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Geneva airport - French and Swiss sides?
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Remind me please.

Which side do flights from the UK generally land at GVA?

Swiss or French?

To be more specific, I'm flying BA from Heathrow.
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Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person

Swiss.
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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?

Swiss.
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thanks
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Adam123, you will come out of the Swiss arrivals gate, if you want to go to the French side for car hire then there is a long signed route through the airport building.
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jbob, mind read
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Adam123, if hiring from the French side make sure you get given chains to fit the car, and practice fitting them if possible. More important, make sure you know how to get back to the French side which is not self-evident.
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After all it is free Go on u know u want to!

doesn't seem like we'll be needing chains this weekend unfortunately. Ice skates I'm told would be more useful based on current conditions
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If you're taking a satnav, add the position into favourites of your terminal so as to avoid any considerable confusion on the way back wink
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gad, I take it you've never actually tried doing that? Laughing I might try it sometime I'm early to meet a plane, just for a laff.
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It's one of those things that you only think of doing seven days after you should have done it!
We went to alpe dhuez last year and flew in to the French side, hired a car and off we went, seven days later and we couldn't find the French side and only after driving around and around for a good hour( or two ) that we thought, right just dump the car in the Swiss side and we'll pay the excess that it dawned on me to ask the staff in the multi-storey as to how to get to the French section Embarassed

Off we went with a map and we just made the flight, never again Shocked
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gad, Laughing The route to the French section is easy when you know how - on snowheads, if you search. wink But I don't think the satnav idea would work because the check-in section of the french sector has exactly the same coordinates as parts of the international airport. Your satnav, like all the road signs, would probably take you there.
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I'll have to take your word for that as it was the first time we'd flown into the French side, and I've just remembered something else, when we flew into the airport I said to the missus " you sort the car out and I'll get some cash from the ATM"
It was only when I tried to buy a coffee in alpe d'huez that I realised I'd took out chf200 instead of euros because we were at the wrong side of the airport.
It was all very confusing Sad
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 You know it makes sense.
You know it makes sense.

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it was the first time we'd flown into the French side

where did you fly from? Only French domestic flights go into the French side.
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 Otherwise you'll just go on seeing the one name:
Otherwise you'll just go on seeing the one name:

pam w, The satnav will not work in the checkin - it has to have a clear view of the sky. It will even take some time to estimate where it is. My satnav seemed to think it was driving around Solihul until it approached Vernier which was very amusing.

The secret about getting to the French side of the airport is to head for Ferney not the airport. Actually the semi independent state of Ferney could be worth a visit in its own right. See http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ferney-Voltaire
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gad wrote:
It's one of those things that you only think of doing seven days after you should have done it!
We went to alpe dhuez last year and flew in to the French side, hired a car and off we went, seven days later and we couldn't find the French side and only after driving around and around for a good hour( or two ) that we thought, right just dump the car in the Swiss side and we'll pay the excess that it dawned on me to ask the staff in the multi-storey as to how to get to the French section Embarassed

Off we went with a map and we just made the flight, never again Shocked


Laughing we got lucky in the summer. I was really worried about getting back to the French side, until I realised the previous person that rented the car had been wise enough to program in the route Cool

My 2c on car rental - rent from the Swiss side in the winter, French in the summer. The Swiss cars all have snow tires included which is sometimes charged for in France. We used sixt the last couple of times through Geneva, and we're happy both times. (Alfa guiletta in winter, and BMW 1 sport in summer)
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the price differences between the two sides don't make a lot of sense and aren't consistent at all - I generally check both in summer - it isn't necessarily cheaper in France.
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