Private transfer Nice Airport → Valberg

After the Var valley, the road climbs towards the hinterland by two possible routes: the Daluis gorges, with their red cliffs, or the narrower, more winding Cians gorges. One may be closed or slowed while the other is open, because of snow, a rockfall or roadworks. Your chauffeur checks both before leaving and chooses the safer route.

The journey is about ninety kilometres and takes between an hour forty and two hours ten outside the holidays. It is a road with character, slower than its distance suggests, and better enjoyed with free eyes than with hands on the wheel.

Valberg is smaller and quieter than the big Savoie resorts, which families appreciate. School-holiday Saturdays are nevertheless busy, and gorge roads do not allow overtaking: a single lorry or a snowplough is enough to slow the queue. Allow up to three hours on those days, and leave early.

On weekdays traffic is light and it is the best time for a peaceful transfer. If you spend a night in Nice before heading to the mountains, we arrange the ride from your hotel in the centre.

Our vehicles are equipped for winter conditions and for carrying skis. Mountain roads require winter equipment from 1 November to 31 March; you have nothing to arrange. For a group with equipment, the V-Class van takes up to 7 passengers with their luggage.

State the number of suitcases and pairs of skis or snowboards when you book. A child seat can be arranged on request, and you can book the outward and return journeys together for a week-long stay.

In the gorges, a snowfall or a rockfall can close or slow one of the two roads; the chauffeur then takes the other. As for equipment, mountain roads call for winter tyres, or failing that snow chains or snow socks available on board. An E-Class or S-Class saloon suits a couple, and a 16-seat minibus is possible for a group larger than the V-Class van can take.