Grenoble Airport Transfers & Chauffeur Service (GNB)

Private Airport Transfers to and from Grenoble Alpes Isère Airport (GNB)

Grenoble Alpes Isère Airport (GNB) is not in Grenoble. It sits at Saint-Étienne-de-Saint-Geoirs, about 45 km (28 miles) north-west of the city, roughly 33 minutes by road in good conditions. Our private Grenoble airport transfers start at £138 per vehicle to Grenoble city centre.

Some GNB enquiries we get each winter ask for a quick hop into town, from travellers who saw "Grenoble" on the ticket and expected to land on its edge. GNB is a small regional airport, and most of its passenger traffic is winter ski flights from the UK, arriving in waves at weekends. A chauffeur who meets you in arrivals takes the stress out of the first hour of your trip, whether you are heading into Grenoble for business or straight up into the mountains.

GNB is the closest gateway to the Oisans resorts. Our private transfer from Grenoble Airport to Alpe d'Huez covers about 62 miles in around 1 hour 24 minutes in good conditions, and our Grenoble Airport to Les Deux Alpes transfer is about 68 miles and 1 hour 34 minutes, both along the D1091 through the Romanche valley. Saturday changeover traffic and winter conditions can add to these times. The airport also serves the Tarentaise resorts of Méribel, Courchevel, Val Thorens and Val d'Isère, and nearer ski areas such as Chamrousse, Vaujany and Villard-de-Lans. A private transfer puts your family or group in one vehicle, with your luggage and ski kit loaded for you, and we track your flight so a late Saturday arrival does not leave you stranded. If your flights work better through Switzerland, our Geneva Airport transfers cover the same resorts from the alternative gateway.

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Why Choose Airport Executive for Transfers to and from GNB

A private transfer from GNB gives you one vehicle, one fixed fare and a chauffeur waiting when you land, with no coach timetable to fit around. You can rely on trusted chauffeurs with punctuality.

• Meet and greet in arrivals with a name board, and help with your luggage
• Flight tracking in real time
• Affordable rates, with no hidden or extra charges
• One fixed price per vehicle, agreed at booking, so a group splits a single fare
• A vehicle for every party, from the Economy Saloon and Business Class Saloon to the First Class Saloon, with the Economy XL (up to 5 passengers) and Business Class XL (up to 7 passengers) for families and ski kit
• 24x7 support, so you can book us anytime from anywhere
• One way, return or by the hour bookings
• Corporate accounts are available, or simply pay online

If your family or group would otherwise buy four or more shared coach seats, compare that total with a single per-vehicle fare, for example £248 to Alpe d'Huez or £252 to Les Deux Alpes. It is the sum GNB groups ask us about most, usually parties of five or six with ski bags.

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Pick-ups and Drop-offs at Grenoble Alpes Isère Airport

GNB is a small airport, so meeting your chauffeur is straightforward: they wait for you in the arrivals hall after baggage reclaim. On the way home, you are dropped in the airport's designated drop-off area rather than at the terminal kerb, because the airport's access rules do not allow passengers to be set down in front of the terminal.

Arrivals

Your flight number and mobile number go to your chauffeur in advance, and because we follow your flight in real time, an early landing or a long delay simply moves your pickup with it.

Once you have collected your cases and any ski or board bags, walk through to the arrivals hall, where your chauffeur will be waiting with a name board to help with your luggage and walk you to the vehicle. Groups often land at GNB on two flights an hour or so apart, and we would usually ask whether the first arrivals want to wait for the rest or travel on ahead.

Departures

We set your return pickup time when you book, working back from your flight time and the drive from your resort or hotel (see the timing tips below). Your chauffeur drops you in the P2 car park, the airport's drop-off and pick-up area (first 10 minutes free), and helps you unload your luggage and ski bags. Saturday check-in at the end of a ski week is busy, so arrive with time in hand.

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Airport Extras Available at Grenoble Alpes Isère Airport

GNB is a compact regional airport. It lists food outlets, a small selection of shops including duty free, unlimited wifi and a cash machine. It does not list fast track, a public passenger lounge in the main terminal, porters or left luggage.

Fast track: none is listed for security or passport control, so expect to queue on busy winter weekends.

Lounges: the only lounges mentioned on the airport's services and facilities page sit within its Business Aviation Terminal section, not the main terminal.

Porters and luggage storage: neither is listed. If you need to store bags before a late flight, check with the airport before you travel. Your chauffeur helps with your luggage, skis and boots at both ends of the journey.

Shops and restaurants: food and drink at Grenoble Airport includes Le Séquoia, a restaurant with runway views that closes for the first three weeks of August and gives diners 2 hours 30 minutes of free parking on showing their parking ticket. Trib's outlets in the terminal building sell sandwiches, salads, pastries, snacks and hot and cold drinks, opening to suit flight schedules and at weekends. The airport's shops include Relay for newspapers and travel accessories, a Duty Free shop with perfumes, cosmetics and spirits, Maison Cardinet for local farmhouse cheese, and Terres de Berlioz, a tourist office stand in the departure lounges selling local specialities. The airport's cash machine is just outside the arrivals hall and available 24 hours a day from December to April.

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Airport Timing Tips

The time from landing to meeting your chauffeur depends largely on passport control. Flights from the UK are international arrivals into France, so you pass through it on arrival, while domestic French flights do not. The EU Entry/Exit System is being introduced across the Schengen area, and first-time visitors may need to register fingerprints and a photo at the border. GOV.UK's entry requirements for France warn travellers to be prepared to wait longer than usual, and note that your passport must have been issued less than 10 years before you arrive and be valid for at least 3 months after you plan to leave. On winter Saturdays, the arrivals hall can be very busy when several ski flights land together. No reliable figure is published for how long the queue takes, but your chauffeur tracks your flight and waits for you.

For departures, the airport's check-in guidance asks you to arrive 2 hours 30 minutes before your flight. Airlines close check-in between 40 and 60 minutes before departure, and check-in and boarding can be refused after that. GOV.UK also advises allowing extra time for checks when leaving the Schengen area. Your pickup time depends on where you are staying, so we set it when you book. Alpe d'Huez is about 1 hour 24 minutes from the airport in good conditions and longer in snow or Saturday traffic, so allow for the whole transfer, the check-in advice and a margin for mountain roads. The Oisans resorts are reached via the D1091, so check Itinisère, the Isère live road information service before you travel. We monitor conditions too.

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Book Your Grenoble Airport Transfer

Whether you are flying in for a ski week or for business, booking a private transfer from Grenoble Alpes Isère Airport means a chauffeur in arrivals and a fixed price agreed before you travel. Reserve online or by phone, tell us your flight, group size and ski kit, and we will take care of the rest.

Heading for the Oisans? Our Grenoble to Alpe d'Huez transfers and Grenoble to Les Deux Alpes transfers pages cover each resort in detail. If you have a Geneva flight instead, we also run Geneva to Alpe d'Huez transfers and Geneva to Les Deux Alpes transfers, plus the Portes du Soleil resorts of Morzine and Les Gets. You can browse all our transfer routes or read our guide to airport transfers to European ski resorts.

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Top Attractions around Grenoble Alpes Isère Airport

Bastille Cable Car, Grenoble
Grenoble's famous "Bubbles" have carried visitors up to the Fort de la Bastille since September 1934, making the Bastille cable car one of the first urban cable cars in the world. The summit offers a 360 degree panorama of the city and mountains, with museums, trails and restaurants. Grenoble city centre is about 28 miles from the airport.

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Musée de Grenoble
The Musée de Grenoble holds some 800 painted and sculpted works from the 13th century to the present day, including Rubens, Monet, Matisse and Picasso. It makes a rewarding afternoon on a business trip, but check its opening before visiting. It sits in central Grenoble, around 33 minutes from the airport.

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Caves de la Chartreuse, Voiron
The cellars where Chartreuse liqueur is aged open for guided visits of around 80 minutes, ending with a tasting of green and yellow Chartreuse or a herbal tea. Tours run in English as well as French. The cellars are in Voiron, about 200 metres from the railway station, on the way from the airport towards Grenoble.

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Lac de Paladru
A peaceful lake at Charavines, open all year, with four municipal beaches and swimming allowed only at the supervised ones. It suits travellers using the airport outside the ski season, set in the countryside not far from GNB.

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Villard-de-Lans and the Vercors
The best-known resort of the Vercors massif, Villard-de-Lans offers alpine and Nordic skiing in winter and walking country the rest of the year. At about 42 miles and around 58 minutes from the airport in good conditions, it is one of the closest ski destinations to GNB, ideal for a short break.

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Common Routes We Cater To

From-prices are per vehicle, one way, for an Economy Saloon, with larger vehicles and other classes priced at booking. Times are approximate in good conditions, and winter and Saturday journeys run longer. Full route detail is on our Alpe d'Huez and Les Deux Alpes pages. Flying into Lyon instead? See our Lyon Airport transfers.

Grenoble Airport to Grenoble city centre transfer
28 miles, around 33 minutes, £138.

Grenoble Airport to Villard-de-Lans transfer
42 miles, around 58 minutes, £180.

Grenoble Airport to Lyon Saint-Exupéry Airport transfer
44 miles, around 42 minutes, £188.

Grenoble Airport to Chamrousse transfer
48 miles, around 1 hour 8 minutes, £206.

Grenoble Airport to Lyon city centre (Part-Dieu) transfer
57 miles, around 1 hour 3 minutes, £223.

Grenoble Airport to Vaujany transfer
59 miles, around 1 hour 20 minutes, £231.

Grenoble Airport to Alpe d'Huez transfer
62 miles, around 1 hour 24 minutes, £248.

Grenoble Airport to Les Deux Alpes transfer
68 miles, around 1 hour 34 minutes, £252.

Grenoble Airport to Serre Chevalier (Briançon) transfer
94 miles, around 2 hours 20 minutes, £330.

Grenoble Airport to Geneva Airport transfer
104 miles, around 1 hour 37 minutes, £402.

Grenoble Airport to Méribel transfer
107 miles, around 1 hour 56 minutes, £354.

Grenoble Airport to Courchevel 1850 transfer
112 miles, around 2 hours 9 minutes, £365.

Grenoble Airport to Val Thorens transfer
117 miles, around 2 hours 13 minutes, £371.

Grenoble Airport to Val d'Isère transfer
134 miles, around 2 hours 38 minutes, £421.

Flying into Geneva instead? We also cover Geneva to Méribel, Geneva to Courchevel, Geneva to Val Thorens and Geneva to Val d'Isère.

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Frequently Asked Questions

How far is Grenoble Airport from Grenoble?
About 45 km, or 28 miles, which takes roughly 33 minutes by road in good conditions. The airport is at Saint-Étienne-de-Saint-Geoirs, north-west of the city, not in Grenoble itself. A private transfer to Grenoble city centre starts at £138, and the airport shuttle to Grenoble railway station takes about 40 minutes.

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How long is the transfer from Grenoble Airport to Alpe d'Huez or Les Deux Alpes?
About 1 hour 24 minutes to Alpe d'Huez and about 1 hour 34 minutes to Les Deux Alpes in good conditions. Winter weather and Saturday changeover traffic on the D1091 can make it longer, and the final climb to Alpe d'Huez takes in 21 hairpin bends. Check Itinisère before you travel; we monitor conditions too. Our Alpe d'Huez and Les Deux Alpes route pages have more.

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Which airlines fly into Grenoble Airport?
The airport's check-in page lists British Airways, Transavia, easyJet, Jet2, Ryanair and Wizz Air. Most winter traffic is ski flights from the UK, often concentrated at weekends, so confirm your route and dates with your airline before you book your transfer. For other gateways, see our French airport transfers.

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Will the driver have my details?
Yes. Your driver receives your name, flight number, and contact details in advance.

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Can I contact the driver directly?
Yes. Driver contact details are shared prior to pickup.

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Is there a backup plan if something goes wrong?
Absolutely. We maintain standby drivers and 24/7 operational support.

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What happens if my flight is delayed?
We monitor flights in real time and automatically adjust pickup times.

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What happens if I need to cancel last minute?
Flexible cancellation terms apply and are clearly shown at booking.

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Is it possible to request a female driver?
Yes, subject to availability. Please request this when booking.

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How far in advance should I book my Grenoble Airport transfer?
At least 24 hours in advance is recommended, earlier during peak travel seasons.

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Am I expected to tip the driver?
Tipping is customary but optional; rounding up or 5 to 10 percent is appreciated for excellent service.

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What size car do I need?
Sedans suit 1 to 2 passengers; SUVs and people movers are ideal for families or groups.

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Does the taxi have child seats?
Yes. Child and booster seats are available on request.

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