 Poster: A snowHead
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Just had an email through mentioning this. For next season Jet 2 is starting a Saturday Manchester-Turin service. Hope it's helpful to someone.
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Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
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As they ditch Leeds to Grenoble!
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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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I can see me trying weekend trips to Aosta valley next season.
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adithorp, saturday flights only 
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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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Turin airport is very handy for a lot of resorts in France as well as the Bardonecchia and Aosta areas. For example it is (just) closer to Valloire than either Grenoble or Geneva though the Fréjus Tunnel adds to costs and I suspect cars hired in Turin often don't have snow tyres.
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You'll need to Register first of course.
You'll need to Register first of course.
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Much easier for Serre Chevalier than Grenoble too.
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pam w, Best option is to go for a 4X4 basic car hire. I got an upgrade from the Turin Budget group......... Volvo X4 (D4).
BTW Turin is a great airport to fly into....... 90 minutes from La Thuile and Courmayeur, 2 hours from Champoluc/Gressoney, 2.5 hours to Cervinia.
SADLY......... only weekly flights!
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Hells Bells, I drove down to Turin and back (station, not airport) today and was reminded again of how easy it is. Friends with an apartment here in Les Saisies often fly to Turin because they can get much cheaper flights - though it's a longer drive to get up here. The Italian motorway "aires" aren't a patch on the French ones, though!
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pam w, true, but I don't need them if I'm going to Serre Che from Turin. Shame the flights are Saturday only. I tend to have Sunday as changeover day at my place, perhaps I am going to have to go Sat-Sat after all. There is always Ryanair from Stansted and BA from Gatwick.
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Hells Bells, because of travelling with a car-sick 2 year old who needed frequent stops, I noticed the inferiority of the Italian aires today.  Thankfully we got him to Turin with no throwing up. easyJet do Turin from Gatwick, too.
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snowHeads are a friendly bunch.
snowHeads are a friendly bunch.
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pam w, we had to stop at the bottom of the Lauteret with a car sick dog on Saturday (actually easier to mop up than a child) . The layby had several cars of car-sick kids looking very pale. Fortunately this is now the only time Lola is ill.
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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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As a matter of interest I just checked the easyJet flights from Gatwick to Turin and Geneva for Easter (5/12 April). Turin £140, Geneva £310 return. Quite a difference!
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| Frosty the Snowman wrote: |
| adithorp, saturday flights only |
Oh what a shame... it'll have to be a looooong weekend trip.
Sauze is a short hop from Turin as well...
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You know it makes sense.
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| adithorp wrote: |
| Frosty the Snowman wrote: |
| adithorp, saturday flights only |
Oh what a shame...... |
i was thinking that, Champoluc for a weekend would have been good.
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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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| Hells Bells wrote: |
| pam w, true, but I don't need them if I'm going to Serre Che from Turin. Shame the flights are Saturday only. I tend to have Sunday as changeover day at my place, perhaps I am going to have to go Sat-Sat after all. There is always Ryanair from Stansted and BA from Gatwick. |
Thompson do an early Sun morning flight from Doncaster to Turin.
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Poster: A snowHead
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spyderjon, I chose Sunday as the changeover day because of the charter flights mainly arriving on Sunday, but it is nigh on impossible to book flight only now.
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