Poster: A snowHead
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Am driving to the 3V next weekend, and have to pick up one of our party at Geneva airport on Sunday morning. We will be coming from Bourg-en-Bresse (in France about 90 mins west of Geneva). I have a choice of:
- staying entirely in France, picking up from the French side of Geneva airport, and finding the way back to the French autoroute without going into Switzerland
- driving to the Swiss side, but staying off the Swiss autoroute to avoid the vignette charge
- deciding to pay £32 for a Swiss annual vignette to go on the autoroute to/from the Swiss side. It sounds a complete rip-off to pay an annual charge for about 30 minutes driving, but maybe its worth paying just to keep things simple.
Any advice please!
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Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
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Pay for the vignette and get the folk you are picking up to buy you a few drinks. It's a holiday.
But if you decide not to, don't try to stay in France - just stay off the motorway between GVA airport and the Bardonnex border post.
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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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Driving through Geneva can be tiresome. Buy the vignette. Cheap compared to lift passes.
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It's your choice, obviously.
Struggling with why you'd throw it out to an audience of random strangers?
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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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@under a new name, it's by no means one of the odder questions asked on SHs and one where local knowledge is arguably relevant. Last time I sat in a series of traffic jams in Geneva in French hired car with no vignette I vowed not to do it again!
In and out the airport through Bardonnex is a cinch compared to any of the alternatives. It's not the time it takes which matters but the time - and temper - it saves.
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But the question was phrased with the solutions - essentially do I pay or not? Surely a question only answered by the OP and his/her wallet?
Perhaps I am misunderstood.
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@pam w, Thanks for the recommendation - will probably take your advice to use the autoroute, particularly if it is snowy next Sunday (as currently forecast). I like your other suggestion (to get the person I'm collecting to buy the drinks), but don't hold out too much hope!
@altis, Thanks for the link - had thought I probably wasn't the first to ask this question, but hadn't spotted this thread when I searched.....there's an awful lot on Geneva Airport on this site!
@mountainaddict, Thanks for your intervention!
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