We’ve heard about dishwashers being paid $50 an hour; some even want $90. Now one of the country’s most luxurious resorts (try $3000 a night for two) is considering paying the airfares of trained New Zealand hospitality staff to lure them across the ditch.
Emirates One&Only Wolgan Valley reopened to Greater Sydney at the beginning of last month, and occupancy is running at a healthy 80 per cent through summer for the resort’s 40 villas, located on the edge of the Blue Mountains in NSW.
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Fiona Carruthers has written and edited travel for the Financial Review for almost a decade. She has held senior roles with ABC Radio National, Deutsche Welle Radio, TIME and The Australian, and was deputy editor of Traveller. Email Fiona at fcarruthers@afr.com
