 Poster: A snowHead
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....guess better start packing, beauty of the lwb campervan is i can just chuck it in, plenty of space 
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Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
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@Dan, same with Land Rover Disco
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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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Anyway, snowHeads is much more fun if you do.
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@sj1608, it is the first time! I have heard mention of it, and will ask at check-in for detailed instructions on how to get all the food and coffee as I'll be desperate for more coffee by that point!!
@johnE, oh no! I am so sorry to hear that.. beyond frustrating. Just typical it happens in France rather than at home!
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@johnE, Now you know someone who who has done an overnight stop  (or will have)
Hope your problems get resolved smoothly and don't delay the skiing too much though...
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Just doing my bit to tidy up the house by finishing the open bottles of wine, getting in the mood for tomorrow's departure reading all this lot, and trying to get to the bottom of that nagging feeling that there's something v.v. important I've forgotten to do...
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Just getting to that point where I'm giving up on the idea of being able to see clearly out of the car rear window.
Also just discovered that for Amazon Prime there's a limit to the number of videos you can have downloaded across all devices in the family - so now will youngest have to give up some Paw Patrol episodes!
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@frejul, ha ha - yes had same thing wit us. Eldest had downloaded loads in advance ready for holiday then when it the younges went to download a couple of things she couldn’t.
Nb prime original stuff doesn’t have any limits on.
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Arrived at eurotunnel 630 from north London waiting now for booked 720. No queue at passport control or check in yet.
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snowHeads are a friendly bunch.
snowHeads are a friendly bunch.
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Everything on time - just arriving in Calais now.
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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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Todays the day!!! Just got to get some clients through, the kids home from school, the husband home from work and we'll be on our way. Oh the excitement! 
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@johnE, bummer. Hope that you are on the move quickly today. I've been towed out of Urviller service area by a very nice chap, who charmed my Mum. @wibble44, ...when travelling with female friends we manage to get it all in without the hand on hips / sighing that seems to come with the XY chromosone 
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You know it makes sense.
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@Cheesie168,
@johnE, Good luck today. When we had a mishap last year just before Bethune, they sent a flatbed to recover us. When he turned up, he got me to drive on to it (up the steeply-angled, narrow bed pointing at the back of his cab), then we all had to sit in the car on the back of the flatbed  while he drove us to the workshop. Then it was a taxi back to Calais for a hire car (€234 taxi bill for the breakdown insurance ). The car hire guy was superb. Came into his office at 7pm on a Saturday to open up for us, then again mid-afternoon on Easter Monday when we returned. All that said, apart from a few hours faff on the recovery, there was minimal disruption to the holiday, hope your situation works out similar.
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Otherwise you'll just go on seeing the one name:
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Ok the insurance but us up in st Quentin for the night. Now we are trying to sort out a hire car that doesn't have to returned to st Quentin on Sunday. To be honest I do not want a 20 hour return drive from les arcs.
So we are just sitting hear waiting as we have for the last 2 hours
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Poster: A snowHead
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Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
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Have a good time, all you Easter drivers. Looks like you're going to be missing a pretty grotty Easter weekend of weather in the UK!
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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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@pam w, Thank you - looking forward to this trip as last few have been a bit light on snow.
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knackered knees - I experienced the absolutely horrendous half term drive last year - the one and only time I've done it - never to be experience again!!
Took us around 15 hours instead of the usual 9!!
We were heading to LaPlagne and the traffic was solid from the A39 almost to resort - never ever again!!
Wish I could persuade friends to take their kids out of school - when mine were at school I never went in school holiday time - never done them any harm and much quieter pistes / drive down / cheaper chalets etc etc - but thats another topic I know.
If/when I ever get grandchildren they can have a week off school!!
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Anyway, snowHeads is much more fun if you do.
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I phoned school this morning as I have a sickly child, they said" are you going somewhere nice" cheeky sods. I said no, not until Saturday thank you.
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Ok we have now got a fiat 500l and somehow got all 4 of us plus ski luggage in AND 3 pairs of skis. It's cosy but at least we are moving. Still "discussing" with the insurance company to avoid a 1000 mile and 20 hour round trip to pick our car up.
Having now spent a night in a hotel with a decent meal I can say I won't bother again.
@Dippy, the best we have ever managed door to door is 14 hours. I'm very impressed you do it in 9.
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Ok we have now got a fiat 500l and somehow got all 4 of us plus ski luggage in AND 3 pairs of skis. It's cosy but at least we are moving. Still "discussing" with the insurance company to avoid a 1000 mile and 20 hour round trip to pick our car up.
Having now spent a night in a hotel with a decent meal I can say I won't bother again.
@Dippy, the best we have ever managed door to door is 14 hours. I'm very impressed you do it in 9.
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Nine hours Calais to La Plagne Montalbert is pretty average in my book...
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@boredsurfin, that's interesting to know! Google maps says one thing, but it is massively vague because there's so many possibilities for issues. It seems to be +/- a two hour window at least. So a more realistic timeframe (especially as we tend to drive at the limit) is very useful.
Another hour at work and then I am out of here and a very full evening of yet more packing. Actually, it never is just "packing" is it? That part is easy. It's the locating all the various things, making sure stuff is charged, making sure all the parts for something are present and correct, checking stuff still fits, making decisions over which things to bring and which to leave, making last minute emergency Prime orders or seriously last minute runs into town, taking the cats to the cattery, sorting out individual portions of fish food to make it easy for the kind people who are feeding my fish (who have literally just had about fifty fry, sigh! zero when we return for sure..) sorting out the lights to make it look like people are home in the evenings, making sure all the windows are locked, downloading stuff to phone to play in the car so you don't have to use cellular data, etc etc.
Anyway!!
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@boredsurfin, I've never managed 9 hours les arcs to Calais even with only one or two stops
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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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At tunnel, there's about 60 minute delays......however, got directed to the carpark for campervans, just about to go to the look and got told to go.....then at the vehicle check where they put you in queues they said the guy in the car park was wrong but nothing they could do now so on you go 😁
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Actually thinking about it I must do les arcs to Calais in less than 9 hours. Once I add in the customary 2 hours. delay at the tunnel , the one hour crossing and the 3 hours drive from Dover. getting home in 14 still takes a lot of luck.
Anyway it is bright and sunny in the voges as we pass the big chicken.
There are a lot of English cars on the road.
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You know it makes sense.
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| boredsurfin wrote: |
| Nine hours Calais to La Plagne Montalbert is pretty average in my book... |
Nine hours is pretty much what we work on from Calais to skiing in France. But it does depend on where you are going, Samoens may be a bit less, as may much of PdS but much of the Isere area may well be longer, bit further and that nasty traffic hold up in busy/snowy times. Going further to Bourg D'Oisans area etc for access to LdA AdH add an hour of two. So much depends on how often, and for how long you want to stop, and traffic, and weather!
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Calais to Reims 2 hrs
Reims to Troyes 1.15 hr
Troyes to Dijon 1.15 hr
Dijon to Macon 1 hr
Macon to A432 30 mins
A432 to Chambery 1 hr
Chambery to Albertville 40 mins
Albertville to Moutiers 25 mins
Moutiers to Meribel 30 mins
total 8.5 hrs plus toilet/petrol stops so 9 to 9.5 hrs is more or less achieved for the past 15 years or more .Except for some very rare but really bad delays
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Poster: A snowHead
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@gwatts10, Exactly +1 - as far as Moutier. Bright sunny Sunday with one break can be less....
The route has got quicker over the years, now with motorway all the way, 3 or more lanes in places, and 30kph toll booths and faster reacting telepage tags. Plus the A342 not a good half hour off instead of crawling around Lyon.
Yes Pam W , its about 2hr 20, those timings are all rounded,some up some down.....
Last edited by Poster: A snowHead on Thu 29-03-18 17:18; edited 2 times in total
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Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
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You can't legally do Calais to Reims in 2 hours even on dry roads.
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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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At tunnel now. Arrived 2hrs before departure (journey down v. easy, even M25) but no chance of getting on an early train. "Scheduled" train is running 1/2 be late. Not too bad, I suppose. About to return to car for boarding.
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| pam w wrote: |
| You can't legally do Calais to Reims in 2 hours even on dry roads. |
+1 it is more like 2 and a half hours from memory.
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It's 280km.
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Thanks for all advice earlier. Last minute trip to Orelle booked and Eurotunnel tomorrow night! Woo hoo
Do you think we will need chains for the trip to Orelle? Will go via Chambéry and is only 6km off the motorway, and pretty low?
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| Hells Bells wrote: |
| It's 280km. |
Quite! and at 130kph using GPS... Most car speedometers under read by at least 5 mph - by law I think.
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A question!!!
Soooo as it turns out the chains that fitted my 4x4 17in wheels don’t fit my new Kombis 17in wheels! And Amazon prime is not delivering tomorrow and the local Halfords doesn’t stock chains!
Is there an equivalent to Halfords near Flaine or en route? Thinking bourg en bresse or cluses but won’t in the area until around 3pm Saturday.
I might not need them but I don’t want to be the person that everyone gets stuck behind because of not having chains.
You recommendation are greatly recived!!
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@Noakes, service stations and supermarkets stock them.
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@Noakes, Norauto seems to be everywhere and they usually have chains in the likely locations
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