Destination Grenoble

Practical information

Check before you depart:

Border formalities

A valid passport or European identity card.

The weather

In winter, barometers in and around Grenoble often drop to below freezing point. Combined with the necessary snowfall, this ensures that the environment turns into a real ‘winter wonderland’. In the Alps, snow falls on over ninety days of the year. The high peaks of the Alps are covered in snow all year round. Together with the relatively high altitude of the winter sports regions in the French Alps (in comparison with Austria, for example), this ensures a high probability for snow.

Time difference

The same time as in the Netherlands

Language

French

Currency

Payments are made using euros and plenty of cash machines are available. Other methods of payment are credit cards and traveller’s cheques.

Electricity

220V

Transport to the ski regions:

Grenoble Airport offers various good value transfers. Scheduled transfers from the airport depart to Grenoble, Lyon, Isère and Savoie. Most transfers connect with flights on transavia.com. In addition to transfers with fixed departure times, there are also transfers that you can reserve on the Grenoble Airport website: http://www.grenoble.aeroport.fr or with Ben's bus.

Ski regions that can be reached easily with transfers:

• Chamrousse, Villards de Lans, Les 7 Laux, Les Deux Alpes, L’Alpes D’Huez, Vaujany, Auris en Oisans, Bourg d’ Oisons, Albertville, Moutiers, Aime and Bourg Saint Maurice.
• By transferring at Albertville: Les Gets, Les Saisies, Les Contamines
• By transferring at Moutiers: Les Ménuires, Courchevel, Méribel, Val Thorens, Saint Jean de Belleville, etc.
• By transferring at Aimes: La Plagne
• By transferring at Bourg Saint Maurice: Tignes, Val d'Isère
• By transferring at Moutiers: Les Arcs