Anyone landed at Chambery airport recently?

[UTH]

Will there be somewhere after we've arrived to get beers for the long coach journey, or is it a tiny little wasteland of an airport where we'll get nothing and regret not planning ahead?

[CrutyRammers]

From memory, Chambery is a shed and a couple of portacabins. Might be a vending machine or possibly a small coffeshop type place. I'd take the "plan ahead" option.

[UTH]

CrutyRammers said:

From memory, Chambery is a shed and a couple of portacabins. Might be a vending machine or possibly a small coffeshop type place. I'd take the "plan ahead" option.

Thanks, a distant memory in my mind agrees with you, but wondered if perhaps it had improved at all, but I fear not.

[Rushjob]

Never been through there, but it's on the opposite side of our region (Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes). ISTR reading an article about it in the quarterly regional magazine and it looked bigger in the pics than Limoges which has a cafe and small shop, so maybe not as bad as the OP is thinking??

[ARFBY]

Has a Duty Free shop, Restaurant and Gift shop, according to their web page.

https://www.chambery-airport.com/en/services/duty-...

[Richard-390a0]

Two luggage belts only & a lot of crowds if you're on a saturday transfer... assuming they can actually land of course as it's often closed due to the weather lol

[UTH]

ARFBY said:

Has a Duty Free shop, Restaurant and Gift shop, according to their web page.

https://www.chambery-airport.com/en/services/duty-...

Damn, boarding lounge, so no use for arrivals I guess.

[UTH]

Richard-390a0 said:

Two luggage belts only & a lot of crowds if you're on a saturday transfer... assuming they can actually land of course as it's often closed due to the weather lol

Ok, plan ahead seems to be wise then.

[PurpleTurtle]

There are a couple of kiosks in the main hall, but mainly flogging tourist tat and the odd baguette/croissant/coffee.

I doubt you'll be able to get a beer non-airside, if you can I would imagine it it expensive.

In my several trips to the Alps via Chambery over the years there has always been a lot of faffing around on arrival getting people onto coaches, waiting for the ubiquitous 'Manchester flight', then the schlep into resort. I just use it as opportunity to get some kip before heading out in resort.

Are you that gagging to have a beer?

[ClaphamGT3]

Chambrey - use it a lot because it lops a lot of transfer time out of the journey to the alps.

It is, as others have said, quite badly weather-impacted (had some fairly impressive last minute go-arounds there) and there is naff all in terms of arrivals facilities.

[UTH]

PurpleTurtle said:

There are a couple of kiosks in the main hall, but mainly flogging tourist tat and the odd baguette/croissant/coffee.

I doubt you'll be able to get a beer non-airside, if you can I would imagine it it expensive.

In my several trips to the Alps via Chambery over the years there has always been a lot of faffing around on arrival getting people onto coaches, waiting for the ubiquitous 'Manchester flight', then the schlep into resort. I just use it as opportunity to get some kip before heading out in resort.

Are you that gagging to have a beer?

I would love to say no I'm not gagging, but I know that the 6 of us will be very disappointed to have a 3 hour coach trip without and 'roadies', especially as it's quite a late landing......so yeah we'll need to plan ahead.

[ClaphamGT3]

UTH said:

PurpleTurtle said:

There are a couple of kiosks in the main hall, but mainly flogging tourist tat and the odd baguette/croissant/coffee.

I doubt you'll be able to get a beer non-airside, if you can I would imagine it it expensive.

In my several trips to the Alps via Chambery over the years there has always been a lot of faffing around on arrival getting people onto coaches, waiting for the ubiquitous 'Manchester flight', then the schlep into resort. I just use it as opportunity to get some kip before heading out in resort.

Are you that gagging to have a beer?

I would love to say no I'm not gagging, but I know that the 6 of us will be very disappointed to have a 3 hour coach trip without and 'roadies', especially as it's quite a late landing......so yeah we'll need to plan ahead.

Three hours from Chambery - where the hell are you going, the Pyrenees?? The whole point of Chambery is that its a quick hour/hour and a half up into your destination

[UTH]

ClaphamGT3 said:

UTH said:

PurpleTurtle said:

There are a couple of kiosks in the main hall, but mainly flogging tourist tat and the odd baguette/croissant/coffee.

I doubt you'll be able to get a beer non-airside, if you can I would imagine it it expensive.

In my several trips to the Alps via Chambery over the years there has always been a lot of faffing around on arrival getting people onto coaches, waiting for the ubiquitous 'Manchester flight', then the schlep into resort. I just use it as opportunity to get some kip before heading out in resort.

Are you that gagging to have a beer?

I would love to say no I'm not gagging, but I know that the 6 of us will be very disappointed to have a 3 hour coach trip without and 'roadies', especially as it's quite a late landing......so yeah we'll need to plan ahead.

Three hours from Chambery - where the hell are you going, the Pyrenees?? The whole point of Chambery is that its a quick hour/hour and a half up into your destination

Fair, maybe closer to two hours getting to Val T. I assume they'll insist on stopping once en route!

[Richard-390a0]

UTH said:

Ok, plan ahead seems to be wise then.

I think there's a couple of vending machines in the arrival area iirc, but we usually breakfast at Gatwick & try & get out of Chambery a.s.a.p as the luggage can take an age to be unloaded & then eat / drink again if required at the m'way services comfort stop mid transfer. Heading towards V.T or Val there's a castle on a hill overlooking the services which where we usually stop.

Edited by Richard-390a0 on Tuesday 15th March 15:52

[UTH]

Richard-390a0 said:

UTH said:

Ok, plan ahead seems to be wise then.

I think there's a couple of vending machines in the arrival area iirc, but we usually breakfast at Gatwick & try & get out of Chambery a.s.a.p as the luggage can take an age to be unloaded & then eat / drink again if required at the m'way services comfort stop mid transfer. Heading towards V.T or Val there's a castle on a hill overlooking the services which where we usually stop.

Edited by Richard-390a0 on Tuesday 15th March 15:52

Annoyingly our flight doesn't even land until about 6pm, we're going to be lucky to get to our hotel before 9 really aren't we.

[ClaphamGT3]

UTH said:

Fair, maybe closer to two hours getting to Val T. I assume they'll insist on stopping once en route!

I can comfortably drive from Chambery to VT in an hour and twenty minutes and I have never known a transfer coach stop en route from Chambery unless to put snow chains on.

[UTH]

ClaphamGT3 said:

UTH said:

Fair, maybe closer to two hours getting to Val T. I assume they'll insist on stopping once en route!

I can comfortably drive from Chambery to VT in an hour and twenty minutes and I have never known a transfer coach stop en route from Chambery unless to put snow chains on.

Ok good to know, I must be basing that on years ago from Geneva, so maybe we'll be pleasantly surprised.

[ARFBY]

UTH said:

ARFBY said:

Has a Duty Free shop, Restaurant and Gift shop, according to their web page.

https://www.chambery-airport.com/en/services/duty-...

Damn, boarding lounge, so no use for arrivals I guess.

Sorry to get your hopes up

Hope you have a good time.

[UTH]

ARFBY said:

Sorry to get your hopes up

Hope you have a good time.

Haha, not to worry, the fact the weather forecast is looking very good makes up for everything.