Poster: A snowHead
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Planning for trip to Les Arcs over Christmas. Will be driving down as 3 kids and associated clobber makes flying tricky. Anyone got any recommendations for hotels around Lyon to break the journey?
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Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
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I can highly recomment Hotel Ibis in Annecy Centre (not the out of town one) its about €70 per night per room. Its in the old town, but good value, free car park under the hotel. Annecy is a lovely town to walk around in the evening and makes a very good break. Its just under 2 hours on to Les Arcs from Annecy.
Chambery also has hotels but they are less accessible in the old town, and away from the centre you are staying in an industrial estate. From Chambery Les Arcs is 1 1/2 hours. We usually have a 6am breakfast to beat the traffic and enjoy an extra days skiing
How old are the kids? We found story tapes from the library makes the hours slip by, especially on the rather deflated homeward journey.
Last edited by Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person on Tue 19-07-05 9:53; edited 1 time in total
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Well, the person's real but it's just a made up name, see?
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Martin Nicholas, Hi Martin - thanks for the info, will have a look at that. Come Xmas kids will be twin 5 year old boys and a 3 year old girl. Last few years have stayed in Nuit St Georges south of Dijon which has a great family room, but being Xmas we wanted to get closer to Lyon to beat the rush. Storybooks may well be a plan this year, always had the nursery time tapes before which are driving me insane. May also look at the portable DVD option
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There is a hotel chain that has a triple room for about £30 per night that has somewhere near the airport. Friends of ours stayed there last year and described it as functional. Shall post the link when i find it.
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Anyway, snowHeads is much more fun if you do.
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Frosty the Snowman, This sounds like Formule 1 - toilets in the corridor, furnace like heating, its a bed in a warehouse. Same goes for the Etape chain although they do have loos in the rooms. Fine if all you need is a bed and sleep, but I wouldn't take my family there.
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Nope its neither of them but Ive got my friend on the case.
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We stayed in Anse, just north of Lyon, in Hotel St Romaine. You can find it on www.logis-de-france.fr . It has a nice restaurant too.
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What is so good about French hotels in general is they will happily squeeze in a cot or an extra bed or let little kids sleep top-to-toe if necessary so the family can stay together in one room - with the charge being based on the room. Not sure if this works for the really cheap motel style places though.
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Not sure if this works for the really cheap motel style places though
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Formule 1, Etap, Mister Bed etc. are all automated (pay by credit card at a machine by the front door to get a room access code) after about 7PM so you could squeeze a whole coach party into a room and no-one other than the, very cramped, occupants would have a clue.
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This is the site https://www.envergure.fr its a good site, try using the advance search.
This is the hotel: LYON ST LAURENT DE MURE ST EXUPERY. More motel than hotel.
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There's always Formula1...
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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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Formula 1's border on the uncomfortable, but Etape and Misterbed are alright. We drive to our destination (La Clusaz for the past three years) and as we are on a heavy budget these hotels are ideal. Another chain is Premiere Class, and our favourite is the Village Hotel chain, which are very nice and comfortable. The one in Geneva had a view to the Alps - very tempting as we stayed the night before driving on into La Clusaz!
hope you have a good journey!
Julia
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You know it makes sense.
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Could try Ibis hotels which are all over France and aren't bad in price.When we drive from St Malo (France) to Murren (Switzerland) we always stop at 2 of the hotels.We dont have kids but instead have 2 huskies and the rooms are not bad in size for a night stop.
Visit www.accorhotels.com
good luck
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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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We often stop at the Novotel in Beaune which is unusual in that, apart from the usual Family rooms (2+2), they also have some large family rooms that take 5 (2+3) which suits other members of our group
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Poster: A snowHead
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Storybooks may well be a plan this year, always had the nursery time tapes before which are driving me insane.
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If it is still around, try the recording of "The Sheep Pig" by Dick King Smith. The book of "Babe" but better than the film. Kept our entire family, including the drivers, interested and quiet all the way down the M6, many years ago. It may be the years I spent camping, or sleeping in damp, cramped, noisy berths on yachts, or in third world dives of various kinds, or maybe I am just a peasant, but I find Formule 1 quite acceptable for a cheap night, except when the weather is too hot (unlikely in the ski season). To save climbing up on those horrible top bunks, put the mattress on the floor. I cannot afford to spend 100 euros a night just for a kip, especially if we stop driving at 9pm and start again early in the morning.
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Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
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pam w, I have upgraded to Premiere Classe for a few Euros more. The luxury of not shuffling down the corridor to the loo
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