cham08 , Swiss side for the reasons above plus the local police will see you as a foreign tourist an

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What is the difference between holiday rambler travel trailer hiring from the Swiss side or the French side. The French side rates appear to be about half the rate of the swiss side. Is there a reason for this and is there anything stopping me from hiring holiday rambler travel trailer from the French holiday rambler travel trailer side then travelling into Switzerland.
Also, when returning the car, DON'T follow signs to Geneva Airport. Follow signs to Ferney/Gex or follow the shore of the lake through the city if you feel brave. If you go to GVA you will be on the Swiss side which is a LONG drive to the French entrance (which is down a single track road just the other side of a road tunnel - blink and you'll miss it.)
I'd agree with that, though with the proviso that you DON'T always get chains on the Swiss side - you must check. But friends of ours who didn't, did manage to get the money they'd had to shell out back from Europcar , when they drove back to the airport.
one of them being that it sometimes closes quite early - someone can be sent off to open it, but it can take ages, as I found one time when I'd left my car in a car park on the French side, faute de mieux
Said it before but I will say it again, you do always get winter holiday rambler travel trailer tyres on the car at the swiss side but these are not necessarily included in the price even though they are not 'optional', holiday rambler travel trailer depends on the broker and supplier. Chains may or may not be in the car and you may or may not be charged extra. Check carefully and shop around. Do a forum search on here too if you dare
sarah , good point. I once whiled away some time waiting for a friend on a late plane picking up all the car hire leaflets from the various companies. They just about all had the winter pack as an extra - and you're not the only person to have been stung for the additional charge, on arrival. I asked one of the companies holiday rambler travel trailer about the charge and he said for English hirers they're always included . Whatever that might mean.
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France, Swiss side are fussy f*ckers who charged me 1000 Euros for a scratch I hadn't even noticed holiday rambler travel trailer on the bumper of a car I hired! Bloke even said to me the French don't care but we do as if I was going to be impressed!
[/quote Every time I do it, the system seems different. It's particularly Kafkaesque if arrivals have no entry papers for Switzerland, as they emerge onto the French side minus baggage. That might be different now, with Switzerland in Schengen, but it's something I've battled with several holiday rambler travel trailer times in the past, together holiday rambler travel trailer with the decision of whether to then drive them back into Switzerland and out along the motorway to Bardonnex, hoping nobody will ask to see their passports. I don't know the background but it seems there is some kind of war going on, and the Swiss side of things are determined nobody will ever find the French side - as evidenced in the signs for the airport all leading back to the Swiss side even when you've managed to exit the motorway correctly and are following the signs for Ferney. Even in Ferney Voltaire itself (which holiday rambler travel trailer is French of course) the only sign to the airport holiday rambler travel trailer is a teeny poxy little one, right on the junction with the barbed-wire enclosed road into the airport. French signposting is generally good, but I don't think there's an advanced sign for that junction even at the big roundabout immediately holiday rambler travel trailer to the north.
holiday rambler travel trailer cham08 , Swiss side for the reasons above plus the local police will see you as a foreign tourist and be less likely to pull you over. French hire cars will have non local registration plates and you will be more likely to be pulled for a tyre check and stopped by customs officers close to borders.
French side - slightly harder to get to the hire desks but queues are less or non-existent - direct access to the cars so loading is easier quicker - slightly longer drive to get out of the airport get through the road border back into Switzerland - plus allow 5 minutes holiday rambler travel trailer to buy the Vignette from the border post (use cash!).
Top tip - to get to the French side, go through the main baggage reclaim, turn left take the escalator/lift to the departures floor, turn right and keep walking until you see some glass sliding doors the border sign (NB you may need to show your passport again so keep it handy) - go through holiday rambler travel trailer and you are on the French side by the car hire desks.
Swiss side - the car hire desks are now a fair walk away from the baggage reclaim area and in my experience long queues/waits when you get there (probably a result of more people booking cars on the Swiss side) - once you have the keys, you then need to get on a bus to take you to the car park - again another wait plus effort in loading unloading (not good when you have bags, skis, etc) - you then have to find the car which is also difficult due to the shear numbers compared to the French side. Plus is that you have near direct access to the motorway (there are a few traffic lights to get through) you have the vignette, chains, snow tyres, etc.
Return is straight forward with good access/sign posting off the motorway - there is also a small petrol station beneath the hotel before the hire car park - but you then have to catch the bus back to the main terminal - more waiting, loading/unloading again.
We did too until we discovered - quite by accident - a little car hire gem which has newly started operating from Geneva Airport. Just waiting to test it out a second time in September and will then, if it's as good as our first experience in July, reveal all!! Loatie
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