 Poster: A snowHead
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Hello - just booked flights to Grenoble and an apartment in Les Coches but struggling to find any transfers under about 400Euros! Has anybody traveled from Grenoble-Montchavin/Les Coches before? We're on a budget (of course) and would like a bus/coach or something but can only find extremely expensive taxis...
Thanks.
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Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
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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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What time does your flight land in grenoble Elp? If its during the day by all means give french public transport a bash. We took the bus/train/taxi option to get to Puy st Vincent last year. I think we landed about 4pm, got the airport bus to Grenoble train station and made the train i'd booked us on. After around a couple of hours on the train we stopped.... didnt move again for a couple of hours. Eventually we arrived in Gap where we were supposed to change trains for the last leg of our journey only to find our train had ben cancelled! with no replacement bus. So there we were stuck in Gap at midnight, freezing, no taxis in sight. We checked in to a hotel and completed our journey the next day losing a days skiing  the way back to Grenoble was almost as bad, train moving for half an hour, stopping for an hour with no explanation as to what was going on. Thankfully tho we had planned to spend the day in Grenoble so we just made our flight home. Iv heard similar horror french railway stories from friends. maybee try the bus?!
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Thanks everyone. I think we have come to the conclusion that it may be easier to just hire a car! We can probably do this for around £200 for the week and it seems like it's worth it to save using trains and buses and probably end up spending at least £100 anyway. At least that way we can stock up on cheap wine and food at an out of town hypermarket on the way 
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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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We'd charge 300 Euros each way for such a transfer (happy to stop at supermarket for clients to stock up on way!). For smaller groups it can be cheaper to hire a car but you do need to be careful of extras - ski racks, winter tyres, snow chains......local taxes sometimes payable....and there is of course your petrol and tolls on top of actual hire costs. Make sure you try and get the total of hire costs before booking as know many people that booked a car from UK, only to get here and be charged so much per day for snow tyres, extra for insurance, taxes etc....And check there is somewhere you can safely park for the week as many people don't think of this and parking can be pretty tight in some resorts.
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