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Just got a call to say our flights have been changed from Chambery to Grenoble and quite a few hours later. Hm. Fair play to the company (Snowjet) they have offered to pay any reasonable extra cost incurred for our transfer. We were booked on the Altibus for 200 euros. Any suggestions for alternative transfer method appreciated. We are going Boxing Day arrive Grenoble !4.45 and are going to Belle Plagne. Poo.
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Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
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Hire car?
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Nearest railway station to La Plagne is Aime, I think - if that helps. Moutiers is not that far away either. That Agbus Colin has linked to also stops at Aime & Moutiers.
Loads of tours ops use Moutiers as a transfer point - big bus airport to Moutiers station carpark, then mini buses up each valley. You might be able to bum a lift on a minbus.
Good luck.
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Anyway, snowHeads is much more fun if you do.
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Mini adventure - all sorted.
Lovely Snowjet people have agreed to pay for a private transfer from Grenoble. How great are they?
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Crystal did the reverse on us earlier this year. We now fly to Chambery, not Grenoble. The desitination change was no problem, but the flight times were not as good. Instead of arriving in La Plagne at midday we now arrive at about 9pm with two sleepy (read - whinny) infants. I was really annoyed at the time but the normal Crystal T&Cs say - get over it you big loser - we can change your flights whenever we see fit and you have to live with the consequences. We appreciate that this is a pain in the bum for some people but it makes life easier for our company. We're amaizing and you suck. Now you pop off and have a lovely trip. (well thats what i read anyway)
This snowjet company sound OK though.
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Flying into chambery on boxing day to go to belle plagne. We are flying with Jet2, haven't been getting any calls. Quite worried actually
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Shimmy Alcott, Many thanks for the information - we are on the same flight next week - have a great week and Merry Xmas of course
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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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Rizzler, It was only because they didn't have a pilot qualified so I'm sure your flight will be ok.
parallel lines, Thanks, enjoy yours too.
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You know it makes sense.
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Shimmy Alcott,
Thanks for your info.
A group of us are due to fly out on the 9th January using the same flight and with it being our first time of travelling independantly we are hoping that we do not suffer the same sort of problems. Hopefully problems have been due to early season flights and by the time we go Thomsons have had time to sort out issues with pilots and operational problems.
We will be very interested in how you get on with refunds. Hope you got their commitment in writing
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Poster: A snowHead
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Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
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Oh - and has ph got his boots yet and, most importantly, how are his new skis?? 
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Shimmy Alcott, just read this, what a flippin' nightmare for you  Hope you are having a good time and you get your money back.
Weather sounds similar to here in LDA, just seen a blue sky this afternoon first time since Sunday, yesterday it was atrocious driving rain and blowing a gale, lifts closed for a good while, I didn't go out it was that awful.
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Anyway, snowHeads is much more fun if you do.
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Shimmy Alcott, Hope ypu had a great time - Just wondering how the return flight went ??
We are on TOM 2626 next Saturday. 
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parallel lines, Looks like it left Manchester on time yesterday but not sure if it went to Chambery or ended up being diverted to elsewhere. Madgeese and myself are also on that flight so would be inetrested if it landed and left Chambery on time.
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As you know we flew into Chambery on Saturday afternoon/evening. No problems at the airport to my knowledge. Sounds like you had a hell of a trip and got a real run around. Bloody budget airlines.
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Shimmy Alcott,
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By the way our total spend on transfers was 1060 Euro, almost as much as the flights.
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You could have driven there and back from home and had an overrnight stop in a hotel and still got change from that 
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snowHeads are a friendly bunch.
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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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Boredsurfing, so long as Snowjet give us the promised refund then it will have cost us the planned 200 Euro.
Spyderman, did Santa being you a decent car for Christmas?
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Shimmy Alcott, Many thanks for the info. There is forecast of moderate snow for this Friday night. keeping fingers crossed that this doesn't affect ability of the plane to land at Chambery. We have a private taxi transfer booked to meet us so our extra costs could also be considerable if the plane gets diverted. Hope you still managed to enjoy your holiday.
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You know it makes sense.
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cathy, The new skis where fantastic.
I think I should be ordering body armour for the next skiing holiday. If I come off the new skis at the speed I was going in La Plagne then it is going to hurt. 
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Super Eagle, we had a ball. Luckily we could cover the cost or else it would have been a lot more painful. We were pretty chilled about it all - no point getting het up about it when you can't change it - especially when you have kids along. We have done chambery quite a few times and that is the only time this has happened (though we have been delayed a bit dut to the weather a couple of times). I will still probably book chambery again next time - the short transfer time is so tempting compared to the amount of times we've been inconvenienced. Hope you have a fab time. Love the sig BTW.
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Poster: A snowHead
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Shimmy Alcott, Agree with you about the short transfers. We have used Chambery in the past with no problems but always with a T.O. This time we're travelling for the first time independently with friends so its a bit of an unknown for us if anything goes wrong. Just hope the Taxi firm will be flexible enough to sort us out in the event of any delays.
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FAQ
Managed to book another transfer from Chambery so trip would now be fly to Leon, bus to chambery then transfer to ~Belle Plagne. Then........they lost ph's ski boots so by the time we'd filled out the form snowjet had decided everyone must have left already and the bus went without us. Now stuck in Lyon with no transfer and it was 6pm, pich black and kids fed up - but being very good. anyhow managed to book another transfer ourselves (we have paid over £1000 for this transfer/s now). Each time Snowjet said they would re-imburse us. Fingers crossed 