The gateway to the Three Valleys. You step off the train and we are on the platform — our base is five minutes from this station, and we spend the whole winter here.
Moûtiers-Salins-Brides-les-Bains is the rail gateway to the Three Valleys. Every winter Saturday it absorbs thousands of travellers from Paris, Lille, London, Brussels and Amsterdam in the space of a few hours, all of whom then head up to Courchevel, Méribel, Val Thorens, Les Menuires or Champagny.
It is also our base. From December to April our vehicles and our drivers are stationed in Moûtiers, minutes from this platform. We do not drive down from Chambéry or Annecy to collect you: we are already here.
That changes two things in practice. A train running an hour late does not make us miss another job — we adjust without you having to call. And on a Saturday, when the station forecourt becomes a jam of shuttles, taxis and hire cars, we know exactly where to position ourselves so that you are not standing in the cold with your skis.
The resorts are close: around twenty minutes to Courchevel and Méribel, forty to Val Thorens and Les Menuires. The distance is short, but the road climbs a thousand to two thousand metres — which is precisely where the vehicle and its equipment matter.
A word on what you will and will not find on arrival. Moûtiers station is functional rather than comfortable: a concourse, a few shops, a forecourt that is saturated on Saturdays. It is not somewhere you want to wait with children and six ski bags while a shuttle fills up — something many travellers discover only as they step off the train, after six hours from Paris or eight from London.
The town itself is worth knowing, though. Several ski hire shops are based here, often cheaper than in resort and without the Saturday queue: if you would rather collect your equipment at the bottom than at the top, we build the stop into the journey. Brides-les-Bains, a few minutes away, is linked to Méribel by gondola and is an accommodation option many visitors overlook.
One practical point that comes up constantly: the food shop. Supermarkets in resort are expensive and often stripped bare by Saturday evening. A twenty-minute stop at a large supermarket in the valley, on the way up, changes the budget of a week in a chalet. Mention it when booking and we will plan for it — in peak season we handle this request several times a day.
Finally, a note on departures. On Sunday and Saturday mornings the station fills in the opposite direction: everyone comes down at once. Drop-off access is restricted and parking effectively impossible. We leave earlier than the theoretical calculation suggests, and we set you down as close to the concourse as we can rather than in a distant car park. A train missed at Moûtiers on a Sunday often means an unplanned hotel night.
Every winter Saturday, a train from London sets its passengers down at Moûtiers. It is the most civilised way to reach the Alps — provided somebody is waiting for you at the other end.
For the 2026-27 season the Eurostar Snow links London St Pancras to the Alps every Saturday from 19 December to 20 February, with a change at Lille Europe. Return services run from Bourg-Saint-Maurice on Sunday mornings and selected Saturday afternoons, through to 28 February.
That is the outbound journey time from London; the return is closer to nine. You arrive tired, often with children, always with equipment. It is exactly the moment when a taxi rank is the worst possible prospect.
Our drivers speak English. At this station and at these times the majority of our passengers are British — we know the resorts, the chalets and the way this clientele likes to travel.
Seasonal direct services also reach the Alps from Belgium and the Netherlands. Same service on arrival: met on the platform, luggage taken, dropped at the chalet door.
At three o'clock on a February Saturday, the forecourt at Moûtiers is the most congested spot in the Tarentaise. Knowing where to stand beats arriving early.
Moûtiers station — Three ValleysEvery resort in the Three Valleys and the Bozel valley, plus onward runs into the Haute-Tarentaise.
About twenty minutes to Le Praz, a little more to 1850. All four levels served. The route →
Around twenty minutes to the centre, a little more to Mottaret. Les Allues and Le Raffort on the way.
About forty minutes up the Belleville valley, including Saint-Martin-de-Belleville.
The Bozel valley, on the La Plagne side and towards the Vanoise national park. Usually ignored by shuttle operators; served by us.
Shared shuttles from Moûtiers exist and they work — when everything goes to plan. The principle is simple: group together passengers whose trains arrive within the same window, then serve several resorts in sequence.
The difficulty is that on a February Saturday, nothing ever quite goes to plan. A train loses an hour and the vehicle has already left. One passenger gets out at Les Menuires, another at Val Thorens, a third at Saint-Martin: your forty minutes becomes an hour and a half, with two children who have already spent eight hours on a train.
A private transfer buys three things. Time: your train is tracked, departure is set by your actual arrival, and the only address served is yours. Certainty: an identified vehicle, an identified driver, a number that answers. Comfort: your skis inside the vehicle, your cases carried, and a cabin temperature set for you rather than for the driver.
There is also simple arithmetic. From four people upwards, the gap between a private van and four shuttle seats narrows sharply, for a service that bears no comparison. We give you the fare in advance precisely so that you can do that sum yourself.
One last point about equipment, because it is the single most common cause of transfers that go wrong. A family of six arriving from London typically has six pairs of skis or snowboards, six hold bags, six pieces of hand luggage, sometimes a pushchair and helmets. That is not the same as six people on a weekend break. So we always ask how many ski bags you have when booking: that figure, not the passenger count, determines the vehicle we assign. A correctly sized van loads in five minutes; a van that turns out to be too small costs an hour and ruins an arrival.
Your train, your resort, and how many pairs of skis.