| GETTING HERE |
BY AIR
The closest airport is Perpignan (30/40-minute drive) served by Ryan Air from London/Stansted +Luton www.ryanair.com, Flybe from Southampton or Birmingham www.flybe.com, and bmibaby from Manchester www.bmibaby.com, as well as Air France from Clermont Ferrand, Lille, Nantes, Paris, Strasbourg www.airfrance.com. To search for the best car deals at Perpignan airport, try the user-friendly website carhiresearch.co.uk/loc/France/Perpignan-Airport.
Girona airport in Spain (50/60-minute drive) is a very good alternative, as there is a good choice of flight times. The airport is a couple of minutes drive from the A9 motorway, and the villa is a 10 minute drive from the A9 motorway intersection at Le Boulou, making for an easy drive.
Ryanair www.ryanair.com flies to Girona from:
Blackpool; Bournemouth; Dublin; East Midlands; Glasgow; Liverpool; Luton; Shannon and Stansted, as well as from Paris and a number of airports in Belgium, Germany and Italy.
Carcassonne (90-minute drive) is served by Ryan Air www.ryanair.com from London/Stansted.
Montpellier – (90-minute drive) Ryanair www.ryanair.com from Stansted, BA www.britishairways.com from Gatwick.
Toulouse (2 hr drive) is served by Easyjet www.easyjet.com from Gatwick and by Flybe www.flybe.com from Southampton.
Barcelona (2 hr drive) is served by Easyjet www.easyjet.com from London Gatwick, Stansted and Luton, as well as Bristol, Liverpool and Newcastle.
Intercontinental flights to Barcelona and Toulouse (2 hrs)
For more flight travel choices: www.languedoc-france.info/0901b_airlines
BY FERRY
Boulogne 706 m (1131 km) Speed Ferries www.speedferries.com
Caen 603 m (971 km) Brittany Ferries www.brittany-ferries.com
Calais 720 m (1159 km) Sea France, P & O www.seafrance.com
Cherbourg 706 m (1137 km) Brittany Ferries, P & O www.poferries.com
Dieppe 631 m (1016 km) Hoverspeed www.hoverspeed.com
St Malo 613 m (987 km) Brittany Ferries www.brittanyferries.com
BY RAIL
Nearest main line station – Perpignan
MOTORAIL Your car is loaded on to the train at Calais and you sleep overnight, on the same train, in couchettes to Narbonne - www.raileurope.co.uk - or call RailEurope on 08702 415 415
EUROSTAR+TGV From London Waterloo to Perpignan, making a cross-platform change at Lille Europe - www.raileurope.co.uk - or call RailEurope on 08705 848 848.
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