Getting
to
Brittany by
plane
train
car on train
car
ferry
rentacar
hitchhiking


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Going
to Brittany by plane (top
of page)
There are 3 main
airports
in Brittany (map)
and several smaller ones. Amongst the major
airports are: - Brest:
clostest airport to our B&B, Brest Brittany airport has daily
direct flights from Paris, Lyon, Marseille, Nice, Bordeaux, Toulon, Ouessant
island, London, Birmingham, Dublin, Exeter, Southampton...
More
information: Brest
airport.
- Rennes:
several
flights every day from various European
and major French cities (Paris,
Lyon, Marseille, Strasbourg, Basel-Mulhouse, Southampton, Madrid, ... More
information: Rennes
airport.
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- Nantes: Intercontinental
and European direct flights (Montreal,
London,
Dublin, Cork, Liverpool, Amsterdam, Geneva, Madrid,
Casablanca,
...). Several direct flights from major French cities (Paris, Marseille, Nice,
Lille,
Toulouse, Montpellier, Bordeaux, Strasbourg,...). More
information: Nantes airport.
Hints
A low cost airline (Ryanair) connects Brest airport,
the nearest airport at 40 minutes drive from the Arree Mounts, directly to Marseille,
London and Dublin. Several of such airlines ( Ryanair and Easyjet)
connect Nantes
airport directly to
Geneva,
London, Marseille,
Eastmidlands, Liverpool, Shannon.
You could be surprised about
the low costs when combining
these airlines or destinations. For
instance Vienna
- Brest via London,
or Madrid
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Brest via London, with EasyJet and RyanAir, or Rome -
Nantes via Geneva
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Going to Brittany by
train (top
of page)
All
major cities ( map)
in Brittany are connected with the TGV
(Train a Grande Vitesse - French High Speed Train - up to 320 km/h (200
mph) in commercial usage). Here a few travel durations: |
- Paris
- Rennes: 2h
- Paris - Morlaix: 3h 40
- Paris - Brest: 4h
- Paris - Quimper: 4h 10
| - Marseille
- Rennes: 6h
- Marseille - Brest: 8h 25
| - Lyon
- Rennes: 4h 15
- Lyon - Brest: 6h 50
| - Geneva
- Rennes: 6h 30
- Geneva - Brest: 9h 05
| - Bordeaux -
Rennes: 5h 15
- Bordeaux - Brest: 8h 30
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Booking
your tickets well in advance can significantly reduce your
costs. SNCF
(French railways company) offers tickets (Prems Tickets)
starting at
€ 12.-, 3
months before departure. These tickets are also available on
the Internet. More
information: TGV Europe (SNCF).
To
come to the Arree Mounts, where our B&B is located, stop at
Morlaix. It's
cheaper and less far then Brest and you will find rent a car agencies
in front of the railways station (see hereunder).
| Going to Brittany with
your car on the train (auto-train) (top
of page)
Trip too long by car ? You
prefer your own car to a rented car ? The SNCF - French Railways - link
Nantes,
with their car
on train offer, to:
Frejus - St
Raphael (South of France, between Nice and Toulon),
Geneva, Lyon. Metz
and Strasbourg
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| Going
to Brittany by boat (ferry) (top
of page)
You can go to Brittany
(Roscoff)
by ferry from Ireland
(Cork, Rosslare), Great
Britain (Plymouth) and Spain
(Santander, via Plymouth). More
information: Brittany
ferries et Irish
ferries.
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You will find all the usual
rent a car companies in Brittany's major airports and railways
stations. More
information: Avis, Citer,
Europecar
Bretagne, Hertz, Rentacar.
Hints
You can also rent a
car in some shopping centers for a very low rate,
starting at €
9.90 / day incl. 100 km (Landivisiau), or even less
(Quimper).
Book well in advance. More
informations: Centre Leclerc, Landivisiau,
tél.: +33 (0)2 98 68 16 49.
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It's
a common and well accepted travel mean in Brittany. |
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