Courchevel 1850 is the highest and best known of the four Courchevel villages, and the last one the road reaches. Montivo drives it from Geneva Airport as a private, door-to-door transfer: one vehicle, your group only, at a price fixed per vehicle when you book.
1850, or one of the other three?
This is the thing worth getting right before anything else. Courchevel is four villages on one mountain road, and they are sold as separate journeys because they are separate journeys:
- Courchevel Le Praz - lowest, in the trees, the quietest of the four and the one with the ski jumps.
- Courchevel Village - midway up, the practical middle option.
- Courchevel Moriond - south-facing and sunny, popular with families.
- Courchevel 1850 - the top of the road, the main lift hub at La Croisette, and the concentration of hotels, restaurants and shops the resort is known for.
If you are staying in any of the first three, book Courchevel rather than Courchevel 1850. It is the correct fare and it is cheaper. If you are staying at the top, this is the page and the fare you want. Getting it wrong is not a disaster - we will still drive you - but it means a conversation on the day about the difference, which nobody enjoys after a flight.
Meeting your driver at Geneva
Your driver tracks the flight, so a late landing moves the pickup rather than losing it. You are met inside the terminal and walked to the vehicle. Geneva airport sits on the border and has both a Swiss and a French exit: give us the flight number and the airline when you book and the driver will be on the correct side of it.
The free waiting time is an hour, counted from the moment the aircraft lands rather than from the time it was scheduled to - passport control and baggage reclaim happen inside that hour.
The drive, and the last twenty minutes of it
The route runs south from Geneva on the motorway past Annecy and Albertville, then up the Tarentaise valley to Moutiers. Everything before Moutiers is ordinary road. Everything after it is the climb: a series of hairpins gaining well over a thousand metres, passing through Le Praz, Village and Moriond in turn before reaching 1850 at the top.
Being last on that road is the whole practical difference between this transfer and a transfer to the lower villages. In good conditions it costs a few minutes. In heavy snow, on a Saturday, at the end of a changeover day, it is the section where local knowledge stops being a nice idea and starts being the reason you arrive on time.
Where the vehicle can actually stop
Most addresses in 1850 are reached normally and the driver takes you to the door. Some are not: parts of the village are served by narrow, steep private drives, and a few of the hotels around the Jardin Alpin have their own arrangements for arriving guests. Give us the name of the hotel or chalet as well as the street and the driver will know which of those applies before setting off, rather than working it out on a slope in the dark.
Transfer to Courchevel 1850from €320 per vehicle, Saturday €420
Price for your dateThe altiport, if you are not flying to Geneva
Courchevel has its own altiport above 1850, with one of the shortest and steepest runways in Europe. It takes light aircraft and helicopters, and it is genuinely used - but it is weather-dependent, small, and not an alternative to a scheduled flight for most people. Almost everybody arrives through Geneva, Chambery, Lyon or Grenoble and drives. If you are arriving by air at the altiport itself and want a vehicle at the other end, send a custom request and we will arrange it.
Saturdays
Saturday is changeover day across the Three Valleys: nearly every chalet and apartment in seven resorts swaps guests within the same few hours, and the whole Tarentaise carries the traffic for all of it. The journey takes noticeably longer than a weekday, the Saturday fare reflects the extra time the vehicle and driver are committed for, and on the way home it is worth leaving a real margin rather than the tightest connection that works on paper.
