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 the October 2025 Long Weekend
Per www.southerncrossalpinelodge.au/availability, Southern Cross will be open fully catered from Friday 27 December 2024 till maybe Sunday 10 January 2025, and may be open catered for part of the Easter School Holidays. 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 the October 2025 Long Weekend.
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.
2025 Epic Australia Passes On Sale Now
| 2025 Epic Australia Pass Prices | Buy before the next price increases | |||
| Age at 7 June 2025 | Season Pass | 4 Day Any Day | 4 Day Any Day passes are new for 2025 | |
| Under 4 | $0 | na | ||
| (1) | 5 to 17 | $619 | $315 | Special pricing may apply |
| (1) | 18 to 64 | $1,079 | $559 | to add extra days to |
| (2) | 65+ | $839 | $435 | 4 Day Any Day passes |
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Before even allowing for their extra benefits, including Northern Hemisphere 2024/25 access, Epic Australia Season Passes are likely to be more economic than 6 or 7 day passes. |
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For Epic Australia passes, child rates apply to age 17, whereas child rates will probably only apply to age 14 for day and other consecutive multi–day passes. |
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| (2) | There will be 2025 age 70+ season passes (excludes Epic Benefits) – the 2024 price was $238 excluding Ski Tube. | |||
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Before purchasing Ski Tube passes, 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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Southern Cross provides the above & following information for our members and guests, but does not recommend any particular retail or rental outlet. You need to do your own research.
2025 Lift Tickets, Hire and Lessons etc
Perisher will announce day pass, consecutive multi–day pass and age 70+ season pass details and prices sometime in early 2025.
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.
For something different how about leaving a day free for a Day Trip to Charlotte Pass
www.charlottepass.com.au/discover/day-tripper were available again, BUT NEEDED TO BE BOOKED WELL AHEAD – 2024 prices were from $149 adult; $99 child; $119 senior. NOT MENTIONED on their website are mid-week specials – watch this space.
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 is $125 if paid by Wednesday 28 February 2025
Southern Cross Alpine Lodge members’ 2025 annual membership fees are 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 are paid by 28 February 2025.
If you attend a working bee, 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.
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.
Our Planned Tuesday 22 April 2025 Onwards Working Bee
Our next main working bee is planned from Tuesday 22 till approx Monday 26 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.
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.