Holidays in Languedoc,
south of France, with holiday villas with pools near Cap
d'Agde
Ferries
The ports you use to leave the country and enter
France obviously depend on where you live in
the UK. The most popular crossing is the Dover
/ Calais, followed by the Portsmouth / Cherbourg
or Le Havre crossing.
Travel
by Train
You can take the train, speeding down to the south
of France on the new TGV line that stretches from
the north of France to the Mediterranean coastline.
The TGV is fast. You board at London Waterloo
station, and within hours you are speeding through
French countryside. You can take the train as
far as Perpignan in the west or Marseille in the
east, hiring a car from one of the many national
car hire companies.
Holiday
Weather ... check the weather
in the south of France
How
to get here
It's never been easier to come to the south of
France. From the UK you can fly, take a ferry,
travel through the tunnel with your car or take
the train.
Travelling around is easy too, with good roads
and plenty of places to stay – at a reasonable
price. Use this page to choose the best option
for your travel arrangements.
Fly
Holiday
There are now plenty
of cheap flights to France from many local airports
in the UK. You can fly Air France or British Airways
but many people now choose to fly with the low-cost
airways, picking up extremely cheap flights.
Ryanair
fly from Stansted to Carcassonne, Perpignan, Montpellier
and Nîmes and from Bristol to Béziers-Cap
d'Agde airport, with regular return fares around
£100 - although you can easily pick up bargain
tickets from as little as £25 return.
Some holidaymakers even find cheap flight to Gerona
or Barcelona in Spain, hiring a car at the airport
Driving in France You can either
travel across and down through the centre of France,
using the new viaduct at Millau - the highest in
the world.
Or,
if the arrival port is Calais, down the Autoroute
du Soleil - motorway to the sun, travelling via
Reims, Dijon and Lyon, taking up the A9 Laguedocienne
at Orange.
Travelling from the UK by car means you really
should make the journey through France part of
the holiday and take a little time to see some
of the beautiful countryside.
There are plenty of places to stay, from expensive
hotels to the cheap and cheerful AutoRoute motels
like Formula 1, B&B or Campanile.
