Tickets for approach ski trains go on sale currently on loco2.com, where skiers book from any UK railway hire to a largest series of Alpine resorts in a singular transaction.
From Altrincham to Ambergate, skiers will be means to bond from their internal hire to a dual approach ski sight services that will run any week between London St Pancras International, job during Ashford International and Moûtiers, Aime-la-Plagne and Bourg St Maurice in France. It will also be probable to book to even some-more resorts in a French Alps around a new, weekly, approach Eurostar from London to Lyon.
“The new London – Lyon track opens adult some unequivocally sparkling new tour options for skiers, who can now transport by sight to a operation of illusory ski resorts but wanting to change hire in Paris,” says Daniel Elkan, owner of Snowcarbon.co.uk, an eccentric beam to travelling to ski resorts by train.
“Instead, they can transport approach from London [or Ashford] to Lyon, and afterwards change height and take an leading internal sight to their ski resort. Interestingly, these journeys to ski destinations around Lyon can’t be requisitioned in their entirety on Eurostar’s website since a Eurostar site doesn’t concede bookings on a internal trains from Lyon to a Alps. However these finish journeys can be requisitioned in one go on Loco2.”
The day use from London to Bourg St Maurice will run on Saturdays from 19 Dec 2015 to 9 Apr 2016, and lapse from Bourg St Maurice on Saturdays from 26 Dec 2015 to 9 Apr 2016. The overnight sight will work from London on Fridays between 1 Jan 2015 and 1 Apr 2016 and from Bourg St Maurice on Saturdays from 2 Jan to 9 Apr 2016. Tickets start during £149 return.
The weekly approach use from London to Lyon departs in any instruction each Saturday during winter. Onward connectors from Lyon include: Annecy for Le Grand Bornand and La Clusaz; Grenoble for Alpe d’Huez; Sallanches for Megeve; St Gervais for St Gervais and Les Contamines; and Modane for Val Cenis.
Travellers can find out some-more in Loco2’s dedicated train-booking guides to Moûtiers, Aime-la-Plagne and Bourg St Maurice. Moûtiers offers easy entrance to Méribel, La Tania, Courchevel, Val Thorens, Le Ménuires and Valmorel. Aime-la-Plagne is available for La Plagne. And Bourg St Maurice is a gateway for Les Arcs, Val d’Isère and Tignes.
Why embankment a craft and take a train?
“There are many reasons because a sight beats a craft for skiers,” says Kate Andrews, co-founder of Loco2. “For example, transport overnight to benefit dual additional days on a towering in a standard seven-day holiday – a good approach to maximize time on a slopes and make a many of costly ski passes.
“Plus travelling by sight allows skiers to skip airfield queues, vapid transfers and container fees,” she continues. “It’s some-more comfortable, charity a possibility to widen your legs, a preference of an on-board café and view to enjoy. And while drifting competence seem quicker during initial glance, it isn’t when we cause in transport to and from a airport, check-in time and transfers to a resort.”
But Kate warns: “Book as early as probable – tickets get snapped up very quickly, quite for a Feb half-term and Easter propagandize holidays.”
Fully independent, Loco2 charges no engagement fee, so tickets are a same cost as shopping approach from rail operators (some movement due to EUR/GBP sell rate).
Visit a website at loco2.com
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Aime-la-Plagne
Ashford International
Bourg St Maurice
Courchevel
La Tania
Le Ménuires
London St Pancras International
Méribel
Moûtiers
Ski Trains
Val Thorens
Valmorel.
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