Champéry ski resort is located south of Geneva near the French border and is only accessible by road. There are a number of options for getting here, but the most practical is to fly to Geneva and take a train/train/bus combination transfer, or hire a car. With a good network of autoroutes, self-drive is popular as is travelling by long distance train.

The closest international airport is Geneva’s Cointrin Airport which receives both scheduled and charter flights from all over the world. There are two options for getting to Champéry: take a regular scheduled train, via the city, to either Aigle or Monthey from where a Poste bus goes to the resort (three hours). The other option is to hire a car, which will halve the time taken.

If you are driving from Calais, the quickest way is to take the Calais/Reims/Dijon/ Lausanne/Monthey/Champéry route, covering major autoroutes and taking about eight hours (815kms). From Cointrin Airport, take the Lake Geneva motorway (A-9) from the airport to Monthey and follow the signs to Champéry (125kms/1 hour, 30 minutes). The road normally has good driving conditions year round.

The train journey with the least number of connections and a convenient departure and arrival time has three changes and a travel time of 10 hours, 30 minutes. A Eurostar leaves London (Waterloo) at 08:12 and terminates in Paris (Nord), from where a TGV leaves Paris (gare de Lyon) at 13:04, for Lausanne.

An Interregional train then departs Lausanne for Aigle at 17:00, from where a Regional train goes to Champéry for the final leg at 18:35 (one hour). Trains from London go throughout the day and night, and there are plenty of return options.