 Poster: A snowHead
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Hi Snowheads,
I'm after some advice and opinions please. I'm travelling to Geneva next Saturday (4th Feb) for a weeks skiing in Meribel but haven't yet sorted my transfers. My dilemma is....
Flight lands at 12:10
Altibus coach is at 13:30 and
Van rouge (private but shared transfer) is at 15:30
Would you wait for the private transfer in the airport, have a few beers and cut time on the journey and probably have a better service, or just get on the altibus coach? I would arrive in the resort about an hour earlier but I haven't been on a coach alone for years as a transfer and the last wasn't great. The cost is negligible between the two really
Thank you 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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Private transfer if cost is similar. No stress then if it takes a while to get your baggage or if you take off late. It's not as if it's cutting into skiing time arriving then.
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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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Geneva airport isn't especially interesting (they don't even play the first bar and a half of How Much Is That Doggie In The Window any more) and unless you take some Swiss notes will screw you on a SF/Euro exchange rate, before giving you change in SF. Given that, and the fact you have plenty of time between landing/shared transfer I'd get through to arrivals, follow the signs to the railway station and grab some supplies in the supermarket before jumping the first bus out of town.
Unless it's a central drop-off for the shared transfer vs. to the hotel door private I'd rather be on the move than sat waiting in an airport.
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@Mjit, If you don't want to spend Swiss Francs then just stroll to the French side of the airport and have a drink in the rather nice cafe there.
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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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Land, get through immigration, collect baggage, collect skis, take all that to the Migros supermarket, and get back to the coaches in 1h 20 on a ski season Saturday? No chance.
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| Mjit wrote: |
| Geneva airport isn't especially interesting (they don't even play the first bar and a half of How Much Is That Doggie In The Window any more) |
Glad it's not just me. Permanently find myself singing "..gie in the window" there!
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