Dear Members
Ready Set Go
Get your snow dance on as the season officially opens this weekend. The lodges are all spick and span with more than 1000 work hours contributed by Members at this year’s work parties across our three lodges. Thank you everyone, you make our club great!
The resorts have all started to make snow and there are a few upgrades across the lodges to check out. At Falls Creek you’ll find fully refurbished bathrooms in the lodge and flats, Hotham has new mattresses and stoves (assuming all goes well this weekend) and Buller has a number of new appliances and maybe even an upgraded food offer.
Bookings
There is still plenty of availability across all lodges including rarities such as the last week in August. An old adage of our club is that until it snows, bookings are based on the recollection of the previous season, which clearly wasn’t great! Just remember, once the snow dance kicks in, it will be the quick or the disappointed!
A couple of things to note for 2024:
- we’re offering a substantially discounted mid-week rate at Buller of $66 per night compared with up to $91 at other lodges. (except for School Holidays and interschools). Why not Work From Snow or take a Snowie?
- the cancellation policy at all lodges for the 14 to7 day period has been tightened from an 80% refund to a 50% refund but remains the same for other periods. · www.usc.com.au is your go-to for all information about the Club and the booking rules while Clubman www.clubman/app is the only place to make bookings.
Booking Office and Lodge Managers
We’re pleased to welcome back Mim as our booking officer for 2024 together with our lodge managers, Sally (and Cha) at Buller and Liz at Falls Creek. Please make them welcome, be patient, treat everyone with respect and ensure you contribute to the smooth operation of the Club by getting the jobs done in a timely manner before going home.
Porepunkah House
We’ve handed back Porepunkah House with many members enjoying the house and surrounding activities. There are still opportunities to be explored in this space going forward but well done Kate for sticking with it to the end.
Social
We’ve had the warm up with the President’s Lunch, Pre-Season Social and Young Members Function. Our next big social event, other than the race weekends in August at Buller and Falls Creek, will be the Sunday Session at RSYLTC on 20 October 2024, please save the date.
USC Committee