FLIGHT FROM BARCELONA TO GENEVA

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Day 1: BARCELONA - GENEVA

It is 7.30 in the morning and we are each in front of a computer working. Today there is a hard day of work that we try to face with a smile on our lips, not only because we are positive, but because in a few hours we have a flight from Barcelona to Geneva That will be the beginning of our trip to Switzerland.
At two o'clock in the afternoon we left the office with the firm purpose of packing and we realize that we are increasingly doing this gesture in a more natural way while spending less time.

We could not assure it, but we believe that it has not taken us more than 10 minutes to have them ready, telling us that we had to go around several times until we found the adapters that we had forgotten in the backpacks that we took to the trip to Peru.
With everything prepared we eat, we make a short table and a few minutes before 5 in the afternoon, we take the car to make way to the airport to take our flight from Barcelona to Geneva.

Road to the airport to catch our flight from Barcelona to Geneva

A few minutes before reaching T2, which is the terminal from which we have our flight from Barcelona to Geneva, from Easy Jet, we call one of our favorite numbers on the days of travel, Park & Vola with which we have hired the premium service, so that they come to pick up the car to the same Terminal and thus facilitate "the life of the traveler".

Waiting for the Premium service of Aparca & Go that in less than 5 minutes come to find the car

More and more we hurry the time, we intuit that this will be for the experience in the trips, we arrive with the right time to eat some sandwiches, to pass the control and to arrive at our boarding gate.

Just when they are going to check our tickets, they tell me that I have to keep the bag in my suitcase. We're already like Ryanair. And that I thought this had already disappeared a few months ago when this company allowed a small bag to be carried away from the carry-on bag, as it is going to be that there are still companies that make you put the bag in the already tight suitcase.
With 15 minutes of delay take off our flight from Barcelona to Geneva With which we started this good summer trip.

Sunset in full flight from Barcelona to Geneva

The flight lasts a little more than 1 hour and a half that we spend half asleep, until they announce that we are arriving in Geneva. But the landing maneuvers do not start and they inform us that they do not give us a clue until 15 minutes later, so we do not land until 11 at night, with a rain that welcomes us to Swiss lands.
Once on land, they announce that we will not have the access gateway for another 15 minutes.
The time is really the least, the bad thing is that the Hertz car rental office, said that it closed at half past ten at night and it is already after eleven at night, so we do not know that we will meet Once we located the office.
And to add one more lace, our hotel is on the French side of Geneva, about 10 kilometers from where we are and the shuttle service only works until 10.
Switzerland has given us a rainy and late welcome.

More practical information to prepare your trip to Switzerland
- Swiss route by train
- 10 essential tips for traveling to Switzerland
- 10 amazing places to see in Switzerland
- 10 essential places to see in Bern

At the end we left the plane after 23.15 at night and we did not even stop to change money, but we go to the Hertz car rental office, which is at the end of the airport on the left and we are left with our mouths open when we see that there are still several boys in the offices.
So we go straight to Hertz, where a guy who in less than 5 minutes gives us a perfect summary of the state of the rental car in Switzerland and the characteristics of the reservation. Stressing that the car is gasoline and not diesel.
We have to thank the office for another hour to close and not charge us any extra for it, which is what they indicate in the small print of the contract. These are the kind of things that make you choose one rental company over another.

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And with our keys in hand, we take the shuttle that leaves in front of the airport and that takes us to a covered parking lot where in the square 419 is our companion these days, a mini volkswagen with which we ensure a low consumption of gasoline and a parking almost anywhere.

Our car rental in Switzerland

We do a review of the entire vehicle, checking that everything is perfect while we see that it is still raining.
You have to make these reviews to avoid surprises when you return it. It is better to be clear about what the car has and avoid being told in the return that there was a scratch where it was already in the collection.
We put our GPS in motion and with a somewhat weaker rain, we go to the French side of Switzerland, where we have our accommodation tonight, at the Park & Suites Elégance Genève-Ferney Voltaire.
We are entering through the door of the hotel at 12 p.m.
We are rendered It seems that it has stopped raining ...