 Poster: A snowHead
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Hol Autos have told me that their supplier at the airport is shut on Saturdays, and suggested I pick up from Grenoble train station (some 35km away) instead.
Does anybody who's had this problem before have any advice on what the best thing to do might be?!
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Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
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paulio, shut on the busiest arrival day of the week? I should find out who their supplier is and ask. Or look at the grenoble airport website and book direct with someone who is open.
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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 know it sounds ridiculous, but it's apparently true.
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You need to Login to know who's really who.
You need to Login to know who's really who.
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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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That list of opening times is a bit ambiguous.
Also, the Europcar booking site crashes my Firefox every time I visit it.
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You'll need to Register first of course.
You'll need to Register first of course.
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paulio, you could get the airport shuttle bus into town and pick the car up from the railway station. Bit of a faff though, especially on the way back.
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Worst airport ever.
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paulio, Use Opera not firefox and call them to double check as the times do look odd.
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You'll get to see more forums and be part of the best ski club on the net.
You'll get to see more forums and be part of the best ski club on the net.
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paulio, clearly you have spent no time at Tarbes. 
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Hertz website seems to claim, like the others, that they're shut on Saturdays at GRN except that after Dec 13th they will be open.
They can't be the only ones, imagine the lost business for the others! Unless I've misread that.
Otherwise, Hertz FTW.
Or a cab to the Gare de Grenoble for the much better Hol Autos rates 
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snowHeads are a friendly bunch.
snowHeads are a friendly bunch.
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Phoned Hertz and they do claim to be open on those dates, plus I've got corp. discount with them.
Winner.
Still unbelievable that Hol Autos would flat out refuse though, I thought they were agents for Hertz? Ah well.
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And love to help out and answer questions and of course, read each other's snow reports.
And love to help out and answer questions and of course, read each other's snow reports.
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Paulio, having picked up at least twice on Sats at GRN, wasn't really sure on where this thread was going.
One bit of advice - there is little other option of getting out of the airport expect by rental, so the queues build up quickly - if there are two of you, send one out to get the rental car sorted while the other is waiting on baggage.
Once we spend longer waiting in the Q to get the car than we spent driving it to Les Arcs...
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JimW, did you use Hertz by any chance? I checked the websites of other suppliers, and they are indeed all shut on Saturdays, amazingly.
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You know it makes sense.
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paulio, I'm surpised it's only 35km. Always seems to take a solid hour on the motorway to get from the airport to the outskirts of the city, so by the time you add finding the station....
Lizzard, you have me worried. Going to Tarbes for the first time at half term with the family. Will already have had a hellish journey just to get to Stansted, so what awaits me at the other end ?
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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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paulio, no - Europcar I think, well... whichever one is pimped by Easyjet - we had someone with corporate discount, felt smug, only to find everyone else on the flight in the same car hire queue.
Doh!
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Poster: A snowHead
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truffaut, I wouldn't worry about it - last (and only) time I was there was donkeys ago. It was a huge hangar with absolutely nothing in it at all. Not so much as a sandwich shop. We had to spend about five hours there as a result of uselessness on the part of a now defunct tour op.
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