Bye Bye Summer Parties – hello Winter! The top party Ski Resorts Uncovered

Summer is long gone - now we’re thinking about more holidays. The 2011 skiing period is a nice opportunity to party ins style so we look at two of the popular ski resorts for some "cool parties"!

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Top Austrian Party resorts

Home of top quality resorts like Zermatt, Mayrhofen, Hinterglemm, Kitzbuhel, Niederau, and also the legendary St Anton. Austria is second only to France in terms of popularity due to excellent snow depths annually. Offering huge skiing areas, hill runs as well as stunning powder snow, Austrian ski holiday resorts offer something interesting and different for everybody: tree-lined, snow laden Alpine towns, wonderful après skiing as well as kilometres of pine-lined ski runs. With constant cold weather, Austrian resorts tend to be a few of the very snow-sure areas within the European Union (which is well served by budget airlines) regardless of time of year.

The annual (and quite surreal) week-long Snowbombing festival in Mayrhofen adds to the party reputation of Austrian resorts - with huge international acts such as the inimitable Prodigy performing to music/party fans who like to dance on tables at 3000 feet with a beer in their hand and a fist in the air!

Quality French Ski Resorts

For ski party-people in the UK and the rest of Europe, France is the #1 last minute ski destination year in, year out. The most common skiing spaces within France would be the 3 Valleys area (which contains Courchevel, Meribel as well as Val Thorens) - as well as L'Espace Killy which connects Tignes as well as Party destinaton Val D'Isere with the more than legendary Folie Douce bar, situated literally half way up the huge mountain, and which you can literally ski into). Various other notable skiing locations within France would be the Portes du Soleil, the fairly recently established Paradiski Region that links La Plagner as well as L'ensemble des Arcs using the Espace San Bernardo.

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A browse on any luxury ski chalet and ski hotel sites shows that France has got the most coverage and rave reviews due to huge variety when it comes to major resorts. You will find various appearance factors with regard to various areas within the Alps, such as Grenoble, Lyon, as well as Geneva - situated in a great location for many French resorts.

We like to party when we ski - so naturally a vibrant aprés ski is essential and quiet resorts are DULL! What are your favourite French and Austrian Ski /party resorts, and why? Can you recommend any other essential ski-clubbers destinations?