NEWS
Southern Cross offers the opportunity to hear, share and experience the great news of our Saviour, the Lord Jesus Christ. We welcome bookings from both members and non-members, including small groups. We provide husband/wife married couple, family, and shared male & shared female accommodation in 8 guest bedrooms. We have short devotions at breakfast and Bible discussions most evenings.
Staying at Southern Cross is a unique experience. We are a comfortable, affordable and friendly Christian lodge, right on the snow at Smiggin Holes (part of the Perisher snow resort) in Kosciuszko National Park. During much of the snow season you can ski/board in & out, maximising your time on‑snow.
Request Bookings through till January 2026
Southern Cross was open fully catered from Friday 27 December 2024 till Tuesday 07 January 2025. Per www.southerncrossalpinelodge.au/availability, we shall be open fully catered from Friday 11 April till Thursday 24 April 2025 inclusive, followed by our Working Bee.
There will be Easter Back To Perisher activities : Easter Eve Fun Run, Discovery Walk & Great Duck Race; and 12.30pm Easter Day Service & noon BBQ lunch at the Perisher Alpine Church.
Our catered 2025 snow season will be from at least Friday 06 June till Tuesday 07 October 2025.
Catered accommodation may sometimes be available at other times – ASK.
Self-catered accommodation is available at other times to approved small groups.
You can now submit booking request(s) for right through till January 2026.
Our BOOKING REQUEST FORM is our preferred method for you to submit your Southern Cross booking request(s). For more details click : Booking Procedures and Booking Conditions, vacancies,
www.southerncrossalpinelodge.au/rates-members, www.southerncrossalpinelodge.au/rates-nonmembers and www.southerncrossalpinelodge.au/rates-friends.
For details about Southern Cross Alpine Lodge membership, including in
our Preferential Booking System (PBS), see www.southerncrossalpinelodge.au/membership.
Southern Cross provides the following information & analysis for our members and guests, but does NOT warrant its accuracy and does NOT recommend any particular retail or rental outlet. You need to do your own careful research, including comparing various lift ticket etc options and prices.
2025 Epic Australia Passes are On Sale – Buy Before 23 April Price Increase
| 2025 Epic Australia Pass Currrent Prices | Prices scheduled to increase 23 April 2025 | |||
| Age at 7 June 2025 | Season Pass | 4 Day Any Day | 4 Day Any Day passes are new for 2025 | |
| Under 5 | $0 | na | ||
| (1) | 5 to 17 | $669 | $329 | Special pricing may apply |
| (1) | 18 to 64 | $1,179 | $565 | to add extra days to |
| (2) | 65+ | $919 | $449 | 4 Day Any Day passes |
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4 Day Any Day passes appear to be more economic than consecutive 4 Day passes, and before even allowing for their extra benefits, including Northern Hemisphere 2025/26 access, Epic Australia Season Passes appear to be more economic than 6 or 7 day passes. If you plan to ski/board every day for a week, or for more than a week, or will be age 15 by your first on‑snow day, or still age 16 or 17 on 7 June 2025, or plan to ski/board Northern Hemisphere in 2025/26, then an Epic Australia Season Pass may be best for you. If you are planning a leisurely week or less, perhaps with a rest day or two, maybe an Epic Australia 4 Day Any Day Pass would work better for you AND you could also consider a Charlotte Pass Day Trip. |
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For Epic Australia passes, child rates apply to age 17 as at 7 June 2025, whereas child rates only apply to age 14 (as at first day of pass) for day and other consecutive multi‑day passes. |
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There is also an age 70+ season pass (BUT excludes Epic Benefits) for $249 (or $468 including Ski Tube). The age 70+ pass is not subject to price increase, and may be bought at any time during the season. |
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Before purchasing Ski Tube passes, including season pass add‑ons, we suggest that you carefully read www.southerncrossalpinelodge.au/getting-here/JindabyneToSmiggins and consider the very affordable Jindabyne to Perisher bus service. |
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2025 Day & Multi-Day Lift Tickets, Hire and Lessons etc
Follow the various links from www.perisher.com.au/tickets-passes/perisher-shop to access details including prices of Perisher Day & Multi‑Day lift tickets, and then carefully compare with the above age 70+ pass, Epic Australia Season and 4 Day Any Day pass prices, as these may be more economic and more flexible.
For something different how about leaving a day free for a Day Trip to Charlotte Pass
www.charlottepass.com.au/discover/day-tripper are available again, BUT NEEDED TO BE BOOKED WELL AHEAD – 2025 prices are from $164 adult; $109 child; $130 senior; $20 Infant.
THERE ARE ALSO TUESDAY AND THURSDAY SPECIALS.
Rhythm Smiggins (across the car park from the Smiggins Hotel) give 10% discount for on‑line pre‑purchased ski/ board/ clothing rentals . Also see www.rhythmsnowsports.com.au/pages/rhythm-membership which gives members 10% discount on rental and retail purchases - otherwise, walk‑in discounts no longer apply. And there are many retailers in Sydney etc, Cooma, Berridale, Jindabyne and probably where you live, including Anaconda Stores and Aldi has a snow gear sale per www.aldi.com.au/en/special-buys/special-buys-sat-18-may. Aldi Cooma often has snow gear throughout the season, but may not have all items and all sizes.
Above are Southern Cross images in recent years; below is Perisher Front Valley on 5 October 2021 – click each photo to expand
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2025 Annual Membership Fee was $125 if paid by Wednesday 28 February 2025
Southern Cross Alpine Lodge members’ 2025 annual membership fees were due 1 January 2025,
and are $185 for existing members, discounted to $125 if paid by Wednesday 28 February 2025.
There is also a husband/wife couple discount – where a married couple are both members, then each
of their 2025 membership fees is $92.50, discounted to $62.50 each if both were paid by 28 February 2025.
If you attend a working wee, then your membership fee is waived the subsequent year.
The first year membership fee for new members in 2025 is $740 (or $370 each for husband/wife couples).
Pay your membership fee in conjunction with a summer or autumn catered booking and receive a $67 credit
towards that booking. Please contact us if you have any questions about membership fees.
Our Planned Friday 25 April 2025 Onwards Working Bee
Our next main working bee is planned from Friday 25 till approx Tuesday 29 April 2025. If you would like to volunteer for all or part of this or future working bees, please contact us. Working bees are lots of fun, help us contain our costs and so also our accommodation fees. Southern Cross members who attend a working bee will also have their next year’s membership fee waived.
ANNUAL GENERAL MEETING was held on Saturday 15 May 2024
The last Southern Cross Alpine Lodge Annual General Meeting was on Saturday 15 May 2024. Following this meeting, Southern Cross directors are remain Graham Morrison, Ann Collins, Jarrod Denny, Jeremy Freeman, Brian Gaetjens and Stewart Vella. The following were the documents for that meeting :
www.southerncrossalpinelodge.com.au/images/uploads/SCAL-AGM-Agenda-20240525.pdf
www.southerncrossalpinelodge.com.au/images/uploads/SCAL-AGM-Proxy-Form-20240525.pdf
www.southerncrossalpinelodge.com.au/images/uploads/SCAL-Directors-Report-2023.pdf
www.southerncrossalpinelodge.com.au/images/uploads/SCAL-Financial-Report-2023.pdf
www.southerncrossalpinelodge.com.au/images/uploads/SCAL-AGM-Minutes-20230513.pdf
Clicking the above links should open each document in a separate tab in your Internet browser, and we suggest you then save each document on your computer or tablet, as they are generally not as easy to read and navigate on phones. Once saved to your computer, you can then open them with your PDF Reader which is generally more flexible than reading them within your browser. Note that, although within those documents there are various cross-links, these cross-links generally open in a single (rather than separate) browser tab. Please contact us if you have any questions about our AGM or the above AGM material.
2019 lifts operated until Sunday 13 October 2019
The above pictures were taken 07 October 2019.
The above pictures were taken 07 October 2018.
e above Front Valley and Mid-Station pictures were taken 10 June 2015.
Perisher 2017 & 2018 & 2019 Snow Seasons Were All Extended
Perisher has invested heavily in snowmaking, resulting in Perisher lifts almost always opening by the June LWE or even earlier.
Great September snow snow allowed Perisher to extend 2017/8/9 lift operations until Sundays 8 October 2017, 7 October 2018
& 13 October 2019, with Southern Cross also extending its fully catered & no minimum numbers self-catered accommodation.
Snow cover was not as good in October 2020, but Perisher was the last Asutralian resort to close – on Monday 5 October.
Thank you to ALL our chefs, hosts, members and other guests who help make Southern Cross ministry such a success every year.