ASEFlyer From United States of America, joined Dec 2006, 163 posts, RR: 0 Posted (5 years 4 months 2 weeks 3 days 23 hours ago) and read 1864 times:
Hello Everyone,
Trying to get to La Grave to do a bit of skiing in a few weeks. What is the best way to get there from Denver?! Grenoble, Nice? Having a lot of trouble finding info.
MCOGVADCA From China, joined Oct 2006, 442 posts, RR: 0 Reply 2, posted (5 years 4 months 2 weeks 3 days 22 hours ago) and read 1832 times:
Grenoble is your best bet, but if you're coming from Denver, it might be quicker (and cheaper) door to door to fly into CDG, and take the TGV from there, this time of year, the TGV runs pretty regularly. IIRC there aren't any domestic flights into Grenoble and movements consist mostly of British charters/low fare carriers. BA does fly from Gatwick. It looks like if you're flying into GNB you'll need at least two changes or an airport change. Good luck at La Grave, Lord knows I don't have the testicular fortitude to take on those slopes!
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SAS330GOT From Sweden, joined May 2004, 252 posts, RR: 1 Reply 6, posted (5 years 4 months 2 weeks 3 days 22 hours ago) and read 1743 times:
You could go to CDG and take the TGV to Grenoble from there. If you never tried the TGV it could be a cool experience, it still is the second fastest way to travel. I don't know how long it takes from Grenoble but I would guess about 4 hours.
If you want to get there quick I'd suggest you go to Turin via MUC. LH flies the A346 (I think) daily direct from DEN to MUC. In Turin you rent a nice car and drive the last 160 or so kms or, if you feel like it and can afford it, rent a Helo that will drop you of either at the peak or in the village.
There are some resorts that actually have direct service by plane from Turin. The ones I can think of is Val Thorens, Courchevel and Megeve where they have runways in the slopes. But they only fly when the weather is clear so I would put all my eggs in that basket..
Well.. That's my And I hope you'll have a great time. It's one of the absolute best ski areas in Europe if you ask me.
OT - PS. If you're thinking of buying new skiboots you should go to Chantemerle on your way to La Grave (In the Serre Chevalier ski area). There's a guy there who's known to be the best in the alps in preparing skiboots. I had mine done there and there's such a difference.
As John McInroe used to say, "you can not be serious" ÂÂ
I, for one, think it's quite cool. All americans I know go to places like Gstaad, Verbier or Zermatt to ski. Which I think is utterly stupid. They might aswell go to Aspen, same crowd - different continent.. But ASEflyer actually choose the cream of the crop for skiing in the alpes which I would interpret as beeing a serious skier and that I respect. I like to go ski in the US because it's different, so why shouldn't they come here and get a taste of what Europe has to offer.
I know, very off-topic but I couldn't help myself..
Marcus380 From France, joined Feb 2006, 146 posts, RR: 0 Reply 9, posted (5 years 4 months 2 weeks 3 days 20 hours ago) and read 1642 times:
Hello,
Like Goldorak said, you can fly to LYS and rent a car there.
Delta will fly directly to LYS from JFK, but
the service will start only in july.
Or as also said the easiest is to take the TGV train from Roissy Airport terminal 2
There is a direct train every evening to Grenoble arriving at 22h30
it takes 3h30.
Then you still have 80 kms to la Grave, you will need to take a cab.
There is no straight flight from Denver to CDG you will have to change in Atlanta.
Someone83 From Norway, joined Sep 2006, 2782 posts, RR: 1 Reply 10, posted (5 years 4 months 2 weeks 3 days 20 hours ago) and read 1616 times:
Quoting Bennett123 (Reply 5): You come from Denver and are flying to France for skiing
Well I'm going to Canada (Whistler) to ski in February. Can't see the problem even though there are lots of places that doesn't require 12hrs by air getting to
YULWinterSkies From United States of America, joined Jun 2005, 2109 posts, RR: 6 Reply 11, posted (5 years 4 months 2 weeks 3 days 19 hours ago) and read 1597 times:
The bus service between Grenoble (bus station being almost within the TGV station) to Briançon does exist and stops at la Grave, though infrequent. Schedule on www.vfd.fr So you'd need to get to the city of Grenoble (thus GNB is not the best option, but rather use the TGV from CDG, Paris-Gare de Lyon or LYS). GVA does have better flight accessibilty than LYS and closer than CDG but you'd be on your own unless you rent a car, even though it is totally feasible by regional trains to Grenoble if you don't mind the extra travelling time. Same is true for TRN.
I can imagine DEN-CDG being doable in no more than 2 flights, I can see AF/DL, AC, UA, AA, CO among others on the deal.
Enjoy your trip, you'll be impressed by the mountains even coming from Colorado. Hope the snow will also be in enough thickness to impress you, yeah Colorado standards are very high i know...
YULWinterSkies From United States of America, joined Jun 2005, 2109 posts, RR: 6 Reply 12, posted (5 years 4 months 2 weeks 3 days 19 hours ago) and read 1587 times:
Quoting MCOGVADCA (Reply 2): IIRC there aren't any domestic flights into Grenoble
There are from ORY. Which is rather useless when one arrives from N Am into CDG...
Viscount724 From Switzerland, joined Oct 2006, 21495 posts, RR: 24 Reply 13, posted (5 years 4 months 2 weeks 3 days 18 hours ago) and read 1555 times:
Quoting YULWinterSkies (Reply 11): GVA does have better flight accessibilty than LYS and closer than CDG but you'd be on your own unless you rent a car, even though it is totally feasible by regional trains to Grenoble if you don't mind the extra travelling time.
There are 3 direct buses a day from GVA airport to Grenoble. Departure times 1100, 1430, 1930. From Grenoble 0530, 0830, 1400. Takes 2.5 hrs each way. Fare 43 euros one way, 69 round trip. If you're under 26 (or 60+) it's 32 euros one way (double round trip). Details from the GVA airport website which also includes numerous other bus services to other French ski resorts. http://www.gva.ch/en/Portaldata/1/Re...ations_informative/aeroski-bus.pdf
While it's possible to get to Grenoble by train from GVA it's not very convenient and would require 1 or 2 connections. The bus would be much easier.
not any more for several years ! Too close to LYS and too far from the city GNB is supposed to serve (GNB is 40 km away from Grenoble city) and of course the TGV effect
Vfw614 From Germany, joined Dec 2001, 3593 posts, RR: 5 Reply 15, posted (5 years 4 months 2 weeks 3 days 8 hours ago) and read 1486 times:
While the city of Grenoble is only 50 miles from La Grave, the airport actually is 75 miles away- That said, a number of airlines serve the airport and the most useful could be Transavia from AMS if you happen to get a cheap deal DEN-AMS.
TGV From France, joined Dec 2004, 868 posts, RR: 23 Reply 16, posted (5 years 4 months 2 weeks 3 days 4 hours ago) and read 1421 times:
For the TGV:
- 9 daily services Paris Gare de Lyon (city station) to Grenoble in ~ 3 hours,
- 1 or 2 daily services from CDG (airport station) to Grenoble. Schedules vary according to the day of the week, it will depned on you flight arriving time. The Saturday during the ski season, there is a departure from CDG at 12:06 arriving at Grenoble at 15:14.
Avoid 777 with 3-4-3 config in Y ! They are real sardine cans. (AF/KL for example)
CuriousFlyer From United States of America, joined Oct 2006, 654 posts, RR: 0 Reply 18, posted (5 years 4 months 2 weeks 2 days 20 hours ago) and read 1349 times:
Grenoble is in the Southern Alps, Meribel is in Savoie I think. In that case, you're probably better off getting to Geneva or LYS. I think the TGV gets very close too.
Ordfrbdl From France, joined Aug 2007, 39 posts, RR: 0 Reply 19, posted (5 years 4 months 2 weeks 2 days 16 hours ago) and read 1318 times:
If you want an easy land access when you're near La Grave, then go for GNB.... the Autoroute to Grenoble and the N91 to La Grave is as quick as you'll get. Airport to La Grave, allow at least 2 hours, though, I think.
Lovely place. Enjoy your stay in the Hautes-Alpes!
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And I hope you'll have a great time. It's one of the absolute best ski areas in Europe if you ask me.
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