J2Ski Forum Posts and Replies by jonG

bandit wrote:Cars rented from a Swiss rental agent, will already have a Vignette. French rentals (might) have one, or not, as payment for French Motorways is based on usage, not per year.

The Swiss Gov't have recently decided to raise the Vignette price to 100Fr. No definite implementation date yet, might be 2015, or if there will be the option of a short term Vignette for Tourists.

AllyG wrote:Thanks for that Jon,
I must be doing something very wrong :cry:

I put in that I'd pick the car up at Geneva airport, Swiss side (I didn't know which side was cheapest but I had to put something), on 13th January and return it on 20th January and I wanted a family size car.

The cheapest car that came up was a VW Golf and it was £293 for the week :shock:

I think maybe I'd better stick to the train :lol:

And thanks Bandit for explaining what the road tax meant :D

Far Queue wrote:I would like to make a comment about the company mentioned in the link above.

Both myself and a friend had issues when we tried to use them to buy tyres and wheels online a few years ago. They refused to accept a credit card (even though the website accepted it for the order) and contacted us directly to state the card had been declined and to insist we either used a debit card or transferred the money via bacs. I smelt something fishy so pulled out of the order as did my friend, especially as we did not want to lose the protection of using a credit card. Further checks with my credit card revealed they had not even tried to put the charge on it.

After doing further research, I found several stories of people being forced to pay the same way they wanted us to, and then not receiving their orders, either at all or until well into the following season making the order next to useless.

Just want to give people a heads up of how I was treated, that's all.

bedrock barney wrote:

jonG wrote:Hi,

Yes I would say les Arcs would be fine, but would recommenb they stay in either Arc 2000 or Arc 1950 if both are looking for wide, relatively easy flattering runs, with options for something a little more challenging slightly further afield over the 1600/1800 Peisey-Vallandry side.

All the best

jon.

Just watch the last bit of skiing back into 1950 though. It's a real bun fight where the piste narrows just above the village. When we were there (early March), the pistes were pretty scalped and icy. The easier route for the more cautious skier, would be to ski back into Arc 2000 and then catch the short gondola ride into 1950.