kerrilynn

Hi Travelers!!
I will be traveling from the Mont Blanc area to Munich during the fall of 2010. Train or fly???

flylow

We fly into Munich and drive to visit family in the area - it's a "road trip thing".

If driving is out of the question, fly unless you don't mind multiple transfers and spending 8+ hours traveling on trains.

Enjoy your trip no matter how you go.

Michael

You may want to fly. The train will take 10+ hours according to SNCF.COM and will cost as much or more than the plane, which can be had for $199 on a Swissair mid-week flight from Geneva to Munich according to Kayak.com. Whether the pricing holds for next year is another question.

altamiro

Geneva to Munich is a distance where fyling makes more sense than train. However there are good connections with only 1 change, so it's not a problem. The trip from Chamonix to Geneva is better done by the direct bus (www.gareroutiere.ch) which does not figure in the SNCF database.
For the train planning see www.sbb.ch - SNCF website isn't so great when it comes to trains outside of France.

For flight overview see www.ebookers.ch - "local" websites tend to have a wider range of offers than "foreign" sites like kayak.com

flylow

Altamiro is right about the 1 change train but that runs once per day and takes like 7+ hours - not counting the trip from Cham to Geneva. The rest of the trains are 8-10 hours with 3+ changes. And do use the sbb.ch site.