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Getting there
BY AIR
Access really is easy. Languedoc-Roussillon is less than a 2 hour flight
from London.
There are several low cost airlines flying to this part of France.
The airports at Toulouse, Perpignan and Montpellier have low-cost flight
connections with Britain.
 RyanAir have
daily flights from London Stansted to Carcassonne, Perpignan, Nimes,
Barcelona and Montpellier
(Tel 0871 246 0000).
They also have flights from
Brussels to Carcassonne and from
Scotland, Glasgow Prestwick to Girona, north of
Barcelona in Spain.
There are also regular flights
to Toulouse and Montpellier.
Because the drive to Stansted for Ryanair flights can be a pain because
of M1/M25 traffic problems an alternative choice with Ryanair is from
Luton to Nimes. A new route is Bristol - Béziers.
You can if you wish return from another airport;
car hire companies don't mind where you pick up or
leave a car.
BMI Baby
airlines are the low cost airline
of British Midland (BMI) Airlines. From
Cardiff to Toulouse. But operating
mainly from British Midlands Airport, but
with additional services from many other UK Airports.
BMIBaby open a route from Manchester to
Perpignan
from 26th March 2006 - a flight daily
up to 28th October 2006.
 Flybefrom
Birmingham, Southampton and Belfast to Perpignan
and Toulouse (0870 567 6676).
Easyjet from Stanstead, Liverpool, Luton, Belfast, Bristol, Newcastle and
Gatwick to Toulouse and Barcelona (0870 600 0000).
Jet2.com cheap
flights from Leeds and Manchester (0870 737 8282).
Flypark: airport
parking at Gatwick, Heathrow, Manchester, Luton and
all major UK airports at competitive prices.
The Airport phone numbers
are :
Béziers-Agde-Vias
(50 km) 04 68 90 99 10
Perpignan-Rivesaltes (75 km) 04 68 52 60 70
Toulouse-Blagnac (150km) 05 61 42 44 00
Carcassonne-Salvaza (70 km) 04 68 71 96 46
Montpellier-Méditerranée (110 km)
04 67 20 85 00
You can easily get car hire at
all these airports with Hertz, Avis, Budget
and some smaller car rental companies. Car
hire rates
in the Languedoc are generally lower if the
reservation is made outside France. Reservations
can be made
from the UK for collection at all serving
airports.
Or you can piick up a car just over the
border in Spain which is still one of
the least expensive locations for vehicle
hire in Western Europe. Car Hire - Avis
***************** BY ROAD The
extensive road network and generally uncrowded
autoroutes in France make driving long
distances a pleasurable adventure. When
route-planning, choose between the western
A62/61 via Toulouse,
the central and A75 (offering
the shortest route from north to south via
Paris and currently toll-free for much of
the way), or the more easterly A9 by way
of Lyons. The RAC : web site can help you plan the
route.
- The Ferries Seafrance : Dover to Calais Hoverspeed : Dover to Calais, Newhaven to Dieppe P&O Ferries : Dover to Calais, Portsmouth to le Havre, Cherbourg and Bilbao Condor Ferries : Poole to St Malo, Weymouth to St Malo Speedferries : Dover to Boulogne
Brittany Ferries :
- Portsmouth to Caen, Cherbourg & St.Malo:
Poole to Cherbourg, Plymouth to Roscoff,
Cork to Roscoff.
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BY TRAIN Paris is just over a 5 hour journey by TGV train and other main stations of
Languedoc-Roussillon are served by the TGV and Corail trains. There is also the fast TGV rail
service from Paris which takes you to the Mediterranean in under 4 hours and is scheduled to
extend as far as Barcelona and Madrid within a few years. Eurostar London to
Paris, then train to Carcassonne, Narbonne, Montpelier, Nimes or Perpignan. |
