 Poster: A snowHead
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Standee, a quick observation about your destination airport. if you do a search on snowheads you'll find a lot of people have had some horrific problems flying into chambery. it could increase your transfer time by quite a lot if you're unlucky with the weather. otoh, if you know the airport and have done it before, then forget my observation. hth
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Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
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Standee, be careful about Chambery - at peak times it gets hideously crowded and because of its geographical position and technical limitations flights are often diverted. It is also hit by any French strikes - unlike Geneva.
I don't understand your comment about people selling whole chalets. That's true of the most expensive ones, as Dukes and Earls don't want to share their accommodation with the likes of us. But all the big tour operators, and many owner-run chalets, certainly do sell individual rooms.
It's your timing which is the problem. Not just French accommodation, but much accommodation in other Alpine countries, will be looking to book full weeks at that (most profitable) time of year. That's what people have been trying to tell you. Fact, not opinion or attitude.
However, if you want to travel for just those days, and budget is not a big consideration, there is just no problem at all. Book your accommodation for the whole weeks, then book separate flights. What's your problem with that?
Or go to North America - I understand it's easier to book tailor-made periods there.
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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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Standee, Thats only about a 2 hour transfer
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transfer times to Val D'Isere can vary enormously, I've done it in 3 hours, and 8 hours, as someone else posted. It's not a place to go if you're looking for a quick transfer!
It's all well worth it when you get there though - Am considering going there for New Year too!
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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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yeah me too, Val disere transfer times have taken anywhere from 3hrs to just over 8. And this at the end of March begining of April, as we tend to go away for a ski holiday with freinds in Jan to somewhere different, then back to the old fave for just the wife and myself in march.
28th march this year being the worst yet, due to massive snow fall on the sat even as low down as bourg. And plenty of cars without chains getting stuck on the route up to val and tignes.
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28th march this year being the worst yet, due to massive snow fall on the sat even as low down as bourg. And plenty of cars without chains getting stuck on the route up to val and tignes
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Ah yes! I remember that day. Loads of people who, despite pottering off to ski in late March, and presumably hoping to be sliding around on white stuff, had somehow decided that they weren't going to need snowchains because it wasn't going to snow. 
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On same thread but a bit of a different tack...............................................any suggestions, see below?
I always used to drive to Val and Tignes, then got fed up of the tolls, so went budget flights with long transfers from Geneva (even with a hire car it can be a bind and costly - hire rates doubled vs last year, extra for winter tyres, extra for insurance, extra for chains etc), then the delays and pricey flights into Chambery. NB; I do not do packages, no offfence if you do but I prefer to be treated like a human being and retain my sanity!
Now I've gone full circle - and want to start driving to Val again - because the budget flights dont exist anymore, not at sensible prices from the north anyway (ski carriage prices etc), and are normally at bad times if they can be found, and generally from London (I live in the North).........................BUT the tolls are now through the roof, and its a £200+ return from Calais in tolls which is stupid.
Can anyone recommend a quick cheap route (without use of French Toll roads) Calais - Val/ Tignes - or do I have to go via Belgium (pot holes r'us etc) Aachen, down the Rhine, Mulhouse and a big loop back through Switzerland??
I love the off-piste in Espace Killy, but my car keeps turning off sooner at Verbier, St Anton etc - I want to retrain it to get to Val without Dick-Turpin catchin me a few times getting to/ from the Alps!!
Anyone having the same thoughts/ problem? I'd appreciate your thoughts if you've sussed it!
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Euro* or french sleeper to Bourg and then a bus? You lose some flexibility when you get there, but in a place like Val D'Isere that shouldn't be a massive problem. Doesn't suit everyone, but it'd always be my favourite way of getting to the Isere valley...
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Thanks, sound good - cheers.
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Markymark29, I think that's a bit over the top for tolls, according to viamichelin total cost one way is
Costs 162.46 EUR
Toll 72.70 EUR | Petrol 89.76 EUR | Road tax EUR
Time 09h15 which 07h58 on motorways
Distance 998 km which 927 km on motorways
or avoiding toll roads
Costs 83.97 EUR
Toll 0.00 EUR | Petrol 83.97 EUR | Road tax EUR
Time 14h56 which 00h58 on motorways
Distance 928 km which 89 km on motorways
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I think that's a bit over the top for tolls, ac
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It's a lot over the top - about £120 at present exchange rates. You can save all the tolls, easily, by using the (generally very good) French routes nationale. However, it will take quite a lot longer and if you do an overnight stop and dinner, your toll savings are shot (especially if you pay an 80 euro fine for "speeding" at 40 mph through some invisible and deserted hamlet with no speed limit signs, like what I did  )
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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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Yes that is much cheaper than I thought for the tolls, and if the £ vs Euro keeps going back to 1.4 where it needs to be then we're in business!Thanks for the heads-up on the Routes Nationale Pam W, think I'll give these a miss especially overnight in winter, need to average 70mph including stops, we've got almost 300 miles Dover - our place in North Yorks. Upsets the locals when doing 80mph through cobbled Place Du Gare at 4am - only joking, not a chav really.
Just remembered - I too had a bad experience in Austria 2 years ago - not funny at the time, but can laugh now.................racing (too fast) or felt so in the Punto 1.0L to get back to Salzburg after a full day off-piste, 45mph down hill flat out with a tail-wind into a small town, speed gun etc............ that not too bad but the revolver by "Mr No Sense of Humour Polizei" (proper one pointing through the window) and the £50 fine which when I ignored it went up to £100 after 2 months...............you live and learn. Great day's skiing though so hence the reason I chose to forget the ticket when it eventually dropped through my letter box from Die Polizei!
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