Allow just over two hours from Grenoble Airport to Meribel in good conditions. The drive is roughly 169 km, most of it motorway, before the climb from Moutiers into the Allues valley. Montivo runs the transfer privately and door to door: your group in its own vehicle, and one price for that vehicle, fixed when you book.
Meeting you off the plane
Put your flight number in the booking and we follow the flight, so the driver is there for the time it actually lands. You are met inside Grenoble's terminal and walked to the vehicle. The airport lies at Saint-Etienne-de-Saint-Geoirs, about 40 km north-west of the city, and there is no border to cross, which keeps the meeting simple even on a busy weekend.
Easy kilometres to Moutiers
Grenoble is further from Meribel than Chambery is, but the kilometres are easy ones: the A48 into Grenoble, the A41 north-east up the Gresivaudan valley, the A43 towards Albertville, then the N90 to Moutiers. The route skirts Grenoble on its ring roads rather than crossing the centre. That is why roughly 169 km comes out at about two hours in good conditions. The mountain driving only starts after Moutiers.
From Moutiers up the Allues valley
Out of Moutiers the road runs up the Doron valley to Brides-les-Bains, a spa town at the foot of the Allues valley, then climbs through a run of bends past the old village of Les Allues to Meribel at about 1,450 m. It is a busy resort road rather than a remote one, but it is steep, and in snow the drivers take it at the speed it needs.
Changeover on the N90
Saturday is the slow day. The N90 between Albertville and Moutiers carries changeover traffic for every Tarentaise resort, and Meribel's own road then fills with guests arriving at and leaving the chalets. Grenoble's flights cluster on the same weekend days, so Saturday pick-ups are planned with extra time, and the Saturday price reflects the longer job. If your chalet host expects you at a set hour, warn them that a Saturday transfer takes longer.
Transfer to Meribelfrom €300 per vehicle, Saturday €400
Price for your dateWhich vehicle
A Standard vehicle takes up to eight passengers; VIP takes up to seven in a higher-specification vehicle with more space around each seat. For a chalet party that fills more than one vehicle, the booking prices the number of vehicles needed.
Children and ski equipment
Child seats are provided free when you request them at booking; tell us the children's ages. Declare ski and board bags and oversized cases too, and we send a vehicle with room for them.
Meribel, Mottaret or Les Allues
Meribel was laid out from the late 1930s by a Scotsman, Peter Lindsay, and it has kept its wood-and-stone chalet style, with many chalets on steep lanes off the main road. Meribel-Mottaret is a separate, higher satellite several kilometres further up the valley, and Les Allues is the old village below the resort. Mottaret and Les Allues can each be booked as destinations in their own right. The exact address decides the last part of the drive, so give it when you book.
Your return to Grenoble
We set the return pick-up from your flight time, allowing for the descent through Brides-les-Bains, the Tarentaise and the motorway, and for checking in ski bags. In fresh snow the bends above Brides-les-Bains are the slow part of the way down, and Saturday returns start earlier than weekday ones. If you book both directions together, each leg is priced by its own day.
