Geneva airport, motorway charges

sal

Hello,

We're off to the Alps next week by car, we need to bob into Geneva to the airport from France just to pick up our daughter who is flying down and then drop her back there three days later.

We've looked at the map and cannot see a way of getting to the airport without using the motorway which entails us paying for 12 months use of motorways in Switzerland. Has anyone done this and managed to avoid paying the charge?

Sal

Finishrich

Yes, I know my parents have.

I'll try and find out more for you.

zeberdy

We have flown into geneva twice and hired a car in the french sector as this can be cheaper but of cause they do not have the swiss motorway pass so we had to navigate our way through down town geneva dodging the trams to get on the motorway in the French sector.

I sugest you enter your details in via michelin and print off a route we used this and did have a portable sat nav as well.

I have to say having done this twice on visiting La plagne we booked a car on the swiss side this xmas and it was a lot less hassle and quicker to depart as you arrive in the swiss side when you land in geneva.

If you dont have one and you are driving anyway may be worth investing in a good deal on a portable sat nav I use a Garmin but tom tom one which is an old model is heavily discounted.

Hope that helps have a great time were are you going we went to chamonix at xmas (easier to get to) not much snow then and found it a pain to get to the slopes used to dooorstep skiing in la plagne but chamonix was a very nice town.

Zeberdy