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Aug 31, 2014 | 8:51 am

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morges1

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Originally Posted by northernvilla

Hi,

I need to hire a car at GVA and travel to Flaine (France). The availability of cars and prices seems to be better on the Swiss side (when looking at booking through BA).

Does anyone have any experience of this? Is it easy to get a car from the Swiss side and drive into France?

Any advice would be appreciated.

NV

Since Schengen, it has made sense to use the Swiss side - if it's cheaper and simpler, do it. On DannyB111's points, whether you exit from the French or the Swiss side, you'll need to use the Swiss autoroute from the airport and you are surer that the Swiss car will have the vignette for the highway (and the right tyres, but you are unlikely to be stopped being GVA and the Bardonnex border post for a tyre check!).

Last edited by morges1; Aug 31, 2014 at 8:58 am

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