 Poster: A snowHead
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We had to find good value (i.e. dirt cheap) accommodation around GVA airport last season, half a dozen times, and used either IBIS or Holiday Inn Express (both walking distance). Sniffing around on Google there are some seriously good prices across the border in France - around Euros 50 / night or less - in Ferney I think.
Any recommendations? Just clean and quiet would do us; good food nearby could be useful. Our problem with crossing the border in a hurry is that we always seem to get caught by some customs officer with a sorehead or no patience with our bad French or both, but those prices look tempting.
Boswell
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Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
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Boswell, Loads of Accor (Mercure, IBIS, Formule 1) in Ferney. We stayed at the Formule 1 last Monday, and had a meal in the Mercure - both were fine.
We had a car hired from the Swiss side - getting through the border in the morning (6:45 am) no problem.
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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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Boswell, strange, we had a Swiss border guard stop us at the border into France in June, and ask us in German where we were going to. I could have replied in French but no they spoke German at a French border. We usually head straight down to the apartment even if it is late though. This has come up before though, and there may even be another thread.
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Boswell, why?
I will confess that we had one bump-off 3 years ago but Swiss were most generous about accomodating us...
I have stayed at the IBIS up from the central station - and in fatc the one in Annemasse - usually good value.
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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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Other than the one question in Germanmentioned above, we;ve never had any problem crossing the border.
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Maybe it's the stuff piled in the car, or our dog, or we just look a bit dodgy....a lot of Geneva locals nip across the border to the HyperMarche or just get cheaper ski gear etc.
Boswell
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So you just need to leave a little earlier??
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