Airlines
There is a large selection of regular and low cost operators with direct flights to the area to choose from.
Air France
Flights from Gatwick and Heathrow to:-
Montpellier (MPL)
Toulouse (TLS)
airfrance.com
Bmibaby
Flights from Manchester to:-
Perpignan (PGF)
Toulouse (TLS)
bmibaby.com
British Airways
Flights from Gatwick to:-
Toulouse (TLS)
ba.com
Ryan Air
Offer the widest choice of routes and UK and
Ireland departure
points to the following airports:-
Avignon (AVN)
Beziers Cap d'Agde (BZR) Carcassonne (CCF)
Girona - Spain (GIR)
Nimes (FNI)
Marseille (MRS)
Montpellier (MPL)
Rodez (RDZ)
Toulon (TLN)
Starting 19th July 2008 Stansted to Beziers Cap
d'Agde (BZR)
Starting 27th October 2008 Luton to Beziers Cap d'Agde (BZR)
Ryanair.com
Flybe
Flights from Southampton and Exeter to
Avignon (AVN)
Flights from Birmingham and Southampton to
Perpignan (PGF)
Flights from Birmingham and Bristol to Toulouse (TLS)
Flybe.com
EasyJet
Flights from Bristol and Gatwick to Toulouse (TLS) Gatwick to Montpellier (MPL) Flights from Gatwick, Bristol and Liverpool to
Marseille (MRS)
Easyjet.com
Jet2
Flights from Belfast, Leeds-Bradford and
Manchester to Toulouse (TLS) Edinburgh to Toulouse (TLS)
Leeds-Bradford to Avignon (AVN)
Jet2.com
Ferry
Operators
It has never been easier to cross the English Channel, with more crossings, routes and operators than ever before.
Brittany Ferries
A selection of traditional and high speed ferries
Portsmouth - St Malo - 1 sailing per day
Poole - Cherbourg - 2 sailings per day
Plymouth - Roscoff - 2 sailings per day
Cork - Roscoff - 1 sailing per week
Portsmouth - Cherbourg - 2 sailings per day
Portsmouth - Caen - 3 sailings per day
brittany-ferries.com
Condor Ferries
2 state-of-the-art fast car ferries
Poole - St Malo - 1 sailing per day
Portsmouth - Cherbourg - 1 sailing per week (July-Sep)
Poole - Cherbourg - 1 sailing per day (May-Oct)
Poole - St Malo - 1 sailing per day
Jersey - St Malo- 1 sailing per day
Guernsey - St Malo - 2 sailings per day
condorferries.co.uk
Euroferries
High speed ferries from Dover to Calais and Boulogne.
Crossing time 29 minutes to Calais and 39 minutes to Boulogne
euroferries.co.uk
Eurotunnel
Folkestone to Calais
53 shuttle journeys per day through the Channel Tunnel
eurotunnel.co.uk
Irish Ferries
Rosslare to Cherbourg and Roscoff.
Night crossings from Ireland to France every other day
irishferries.com
LD Lines
Portsmouth to Le Harve.
Daily service night crossing to Le Harve and day crossing back to Portsmouth.
Coming soon Rosslare to Le Harve
ldline.co.uk
Norfolk Lines
Dover to Dunkerque.
Up to twenty crossings daily
Crossing time 2 hours
norfolkline.ferries.org
P&O Ferries
Dover to Calais.
25 crossings per day. Crossing time of 105 minutes.
poferries.com
Sea France
Dover to Calais.
Fifteen crossings a day. Crossing time of 90 minutes.
seafrance.com
SpeedFerries
Up to 10 daily return sailings between Dover (Western Docks
- Hoverport Terminal) and Boulogne. Crossing time 55 minutes
speedferries.com
Transmanche Ferries
Newhaven to Dieppe and Le Harve
3 sailings per day. Crossing time 3 hours
transmanche.ferries.org
Driving
Nothing could be easier than driving in France. The Autoroute system is probably the best road system in Europe, although the peages (road tolls) can be expensive.
The two main routes to the region are: -
A10 to Orleans then the A71 through Orleans, Clermont Ferrand then the A75 (Le Meridien) crossing the world record breaking
Viaduc de Millau.
The section between Rouen, Evreux and Druex is beginning to open up and should soon bypass the need to go close to Paris.
viaducdemillau.com
A6 Paris to Beaune and on to Lyon, then the A7 Lyon to Orange and the A9 Orange to Nimes, Montpellier, Narbonne, Perpignan (La Languedocien) and then on towards the Spanish border.
autoroutes.fr
Train
Eurostar
Has a weekly Saturday high season service from London Waterloo and Ashford International to Avignon.
eurostar.com
TGV
Serves Avignon, Montpellier, Nimes, Perpignan, Toulouse and Toulon.
Eurostar direct to Lille Europe or Paris Gare du Nord. Take the
Metro to Paris Gare du Lyon for onward connections at Gare du Nord.
tgv.co.uk
