Coach from London to Resort

Dear All,

I was wondering if anybody has had any positive experience travelling from London, overnight, to their ski resort or thereabouts.

I ask because the idea of leaving London on a Friday evening, sleeping overnight, and arriving at my resort early / mid afternoon appeals. However, I haven't really travelled by coach for years, and my memory of coach travel is of being quite cramped. I did an overnight once and it was awfull. I've seen adverts for 'luxury' coaches with extended leg room, but I suspect they will still be cramped.

Any useful comments gratefully received.

Take eurostar to paris and a night sleeper from Paris to resort. Dump bags at accomm and have some extra ski time.

You can then either repeat in reverse or take a TGV to Paris and get to London early evening.

Dorset Boy wrote:Take eurostar to paris and a night sleeper from Paris to resort. Dump bags at accomm and have some extra ski time.

You can then either repeat in reverse or take a TGV to Paris and get to London early evening.

Ditto. You might as well get the train, much more comfortable.

Dorset Boy wrote:Take eurostar to paris and a night sleeper from Paris to resort. Dump bags at accomm and have some extra ski time.

You can then either repeat in reverse or take a TGV to Paris and get to London early evening.

Hi,

I agree take the Eurostar, leaves London St.Pancras Friday night and
and will take you direct to the Tarentaise stopping at Bourg-St-Maurice.

The overnight goes all the way through, think it stops at Moutiers and Aime then onto BsM, have had a place in BsM since 2003 but always Drive or Fly-Drive so plans permitting hoping to do the Train this season.

Think the price for standard seat etc is around £160 return pwer person, which isn't bad at all , and you do get a day or so extra skiing which is a bonus.

jon

Do you manage to sleep ok on Eurostar?

The reason I was looking at coaches is that they will take you directly to your resort. Looks ok on paper, but I suspect the seats will be cramped.

I have just posted on this very similar thread:

http://www.j2ski.com/ski-chat-forum/posts/list/11817.page

I had no problems with the snowcoach. We'd already had three ski holidays that year so doing a coach trip was cheap enough for us to afford a fourth. When looking for the cheapest options I found flights cheaper than the train at the time. Not considered the train since.

You could have the same problems on a coach as on the train I guess, all depends who you end up travelling with.

On the train we have experienced both, one year we were in the naughty carriage when there were a load of very excited and drunk 20 somethings up all night making the most revolting mess, one of them managed to get into the overhead luggage rack for a kip. But we've also been in a quiet carriage and had sleep after a few drinks.

You can obviously move around more on the train, but I would imagine the coach would be a bit tamer being in a smaller space.

I'm curious about travelling by coach now, I'm off to have a look :)

I'm like you PaulBryanBill, my preconception is that it would be horrible... but I have a friend that does it for four-day breaks and says it's great...it arrives early on day 1 and you can ski on departure day too.

Think he goes "Snowcoach", worth seeing if there are any reviews on them, but I'm sure there are plenty of others.