 Poster: A snowHead
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Hello All,
I'm after suggestions for the best way to do the following trip...
I have already booked a package holiday with mates to be in Val T from Sat 7th Jan for a week.
I have a friend working a season in Val d'isere and I'd like to go and have a few days staying with him from Monday 4th Jan, then I'm going to head across the hills to meet the guys in Val T. Work commitments mean I can't get there until the 4th, so I'd like to know the best way y'all think to make it work. Do I drive so I have the car in France? Do I fly to Grenoble and rent, dropping the car in Val T (can I even do this? I've already got transfers booked form Val T back to Grenoble...) or can anyone suggest alternatives?
The difficult aspects as I see it are my flying on a non-transfer day, and my getting from Val d'isere to Val T...
Thanks in advance.
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Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
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*Saturday 9th
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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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You can certainly do a one way car hire to Bourg from Grenoble. Then public bus (or hitch-hike?! ) to Val-D: back to Bourg on the Saturday, train to Moutiers and bus to Val-T...
Or bus to Brides les Bains, lift up to Meribel, and ski over to Val T with a rucksack full of clean undies, and a credit card for the rest.
Or take the car!
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do you mean monday jan 2nd?
what is the travel package on your VT holiday? if you fail to fly the outbound leg does that mean you can't fly the rest?
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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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@LukeRibs, Are you sure you can get a flight to Grenoble midweek ? There have been a few posts suggesting that there will be fewer flights next winter.
If you can get to Grenoble airport that day, maybe look at bus to Grenoble train station then train to Bourg St Maurice then bus to Val d'Isere.
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alternative 1
fly to Geneva
Train to Bourg st Maurice and bus from there to Val d'Isere or transfer coach all the way.
Bus to Bourg, train to Moutier and bus to Val Thorens
Continue holiday
Alternative 2
train all the way to Bourg and bus to Val d'Isere or even fly to Paris and get the train from there and follow 1 or 3 from there
Alternative 3
From Val d'Isere to Val Thorens find the TV programme giving two alternatives for the journey (ski sunday or something like it)
Or Ski to Tignes, go upto Col de Palet, Ski down what is largely GR5 to Champagny, bus to Courchevel, ski over from there to Val Thorens
For all options you will do your research on prices, schedules conections.
I am not sure what problems you are thinking about with a non ski transfer day - public transport runs on most days
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@johnE, +1 Start with altibus.com for GVA to Val D, and then look at mobisavoie.fr for a range of options for Val D to Val T.
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I meant Monday 2nd...
So I think best option looks to be a cheap flight to GVA, train up to Bourg then a transfer / hitch up to Val d'Isere.
Then to get from Val d'I to Val T - back into Bourg, then to Moutier on the train, then on a bus up.
@mishmash, I'll look into that as I hadn't thought it would be problem....
Thanks very much @Arctic Roll, @johnE,
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Just get the altibus from Geneva direct to val D. You could also check the Tarentaise transfers group on FB to see if you can find a shared transfer.
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