Monday, 14 December 2009

Grenoble Alpe d'Huez Transfers


Grenoble to Alpe d'Huez Transfers by The Alpine Transfer Company. Grenoble-Isère airport is becoming more and more popular as the airport that serves Alpe d'Huez and Les Deux Alpes.

Grenoble-Isère Airport or Aéroport de Grenoble-Isère (IATA: GNB, ICAO: LFLS), is an airport serving Grenoble which is situated 2.5 km north-northwest of Saint-Étienne-de-Saint-Geoirs and 40 km northwest of Grenoble, both communes in the Isère, département of France. It is also known as Grenoble - Saint-Geoirs Airport. The appellation, Isere, refers to the town, Romans-sur-Isere southwest of the airport.

Coach links connect the airport with the centre of Grenoble, but if you are looking for a coach to Alpe d'Huez you need to look at one of the Grenoble Alpe d'Huez Transfers services.

So why Alpe d'Huez? L'Alpe d'Huez is a ski resort at 1,860 to 3,330 metres (6,100 to 10,900 ft). It is a mountain pasture in the Central French Alps, in the commune of Huez, in the Isère département in the Rhône-Alpes region.

Alpe d'Huez is one of Europe's premier skiing venues. The site of the Pomagalski's first surface lift in the mid thirties, the resort gained popularity when it hosted the bobsleigh events of the 1968 Winter Olympics. At that time the resort was seen as a competitor to Courchevel as France's most upmarket purpose built resort.

With 249 km of piste and 84 ski lifts, the resort is now one of the world's largest. Extensive snow making facilities helped combat the ski area's largely south-facing orientation and helped Alpe d'Huez appeal to beginner skiers, with very easy slopes. The expansion of the skiing above the linked resorts of Vaujany, Oz-en-Oisans, Villard Reculas and Auris boosted the quantity and quality of intermediate grade slopes but the resort is mostly known for freeskiing, drawing many steep skiing enthusiasts to its high altitude terrain.

Aside from the Tunnel and Sarenne black runs, the latter the world's longest at 16 km, many Off-piste opportunities exist both from the summit of the 3330 m Pic Blanc and the 2808 m Dome des Petites Rousses. These include the 50-degree Cheminees du Mascle couloirs, the open powder field of Le Grand Sablat, the Couloir Fleur and the Perrins bowl. Up to 2200 m of vertical descent are available with heli drops back to the resort's altiport.

To book your Grenoble to Alpe d'Huez transfers call +33 679 280 413 or +33 685 687 131 tonight.

1 comment:

  1. The closest Alpe d'Huez is either Grenoble or Chambery. The airway has no railway connection. Therefore, if you are looking for an Grenoble Alpe d'Huez transfer, I recommend you visit: http://www.ski-transfers.com/airport_transfer_to_Alpe_d%27Huez.php. There you can receive quotes in all your airport transfer requests from local airport transfer providers. The best of all is that you don’t have to pay any fee.

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