This page is prepared for our valuable clients who have been waiting for the ski tour (or the tour including ski resort) for upcoming winter season.
Please understand that We cannot guarantee the information on this page is 100% accurate. But, we believe this information would be helpful for your budgeting and scheduling.
1. Itinerary
Following is typical itinerary for 3 days ski tour.
Day 1
08:00 Meet our driver, or guide at Seoul, or Incheon Airport
08:00 ~ 11:00 Transfer to Yongpyong Resort or, Alpensia Resort (to High One Resort, need to consider additional 30 minutes)
11:00 ~ 11:30 Ski gears & clothes rental (Optional. If you have own gears/clothes, no need to rent)
â» Your ski gears and clothes (if need) will be rented at our partner rental shop near ski resort. Their rental prices are lower than the prices of ski resort. And you don’t need to return the ski gears daily if you ski more than one day.
12:30 ~ 16:30 Skiing (need to buy lift pass unless (1) you are just beginner, (2) you just play on the snow)
Day 2
08:30 ~ 16:30 Skiing
Day 3
08:30 ~ 12:30 Skiing
13:00 Return ski gears and ski clothes
13:00 ~ 15:30 Transfer to Seoul (to Incheon Airport, need 30 minutes more)
2. Cost
Following is the price table of Yongpyong Resort (released for 2022-2023 season). We would like to explain the components of skiing with this table.
– Ski lift pass: KRW84,000 (09:00-17:00) (‘child’ is for under 13 years old)
â»Â This is major financial source of ski resort. If you want to ski, you have no choice but to buy ski lift pass. Otherwise, you cannot go up the hill wearing ski boots, where you can slide from.
Mostly, ski resorts split the lift operation hours into three parts (or four parts) as below.
09:00 ~ 13:00, 13:00 ~ 17:00, 19:00 ~ 22:00
The following rental prices are being offered for our clients. If you rent the gears inside the resort by yourself, the prices might be different with ours.
– Ski gear rental price: KRW 20,000 per day/person â»âSki gearâ is comprised of three parts; 1) ski plate, 2) ski pole, and 3) ski boots.
– Ski clothes rental: KRW 20,000 per day/person
– Ski globe: There is no ski globe for rental. (why? too cheap to rent) Normally, people would buy new ski glove at a price KRW 15,000 ~ 30,000. If you have ski gloves, just bring yours.
– Ski goggle: Sun glasses are OK, but ski goggle is better than sun glasses for a safety. You can rent this at a price of KRW5,000 ~ 10,000 per day.
– Ski lesson: If you are a beginner of ski, you had better get a ski lesson. ‘1 day ski lesson’ is comprised of 2 hours lesson in the morning, 2 hours lesson in the afternoon and your self practices in between. The price is KRW400,000 for 1 day lesson (i.e., 4 hours) up to 3 people.
â» Most ski resort prohibit an instructor teach more than 3 people. So, you have no choice but to split the trainees into sub groups if the total trainees is more than 3.
â» To increase the efficiency of ski lesson, we don’t recommend more than 2 people take a lesson together. For example, if one of trainees were beginner, your instructor will need to take care of him/her while the other skiers are waiting the instructor be ready to continue appropriate level of teaching.
If you don’t have enough time, you can take ‘Half day lesson’ for 2 hours at KRW300,000.
There is no price difference between ski instructor and snowboard instructor.
If you want to get a ski lesson, you need to let us know in advance. Then, we will arrange English speaking ski instructors among our proven-quality pool.
3. More than ski
Restaurants
Normally, there are 5 ~ 10 restaurants in ski resorts. Its prices are KRW 10,000 ~ 20,000. And you can buy some snack or food at convenience store inside the resort.
Spa
Most ski resorts have spas inside resort. There are two types of spa. One is âWater theme parkâ style, it has some rides/attractions. (e.g., http://www.peakisland.co.kr/) And the other is conventional public bath style, where you can see sauna & big bathtub.
4. FAQs regarding ski tour
What are the differences between ski resorts near Seoul and ski resorts in Gangwondo area?
From our experience, the ski resorts near Seoul have characteristics as below.
– More people, so more time to wait ski lift…long queue!
– Less snow than ski resorts in Gangwondo province.
– Due to geographical reason, ski season the resorts nearby Seoul begins in the beginning of December. Whereas, ski resorts in Gangwon-do open their slopes in the end of November. But, we recommend you ski two weeks later than their opening date. (i.e., not too cold to keep snow, and not enough snowing)
Why a clerk at Greenpia Condo doesn’t know my name as a booking guest?
Please understand that we are providing rooms under our private company name, not under your name name.
Because the condominiums (Greenpia, Villa, and Tower Condo) at Yongpyong are the private owned membership accommodation (I.e., time sharing), we are offering rooms with our 16 units of memberships.
Why do you stress on the number of trainees for ski instruction?
– Ski instruction is comprised of 1) morning session for 2h and 2) afternoon session for 2h. (or, afternoon for 2 hours, night session for 2 hours). This 4 hours’ instruction a day is widely accepted ski instruction length. And this is 50% of total length of ski lift operation hour.
– Most our instructors are free-lancers and we have been cooperating with 8 proven instructors who have been teaching at Yongyong and Alpensia.
– We recommend max. 3 people for a group. If more than 3 people, the efficiency would be dropped. We saw many group tours who are attending ski instruction by the guide (or, at least not-professional instructors) at Yongpyong, or Alpensia Resort. Most cases, more than 10 people formed a groupâŠ.yes, this is common situation for group ski tours business. Actually, there is no problem even though more than 4 people (let’s say 8-10 people) join a group. But, because we are focusing on the private tour, we have no choice but to comment on ‘efficiency’. Otherwise, you might not get a result just after repeating standing-up and falling-down.
Do we need to make reservation in advance for the ski lesson?
– This is the matter of the assurance.
Even though you request to include ski instructor at the last minutes, we can assign EN speaking instructor.
But, probably, he/she will be outsourced, not from our regular members who have been serving to our clientsâŠbecause our qualified & proven (quality) instructors got several reservation already.
Why do you prefer Yongpyong Resort to Alpensia Resort?
– This is not our personal preference, but the preference by most Korean people. The reason why Alpensia Resort is being popular is…they are selling the rooms through online booking site. But, Yongpyong cannot sell the rooms through online because most of their rooms are belong to private. (i.e., time-sharing membership)
– Yongpyong Resort has more number of slopes and the most slope are higher than Alpensia. Absolutely, the quality of snow (this is related with the maintenance) at Yongpyong Resort is better than Alpensia Resort. Roughly speaking Yongpyong Resort is 5 times bigger than Alpensia Resort.
– But, the weak point of Yongpyong is the accommodation. Even though there are several grade of accommodation at Yongpyong, the quality of accommodation (except for expensive private condominium,or chalet) is lower than Alpensia.
– In Alpensia Resort, there are three levels/types of accommodation.
 there are three levels/types of accommodation.
Holiday Inn Resort (4*Â hotel)
Intercontinental Resort (3.5* residence hotel)
– In Yongpyong Resort,  there are three levels/types of accommodation.
Dragon Valley hotel (4* hotel, but bit old and small)
Greenpia Condo (3* residence hotel, 25Type Room (1 bedroom+1 living room+1 restroom), or 38 Type Room (2 bedrooms+1 living room + 2 restrooms)
Villa Condo (3* residence hotel)
Tower Condo (3* residence hotel, but only studio type)
Just for your information, we uploaded the videos of the rooms at Yongpyong Resort.
(One queen size bed will be prepared in 25, or 38Type Room at Greenpia Condo)
18Type Room at Tower Condo, Yongpyong Resort
25Type Room at Greenpia Condo, Yongpyong Resort
38Type Room at Greenpia Condo, Yongpyong Resort
Last updated: Dec/10/2017