Private chauffeur from Lyon to Tignes, up to 2,100 m

From central Lyon the road runs 234 km and 3 h 15. From Lyon-Saint-Exupéry airport it is 221 km and 3 h: motorway as far as Albertville, then the Tarentaise valley, narrowing kilometre after kilometre. Your chauffeur follows your flight and moves the pick-up to the actual landing.

By train, the access station is Bourg-Saint-Maurice. From there 30 km and 40 min of road remain, the climbing part, hairpins and often snow. We meet you on the platform and leave as soon as the bags are loaded. That last stretch sets the departure time far more than the motorway does: when the road is difficult, your chauffeur leaves Lyon earlier rather than rushing the climb. Waiting is included, thirty minutes at a station, one hour at an airport, counted from the scheduled landing time.

A week at 2,100 m means skis, boots and a case each. The V-Class carries seven passengers, the E-Class or the GLE three, the S-Class two, and the Sprinter VIP has fifteen seats with a hold for twelve large cases. We count one piece of luggage per person and pick the vehicle on that total, not on the seat count. For a group, several cars leave together from one address and arrive together. Tignes le Lac or Val Claret: give us the name of the building and we stop outside it.

On changeover Saturdays the Tarentaise fills from mid-morning. We leave earlier on those days, without being asked. Night arrivals are handled the same way: on private journeys the rate is a single one, with no night, weekend or public holiday surcharge. An urgent request is set up in under an hour. On board, Wi-Fi, a bottle of water, and a chauffeur in a suit who speaks French and English.

Winter sets the terms. At 2,100 m the snow lies late and the valley fills quickly: your chauffeur checks the state of the road before setting off and tells you if the departure time changes. We drive properly equipped, and we would rather leave half an hour early than call you from a queue. In summer the resort lives differently, the lake and the passes take over from the pistes, and the same 234 km run without the changeover Saturdays.

Going home, the flight time sets the departure from the resort. We work backwards from it: check-in, 30 km down to Bourg-Saint-Maurice or 221 km to Lyon-Saint-Exupéry, and a margin for the descent. You get a pick-up time outside your building, and the chauffeur is there before it. For a railway station, Lyon Part-Dieu or Saint-Exupéry TGV, the reasoning is identical. One call is enough to move the departure earlier or later, at any hour, weekends included.