 Poster: A snowHead
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Planning on going out there at the end of november to sort job and accommodation out. Is this a good time to go out? and is it likely to be hard sorting them out? Heard so many good things about the resort so just want to go oover and give it a crack! Any info greatly appreciated.
Cheers,
Dan
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Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
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The Arlberg season opens on the 26th November so might be worth getting things sorted before this time.
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Well, the person's real but it's just a made up name, see?
Well, the person's real but it's just a made up name, see?
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Dan Harv, Welcome to Snowheads - Owen4220 has some words of wisdom there
I'd also add - Pack a spare liver
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Agree with the head over there early. I went out with a job and accom lined up, but those I met out there that didn't seemed to arrive early November.
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Anyway, snowHeads is much more fun if you do.
Anyway, snowHeads is much more fun if you do.
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Dan Harv, try getting in touch with sidneyreilly, a fellow Snowhead, UK citizen but based in St Anton http://www.st-antonamarlberg.co.uk/ He might be able to help you out with accomodation as he has a few apartments. Apparently the Mooserwirt are looking for people to scrape up the bodies in the aftermath of the average day.
Go for it. Great place
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You'll need to Register first of course.
You'll need to Register first of course.
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Hiya, The one thing that I would say is that in order to get a "Good" job you will need fluent German and the earlier that you head out the more chance you will have of lining up something. Ski bums will be arriving from October....
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Or if you do arrive later on, head for MailBox in the middle of town, there's a notice board up there for people looking for job, employees, accomodation and selling kit.
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Cheers guys, looks like I'll have to get out there pretty soon then.
Where are the best spots for the off piste?
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| Dan Harv wrote: |
| Where are the best spots for the off piste? |
ya mam
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| Dan Harv wrote: |
Cheers guys, looks like I'll have to get out there pretty soon then.
Where are the best spots for the off piste? |
Where no-one else knows. 
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snowHeads are a friendly bunch.
snowHeads are a friendly bunch.
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| bertie bassett wrote: |
Dan Harv, Welcome to Snowheads - Owen4220 has some words of wisdom there
I'd also add - Pack a spare liver |
And a couple of suitcases of cash. In fact, make that three.
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And love to help out and answer questions and of course, read each other's snow reports.
And love to help out and answer questions and of course, read each other's snow reports.
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Theres usually a few jobs posted on the resort website, probs better than the TO route. If you can already ski you may want to think about doing the Anwarter course which the ski school often run in late Nov/early dec, then getting a job at the skis chool (think the course is 550 euros, but if you get the job then accomm will be sorted for you very cheaply as well - ask at the ski school for info/likelihood of jobs. As mentioned above, in resort mailbox (internet cafe on the main street) often has job offers/accommodation posted up.
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Where are the best spots for the off piste?
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Have you looked at the piste map yet? All those dotted lines are unpisted ski routes. Apart from that, well, it's the Arlberg!
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You know it makes sense.
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| clarky999 wrote: |
| Theres usually a few jobs posted on the resort website, probs better than the TO route. If you can already ski you may want to think about doing the Anwarter course which the ski school often run in late Nov/early dec, then getting a job at the skis chool (think the course is 550 euros, but if you get the job then accomm will be sorted for you very cheaply as well - ask at the ski school for info/likelihood of jobs. As mentioned above, in resort mailbox (internet cafe on the main street) often has job offers/accommodation posted up. |
does the anwarter course include a german language course? when i contacted them for work they demanded that a language course be taken before i got into the ski school.
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Otherwise you'll just go on seeing the one name:
Otherwise you'll just go on seeing the one name:
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williams223, when I did the Anwärter there back in the 90s you needed to have a basic knowledge of German at least. All the course was held in German and you needed to sit a written paper in German too. They insist on instructors speaking German for safety reasons.
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Poster: A snowHead
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The anwarter is technically in German, but I did it with rubbish (like, really) rubbish German. The trainers speak English, for the teaching module they give you a book filled with useful technical terms translated, in the written test I/we had a lot of help and were almost encouraged to copy our neighbours (really easy questions which would be a doddle in English), and were allowed to take in dictionaries. Peak Leaders (an English gap course) will be putting people trhough the same course (which is what I did - german lessons/anwarter training/ anwarter course/ 10 days guided offpiste/ month food+accomm+lift pass/ job sorted with the ski school after the course = £3250. Obviously not cheap, but it worked for me and felt like reasonable value).
I also picked up work very easily for uni holidays in Saalbach with the anwarter (my German is still rubbish, but I only get English clients so it's not a problem).
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Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
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clarky999, sounds like they've made it a bit easier for students on the language front as they need more English speaking instructors.
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Well, the person's real but it's just a made up name, see?
Well, the person's real but it's just a made up name, see?
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juliad, I think so yeah. Also the fact Peak Leaders organised the course through the ski school (who had a fair bit of influence over the trainers/etc on the anwarter), and plowed a fair bit of early season money into the school, probably made a bit of difference.
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Be aware that businesses get between 30-60 skibums per day looking for work at the beginning of the season. There is a hiring period before the the Xmas week.
Any workers not upto it i.e timekeeping, drinking get sacked on the spot.
There is anther Hiring period just after the new year where they replace all the workers who have not made the grade.
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