Poster: A snowHead
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Ive gone on here http://www.viamichelin.com/ to work out routes/tolls etc
The tolls are only a few euros but there seem to be a 40 Euro road tax .
I would be hiring a car at the airport ,does this include this road tax or is it paid at a toll booth ???
thanks
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Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
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that'll be the annual vignette, which should already be on the car if it's a swiss registered rental car.
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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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No, its a vignette that you need for travelling on Swiss motorways. Its €40 per year for the car and a Swiss Hire Car will have one - but one hired from the French side won't.
So n snags - but it is a constant source of irritation if you go to the airport once a year from Tignes as you are on the Motorway for about 9kms!
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I guess thats why the car hire is dearer than any of the other airports
thanks for the help
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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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it is a constant source of irritation if you go to the airport once a year from Tignes as you are on the Motorway for about 9kms!
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easy enough to avoid, really.
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You'll need to Register first of course.
You'll need to Register first of course.
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You can get lucky, quite often the hire cars on the French side have a vignette as a previous hirer has bought one.
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@sarah, but if there isn't then it is not much hassle to avoid the motorway but you do need a map. Renting from Geneva airport is about the same price as renting anywhere else in the eurozone.
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but you do need a map |
Or a satnav with avoid toll roads selected.
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Or a satnav with avoid toll roads selected
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But you need to approach that with some knowledge of the geography - unless you want a very slow journey avoiding the French toll roads too! A map is a good idea. Maybe identify a point right down by the lake shore in Geneva then ask your satnav to take you there (it won't be on toll roads). Then start again and ask for your destination. But check - satnavs do some strange things in the mountains, sometimes.
Geneva can be very busy at times. Really, on an expensive holiday, it's probably worth paying the cost of a few pints of beer on the slopes to make the journey easier.
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snowHeads are a friendly bunch.
snowHeads are a friendly bunch.
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that's a useful link, @altis.
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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 @pam w, Geneva can be grim during rush hour or even Saturday mornings - i'd just chance it and drive on the motorway on the way out and (depending where you're coming from) go through Geneve centre or Ferney Voltaire on the way home
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I think chancing it on the way out is low risk - I do that journey a fair bit and never been stopped. But they are pretty assiduous at Bernex on the way in. I always buy a vignette - it makes life easier and is not a stupid amount of money. And I like to use the Jura route rather than the motorway in decent weather too, and that involves a spell on the Swiss motorway.
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You know it makes sense.
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