summarization of our time in st anton

its easy to see why st anton gets such a great name it certainly is a fantastic place , the varied slopes in both distances and technical enjoyment were really good , if there was a complaint to be made it would be that its definately not a place to learn to ski , we loved the slopes the chairfts gondolas and cable cars were all good ceratin ones at certain times became a bit busy, but in general you could make your way over the valleys really quickly , the crystal ski app we had downloaded to use would have been a very handy tool had we chosen to use it more , the features on this app were great giving you directions from where you were to were you wanted to go with estimated times friend finders and handy tips , we just didnt use it enough we were too busy checking the map and moving ,

    the chalet was really good and even though we paid a fair bit more this year than we normally would to go catered chalet through crystal . it was worth it the food was lovely and I dont think we would have been able to find the time to go shopping and do our own cooking which would have put the costs up to what we paid crystal anyway ,the view from our balcony was stunning and the rest of the hotel facilities were also nice we just never had enough time in the chalet to take advantage , there was two other guests that had broken bones which meant they spent a lot of time in the chalet and they were happy with it ,
          the apres ski was way better than we thought it was going to be and we thought it was going to be good ! from 15:30 to 20:00 the apres bars on or near the pistes are proper jumping with loud music and people on tables , theres at least 8 main apres ski bars dotted around st antons pistes and they are all really good the best two in my opinion being krazy kangaroo and our personal favourite the mooserwirt but we didnt sample the apres in at least 4 so we can only say it was good enough in the ones we visited to make you not needing to visit the others , the hype about the apres ski in st anton i had read about in previous years was true , i had previously thought you couldnt beat the apres in val Thoren or val deser ive now been to around 11 different ski resorts and st anton has by far the best apres ski,
       after dinner at nights the pleasant walk into town had two decent bars to stop of at before you hit the main street of bars and restaurants these bars would be good if we werent normally so tired from our days skiing and apres ski beers we generally found a corner in the busy bars or tried to find a quiet bar to sit and have a chat over a decent pint , the pints were expensive generally over 6euros a beer but we knew they would be before we left , the main town has plenty good bars and nightlife if you have the energy left and can be sure to get up in the morning for skiing
        our last morning we had to sit for ages after checkout before the airport transfer bus, but there wasnt much conversation we all lazed trying to recover from too many beers and a hard weeks skiing .when we eventually got on the bus there was atunnel blocked on the road and we sat for about an hour waiting in a traffic que , there was peopel nearly late for their flights that the crystal reps rushed through its at times like that you are glad you didnt book easy jet , we had a sandwich and a medicinal beer at the airport before going through security and i bumped into russel that works beside me , on our flight over once we landed at innsbruk we bumped into gerry fitzpatrick a black bull regular, he was heading to mayerhofen and sure enough was on our flight home also, so we had a good chat with him about mayerhofen , its been about 8 year since me cammy and ali were there so its hard to remember all the places , I never kept a blog then so i couldnt even look that up to remember stuff , it had been a fantastic weeks holiday there was an hours delay for some unknown reason at baggage collection and that was about the only complaint i could make of the week ,that and i couldnt fill my water botte while we waited on the luggage as there was no cold water tap, roll on next year