Three Valleys transfer

Okay chaps, help me out.....I've been looking at transfers for a group of four to Les Menuires. Cheapest I can find is over 500 euros return. I can't believe that this is the going rate. We usually rent a car from Chambery, and all in with snow chain hire, fuel and tolls it comes in at under £200. No comparison. We wouldn't mind a bit of premium on top for the convenience of a transfer, but come on! Its only a 180 km round trip..... does anyone know of any realistic companies that do transfers?

Rent the car, no brainer

Regrettably it's the going rate. If you figure it's probably ten hours of someone's time there/back twice plus fuel then you're probably not going to get very close to £200.. especially priced in euros.

That said, I'd love to be proven wrong!

Daylight robbery I think. Shame there's no entrepreneurial sorts out there with a minibus; you could easily do two trips a day back and forth to Chambery, fill up with 8 or so skiers, £50 return each...I reckon that's a nice little earner myself....£800 a day income less fuel and a bit of wear and tear........maybe this is one for the Dragons Den? Ho Ho...I think we'll just stick to the hire car......anyone want to go halfers on a minibus?

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Don't know if it could be done now, but we used to "bung" a rep at the airport and always (well we did it twice) got on a half full coach going to our resort.

The reps even sorted out our lift passes for us on the journey. :twisted:

I've heard about this being done, but I think things have tightened right up now.....unfortunately.....

randyrat wrote:Daylight robbery I think. Shame there's no entrepreneurial sorts out there with a minibus; you could easily do two trips a day back and forth to Chambery, fill up with 8 or so skiers, £50 return each...I reckon that's a nice little earner myself....£800 a day income less fuel and a bit of wear and tear........maybe this is one for the Dragons Den? Ho Ho...I think we'll just stick to the hire car......anyone want to go halfers on a minibus?

Strangely enough, THPH has considered this option, at least for 6 months of the year, but I was told in no uncertain terms that the locals will do ANYTHING possible to prevent an English entrepreneur setting up, even if they haven't done something similar themselves!
I had envisaged serving a number of resorts with minibus/car transfers from a variety of airports, all booked privately online, but there is also some legislation that prevents anyone from doing this, notwithstanding the local authority taxi licensing regulations.
I tried. But I failed.

Aha.....so it all becomes clear....the locals and the local government are preventing healthy competition, thus creating artificially high prices. Genius. You couldn't get away with it in the UK. Money talks I guess, and this is definitely a BIG bucks industry....