How to get to the chalet by car

Car hire

The following companies operate out of Geneva airport. From our experience of all the different operators we recommend Avis. We also recommend that you rent cars from the Swiss side to avoid expensive road taxes when getting to and from the chalet.

 

  

 

 

Drive from the United Kingdom

La Clusaz is approximately 490 miles from Calais via Reims. Dijon and Geneva. Click on the following logos for channel crossing information:

Drive from the Geneva

There are a couple of routes to get to the chalet. Below is our usual route, as it seems to be the fastest. If for any reason this road is closed the next best option is to take the motorway to Annecy and on reaching Annecy follow the sign's toward Thones. This road will lead you straight to St Jean de Sixt but you will be approaching the chalet from the opposite direction so the small road to the chalet will be on your right.

Leave Geneva Airport

  1. Follow the green signs to France leading onto the Motorway. (If the first right turn onto the Motorway is closed for roadwork's, continue straight until you hit a 3 junction where you follow the right turn and continue straight ahead for sometime (5 minutes drive) until you see the next green sign to France
  2. Continue on the Motorway through tunnels passing through the French Border
  3. Follow signs on the Motorway to Turin, Mount Blanc and Chamonix
  4. Continue to follow signs for approximately 15-20 minutes drive. You will need 1.50 Euros for the Peage
  5. After 15-20 minutes drive look out for overhead signs to Bonneville
  6. You will then see a white sign with 'La Clusaz & Le Grand Bornard' on the right hand side of the road.
  7. After these signs take the next exit (i.e. the La Clusaz & Le Grand Bornard turnoff). You will pass through a Peage and you will need to pay 5 French Francs
  8. Immediately after exiting the Peage take the first right turn
  9. Go straight through the round about
  10. Approxiamtely 800 meters down the road there is a road to the left, signposted to La Clusaz & Le Grand Bornard
  11. Take this road and keep following the road up into the mountains. Take all turns to La Clusaz and Le Grand Bornard
  12. You will travel for approximately 20 minutes through La Petit Bornard and Entremont
  13. 5 minutes after passing through Entremont you will reach a T-junction intersection where you need to take the right hand turn
  14. Directions from St Jean Sixt to the chalet can be found below
  

Drive from St Jean de Sixt

From main roundabout in St Jean de Sixt take the road towards Annecy.

  1. Travel down this road for a couple of minutes (for approx 1 km).
  2. You will pass a service station on the left.
  3. Take the frst road on the left down the hill. This is called Forgeassoud Dessours.
  4. The chalet is the 5th chalet on the left. It is the last chalet before the u-bend in the road. There are 3 large wooden logs on side of the road immediately prior to the chalet driveway.