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Gonna be going on a budget in feb with somebody who has never skied before and likes a late lively drink or 2, have been to pas de la casa, and sauze quite sometime ago and wondered where the best place might be nowdays.
Sauze d'Oulx was once described to me as the "benidorm of skiing". That it wasn't, but thats what I'm after if get what I mean.
Any opinions would be greatly appreciated.
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Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
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2Alpes can be fairly Blackpool, if that appeals.
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Well, the person's real but it's just a made up name, see?
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paul692, I think it's got to be Austria.
I don't know what on a budget means for you but I have been to both Solden and Ischgl - they are both much more lively than anything I have seen elsewhere (including pas de la casa).
I hear good things about St Anton and Saalbach too.
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paul692, Austria for me 
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Anyway, snowHeads is much more fun if you do.
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paul692, welcome to snowheads, for apres ski the best I've found has to be St Anton, although every Austrian I've met tells me that Ischgl is even livelier. In France, Chamonix gets my vote for lively apres ski, with a good selection of bars. ADH isn't too bad either.
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David@traxvax, I agree St Anton gets the vote, although there are many others in Austria. I recall that Saas Fee was not too bad with an icebar on the main street ( 1999 ). And Zell am Zell with the Berghotel on top of the mountain at 3:30pm.
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Not been to St anton, but Solden is very lively.
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paul692, the closest I have ever been to what it sounds as though you're after is [url=http://www.deapresskihut.nl/]
De Apres Ski Hutte in Rotterdam[/url]. S*d all snow or skiing but a highly entertaining evening. You may wish to rehearse with their lyric sheet and songbook first. I mean, if it's Benidorm on skis you want - who cares about the skiing?
And if you really want to ski, there's a snowdome somewhere in Holland isn't there, not such a big country and a great train system...
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Useful guide to French resort [url=http://www.natives.co.uk/do/ecco.py/cview?codes=bars/*] bars is here [/url]
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Austria - Saalbach
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| boredsurfin wrote: |
| Useful guide to French resort [url=http://www.natives.co.uk/do/ecco.py/cview?codes=bars/*] bars is here [/url] |
St Anton isn't in France!
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My scouse mate raves about Zermatt - I'll tell you on new years eve 
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| ssnowman wrote: |
| boredsurfin wrote: |
| Useful guide to French resort [url=http://www.natives.co.uk/do/ecco.py/cview?codes=bars/*] bars is here [/url] |
St Anton isn't in France! |
are you sure 
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You know it makes sense.
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Otherwise you'll just go on seeing the one name:
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IncogSkiSno, Looks great, and the scouse bloke in question features heavily in that thread so I'll be there with someone who knows the place
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Poster: A snowHead
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Jerry, not too long to go now matey. Betty Ford awaits you
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Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
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Im going to LDA for my apres this year!
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Well, the person's real but it's just a made up name, see?
Well, the person's real but it's just a made up name, see?
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Ischgl wins hands down ... the others mentioned pale into relative insignificance.
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Austria's definately the place to go, the french just don't embrace the concept as much!
Saalbach rocks - there's a great bar at the top of the nursury slopes with live bands each night.
St Johann was also pretty cool too.
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Anyway, snowHeads is much more fun if you do.
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Anywhere the Germans & Dutch go your get good Apres Ski
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5stitches,
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Saalbach rocks - there's a great bar at the top of the nursury slopes with live bands each night.
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Pleased to hear it, I'm going to Saalbach for the 1st time in January, then back to St Anton in March
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stanton, exactly, Rotterdam!
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paul692, I loved Soll and Zell am See for Apres Ski
In Soll - great atmosphere in the stadl stade after a hard day on the slopes and an Austrian Bar at the very bottom of the slope full of mad Germans - can't remember it's name but I had lost my hearing and voice by the time we stumbled out of it. 
Zell am See - crazy daisy is pretty cool
We went one day to Saalbach - didn't get to try the apres ski but there was a great selection of bars and restaurants.
Worst apres ski - Lake Louise but it was pretty early in the season.
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Austria is famed for it's apres ski. Have a look at the following resorts:
Soll has great apres ski - a choice of live bands some nights, the Whiskey Muhle (legendary in itself) and all night drinking if you want it (members of our group regularly staggered home at sunrise!). Soll offers good value for money regarding hotels and eating and drinking.
Saalbach is a fanstastic resort and my favourtite skiing wise. Apres ski is good, especially 'straight off the slopes' apres ski but I think Soll was better for late night apres ski. Saalbach is a bit more expensive.
Zell am Zee and Mayrhofen are also pretty lively - on a par with Soll but bigger resorts. We also found Mayrhofen good value.
Kitzbuhel has great apres ski both early and late night so you can't go far wrong with this resort. The skiing isn't bad either!
As for learning to ski, well all the above would be fine. Saalbach offers the best access to the slopes - less than 5 mins to 3 lifts from the centre.
It is a 5-10 minute walk to the nursery slopes from the centre of Soll and about the same for Kitzbuhel.
Mayrhofen is the least accessible of the resorts with no skiing back to the resort itself so you rely on the main gondola. Don't let that put you off though. If you time it right you can avoid the queues and it offers great skiing.
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Another vote for Ischgl from Guvnor - particuarly the Trofana Alm, in a word, mental.....
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| Charlatanefc wrote: |
5stitches,
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Saalbach rocks - there's a great bar at the top of the nursury slopes with live bands each night.
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Pleased to hear it, I'm going to Saalbach for the 1st time in January, then back to St Anton in March |
Can I suggest Saalbach in January, and St Anton in March. Both will be rockin'
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And love to help out and answer questions and of course, read each other's snow reports.
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Solden has a lap dancers bar, doesn't it..?
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St Anton 
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You know it makes sense.
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Guvnor, I agree - The Trofana Alm is by far the most 'mental' apres venue I have been to.
The Schatzi (sp?) is also an eye-opener!
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Otherwise you'll just go on seeing the one name:
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Charlatanefc,
Ask for Maria at the KK..they'll know what you mean....!!!!!!
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Guvnor, I agree - The Trofana Alm is by far the most 'mental' apres venue I have been to.
The Schatzi (sp?) is also an eye-opener! |
the Trofana Alm is indeed pretty special
Also have recently discovered the one on the other side of town by the bridge, near the big car park with the DJ with the wigs and antlers .. that's pretty good fun aswell and has a kind of covered terrace bit to chill when you want to get away from the mayhem.
Don't know the Schatzi though .. do tell !!
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looks remarkably similar to the bar in the Hotel Elizabeth ... at least the girls do !!
think my memory might be playing tricks with me wrt hotel names and they are in fact one and the same !!
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Anyway, snowHeads is much more fun if you do.
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RichA, you are right - the Madlein is next door along.
To be honest I wasn't thinking about the hotels too much at the times I was there!
In fact, the girls work in Schatzi (in the Elizabeth Hotel) for the apres and then move on to Pacha (in the Madlein hotel) for the early hours.
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stephen bleakley, shame there's nothing like that Below Bar eh ??
I'm heading down the Forest this weekend actually ... not expecting anything like that though !!
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Charlatanefc,
I can't spoil it but if you ask for her she is normally about around 18:00 or so... and you'll probalby have to cancel any dinner plans but then that is the whole point of the KK isn't it..?
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JT, sounds like a plan
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I was to pissed to remember sauze back in 2002, However St Anton was manic. Likewise I have heard that Ichgl is "very lively indeed" .
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Anyone else met Maria..? Been there ages...1st came across her in 1991, she is a legend..surely...!!!!
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We only booked cos we thought they were nice quiet places 
