Skiing: Apres ski Val Thorens compared to Austira

[Lars]

Hello,

I have been in Val Thorens a few times, but that was about 7-8 years ago.
Has there changed anything about the apres ski?

I now am used to Austria's apres ski and especially Saalbach/St
Anton/Ischgl so compared to them, how's the apres ski in Val Thorens now?
Is it still mainly lively at night and not in the afternoon?

[@elgy(nati-spam).org.uk]

> On Wed, 24 Oct 2007 18:18:32 +0200, Lars <Lars@geen.ch> wrote:
>
>
>>Hello,
>>
>>I have been in Val Thorens a few times, but that was about 7-8 years ago.
>>Has there changed anything about the apres ski?
>>
>>I now am used to Austria's apres ski and especially Saalbach/St
>>Anton/Ischgl so compared to them, how's the apres ski in Val Thorens now?
>>Is it still mainly lively at night and not in the afternoon?
>
>
> Yes. You don't really get the 4pm onwards on-the-hill apres-ski
> anywhere in France; the french just don't go in for that sort of thing
> and the foreigners mostly want to get back into town before hitting
> the bars. There's a fairly decent crack available in VT from early
> evening, in (for instance) the Frog & Rosbif and a couple of other
> bars at the top level, but mostly, as you suggest, it's more about
> night-life.
>
Um! Late one afternoon last spring I loitered in the Arpette on the
slopes in Les Arcs waiting for the pistes to clear for one final blast.
We were moved on by the pistuers at about 18:30. They clearly do not
relish the thought of drunks falling down the piste unsupervised.

Did someone not kill themselves last year in St. Anton coming down
intoxicatd from the Krazy Kangaroo or similar.

John