Getting to Les Houches
Arrival:
The arrival day is Sunday March,
9 preferably after 4pm.
Sunday March, 9 the dinner will be server from 19:30 to 20:30
The opening ceremony will take place on Monday March 10 in the morning. Closing ceremony: Friday March, 21 in the
afternoon. Departure from Les Houches is expected on the
21rst in the evening. If you fly on the 22nd,
we advise you to contact the organizers for booking a room in
Geneva close to the Airport.
If you have problems establishing your travel plans in
spite of the travel instructions given below, please contact
us.
if you did not arrange for someone to meet you at the Les Houches train or bus
station please call a taxi from
there or as a last resort call the Les Houches secretariat: +33 [0]
450544069
We are not paying for Taxi fares from Geneva. Therefore try to use buses or trains.
Location:
The school site is situated about 5 km from Les-Houches
railway and bus station. If you does not found someone, who meet
you at the station, you can take a taxi, or call the secretariat
and we will pick you up using personal cars.
For a local map, please look on Web site:http://www-houches.ujf-grenoble.fr/renseignements-en.html#access
Travelling by Plane:
The nearest airport to Les-Houches is GENEVA
There are direct buses to Les-Houches from Geneve airport. (Note
that Switzerland is NOT in Europe, and therefore a Swiss visa is needed
for many nationalities (even if you take a bus from the French side
of Geneva's airport, they check the visa at the border!) It is much
better to take the bus on the International (Swiss) side than on the
French side. There are more buses, your luggage goes first to the
Swiss side, and the bus leaves a little later from the Swiss side
(it has to make an interesting meander through, then under the
airport, to go from the French to the Swiss side).
The timetable is: (click here for fully detailled informations)
| Dep. French side |
Dep.GVA (Intern. side) |
Arr. Les Houches |
| xxx |
08:00 |
09:50 |
| 10:30 |
11:00 |
12:31 |
| xxx(*) |
13:50(*) |
15:25(*) |
| 15:30 |
15:45 |
17:20 |
| xxx |
16:00 |
17:45 |
| 18:25 |
18:40 |
20:15 |
(*) Only Saturdays and Sundays
| Dep. Les Houches |
Arr GVA (Intern. side) |
Arr. French side |
| 07:00 |
08:50 |
09:05 |
| 10:00 |
11:50 |
12:05 |
| 11:00(*) |
12:50(*) |
xxx(*) |
| 14:00 |
15:50 |
16:05 |
| 16:30 |
18:20 |
xxx |
(*) Only Saturdays and Sundays
When you arrive, the Bus ticket counter is straight ahead on the
International side. (On the french side, just right before the
bridge exit). They will tell you where the bus is.
For those who need, but have no Swiss visa, you can go to
Bellegarde-sur-Valserine. There is not public transport! You can
ask somebody to pick you up, or take a taxi (that we can not pay
for!) There is a train from Bellegarde to St-Gervais it takes about 4 hours.
Be sure that we know at advance about your arrival
time, since there could be no more trains to Les-Houches at this day!
The other international Airport you may use is Lyon-Satolas
(LYONS). You should take a bus to Lyon
railway station (Lyon-Part-Dieu). It takes about 4 hours.
It is possible to use a private Limousine service http://www.a-t-s.net/. The Limousine can be booked 3 days in advance or just the previous day. Sundays are busy days, and there will be little available places. You should book the limousine yourself using their web page and ask for a shared transfer, you will be ask your credit card number and your flight reference. Select for destination at step 1 Chamonix Valley but when the ask for the address of you hotel put the adress of the physics center
Ecole de Physique des Houches
Cote des Chavants
F-74310 Les Houches
FRANCE
The Limousine will fetch you at the Airport and drive you to the school. The price is the same as the travel by bus plus taxi to the school.
Travelling by Train:
There is a night train from Paris leaving from Gare d'Austerlitz at 22:32
arriving at Les Houches at 9:05 with a change at St-Gervais-les-Bains-le-Fayet
For all trains and some regular buses timetable, please
consult:
In both cases use for departure city Geneve and arrival city
Les Houches.
From Geneve airport you two options (see the CFF site) but the
quicker by one hour is to go a city bus till Gare des
Eaux-Vives (take the trolley-bus 10 from the Airport until the
Bel-Air--the stop on the bridge over the Rhone-- and change to the
trolley-bus 16), then train to Annemasse - (La Roche s/Foron) -
(St-Gervais-Les-Bains) - Les Houches. Train very pleasant, quite a
few, but slow. The other possibility (more expensive) is city bus
(or taxi) to Geneva Cornavin, then train on the Swiss side:
GVA-Lausanne-Martigny-Chamonix-Les Houches. Extraordinary line from
Martigny, well worth taking during day-time.
These two options are given by the Swiss train web site http://www.cff.ch/pv/index_f.htm
entrering for departure city Geneve and arrival city Les
Houches. Geneva bus informations are availaible from the site
http://www.tpg.ch
Travelling by car:
See the Les Houches WEB site under the rubrick "How to
come to Les-Houches": http://www-houches.ujf-grenoble.fr/renseignements-en.html#access
Complementary informations:
please consult the Les Houches WEB site: http://www-houches.ujf-grenoble.fr/renseignements-en.html#access
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