast and smart arse professionals.
  Snowboarded most of the trails last week with a solid packed base and fresh powder on top. As a beginner to the sport, who could ask for better? And the icing on the cake - had blue skies and bright sunshine. Coronet Peak is a place to come back to in my book. See ya next year NZ.....

• July 29, 2010
  john from New Zealand
  

  The lifts at Coronet Peak are not slower than lifts in other parts of the world. Greengates Express and Coronet Express, (hence the name express) are both detachable express lifts. The lifts at Remarkables, yes they are, because they are not detachable express lifts. These are the other resorts that I have skied around the world and the lifts run at pretty much the same pace, Heavenly, Kirkwood, Alpine Meadows USA. Whistler, Grouse, Big White, Revelstoke, Fernie, Kicking Horse, Sunshine, Panorama, in Canada. I'm pretty sure that at none of those resorts all of their lifts were high speed detachable express lifts, now that Coronet spent 5 million bucks replacing their meadows learners chair all of the chairs at Coronet are high speed detachable expresses. In the last 5 years probably about 50million dollars has been invested back into Coronet Peak. This season they introduced the rdf ticket system which is the most high tech ticket system in the world.

• July 04, 2010
  nicky from Australia
  

  Skied at Coronet's (Coronet Peak) today - awesome - night skiing was amazing and the snow was terrific - man-made mostly but excellent conditions - enjoy.

• January 22, 2010
  Nick from New Zealand
  

  Hey, just so reviewers know, Coronet Peak decided not to build a park this season. And they decided to instead invest all of their park building time and money into Remarks instead. It is a bit of a bummer that they didn't have any park features at Coronet this season, but I can understand where they're coming from and why they're doing that, cause I reckon that if you're not gonna build a decent park don't build one at all right, plus Coronet is a real fun freeride mountain with heaps of stuff to play around on. The time and money that they could of put into a Coronet park but put into Remarks instead was worth it I reckon because their park was fully built and cranking on opening day and they always had heaps of different and new features at Remarks as well. chur.

• July 28, 2009
  Ryan from Australia
  

  I love this mountain, Coronet Peak has all you need. There are less challenging runs for the beginner and advanced runs for the more extreme and there is a snow park that is pretty well equiped with some fun features for the free-stylers. However, I was at Coronet Peak not too long ago and they hadn't got their park together. This was a major let down, but I still enjoyed the day.

• August 21, 2008
  Chez from Australia
  

  You know what all I can say to all these people is as long as there is snow - it's all good. Someone asked me back home what was the best ski field in Australia to which I replied "the one that's closest to you". Come on guys lets not forget why we are skiers. We love the freedom and the white legal stuff as they call it!!!! I say if the lift goes fast or slow who cares as long as there is one!! Beats walking. Let's get back into the true stuff and enjoy the opportunity that is presented to us. Stay true and just have fun and don't forget keep challenging yourself or you just become a lazy skier.

• August 19, 2008
  Kym from Australia
  

  Handy to town, fun runs and the new base building is great. We were lucky enough to time our holiday with some great snow (unlike last year) but the lift queues were at times long and disorganised, staff generally rude and unhelpful. Overall quite an expensive holiday. I love NZ and look forward to getting back there, but not for the snow season - totally outclassed by Japan.

• August 15, 2008
  Timbo from New Zealand
  

  As a long time patron of Coronet, I have to ask Debbie and Katie what they are talking about with the slow lifts?

  "A lot of resorts in Europe and also now OZ are operating high speed lifts, not so at CP" - interesting considering Coronet has 2 high speed lifts, 1 state of the art Poma Leitner 6-seater, (complete with foot rest!), and one Dopplemayer quad, which operates more uphill capacity than any other lift in NZ. Strange...

  Overall Coronet has proved throughout this year with its new base building and spectacular snowmaking capabilities that it is the creme de la creme of skiing in NZ. It might not be Zermatt but its getting there. They had the mountain covered with artificial after that odd warm spell wall to wall within 10 days. Fantastic storms the last few days have meant awesome powder too!

• August 10, 2008
  Debbie Maqueen from Australia
  

  We had lots of snow at CP, so that was good! I too found the lifts very slow. A lot of resorts in Europe and also now OZ are operating high speed lifts, not so at CP. The runs are pretty short and coupled with slow lifts you spend a lot of time off the snow, which for some people is ok, but I like to be on the snow. The ticket system is also antiquated and really needs an upgrade. The lift queues weren't big but were very disorganised and resembled a rugby scrum at times. Overall my impression of skiing is NZ is that someone needs a kick up the bum. I've skied Remarks and CP and they are not even close to average resorts in Europe. Both resorts very obviously need $$ for them to compete with Europe/North America.

• July 23, 2008
  Peter from New Zealand
  

  I can't let Katie's biased review go unchallenged.
  Of course snow guns can't operate when it's not cold enough. NZ suffered an unseasonal warm spell at the beginning of winter (2008) that affected *all* resorts.
  Coronet Peak was the first to open and as soon as it got cold enough after the warm spell, the snow guns pumped out a massive amount of snow that had all the main trails open in 3 days.
  No other ski resort in the Southern Hemisphere can compete with that level of snow making.
  As for the slow lifts, the double chair is the only slow lift as it is deliberately designed that way for beginners. The quad and 6 seater chairs are both very swift chairlifts.

• July 14, 2008
  Mandy from New Zealand
  

  What a great mountain! I love the new base building - the best I have seen anywhere. We were in town for 7 days and we skied Coronet every day with new snow on the trails every night with the snow guns! Awesome - cant wait to get back!

• July 02, 2008
  katie from New Zealand
  

  All the hype about Coronet was a massive disappointment! The snow guns do not work if its not cold enough and who wants man made snow anyway when Cardrona is naturally a better mountain all round! And what a waste of money that building is! Why not speed the lifts up or pay the staff more so they are not so rude!

• June 28, 2008
  Chris from New Zealand
  

  Great ski field; best in New Zealand. Wicked powder days just off-piste and there's never a crowd at the lifts. Snow making lets Coro's (as the locals call it) be open more days per year than anywhere else!! Everyone should go there, it's "da bomb."

• November 01, 2005
  laura from New Zealand
  

  Good slopes, brilliant terrain a great time and place to have fun went there and got caught in a snow storm, but had a great other 4 days.!!!:)

• July 16, 2004
  Brendn from New Zealand
  

  full coverage wall to wall top to bottom, i was there 5 days after last dump did some exploring hiked over back of triple dropped out westside super silky pow outside boundry rope down lower gullys clean cut line, only 10 min hike out back to trail, you had to be there!