a little late on this but you could have gotten from VCE to LYS cheaply, slept overnight in LYS which is cheaper than GVA, taken the 630 AM train departure from LYS which arrives in GVA around 9 am. I think I am taking the same flt in Dec and getting there by train. LYS doesn't get hit as hard as GVA can by snow. I live in downtown LYS and we could have a lively discussion about MR.