Can I exit Geneva airport into France and Switzerland?
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tYes.
We went from the Swiss side though, I can't remember why, something like we couldn't prepay for snow chains on the French side and didn't want to get stung. Think we ended up getting stung anyway for all sorts of hidden extras.
Our only navigation issue was not being able to find the French destinations in the Sat Nav, just Swiss ones. My wife thought she was all too clever for finding the French destinations behind the "plus symbol". I didn't realise the plus symbol was something you could press as it was pretty obviously a Swiss flag to me!
We went from the Swiss side though, I can't remember why, something like we couldn't prepay for snow chains on the French side and didn't want to get stung. Think we ended up getting stung anyway for all sorts of hidden extras.
Our only navigation issue was not being able to find the French destinations in the Sat Nav, just Swiss ones. My wife thought she was all too clever for finding the French destinations behind the "plus symbol". I didn't realise the plus symbol was something you could press as it was pretty obviously a Swiss flag to me!
0000 said:
Flipping heck, that is the best post ever!Thanks
If you are going skiing hire from the Swiss side. Cars on the French side do not come equipped with snow tyres or snow chains.....I found this out the wrong way when I was trying to leave a ski resort after it had been snowing for a week.
Also if you used the Swiss Autoroute's (or whatever they call them) you will need to buy a Vignette to allow you to drive on them as French cars won't have one. They cost £30 or £40 from memory.
So it's cheaper but
You won't have snow tyres
You won't have snow chains
You have to pay to use Swiss Autoroute's.....which you will have to if you are going to Chamnix or somewhere in the Portes du Soleil for example
It's a bugger to find when you get back to the airport.
Use the Swiss side.
Also if you used the Swiss Autoroute's (or whatever they call them) you will need to buy a Vignette to allow you to drive on them as French cars won't have one. They cost £30 or £40 from memory.
So it's cheaper but
You won't have snow tyres
You won't have snow chains
You have to pay to use Swiss Autoroute's.....which you will have to if you are going to Chamnix or somewhere in the Portes du Soleil for example
It's a bugger to find when you get back to the airport.
Use the Swiss side.
Amateurish said:
You don't have to use the Swiss motorway to get into France, but if you don't you will have to drive through central Geneva which can be a real pain in rush hour. You can pick up the A40 near Gaillard.
I rented from French side last week during act strike and drove to Lyon, then headed south to Montpellier. Sat nav tried to take me to the motorway with 'vignette obligitaire' singes everywhere, so I turned the opposite way from leaving the airport and just followed for Lyon. It did not appear to be motorways and the car had no vignette on it.
Which I thought quite odd, bearing in mind that if you buy a vignette and fit it, it's then on the car and on the car for all year. So why don't europecar just fit them..., its like 30 euros?
Amateurish said:
You don't have to use the Swiss motorway to get into France, but if you don't you will have to drive through central Geneva which can be a real pain in rush hour. You can pick up the A40 near Gaillard.
No you don't, you can easily avoid the city. Head south on the E25, left on the D984 then head for Perly, join the A40 near St Julien. Used this route a number of times, both ways. The City's a nightmare.Excellent sandwich shop on Ave de Geneve, St Julien.
Zod said:
s3fella said:
Sat nav tried to take me to the motorway with 'vignette obligitaire' singes everywhere
They're using monkeys to enforce vignette purchase now? 
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