Travel between Cinque Terre and Chamonix

What is the best way to get from the Cinque Terre to Chamonix - car, train, bus? If train or bus, what is the specific route recommendation?

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I confess I haven%26#39;t been to 5 Terre but I would have thought your best route would be train to Geneva Cornavin and bus from Geneva Gare Routieres to Chamonix Mont Blanc. I have done the second leg.

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I%26#39;m not sure this belongs on the Nice forum ...

If you rent a car, there will be international drop off charges unless you are going to go back to Italy - I%26#39;ve seen 300€ quoted, but you should contact companies direct for precise info.

Train routes can be checked on reiseauskunft.bahn.de/bin/query.exe/en… which gives an idea of possible routes and times, though you can%26#39;t get prices for non-German tickets. As far as I can see, you travel from Cinque Terre/la Spezie to Milan, then have a choice of travel to Geneva and on to St-Gervais-les-Bains, or travel to Visp/Martigny in Switzerland and take the direct train from there into Chamonix Mont Blanc. Either way, you can either spend the night on a railway station or stop over in Milan or Geneva.

As the previous poster mentions, there is also a bus service from Geneva which is often more convenient than the train.

International bus services in Europe are operated by http://www.eurolines.com/ - I find the Italian site difficult to navigate, so I%26#39;ll leave that one to you!

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If you are going between June 28 and Sept. 7, the quickest and cheapest way overland is probably train to Aosta (minimum 6 hours www.ferroviedellostato.it/homepage_en.html ) then buses to Chamonix (the Italian and French buses meet each other in Courmayeur and you climb out of one and straight into the other - 2.5 hrs http://www.savda.it/orari_tariffe.htm )

At other times of year, this route is not possible in one day.

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The Aosta-Chamonix etc. timetable in English, partly, with telephone numbers for booking (though the SAVDA site does have email facilities for that if you click %26#39;contacci%26#39;)

This will still be the cheapest route at other times of year - but you just miss the connection at Aosta if you are coming all the way from the Cinque Terre.

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missed out the link: world.chamonix.com/PDF/courmayeurete.pdf

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Great info, Perlizia and Diz. Thanks

Not sure how I stuck this on the Nice Forum.

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