Where to find more après-ski treats

Best après-ski treat: the wet room for mud, salt and seaweed body treatments; $140 (£98) an hour each.

Amanresorts (00 800 22 552626).

Best après-ski treat: shiatsu back massage - hands, hot stones and barefoot pressure (with the therapist hanging from ceiling bars); $150 (£105) for 75 minutes.

Hyatt Hotels (0845 888 1234).

Almost unheard of for a chalet operator, luxury outfit Scott Dunn offers clients a mobile massage and beauty therapy service to your door at its Courchevel 1850 properties, booked through resort managers. Appointments between 4pm and 8.30pm - perfect.

Best après-ski treat: relaxing Swedish massage for aches and pains; €40 (£24) an hour.

Scott Dunn (020 8682 5050).

With rustic decoration based on the five elements - water, fire, stone, wood, earth - La Fèrmes de Beauté spa at Megève's Les Fèrmes de Marie is among the best in the Alps: 16 antique-woodlined cabins deliver extensive après (and avant) ski treatments, incorporating products derived from mountain plants: jet showers, hydrotherapy, self-heating mud, algae packs, relaxing massage, shiatsu, reflexology and lymphatic drainage.

Best après-ski treat: hot stone therapy newly imported from the US; €99 (£60) for 90 minutes.

Les Fèrmes de Marie (00 33 04 50 930310).

Beside the busy Bellecote slope in fashionable Courchevel 1850, Le Mélézin, is the place all skiers dream of visiting: its vaulted designer hammam is clad in Capri Island stone. Whirlpool (and other) massage facilities, plus gym with cardiovascular machines.

Best après-ski treat: foot massage; €125 (£76) an hour.

Amanresorts (00 800 22 55 26 26)