4.4457 reviews
€140
Mount Buller Alpine Central
Very good · 457 reviews
Why we like it
Strong value for Mt Buller, with a high guest rating that punches above its nightly price.
≈ 700 m to the slopesMid-range
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€140/ night
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Best family ski resorts in Australia
A great family resort is more than a kids' club: it wants gentle, wide runs, genuine beginner terrain, and a village that is safe to walk around, ideally car-free or ski-in/ski-out. These 3 resorts in Australia score highest on exactly that, each with slope-side hotels you can compare in one click.
The top family pick in this list is Mt Buller, in Australian Alps: gentle terrain, easy lift-served beginner zones and a base that keeps small skiers close to the door.
The resorts, ranked for families
Resorts the family-ski press consistently recommends lead the list (marked ★), then our own terrain score for gentle, kid-friendly skiing.
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Mt Buller
64% easy pistesGentle slopesReal beginner runsSki-in/ski-outFamily favourite
Mt Buller is the closest major resort to Melbourne, just three hours up the Hume and Maroondah Highway. A pedestrian village hangs off the cliffside above the Delatite Valley, with 22 lifts, 80 km of pistes and the most piste kilometres of any Australian resort.
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Falls Creek
62% easy pistesGentle slopesReal beginner runsSki-in/ski-outFamily favourite
Falls Creek is the only Victorian resort with a car-free pedestrian village, the kind of place where snowcats deliver your bags to ski-in lodges at the door. Ninety trails roll across a rounded high plateau in the Victorian Alps, with deep Nordic roots and the Mt McKay backcountry rising behind.
4.5181 reviews
€125
Elk at Falls
Very good · 181 reviews
Why we like it
Moments from the lifts in Falls Creek, so you can ski back to the door and skip the morning queues.
≈ 100 m to the slopesMid-range
From
€125/ night
3
Perisher
65% easy pistesGentle slopesReal beginner runsFamily favourite
Perisher sprawls across four linked villages in Kosciuszko National Park, the largest ski resort in the Southern Hemisphere by lift count. Forty-seven lifts thread runs through ghostly snow gum forests, six hours from Sydney, two from Canberra. Modest peaks, big footprint, unmistakably Australian.
4.45.8k reviews
€150
Perisher Ski Resort
Very good · 5.8k reviews
Why we like it
Strong value for Perisher, with a high guest rating that punches above its nightly price.
≈ 450 m to the slopesMid-range
From
€150/ night
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Family skiing questions
Which is the best family ski resort in Australia?+
Mt Buller, in Australian Alps, tops our family ranking here: 64% of its pistes are green or blue, with genuine beginner terrain and a convenient base.
What makes a resort good for young children?+
Wide, gentle runs to build confidence, lift-served beginner areas, short transfers, and a safe, ideally car-free or ski-in/ski-out base so tired little legs never walk far. We weight our ranking towards exactly these.
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