Practical guides written by our chauffeurs and team: the route from Geneva Airport, the border, the seasons, what to see and how to plan your private transfer.
Geneva Airport (GVA) lies only a few kilometres from the city centre, but its passengers rarely stop in Geneva alone. They head for the hotels along the lake, the offices of the international district, Lausanne and Montreux, the…
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Geneva Airport is the main gateway to the Alps. Within a few hours' drive lie some of the best-known ski areas in the world: Chamonix and Mont Blanc, the Portes du Soleil, the Aravis, the Three Valleys, the Espace Killy, and in…
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Some days don't fit into a single transfer. Several meetings in different parts of Geneva, a visit to a property, shopping in the Old Town, a lunch on the other side of the lake, then a dinner in the evening: booking a car for…
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Geneva is a business city with an international reach: private banks and wealth managers, commodity trading houses, watchmakers, multinational headquarters, law firms and consultancies, alongside the United Nations and the…
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Geneva is one of the world's great diplomatic cities. It hosts the United Nations Office at Geneva in the Palais des Nations, and the headquarters of many international organisations, among them the World Health Organization, the…
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Geneva welcomes conferences, congresses, seminars and trade fairs all year round. Participants arrive from many countries, often on different flights, stay in several hotels and move between the conference venue, dinners and…
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An event is judged from the first minute: the arrival of the guests. A car that stops in front of the entrance at the right time, a chauffeur who opens the door, guests who arrive relaxed instead of searching for parking:…
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Going to a medical appointment is rarely an ordinary journey. A patient may be tired, in pain, recovering from an operation or anxious about a treatment, and a companion often needs to come too. Geneva Transfer Booking offers a…
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Geneva Cornavin is the main railway station of Geneva, in the heart of the city, a few minutes' walk from the lake. It is the arrival point for travellers coming by train from all over Switzerland, from France and from Italy:…
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Zurich Airport (ZRH), in Kloten, north of Zurich, is the largest airport in Switzerland and the main hub of Swiss International Air Lines. It offers many long-haul flights to North America, Asia, Africa and the Middle East that…
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Geneva sits at a crossroads of Europe. Within a few hours' drive lie great cities in three countries: Lyon and Paris in France, Milan and Turin in Italy, and further south Monaco and the Côte d'Azur. For many trips, a private car…
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EuroAirport Basel-Mulhouse-Freiburg is one of the very few airports in the world shared by two countries. It stands on French soil, near the border with Switzerland and Germany, and is run jointly by France and Switzerland. It…
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The Geneva Limousine Service of Geneva Transfer Booking is a chauffeur-driven Mercedes for the moments when the journey should feel as good as the destination: an arrival at Geneva Airport after a long flight, a gala evening in a…
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Gstaad is a village of wooden chalets in the Saanenland, in the Bernese Oberland, close to the border with the canton of Vaud. It is known worldwide for its discreet luxury, its grand hotels, its chalets and its international…
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Davos lies in a high valley of the canton of Graubünden, in eastern Switzerland, at about 1,560 metres, which makes it one of the highest towns in Europe. It is both a real town, with shops, hotels, a congress centre and…
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A wedding day is a carefully timed sequence: getting ready, the ceremony, photos, the reception, and the return of the guests late at night. Around Geneva and Lake Geneva, these moments often take place in several locations,…
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Geneva is a compact city, but its sights are spread between the Old Town, the lake shore and the international district, and the most beautiful places of the region lie an hour or so away: the vineyards of Lavaux, the castle of…
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Bern is the federal city of Switzerland, seat of the Swiss government and parliament, built on a rocky peninsula in a loop of the river Aare. Its medieval old town, with sandstone houses, about six kilometres of arcades,…
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Some needs last longer than a trip. An executive on a mission of several months, a family settling in Geneva, a delegation attending a long conference, a company welcoming a stream of visitors: in all these cases, booking a car…
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Flying privately is about saving time and avoiding crowds. The car waiting at the end of the flight should follow the same logic: ready when the aircraft lands, discreet, and able to take the passengers and all their luggage…
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Lyon Saint-Exupéry is the main airport of the Lyon region and one of the largest in France outside Paris. It lies in the countryside east of Lyon, about 25 kilometres from the city centre, and offers flights to destinations…
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Val Thorens is the highest ski resort in Europe, built at about 2,300 metres at the head of the Belleville valley, in the heart of Les 3 Vallées. Its altitude gives it one of the longest seasons in the Alps, reliable snow from…
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Geneva is a small city with a world-sized address book. Within a few kilometres, it brings together the United Nations and the international organisations, private banks and trading houses, watchmakers, luxury hotels on the lake,…
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Val d'Isère is a high mountain village at the head of the Isère valley, close to the Italian border and the Vanoise National Park. With Tignes, it forms the Espace Killy, one of the great ski areas of the Alps, famous for its…
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Saint-Tropez is a former fishing village on the Var coast of the French Riviera, at the tip of a peninsula facing its gulf. Its pastel houses around the old port, its yachts, its cafés and its markets attract visitors from all…
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Paris is about five and a half hours from Geneva by road. Most travellers take the high-speed train or a flight, but there are many situations where a private car with chauffeur is the better choice: a family with a lot of…
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Monaco is a sovereign principality on the French Riviera, squeezed between the mountains and the Mediterranean, and one of the smallest states in the world. Its districts, Monte-Carlo, Monaco-Ville on its rock, La Condamine…
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Megève is a Savoyard village with a medieval centre, a church square, horse-drawn carriages and wooden chalets, set on a sunny pass between the Arly valley and the Mont Blanc massif. It is one of the most elegant resorts of the…
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Marseille is the oldest city in France and its great port on the Mediterranean, a lively, colourful and cosmopolitan city built around its Old Port and overlooked by the basilica of Notre-Dame de la Garde. Around it lie the white…
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Courchevel is one of the most famous ski resorts in the world. It sits at the heart of Les 3 Vallées, often described as the largest linked ski area in the world, and is known for its ski-in, ski-out design, its luxury chalets…
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Chamonix-Mont-Blanc lies at the foot of the highest mountain in Western Europe, in a narrow valley lined with glaciers and granite needles. It is one of the oldest mountain resorts in the world and remains a place of pilgrimage…
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Annecy is a small French city at the northern tip of Lake Annecy, surrounded by mountains, less than an hour from Geneva. Its old town, crossed by canals and the river Thiou, with arcaded streets, flower-decked bridges and pastel…
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Zurich is the largest city in Switzerland and its economic heart, at the northern end of Lake Zurich, with the Alps visible on clear days. It is home to banks, insurance companies, the Swiss stock exchange, international firms…
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Verbier sits on a sunny balcony above the Val de Bagnes, in the Swiss canton of Valais, facing the Grand Combin and the Mont Blanc massif. It is the main resort of the 4 Vallées, one of the largest ski areas in Switzerland, and a…
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Montreux lies at the eastern end of Lake Geneva, on a sheltered shore where palm trees grow along the promenade and the mountains drop steeply to the water. It is a resort town of Belle Époque hotels, flower-lined quays and…
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Crans-Montana lies on a wide, sunny plateau at about 1,500 metres, above the Rhône valley and the town of Sierre, in the canton of Valais. From its terraces, the view stretches across the valley to a long line of summits, from…
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Lausanne is built on steep hills above Lake Geneva, facing the French Alps across the water. It is the capital of the canton of Vaud, a university city, and the Olympic Capital, home to the International Olympic Committee and…
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Interlaken, as its name suggests, lies between two lakes: Lake Thun to the west and Lake Brienz to the east, in the Bernese Oberland. Above the town rise three of the most famous summits of the Alps, the Eiger, the Mönch and the…
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Bourg-Saint-Maurice is the main town of the upper Tarentaise valley, at the crossroads of some of the largest ski areas in the Alps. Above it lies Les Arcs, reached in a few minutes by funicular, which forms the Paradiski area…
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Zermatt sits at about 1,600 metres at the head of the Mattertal, a long side valley that climbs south from the Rhône. Above it stands the Matterhorn, 4,478 metres high, the mountain everyone recognises from chocolate boxes and…
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Morzine is a real mountain town before it is a ski resort. It sits at about 1,000 metres in the Chablais, in Haute-Savoie, around an old village centre with a church, slate roofs and wooden chalets that climb both sides of the…
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Avoriaz looks like no other ski resort. Built from the mid-1960s on a cliff at about 1,800 metres above Morzine, it was designed as a single architectural project: angular buildings clad in red cedar shingles, shaped to echo the…
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Les Gets is a village of chalets at about 1,170 metres, spread across a col between two valleys of the Haute-Savoie. It has kept a traditional look, with wooden façades, a pedestrian centre in winter and farms on the surrounding…
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La Clusaz is a mountain village at about 1,040 metres in the Aravis range, in Haute-Savoie, about an hour and ten minutes from Geneva and around forty minutes from Lake Annecy. Its church tower, wooden chalets and working farms…
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Villars-sur-Ollon sits on a sunny plateau at about 1,250 metres in the Vaud Alps, above the Rhône valley and facing the jagged peaks of the Dents du Midi. It belongs to the commune of Ollon, in the canton of Vaud, and is one of…
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Les Diablerets is a mountain village at about 1,150 metres at the head of the Ormonts valley, in the Vaud Alps. Above it rises the Diablerets massif, a wall of rock and ice that culminates at about 3,200 metres and gives the…
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Geneva is a small city with a big international role. Around 200,000 people live in the city itself, yet it hosts the European headquarters of the United Nations, dozens of international organisations, hundreds of NGOs, private…
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Gruyères is a small medieval town on a hill in the canton of Fribourg, in the green pre-Alps between Lake Geneva and Bern. A single cobbled main street, closed to traffic, climbs between old houses and fountains to the castle at…
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Divonne-les-Bains is a spa town in the Pays de Gex, in the French department of Ain, just across the border from Geneva. It sits at the foot of the Jura mountains, with views over Lake Geneva and, on clear days, the Mont Blanc…
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Évian-les-Bains lies on the French, southern shore of Lake Geneva, in Haute-Savoie, facing Lausanne on the other side of the water. Its name is known all over the world thanks to the mineral water bottled here, which filters…
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Yvoire is a medieval village on a point of land that juts into Lake Geneva, on the French shore, between Geneva and Thonon. Its stone houses, fortified gates and narrow lanes covered with flowers have earned it a place among the…
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Milan is the economic capital of Italy and one of the great business cities of Europe. It is home to the Italian stock exchange, the headquarters of many banks and companies, and an exhibition centre that hosts trade fairs all…
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Genoa is Italy's great port city, spread between the mountains and the Ligurian Sea. Its old town is one of the largest medieval historic centres in Europe, a maze of narrow lanes called caruggi, opening onto squares, churches…
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Venice is unlike any other city in the world: more than a hundred small islands in a lagoon, linked by some four hundred bridges, with canals instead of streets and boats instead of cars. Palaces line the Grand Canal, St Mark's…
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Rome is the capital of Italy and one of the oldest continuously inhabited cities in Europe. Nearly three thousand years of history are layered in its streets: ancient ruins next to Renaissance palaces, Baroque fountains in front…
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