Train travel to Meribel & Mottaret
London - Paris - Moûtiers 

• Visit www.eurostar.co.uk for booking tickets to Paris  (Or call 08705 186 186)

• Visit www.sncf.com for booking tickets from Paris to Moutiers

• Cheaper tickets are available for bookings made more than 30 days in advance and for young people (under 26)

London Waterloo to Paris - Eurostar

To connect with an overnight couchette - need to leave London about 5:20 pm on Friday night - arrive 9:20pm (journey 3hours + time change 1 hour) - cross Paris half an hour - to catch the 10:20pm train in Paris Austerlitz.

Prices Eurostar - London - Paris 

First class

Crossing Paris - Le Metro

• Nine stops on the Metro with no changes

• The Metro line is the Orange line (M10)  Bobigny - Place D'Italie

• From Paris Gare du Nord to Paris Austerlitz

• Outward to the Alps : follow signs for direction "Place D'Italie"

• Return to London : follow signs for Bobigny. 

Paris to Moûtiers

• There are several trains each day leaving in the evening from Paris Austerlitz.

• Typical times are:  Leave Paris 10:20pm Friday night arrive Moûtiers 7:00am Sat morning

• Return: Leave Moûtiers 9:54pm Saturday night arrive Paris 5:59am Saturday morning

• A sinlge costs about £45 however if you book in advance (30 days I think) you can buy discounted tickets for about FF275 for a single. No supplement for a couchette.

Contact European Rail Ltd on 0207 387 0444 / email sales@europeanrail.demon.co.uk , website: www.europeanrail.com for booking tickets on French railways

A couple of hints though - 

• make sure you get couchette seats together  

• but if you don't then do move to another seat you can always swap your ticket with the other person 

• and make sure you have a short connection in Paris - waiting three to four hours in Gare du Nord is not much fun and you generally don't have any energy to do anything else particularly last thing at night or first thing in the morning.