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 Going
to Brittany by plane (top
of page)
There
are 3
main
international airports
in Brittany ( map)
and several smaller ones. Amongst the major
airports are: - Brest:
nearest airport to
our B&B, Brest Brittany airport has daily
direct flights from Paris,
Lille, Lyon,
Marseille, Manchester, Nice, Bordeaux, Toulon, Ouessant
island,
Barcelona, London,
Birmingham, Southampton... More
information: Brest
airport.
- Rennes:
several
flights every day from various European
and major French cities (Marseille, Nice, Toulouse, Lyon,
Paris-CDG, Montpellier, Figari, Bordeaux, Cork, Dublin, Southampton,
Manchester, Exeter, ... More
information: Rennes
airport.
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Brittany
- France
(interactive
map & itineraries here to discover where
is Brittany) |
- 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 Low cost airlines (Easyjet, Flybe
and Ryanair) connects Brest airport,
the nearest airport at 40 minutes drive from the Arree Mounts, directly to Southampton,
Paris,
Lyon, Marseille. 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
-
Brest via London, with EasyJet and RyanAir, or Rome -
Nantes via Geneva
with EasyJet. |
 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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Hints
Booking
your tickets well in advance can
significantly reduce your
costs. SNCF
(French railways company) offers tickets (Prems Tickets)
starting at
€ 22.-. iTGV tickets are available 6 months before departure
date. Thalys tickets are available 3 months before departure date and
Eurostar tickets 4 months before departure date. 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 (car rail piggyback)
(top
of page)
This
seems not be anymore possible since 2011...
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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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