Continued from Part 1
The bars in Le Lac were pretty limited to Loop bar, although I heard that there were also some great restaurants in the village. Val Claret dominated there, with Saloon and DropZone offering student friendly prices and plenty of others happy to host us for a few hours. Some dishing out the shooters and others providing some cringe-worthy karaoke opportunities. Every night ended of course in either Club Melting or Blue Girl, both fairly typical resort clubs, with cheesy house and sleazy guys, but a good atmosphere when packed out with young brits.
The RAU lot were pretty mellow, with a lot of them enjoying the slope-side restaurants more than the late night bars, these guys could afford to splash a bit of cash so weren’t put off drinking at the Folie, but there were only a few each night that made it past the bars and onto the clubs. Their fierce independance also made it tricky to keep a large group together, often leaving two half empty bars, rather than one nice busy one.
The BUSC warm up week was a little odd, with so many newbie reps in resort to train, and so much to prepare for the next week we had very sporadic work and very few actual customers to look after. It meant getting plenty of snow time in, although the weather started to close in which caused a couple of no ride days. It was nice to check out the various BRITS events going on as well, including the jam style Bangers and Cash rail comp, and there really were some bangers going down.
The final week was the Main Event, big ticketed parties every night and lots of competitions each day. Unfortunately the weather didn’t improve much, so a lot of the comps were cancelled, but all of the evening plans went ahead, including a party on the glacier, a forest rave and the Wet Mess pool party. These were sandwiched between the opening and closing ceremonies, the former a chilled event out in the snow, and the latter a huge club built inside the sports centre with big name DJs. With transfers, acts, security and so much more to organise the BUSC guys did an amazing job to keep everything going, with all the evening event going off with barely a hitch (a few delays never hurt anyone) Certainly the reaction from each event was very positive and it was great to be a part of it all.
I’d be happy to recommend Tignes as a resort, and Main Event as a package to any student, and while VC might not suit everyone, Le Lac has great facilities for families as well. Overall a pretty awesome place for a week long party.
Benjamin Duff
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