Poster: A snowHead
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Hi
I will be in Chamonix from sat feb 29th to March 5th. Will be skiing 3 days - sun, mon, tue. I am an advanced
off-piste skier (not an expert though). would appreciate any help with these.
1) has anyone used Cham express transfer from GVA. are they on time or do they make you wait for a long
period of time - waiting for other passengers. should I use them or go with ALtibus. only problem with Altibus
is they will drop me off at the station.
2) SKiing - I would like to ski vallee blanche one day and maybe spend 2 days at Grand Montets.
has anyone used ESF chamonix guides - or been on their Ski Fun Tours or Cham Unik tour. how was it.
what was the level fo skiers.
3) any experience with Chamonix-Aventure.com
thanks in advance
Marty
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Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
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mrpow,
we went through Patrick Anulliero - the guide was some action woman who takes people off piste skiing in the winter and mountaineering in the summer
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Well, the person's real but it's just a made up name, see?
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Nick0861
how many people were in your group. what itinerary did you guys take? how would you categorize the skill level of people in your group?
thanks very much
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Also do i need to make reservation for ALtibus or Chamexpress. i will be there saturday March 1st around 1pm.
can i just go there and take the next bus or is there a possibility that it will be full.
thanks
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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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mrpow,
we were in a group of four - paid sixty euro each i think - ability level would be intermediate. we took the traditional easier route. conditions were very good - not a cloud in the sky (although we did do it in april)
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mrpow,
I just turned up at GVA and saw their waiting boards. I was lucky I managed to get onto Cham Expresss' bus quite easily but it is a booked service so it could have turned out wrong for me.
There were 3 buses waiting from various Chamonix transfer agents and all were leaving with 30 mins of each other, I think.
It cost me 40eu to the driver on the day but 35eu on the website IIRC, one way.
If you book, you are booked a seat, if you just turn up, then you might have to wait awhile. Solo's are much easier to fit in, of course....
As you get there on a saturday, then maybe look around for the TO transfer coaches..might be cheaper as the money could just be in the pocket of the transfer rep...
If I were going on a saturday, then I look for the last option 1st.... but any other day, then look at Cham Express etc
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mrpow, I booked a guide privately for the VB through the AIGMB last April. They let me down, so can't recommend them. I strongly suspect that I was gazumped on the booking. Did get a refund though.
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Do you mean Alpybus? If so, we used them last year, they were efficient, cheap, dropped off at our hotel.
We spent 6 days (including the Vallee Blanche) skiing with Ski Fun Tours, I can't recommend them highly enough, they were fantastic. They had two or more groups, one was for true experts who skiied the toughest terrain available.
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mrpow, if you're arriving on a Saturday I would definitely book. Cham Express is new but seem good so far. Altibus are always reliable but as you observe don't drop you off. I'd probably book Cham Express and check the Altibus timetable in case of any problems. I reccomend a 'belt and braces' approach to transfers as I've had problems before, and I like to take numbers of a few, just in case.
Shellski, Good to hear reccomendations for the ski fun tours, I haven't done them but we do get asked about them so I'll remember that.
snowbunny, that's a shame you got let down. We booked through AIGMB as the last time we went looking for a guide, they gave us much better information about the conditions than the main guide office, and seemed more interested in finding out what we actually wanted to do.
The guide we met there was Neil Hitchings
http://neil-hitchings.com/
who was great and who I highly recommend. We did a day ice-climbing with him later, which was brilliant.
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