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Friendly reliable service, you won’t regret booking your qualifications through these guys!

Found Wintersport company to be the best value around when researching. Very approachable always availalable to answer any questions. Very flexible to our requirements . Honest and not doing the hard sell. Feels like they are always ther for you. Highly recommend them.

Paul
Gloucestershire.

Rik and the rest of the team have been extremely helpful, informative and friendly since I have signed up for the course :) I have enjoyed the process so far and am very excited to head out to Canada.

Rik and the team have worked tirelessly on behalf of my son and myself to get through a very tough year.
Unfortunately we didn’t get away, but all their hard work has paid off and we are signed up for next year.
Great company with fantastic staff
Thank you all so much
Douglas and Ben

I have spoke to multiple companies before finding Rik and the team, they out shine all of them. They have provided an excellent service throughout, very professional and i cannot wait to begin my journey in Sun Peaks. If anyone is looking to do a skiing course the Winter Sports Company are the best out there. They are like a Messi or Ronaldo in this game, top class!

When I thought I wanted to do a ski internship I was given a recommendation to use The Winter Sports Company by a previous customer. What a life saver that was! There are a number of people offering ski internships, knowing which one to choose is a minefield, but the minute we started talking to The Winter Sports Company it all fell into place and we knew we were dealing with the right people. At only 18 it's all a bit daunting but Rik and his team are easy to talk to (anytime) and they really know their stuff. My internship hasn't started yet, but I am super confident that I am going to a great resort and will have the back up of Rik and the team at all times - and my parents are really pleased to know it's a proper company and I'll be in safe hands!! Can't wait to get out there.

I am currently enrolling into the ski instructor internship with the winter sports company and so far my experience with them has been incredible. Despite what's happening with the current covid 19 pandemic Rik has been incredibly accomodating and helpful throughout the whole journey, even when we found out that we would not be able to proceed for the 2020/21 season due to restrictions he was ever so helpful and provided an abundance of options to help me continue on to proceed with what worked best for me. I would recommend the winter sports company to anyone who is looking at doing any instructor courses in the future.

Due to COVID it has been a difficult task to get anything planned however Winter Sports has been so helpful to ease the process and describe fully everything that was happening. Weekly updates with the current situation and plenty if information. The website has been great to find any other information that I might need and easy to navigate.
I chose Winter sports as I’ve heard so many great things about them and I agree with them all.

Couldn’t do enough to explain the process, so no hesitation in booking.

Really helpful and engaging correspondence from the HR team. I chose this company out of the other large scale instructor company’s operating in Canada because they are a smaller scale and therefore more caring and attentive of their customers needs and aspirations.

You get the same level of qualifications and training, but on a much more personal and friendly level.
Highly advise to picking this small scale business over the other huge profit driven company’s.

After having the call with Rik at The Winter Sports Company it was an easy decision for me to commit to the CSIA Level1/2 Ski Instructor course. Delightfully amiable and professional all the nessasary information regarding the course, resorts, restaurants, nightlife ect. was expressed to me in a comprehensive/concise fashion, even happy to advise me on potential future avenues in the industry. I'm very impressed with the (slick) high standard of service these guys provide and will certainly not hesitate recommending The Winter Sports Company to anyone. Looking forward to some good times ahead.. :)

I found out about The Winter Sports Company via social media and haven't looked elsewhere since!

I was originally booked for the 20/21 season on a CSIA Ski Instructor Level 1 and 2, 11 week Course, in Sun Peaks, Canada. Sadly, due to the pandemic, my course was cancelled, but Rik very promptly issued me with a refund. I'm now booked for the 21/22 season and am keeping all fingers and toes crossed.

Rik, and The Winter Sports Company, have been fantastic from day one. Great communication, very friendly, helpful and totally professional. I would definitely recommend them to anyone considering a course and I cannot wait to hit the slopes!

Thank you Rik and team!

I have been incredibly impressed with The Wintersports Company. I was put onto the course by a friend but stuck around because it seemed the most comprehensive from personal research. I have been impressed with how responsive and helpful Rik has been, so quick to answer my numerous questions and happy to pick up the phone and talk through more complex answers. I have been amazed with their ability to remain professional whilst also being friendly and passionate about their courses. I cannot wait to head out to Canada with them and am confident I will have a once in a lifetime experience. Definitely recommend The Wintersports Company and could not be happier with my choice to go with them! - Thank you

At the start, I was overwhelmed by how many options there are for ski internships online. However, after speaking to Rik, I knew that the Winter Sport Company was the right one to go with. Rik was so helpful and he explained everything so well and gave me all the time I needed to make the decision as well as answering all of my questions. I'm so excited about this opportunity and I am confident that Rik will help me if Covid disrupts my plans later this year.

I joined Winter Sports in the winter 2018/2019 season for the 18 week Ski Instructor Course in Sun Peaks, working through my level 1, 2 and 3 training and exams. I don’t think the review will ever do justice to my experience but I will give it a go!

I’ve been an active skier since I was 11 but I had never heard of Sun Peaks before Winter Sports, if I had I would have definitely been there sooner! Any quick google search will tell you there is 3 mountains of 4270 acres boasting 138 trails and 13 lifts, but what that means in real terms is no lift queues so much more actual ski time, different runs and routes over the whole 18 weeks and, even on the busy days, so much space on the slopes to ski. I was always your typical groomed run skier, but when there is so many off piste tree, powder and mogul runs that no matter what your level at the beginning, no one will be only skiing groomed tracks by the end.

The whole process with Winter Sports was so smooth and comfortable, as soon as I got through security at Heathrow airport I forgot that I was nervous to start this 4 month adventure. We met as a group, with our course conductor Rob, at Heathrow on the day we departed and it was arranged for us all to meet in a bar at Heathrow so we could start getting to know each other. The Hearthstone is one of the biggest hotels in the resort and we had almost a whole floor to ourselves. The rooms are huge, we regularly had 15-20 of us in a room watching movies (free to use in reception), the bathrooms had plenty of space for 3 girls to lay out all their toiletries, the heating in the room was enough for us to turn the room into a sauna if we wanted and the gym and hot tubs were always available to use. The only tiny issue we had with 3 girls sharing a room, there wasn’t a huge amount of wardrobe space so be prepared to keep some stuff folded under the bed.

As my room mates have travelled from other parts of the world I was the last to arrive and, due to jet lag, we were asleep at 8pm and up at 5am for hours of getting to know each other before heading out with the group to explore the Sun Peaks village. Again a quick google search will give you the stats but in real terms what that means is nothing is more than a 5 minute walk away, including so many different ski shops with every brand you’ve ever heard of, a range of restaurants, cafes and bars, a supermarket, a dessert shop and liquor store plus a range of other quirky shops, you could never be bored exploring this village. After Rob gave us a tour of the village and we picked up our lift passes, none of us could wait any longer and we all got ready to get on the slopes as quick as we could. After a few lift rides together, many falls and some of my favourite group pictures, we were really settling in as a group together.

We had a buffet breakfast served to us every morning at the Cahilty, thankfully I have never been much of a morning person otherwise my salopettes would not have fit by the end of the trip! Having such small learning groups meant we got so much one on one attention and help from our instructors which was so needed, after 16 years of skiing I thought I knew how to do it but wow was I wrong! Having some of the best instructors in the world (the lowest level teacher we had was a level 3 working towards their level 4) meant they were able to completely undo and redo our skiing in a matter of weeks. Not only has my skiing improved dramatically, I can also understand and tell you why it’s improved!

A typical day was an 8am start, a buffet breakfast, ski school at 9.30, lunch at 12, ski school again at 1, back in the room by 4, free time until 6/7ish dependant on dinner timings then social/homework time. The dinners were organised by Rob, we rotated in groups of 6 (the groups were also rotated every week) across 5 different restaurants. I am one of the fussiest easters you’ll ever meet so the food was a stress for me before I left the UK, but I was silly to ever be worried. We got to know some of the staff in the restaurants too so after a couple weeks, they remembered that one of our group was coeliac so they always sorted dinner out with him before he arrived at whichever restaurant he dined at.

I could spend all day writing about my experience with Winter Sports as it was truly the best few months of my life. Sun Peaks and the Winter Sports course are second to none in what they offer, I became a better skier, skied some of the best mountains and terrain, trained with some of the best coaches the CSIA has to offer, made some great new friends, some of whom I still see 2 years on, and made some amazing memories. I can’t thank Winter Sports and especially Rob enough for making my season so enjoyable. If you have any doubts about joining one of these courses trust me, all those doubts will disappear as soon as you’ve skied that first slope!

Great customer service, shame that the global pandemic meant all plans got cancelled for this year

After doing lots of research to find the best ski internship for my gap year, I chose Wintersports company. I was particularly impressed by how friendly and informative Rik was. Sadly due to covid, the internship had to be cancelled. However, I was kept well informed about the other options which were still available and the staff couldn’t have been more helpful. If I ever have the chance to do a ski season in the future I would definitely do it with Wintersports company.

Rik has been incredibly helpful answering my very long list of questions prior to my son’s booking for next season in New Zealand.
I can’t thank him enough.

After a few calls to different companies and people about the courses they offer, I couldn't help but settle with Winter Sports company. Rik was exceptional at giving advice and keeping me informed, he was fun and easy to chat with. He done everything he could to help me out with my instructorship, we had a few set backs due to covid-19 but I ended up settling for their full season snowboard internship in Canada 2021. I can't wait for next year and I'm thankful for the amount of help provided by the Winter Sports company with setting this up.