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Snapzzz
reply to 'Snow Dancers' posted Dec-2011

OldAndy wrote:
Snapzzz wrote:Just sat at chambery airport waitin to board for the uk. Gutted.
Reading ur excitement fills me with envy.

Btw. Chambery is a crap hole.

Totally disagree!!
Lovely little place.
OK - no facilities worth mentioning and if you arrive at the same time as bus loads of others then check in can be a bit of a scrum.
But ...
Closer to resorts.
Geneva is designed purely to part one from cash and in ChFr so I have no idea what I am spending!
And Chambery has an outside cafe bit so I can have a cigar and mentally prepare myself for loading into a tin can that is bound to crash and kill me :roll:
And ...
When you arrive at Chambery the baggage is often there before you've got through passport and customs.
And ...
Flying in/out over the lake and mountains is an experience.
If you know where to look you can still see the scar on the mountain where the plane crashed trying to land in bad weather.
:thumbup:


Crash....yeah thanks for that.
Skied: Arinsal, La Plagne, Alpe D'huez, Flaine, Les Arcs, Morzine, Les Gets, Avoriaz, Sauze, Courchevel, Val Thorens

Iceman
reply to 'Snow Dancers' posted Dec-2011

OldAndy wrote:
Snapzzz wrote:Just sat at chambery airport waitin to board for the uk. Gutted.
Reading ur excitement fills me with envy.

Btw. Chambery is a crap hole.

Totally disagree!!
Lovely little place.
OK - no facilities worth mentioning and if you arrive at the same time as bus loads of others then check in can be a bit of a scrum.
But ...
Closer to resorts.
Geneva is designed purely to part one from cash and in ChFr so I have no idea what I am spending!
And Chambery has an outside cafe bit so I can have a cigar and mentally prepare myself for loading into a tin can that is bound to crash and kill me :roll:
And ...
When you arrive at Chambery the baggage is often there before you've got through passport and customs.
And ...
Flying in/out over the lake and mountains is an experience.
If you know where to look you can still see the scar on the mountain where the plane crashed trying to land in bad weather.
:thumbup:


Disagree ;) :thumbdown:

1. Us northerners have to pay through the nose to go to Chambery
2. Geneva is a proper airport with very easy checkin (addmitingly only done EasyJet there, but that has to be the 'worse it could be')
3. A delay at Geneva is no problem with all the nice shops :)
4. Can pay in euros
5. Car hire is simple

and......

6. Stupid flight time only to Chambery :twisted:

Geneva = :thumbup:
The Northern Monkey. Jan'23 Les Arcs

Edited 1 time. Last update at 31-Dec-2011

OldAndy
reply to 'Snow Dancers' posted Dec-2011

Snapzzz wrote:
Crash....yeah thanks for that.

Panic not :wink:
It was something like 1964!
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Ian Wickham
reply to 'Snow Dancers' posted Dec-2011

Iceman wrote:
OldAndy wrote:
Snapzzz wrote:Just sat at chambery airport waitin to board for the uk. Gutted.
Reading ur excitement fills me with envy.

Btw. Chambery is a crap hole.

Totally disagree!!
Lovely little place.
OK - no facilities worth mentioning and if you arrive at the same time as bus loads of others then check in can be a bit of a scrum.
But ...
Closer to resorts.
Geneva is designed purely to part one from cash and in ChFr so I have no idea what I am spending!
And Chambery has an outside cafe bit so I can have a cigar and mentally prepare myself for loading into a tin can that is bound to crash and kill me :roll:
And ...
When you arrive at Chambery the baggage is often there before you've got through passport and customs.
And ...
Flying in/out over the lake and mountains is an experience.
If you know where to look you can still see the scar on the mountain where the plane crashed trying to land in bad weather.
:thumbup:


Disagree ;) :thumbdown:

1. Us northerners have to pay through the nose to go to Chambery
2. Geneva is a proper airport with very easy checkin (addmitingly only done EasyJet there, but that has to be the 'worse it could be')
3. A delay at Geneva is no problem with all the nice shops :)
4. Can pay in euros
5. Car hire is simple

and......

6. Stupid flight time only to Chambery :twisted:

Geneva = :thumbup:


The problem with Geneva is the flights never leave on time :evil:
www  http://www.caveholidaysandalucia.co.uk

Iceman
reply to 'Snow Dancers' posted Dec-2011

Touch wood....I have never had a delay at gva
The Northern Monkey. Jan'23 Les Arcs

Andyhull
reply to 'Snow Dancers' posted Dec-2011

Is there a good alpine airport? Surely we're talking about the least bad here?

Ian Wickham
reply to 'Snow Dancers' posted Dec-2011

andyhull wrote:Is there a good alpine airport? Surely we're talking about the least bad here?


I have not flown to many Geneva, Milan, Bergamo,Turin,Innsbruck but as an airport Geneva is the best but as for flights taking off on time Geneva is the worst last year flight was half an hour late
in boarding then we sat for another half an hour in a queue to take off :evil:
www  http://www.caveholidaysandalucia.co.uk

Andyhull
reply to 'Snow Dancers' posted Dec-2011

I've done Chambery, Lyon, Innsbruck, Geneva, Grenoble and Turin. All much of a muchness, in none of them are you made to feel like a valued customer.

Still I'm sure our time in Geneva will be a delight next Saturday!

Topic last updated on 31-December-2011 at 20:12