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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

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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
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

5 daily return sailings between Dover (Eastern Docks) 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

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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

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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

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