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Geneva - Samoens
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Never been to Samoens.
What's it like?
What's the best form of travel from Geneva to Samoens, travel time and costs?
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€40 each way
1hr (ish)
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Interesting, attractive, traditional, village with some genuine old buildings (traditionally the village was the home of stone masons I believe). Because it's a traditional village it's at low altitude - not the place for someone who insists on ski in/out as you have to get over to the lift (a short way from the village but too far to walk in ski boots) and lift up to the slopes.
I have only driven - very easy indeed. The runs back down are by no means always open, being so low (they've never been open when I've been there, but I've only skied three times in that areas). Loads of skiing, once you get up there.
Lots of pretty pictures if you look it up on google images.
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Beautiful village, awkward gondola location, allegedly easy to get a bit stuck due to sometimes closed links with the rest of the GM.
Anyway, snowHeads is much more fun if you do.
Anyway, snowHeads is much more fun if you do.
Samoens is a very pretty village, the lift is on the outside of the village and there are no pistes back down to it. However it is not really an inconvenience once you get your head around it, it's only a short walk from the centreville.
You can ski down to Vercland and Morillon and get the ski bus back to the village it's no hassle really.
In the village there is a very dramatic backdrop and a lovely village square. We stayed in a fully catered chalet just outside the village which I would heartily recommend but don't seem to have a link for it, we may have booked it through a fellow
Anniepen.
The hosts ferried us wherever and whenever we wanted to go, it was brill.
The link over to Flaine is sometimes shut if the winds are high as is the norm elsewhere in the Alps but there is fun to be had on the slopes this side if that happens. We really liked it around Le Carroz and some really nice huts slope side.
We went in March 2009 and the slopes were deserted. Wall to wall sunshine all week and the snow was good.
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