Are you from Canada originally? I can give you a lot of examples as to why us Aussies love Whistler, and I think the good outweighs the bad by far. I like to share both sides on here just so that people come here feeling prepared and confident so that they have a good season 😊 I’m curious about your view on it though! how do you see Whistler and Banff?

@ I live in the mountains whistler and Banff are my back yards lol

A lot of aussies have never seen snow before coming here. I hadn’t seen snow for my first 27 years of life, never been on a mountain, never even really seen mountains like this. So it’s very magical here for us.

Hell yeah! So exciting! I wish you all the best for your adventures here. Feel free to reach out if you need anything :)

He has such an eye for finding gear in op shops!! His collection is wild 😂😂

@@caitlinjanet_ I honestly would have assumed he was buying them online, because of the many hours I've wasted finding nothing at op shops haha. Granted, US and Canadian op shops hit differently compared to isolated Australia.

Hey! That’s so awesome that you’re a mountaineer. Good luck with your skiing journey. Whistler is such a great place people come from all over the world you’d love it!

hey Laura!! sorry I never got back to you! I have a few videos on this but definitely get yourself a good gore tex jacket and some good shoes and everything else will come together :) hope your first days in whissy have been a treat! Message me if you need anything :)

thank you for watching! appreciate you!

@@caitlinjanet_ just a quick question - not sure if you’d be able to remember but hoping i could get an idea for the exact date that you were required to be in whistler to secure staff housing and bring training for your ski season employment? i’ve heard early november is generally a rough guide but i kind of want to know exact timings for when at the latest you need to be in whistler. thanks for your help!

⁠@@joshtonkin7684hey! sorry do you mean as in to organise it or have you already been approved for it? If you mean to secure staff housing - you may find it very hard if you wait until November, a lot are filling up already! If you have already been approved, usually you can get into your house a week before your start date, and then training starts in the weeks before open day which is 22nd Nov, but this will vary based on your job! Feel free to reach out privately on my insta if you have more q!! @caitlinjanet_

Hey! Congrats on getting housing! I’ve been told there is a gym set up in building 5, but it’s minimal (treadmill and dumbbells). We do have 2 great gyms in town, the Core and Meadow Park Sports Centre. But I probably wouldn’t organise a gym pass till you’ve been here a little. You may find you don’t need gym if you’re riding every day :) let me know if you have any other q’s!

Sorry I should be more clear - if you have a job that allows for riding multiple days! 🙏🏽 which hopefully you do!

@@caitlinjanet_ Thank you, I am buzzing and just wanna get out there now! Fingers crossed my job does let me get up the slopes often! Hopefully will find out soon!

hey!! if you haven’t got anything yet definitely get them in Canada :) if your job provides discount (working for the mountain) wait till you get to Whistler :) I just explored this Q deeper in my latest q&a I just posted, just go to 3.48 and I start talking about it :)

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@@caitlinjanet_ thanks sm! your vids have been so helpful :)

I didn’t go through TWHC (The Working Holiday Club) because I wanted to save the $$ and I had already done the visa myself. However it’s a great option if you’re not feeling confident in the visa process and it’s a good way to meet people in the beginning. But if you want to save yourself some money, it’s definitely easy to do on your own if you do lots of research to get familiar with the systems and terminology :) always here to help if you have any specific q’s! Thanks for watching!

No I’m on a visa called IEC (International Experience Canada) so it’s a working visa not a student visa :)

I went with Best Quote IEC insurance and I pay around $1-2K per 2 years. I explain more about it in my recent video about moving to Canada if that helps :)

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Hey! I use best quote IEC insurance. It was the cheapest option for me :) just make sure you do high coverage, I share more in recent video I’ll tag after this!

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@@caitlinjanet_ thank you

I was told I had a staff housing spot when I got my job offer in July, but then didn’t apply till I think late September. If you are on the waitlist, we usually see a big dip in people around Dec-Jan and that’s when a lot of people end up getting a house. Message me on insta if you want me to send some advice for your specific situation.

I’m not sure what the exact rules are, but I would advise against it only because the units aren’t really big enough to have another person stay, plus you’ll have 3 other roommates living there too. But you can definitely have people over to hang out :)

I don’t know too much unfortunately, my experience has been only in ski towns so it’s a little different. I know that organising a house can be the hardest part, so just making sure you have plenty of savings to support yourself as your getting set up would be my main advice!

Winter jobs usually go live between July-Sep but they continue through winter. We open for winter season in November. There’s always plenty of jobs going, it’s housing that’s a little trickier to find! Hope that helps :)

@@caitlinjanet_ Can you tell me a good way and website or service to apply to those jobs?

Haha that’s awesome! I feel like almost all I’ve seen has been Australia and UK! 😂

Wow thats quite expensive for staff housing! Is that just because it’s so limited or?

@caitlinjanet_ every area is allowed a number of staff housing but of cause not everyone who works for the resort gets staff housing. Maybe because its on the actual mountain.

Hey! It’s hard to say for sure because I don’t know much about TWHC and whether they can help with housing or not. But definitely they should start to tell you soon I believe! Also usually beds do open up along the season too.

I’m in the exact same boat, waiting for the details to get sent through to I can apply for housing

Hello, thanks for such a detailed video. Do managers get a different unit? I am particularly asking for a Assistant Manager and whether they should expect a roommate or not! Thank you!!

Hey! I go with Best Quote IEC insurance they’re really good and easy to use. For mine I think I did $200,000 with $0 excess which cost us about $1500 each (this was 2 years ago). If you want to risk it and spend less, do a higher excess but keep the coverage high. Atleast $100,000 in case of a hospital stay, bills can add up very fast! And make sure you get the winter sports coverage, definitely needed! I broke my wrist my first winter and it cost me almost 3K which I got back thankfully.

Hey! Great Q, I’m not sure actually, might be worth searching on the IEC Facebook group. I do know a lot of people that use Wise and other options like that, but I still think it’s handy having the Canadian bank account in case for some reason your other card doesn’t work. We are with CIBC and pay $0 fees for the first 2 years. We also have a Credit Card now which is handy because sometimes other cards don’t work for some places (like the usa, or certain restaurants) and for things (hotels sometimes only accept CC, renting cars, big payments like flights when your debit has a limit). Hope that helps!

Hey! Great Q, I’m actually in the process of finding that out myself for a friend, so once I hear I can pass the message on.

In the mean time, you could try contacting whoever you’ve been emailing for work, or see if you can find a contact for housing, but we usually do everything on Direct Connect now which is a employee service.

No worries, that’s why I’m here! Glad that I’ve been able to help your anxiety :) are you coming to Whistler this winter?

I am applying there and a few other places to see who responds, but I will use your referral code for sure! 🙂

Hey! That’s awesome that you’re planning on coming over. There is The Working Holiday Club who are a great company for helping you with your visa and getting a job. However my year they couldn’t guarantee me housing and I had already done my visa alone so didn’t feel I needed to spend my money on a company. It is scarier but definitely can be done as long as you spend your time now researching as much as possible so that you feel more confident. I watched a lot of YT, and I also spent a lot of time on the IEC Facebook group reading about everyone’s experience.

Work opportunities around Vancouver? I live in Weirton WV near Pittsburgh. My sister used to work and live in Seattle /Vancouver

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Yay congrats!! So exciting!! Not long now ❤

Hey! Congrats on making the move! I know it can seem daunting trying to find work and housing.. if you’re not having luck with job postings, I would recommend reaching out to businesses directly by email and getting in touch there. Vail Resorts own the mountain so definitely apply for jobs via their website. It depends what kind of job you’re after.. feel free to send me a direct message on Instagram and I can help further with specifics depending on what work you’re after!

@@caitlinjanet_ thank you very much for your response caitlin only just saw this 🤣

Hey! Great Q! Definitely make sure you get your visa first, it’s a much longer process and some countries only open for visas certain times of the year! The visa can take a few months to get approved. I just talked about this in my recent q&a if you want more details! And then for work it’s pretty easy to keep working from winter to summer or to get a year round position if you have a qualification (trade, management, etc).

Hey! Thanks for the love! Jobs for ski season should be going live now! Whistler jobs are definitely live on their website so make sure you start having a look and applying :) housing fills up fast!

@@caitlinjanet_ will do! Thanks

@@orimazya7729have u heard anything back yet?

No worries! Thanks for watching! Honestly Winter to Summer is fairly easy, they keep almost everyone on depending on how much retention there is. But if you’re a good worker and planning to stay you should have no troubles! Much easier to stay here once you’re here :)

@@caitlinjanet_ thankyou! Could you also recommend a way that will give me the best chance at finding employment for end of November this year, I have my iec ready to go, just have been struggling to find work without going through someone like the working holiday club. Thankyou so much!