 Poster: A snowHead
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It's been years since i flew out to resort but this season with flights costing only £25 from Birmingham it seems rude not to.
So have booked a few with hire car (Swiss side so getting snow tyres) but thinking belt and braces when we used to fly we'd chuck some sniw chains in hand baggage, just wondering if you can still do this?
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Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
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@marcellus, I've no experience in this but I'd be amazed if you got them through security.
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Well, the person's real but it's just a made up name, see?
Well, the person's real but it's just a made up name, see?
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No way.
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No worries, just put them in the bag with your biathlon rifle and ski poles.
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Anyway, snowHeads is much more fun if you do.
Anyway, snowHeads is much more fun if you do.
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Swiss side rental cars normally include chains
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Looks like I'd have to take them in hold baggage so will go without and hope they have them at the airport.
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I take them in hand baggage all the time (Birmingham to Geneva) no issues at all.
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If you need them they will have them in a supermarket.
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| Philip1972 wrote: |
| I take them in hand baggage all the time (Birmingham to Geneva) no issues at all. |
Is this recently [b[Philip1972[/b] ie this season?
| endoman wrote: |
| If you need them they will have them in a supermarket. |
WE get to GVA at 22:30 so not many supermarkets are open besides it's just a weekend trip so could get costly if we keep on having to buy chains!
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How do you know what size you need on a rental car?
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@marcellus, as I said earlier they will be included with the rental car if you are renting from the Swiss side of GVA. I've always had them. I think it might be a legal requirement as are winter tyres but I stand to be corrented.
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And love to help out and answer questions and of course, read each other's snow reports.
And love to help out and answer questions and of course, read each other's snow reports.
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They're not always included - always wise to check. Friends had to buy in resort but were refunded.
Key argument against carrying chains is you won't know what size you need.
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@marcellus, I flew from BHX in the summer. In my carry on baggage was my climbing rack and rope (if you don't know what a climbing rack looks like see http://www.backcountry.com/explore/how-to-choose-your-first-trad-rack, it is about 3kg of metal and nylon tape, my rope is 60m long and 9.4 mm diameter), my son just had his rack and my wife a rope. My wife had no problem going through security, I was stopped by the child doing a summer job on security who thought my rope was dangerous. Sadly, he wouldn't tell me what he thought I could do with it on a plane. Another child stopped my son and this time queried his rack. They both summoned the supervisor who said it was no problem. While repacking my son noticed that his "nut knocker" was stll on his rack and that really should not have been allowed on the aircraft.
I have seen knitting needles, walking sticks, crutches on aircraft in the past.
To be honest I cannot envisage any problem with snow chains, but as @harrim51, says - how do you know what size to take?
ps what flight are you taking to get to Geneva at 22:30? It sounds really handy for a weekend. I am not sure, but during the summer they closed the link to the French side of the airport at 23:00
pps I don't worry about snow chains - if necesary I can buy them at a motorway service area or even in the little resort shop and having said that it will snow on my next weekend trip.
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You know it makes sense.
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I've always had snow chains included with my hire cars at the Swiss side of GVA, but just to be sure, once I get confirmation, I email the service desk saying that I want them included as I'll be in the mountains. In the past, others in the group have hired a car at what looked like a real bargain rate via an intermediary, and not got chains because the company only offered and recommended such small cars for use in and around Geneva.
Also a tip: If this is early February, then check the car has a 2017 Vignette. 2016 Vignettes are valid into the January of the following year and the hire companies renew them on a rolling basis through the end of January. My daughter got stopped by the police last year in early Feb., because the hire company had missed renewing the Vignette.
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Otherwise you'll just go on seeing the one name:
Otherwise you'll just go on seeing the one name:
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| davidof wrote: |
| No worries, just put them in the bag with your biathlon rifle and ski poles. |
Strangely poles don't seem to always be a problem. Last year they let me on with a pole I was using as an ad hoc walking stick after I tore my calf on the last day and couldn't be bothered with the hassle of visiting a doctor
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Poster: A snowHead
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To catch up with some comments, in no order;
Flights are from Birmingham 19:30(ish) departure 22:00(ish) arrival.
Size - we've booked "Ford Focus or similar" so assumption is "or similars" use same size as the Focus which iirc are 205/55/16s.
We've booked directly with; Alamo, Budget and Sixt so good call on emailing ahead!!
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Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
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Re tyre size, that's a big assumption.........
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Well, the person's real but it's just a made up name, see?
Well, the person's real but it's just a made up name, see?
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We had a car booked directly with Alamo on Swiss side last week (although fufilled by Enterprise) and chains were included.
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Yep, tyre size is a mighty assumption. Tale large chains and stuff to lash them up with, if you must - to take up the slack. Bit dodgy though.
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Anyway, snowHeads is much more fun if you do.
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It seems strange this is posted in the Off Piste section. Could a mod move it somewhere more suitable as it might be useful to others?
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Flights are from Birmingham 19:30(ish) departure 22:00(ish) arrival.
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Who is this with and when is the return?
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@marcellus, Yes this season once and last season lots of times.
Most chains fit a variety of wheel and tyre sizes, so a Focus for exapme is pretty easy to get at the min and max (just check on web or car park at work!)
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Every avis and hertz car I've had at Geneva Swiss side has always had chains included.
I've seen all kinds of things on aircraft, and even been allowed to take a multi tool including a 10cm knife at Geneva. However, what slips through the screening and what's reliably allowed are two entirely different things.
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| johnE wrote: |
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Flights are from Birmingham 19:30(ish) departure 22:00(ish) arrival.
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Who is this with and when is the return? |
Sleezyjet and return is on the monday at 11:00(ish) departure arrive Brum 12:00.. So work thursday, fly thursday night, ski fri, sat, sun, fly monday morning and back at work monday midday.
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@snowdave, I would agree with that, we have had taken off us a bike multitool at Nice, despite having keys on a keyring that were longer and sharper, miniscule tube of bike innertube repair glue at Lyon, despite tyre levers being OK, aluminium sample fabrications (smaller than your hand), somewhere in Denmark, 16mm x 35mm bolt (no bigger than a vehicle key and definitely not as sharp) in Liverpool, I think. Loads of other weird inconsistencies (if that is a word) and most of those things had already been one way  I am all in favour of the plane I am on staying in the sky but having seen what somebody looks like after being hit with a bottle and what a bar looks like after a flaming drambuie goes wrong, I do sometimes wonder whether any of these "rules" are realistically preventing anything.
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