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TRAVEL TO BAREGES

FLYING

You can also book these flights below online (good connections from the north and Scotland) There are now 15 discount flights a day from the UK to our corner of South West France.

Ryanair
www.ryanair.com – Stansted / Lourdes daily new flight starts 16th April 2011. closest to us here at Les Sorbiers 45 mins transfer
- Stansted / Biarritz fly everyday. 2hrs 30 transfer time suppl for transfers
- Bristol / Pau fly most days seasonality changes. 1hr 20mins transfer

cityjet.com

www.cityjet.com - London City and Dublin / Pau they fly most days seasonality changes. 1hr 20mins transfer

bmibaby.com

New routes for summer 2012, from most regional UK Airports into Toulouse flights will operate on most days check website for further details


Charter Flights:
Tagney Tours based in London have been running charter flights from the UK to Lourdes for 25 years. They are offering free transport for you bike in 2009. Flights depart Stanstead every Friday and most Mondays at 11:00 and arrive in Lourdes at 15:00. The cost is €105.00 or £95.00 each way. +25kg baggage allowance.

Contact: flights@tangney-tours.com
Tel: 00 44 1732886666

British Airways

- Gatwick – Toulouse fly everyday less than you would expect, regularly beat Easyjet on price. www.britishairways.com 2hrs 30 transfer time suppl for transfers

Easyjet

- Gatwick / Toulouse flys everyday 2hrs 30 transfer time suppl for transfers www.easyjet.com
- Bristol / Toulouse flys everyday 2hrs 30 transfer time suppl for transfers

Mancunia Travel/Pyrenees Direct

-Manchester to Lourdes.-Fridays and Mondays. (Charter flight) Mancunia Travel:
FLIGHTS Mondays & Fridays May – October 2008
FARES incl. taxes & in-flight meal
Adult £149.00 1-way, £269.00 return
Website: www.pyreneesdirect.com
Tel:0161 790 6838

Air France

New routes from AirFrance, to include Birmingham to Pau not super cheap but inclusive of 23kgs of baggage allowance also bikes if they come in under the 23kgs. Another way of finding your way to us here in the Pyrenees. Other flights- Heathrow – Toulouse. Air France. Twice daily.  www.airfrance.com

Jet2.com

-Leeds Bradford to Toulouse summer only Daily about 2 and a half hours transfer. www.jet2.com

Transfers by minibus or coach min 4 max 52 from all prices in € euros to be paid locally, some guided Tours transfers are included in the prices shown:-
Pau – Bareges 20.00€ euros each way min 4.
Lourdes – Bareges 17.00€ each way min 4.
Toulouse – Bareges 35.00€ each way min 6.
Biarritz – Bareges 35.00€ each way min 6.

DRIVING
Driving times from ports-
Bilbao 3hrs, Santander 4hrs,
St Malo 10hrs, Cherbourg/
Le Havre/Caen 11hrs, Calais/
Boulogne 12hrs. We can provide route guides. A crossing into Northern Spain (Bilbao/
Santander) gives a very easy drive to Bareges. Otherwise a crossing to one of the more westerly Channel ports saves time, best driving route via Bordeaux, and the A64 autoroute passes close to Lourdes.

TRAIN
Take the EUROSTAR train from the new St Pancras eurolink through the TUNNEL to Paris or Lille from where the TGV ATLANTIQUE serves Lourdes five times daily from Lille Eurogare or Montparnasse station. There is also a nightly sleeper “couchette” from Paris Austerlitz. There is a bus connection from Lourdes station to Bareges. London – Lourdes from £125 return, book a month ahead to benefit from early booking discounts. French Railways (SNCF) also offers excellent value “railrover” and family railcards. Highly recommended by all who come this way book online at www.sncf.fr or with Rail Europe.

CAR HIRE

A car booked in advance in the UK through any of the other main car hire operators (Hertz, Avis, Budget, Europcar etc.) offers up to a 100% saving on the rates available in France from £125 per week. Most major companies have an office at Pau airport. Avis & Europcar have an office at Lourdes or Lourdes Tarbes railway station.

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