Driving to Val d'Isere from Geneva

We always hire a car at Geneva, I hate transfer services. We drove to Val last year - traffic was bad, with no major pile-up just SWOT and took almost 4 hours. Another thing re hire cars - if you get it on the French side, watch out for them not doing ANYTHING to winterise the car; we had a frozen diesel issue, and had to leave the thing in Val and get a taxi back. Also, you need a Swiss motorway sticker thing...

On the Swiss side, they winterise and put snow tyres on - es la lei - but also it's often more expensive than on the French side (but then, the sticker is taken care of..). Try the www.carrentals.co.uk web crawler - it's great watching the price of the rental falling as it crawls more sites...

Timeforabeer wrote:We always hire a car at Geneva, I hate transfer services. We drove to Val last year - traffic was bad, with no major pile-up just SWOT and took almost 4 hours. Another thing re hire cars - if you get it on the French side, watch out for them not doing ANYTHING to winterise the car; we had a frozen diesel issue, and had to leave the thing in Val and get a taxi back. Also, you need a Swiss motorway sticker thing...

On the Swiss side, they winterise and put snow tyres on - es la lei - but also it's often more expensive than on the French side (but then, the sticker is taken care of..). Try the www.carrentals.co.uk web crawler - it's great watching the price of the rental falling as it crawls more sites...

Once you start getting near Geneva on the A40 you will see a sign that says " Telepherique de Seleve" ,once you see this sign keep an eye out for an industrial unit on the right hand side of the road, and a large silver factory with it's name in big red letters saying SAMU ,once you see this you are near the exit for the A411 ,when you see this exit ( it will be on the right hand side in Blue signage with white lettering) take this exit and it will take you back into Geneva via the french side so you do not get stuck on the Swiss motorway and get stung for the "Vignette- 30euro".


Once on this road carry straight on through the checkpoint and over the cross raod and on past the football field, the next turning on the right if you take this will put you on the main road through Geneva, which ends up at the bottom end of the lake, go over the bridge and take the road round to the right and just follow the signs for Ferney and the airport.


All the best


jon.

Rob Doyle wrote:Hi,
Can anyone let me know what the drive is like from Geneva (airport) to Val d'Isere? Typical journey time & ease of directions?
Cheers,
Rob

Hi Rob,

If you PM me your postal details I will print off and send you a route map etc.

All the best

jon.

Hi all,
Cheers for the suggestions so far.
I will have a satnav for the trip it appears. Will this be a benefit or not do you think?
We're arriving into Geneva at 3:30pm local time.
Cheers again,
Rob

Hi Rob,

A Satnav should be ok, are you taking one or is it supplied with the car? (not sure if you mentioned which side of Geneva you are picking up your car ,French or Swiss)...if it's the French side when returning back to Geneva make sure before you get near Geneva that it is sending you back the French way otherwise you may get stuck paying the 30euros "vignette" for the luxury of using 3 mile stretch of Swiss motorway :thumbdown:


Apart from that I don't see there being a problem with using one.

Jon.

Hi Jon,
I'm taking a Satnav with me (avoids cost of rental!). We will be taking picking the car up from the Swiss side.
Cheers for your help,
Rob