Out of curiosity what are some big ski/snowboard operators?
Ski World
Thomson
Crystal
Mark Warner
First choice - theres loads.
How long is a season there?
seasons usually starts around the 1st week of December and end around the 4th week of April, depends on the resorts snow record.
Wroclaw Boy:
Cant think of many worse resorts to do a season than Zakopane to be honest
Why?
In terms of Snowboarding area its small, you could board the entire resort in a few days. Some of the big french resorts take weeks to see everything, the three valleys for example. I hear the cues are a nightmare. Zakopane is a city near the mountains where you can snowboard if you want, its not a ski/snowboard resort as such. Unless youre really lucky you will have a massive walk or bus ride every morning just to get up the mountain. In the Alps you can sometimes board right to your front door, unstrap then walk in.
Zakopane would hold too many distractions for me, i was always interested in the Snowboarding mainly, you simply wont get better than the big Alp resorts. When youre spending a lot of time on the mountain the pistes and lift systems become very important, Zakopane simply does not have them in abundance.
I wasn't particularly thinking about working but rather saving and going for an extended holiday. I was thinking about taking £1k per month spent which would hopefully be enough?!?
Thats up to you, personally i would get bored of that plus when i did my seasons i didnt have any money so it worked out well. When you work at a hotel or something you have lots of friends to go boarding with, nothing like having a few buddies all shite hot at snowboarding to go ripping up the mountain with.