 Poster: A snowHead
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any advice on best route to Les Gets from Geneva Airport on Thursday evening much appreciated 
Seems to be 3 options:
a) follow Lake Geneva shore, turning at Thonon les Bains onto D902
b) A40 turning off at exit 17 around Bonneville for onto D19 / D902
c) A40 again but turn off earlier at exit 15 around Nangy for D9/D907 towars Saint Jeoire
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Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
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c)
Thonon is only used when C) is blocked up!
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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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thanks @chattonmill
also, is it best to head south from ahe airport on the A1 rather than go through Geneva?
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I usually go A40 to 15 and up Vallee Verte via taninges and up the hill. Has a toll tho.
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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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@simonx, depends if you get hire from Swiss or French side & if hire car has vignette.
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I would generally not go through Geneva, especially at busy periods.
I would go b) usually. It's quieter.
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My preferred route is autoroute to France, A40, Jct 17 to Marignier to Chatillon sue Cluses to Taninges to Les Gets.
Only use Jct 15 if autoroute is rammed!
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Agree with orange,been going to les gets for 12 + years and this is the quickest route,toll is only a couple of euros.dont go through Geneva just follow signs to France as you come out of airport.Again if you’ve hired car on the french side you have to leave and enter the airport on a different route to avoid the douanne ,border control cause they’ll charge you 40 euros for a vignette
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Thanks all will go for (b) - is there much difference between taking Jcts 17 and 18?
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If you take Jct 18 you go through Cluses, which is just grim.
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snowHeads are a friendly bunch.
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Cheers.
We are staying up on Routes des Chavannes, airbnb appartment next to Lodge le Chasse Montage, should be almost ski-in/out hopefully, however have to get skis first thing Friday morning for my daughter from Evasion Sports (Ski Republic) near the Telecabin du Mont Cherry, is it easy (and reasonably priced) to park around there
Will need to get lift passes too.
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And love to help out and answer questions and of course, read each other's snow reports.
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There’s plenty of car parking around there it can get busy but you don’t have to pay in most of them.theres parking on the One way street as you drive up to evasion sports too,best to go early though to get a space.
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@simonx,
Why not order passes on line, collection is from the tourist office, which is closer to Evasion Sports and can be a lot quicker. They may even post to you if there is sufficient time.
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You know it makes sense.
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@orange, I think you mean the Vallee de la Griffe.
The Vallee Verte goes up through St Andre, the Haberes to Lullin ( Mont Forchat ).
You can get to Les Gets this way, but from Lullin, but you would need to carry on through Vailly, the Vernaz, the Gorges du Pont de Diable, and then through St Jean, skirt the edge or Morzine and then onto Les Gets. It's a lovely road, in but it would add an extra 45 minutes to your journey.
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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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It’s signposted vale verte of the a40 about a mile after the toll and takes you through mieussy and Tanninges and then up the mountain takes about 1 hour and 15.Its the the route the transfer companies take unless the snows bad and then they would go up to thonon and skirt the lake to Geneva
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Poster: A snowHead
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It’s signposted vale verte of the a40 about a mile after the toll and takes you through mieussy and Tanninges and then up the mountain takes about 1 hour and 15.Its the the route the transfer companies take unless the snows bad and then they would go up to thonon and skirt the lake to Geneva
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Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
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@Cast, It's a route to the Vallee Verte, but it isn't the Vallee Verte...
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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 will put my question here in order to avoid to open a new Topic.
Coming from Germany and heading to Les Gets i have two options :
either entering France from St. Gingolph and taking the route from Thonon - Montriond - Morzine - Les Gets
or go round Geneve and from A40 heading either to Cluses or a little bit further from exit 15 i think a go direct to Taninges etc
According to google maps the route from Thonon is faster. But it is really so?
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@turms2,
Yes, the route via Thonon will be shorter and faster. It is also less prone to traffic issues.
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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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| zzz wrote: |
@turms2,
Yes, the route via Thonon will be shorter and faster. It is also less prone to traffic issues. |
ok thanks for the reply. I think i will go this way, althought someone a little bit over said this route only if the others are not accesible.
But i think that applies to someone who come from the GEN Airport
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@zzz, I concur. Going via Geneva is asking for trouble, and the autoroutes add a lot of extra distance ( I always go via Thonon and along the lakeside when going to the airport).
@turms2, The one area that is prone to traffic on your proposed route is the merging of motorways at Vevey, between 6 and 8 in the evening and particularly on Friday night, when it can be stop-start for 10km before and after the A9/A12 junction, so from Chatel St Denis to Villeneuve. Unlikely you'd be travelling at that time, but just in case.
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| Chaletbeauroc wrote: |
@zzz, I concur. Going via Geneva is asking for trouble, and the autoroutes add a lot of extra distance ( I always go via Thonon and along the lakeside when going to the airport).
@turms2, The one area that is prone to traffic on your proposed route is the merging of motorways at Vevey, between 6 and 8 in the evening and particularly on Friday night, when it can be stop-start for 10km before and after the A9/A12 junction, so from Chatel St Denis to Villeneuve. Unlikely you'd be travelling at that time, but just in case. |
nope...hopefully at Friday evenig i will be already in hotel for the dinner
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We had a Skiddy transfer and the driver went by Thonon as was the weekend. Was a nice drive too, and took us through Geneva, you get to see the fountain if it's on.
Just be careful of speed cameras in Switzerland, you'll probably pass like 10 going that way and they are urban speed limits so fines are heavier (1kmh over = 40 euros)
I think there's only 3 or 4 on the motorway route back and the fines are softer.
Also worth noting that Swiss speed cams do not come up on sat navs too.
Posting from someone who just drove in Switzerland for a week, so am still waiting for the final bill for our holiday 
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Just got with the Post a nice Letter from Switzerland
Driving with 111 instead of 100 = 60 CHF
Really annoying. I Was with 130, saw the sign And immediately slow down
But until i reach the 100 Limit was too late
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