On Fri, Jan 10, 2003 at 05:10:53PM +0000, Andy Wardley wrote: > I can also highly recommend going via Eurostar. I forget how long it > is, something like 8 hours, but then it's only a 20-30 minute minibus > ride the other end. Ooh, good point! > > You walk straight on/off the train. No pissing around in custom, baggage > claim, etc., something that is always gnarly when lugging boards/skis > around. No long check-in times, no long coach journeys. You can drive > down to Ashford and catch the train there if you prefer it to Waterloo. > > I reckon that all-in-all it takes about the same time going by train as > it does flying. But with the train you get to spend most of that time > sitting in a comfy seat. home->airport: 35 mins checkin,etc: 90 mins easyget->gva: 50 mins or so afaik checkout,etc: 60 mins airport->chamonix: 60 mins or so this comes to about 5 hours - and only half of it involves sitting in a chair... i'll take that over 8 hours sitting up on a train...
> > If you go on the overnight train then you get to party it up all night, This, on ther other hand, is a different matter ;-) > too. You can also get an extra day's skiing in at the end by coming > home overnight instead of spending your "last" day travelling. > Yeah, bonus. /joel
