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Recreation
Have you ever tried doing this? Hiring a car and driving to your favourite ski resort? From someone who’s done it, let me tell you it’s not as easy as it sounds, especially if you are short sighted and have no sense of direction.
Abundant cheap flights from the UK to Geneva have made it easier than ever to do your own thing, hire a car and head for the slopes.
Determined types shun the maps offered by their car-hire company and follow signs, ending up circumnavigating the picturesque but confusing centre of Geneva, usually several times, sharing traffic jams with Swiss commuters.
So the first piece of advice is to hire a car on the Swiss side of the airport rather than the French side - for a very simple reason that the Swiss car parks are closer to the terminal building, but also for the motorway vignette or ticket, of which more below.
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On leaving the airport follow TOUTES DIRECTIONS, then the green FRANCE signs. These will take you along a long, straight road, at the end of which the FRANCE signs take you left. Stay in the right-hand lane, because immediately after the left turn you follow FRANCE to the right, down the motorway slip road.
This autoroute, with a strictly enforced 100kph speed limit, takes you to the border. In Switzerland, in theory, you need an annual vignette, or licence, to use their motorways, but we have only ever heard of one car being stopped on the way out of Switzerland and made to pay the £20 or so. (If you don’t want to run that slight risk, don’t take the slip road but carry straight on, looking out for ST. JULIEN or ANNECY - in blue, because in Switzerland green is for the autoroute.). However, Swiss hire cars should have the vignette already - you should definitely check with your hire company before setting out.
You cross the border after a few miles of motorway. A quarter of a mile later, filter right, following the green ANNECY sign, not the blue, unless there is heavy snow. In France, green is for ordinary roads and blue is for autoroutes, and the motorway route to Annecy is twice as long as the direct route.
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