Ski/boarding europe what a hassell

Yes leave paris 15 to courmayeur
courmayeur-St mortiz 22nd
St mortiz to Geneva 26th

This site gives useful info and walks you through the various booking systems for European train services.
Very handy if the train operator does not have an english language option.

http://www.seat61.com/

Little ski quote from another thread - 'Im going to finland/Helsinki
on my way to paris in a few weeks how far away is the ski field from there?'

Its nice of you all to take so much time trying to help her/him, but I think he/she is having a little laugh at you.

Surely no-one in this day and age could be so naive?

Littleski,
Here's a map of the TGV links from Paris all over France so you can get an idea of where you're going.

http://www.bonjourlafrance.com/france-trains/tgv.htm#DETAILED

Ise,
I tried your route on the raileurope website for Monday 15th March and I got stuck in Annecy for 3 hours.

TGV Train leaves Paris Gare Lyon 9-50 a.m., arrives Annecy 13-30 (3 hours 40 minutes), costs £43 per adult.
Train leaves Annecy 16-22 arrives St Gervais Les Bains 18-00, change trains, train leaves 18-32 arrives Chamonix Mont Blanc 19-12, cost £19 per adult.
Then shuttle bus from Chamonix to Courmayeur.

Littleski,
Another alternative is to get the overnight sleeper train from Paris Austerlitz on Sunday 14th March which is direct to St Gervais Les Bains, but it costs quite a bit more - £163.

Train leaves 23-02 from Paris Austerlitz arrives St Gervais Les Bains 0911 the next morning. Then change trains, train leaves 10-32, arrive Chamonix 11-12, then catch bus to Courmayeur.
Or alternatively get a taxi from St Gervais Les Bains in the morning, distance to Chamonix (I don't know about Courmayeur probably something similar) 24Km or 15 miles, which would probably be expensive but much easier.

There is definitely NOT an easy route from Paris to Courmayeur on Monday. On Sunday there is a direct day train from Paris to St Germain Les Bains.

Ally

Do what i did before, Hitch hike. There will be parts of Europe that still havent discovred fire so dont except any good transport. But sometimes, i think its better to book transport before accomindation

Little ski wrote:

But changed our mind and decided to ski Italy and Swaziland instead.

Swaziland??? Africa??? :mrgreen:

Brucie wrote:

Its nice of you all to take so much time trying to help her/him, but I think he/she is having a little laugh at you.

Surely no-one in this day and age could be so naive?

Thats what I said on the first page of the thread.....! I think its a wind up.

Littleski,
I forgot to say, you need to book the TGV's (very fast trains) before you go, in fact as soon as possible I would say, as soon as you have worked out your route because the seats are reserved. The phone line for raileurope.co.uk is open weekdays 9 a.m. to 7 p.m. (British time) and Saturdays 9 a.m. to 6 p.m. and I should think the office is somewhere in England because English people answer the phone.

I have been on several of the TGV trains and I've found them very reliable, comfortable, fast, clean etc. They seem to be 2 deckers with a bar/restaurant in them, and the ones I've been on have been incredibly long!

Ally