Getting here: The Pays de la Loire is easy to get to all year round.
- 2 hours from Paris by train (TGV)
- 3 hours by car from Bordeaux
- 1½ hours by plane from London

By car

 
Via the Channel ferries: just a 2½  or 3½  hour drive from the Western Channel ferry ports (Roscoff, Saint-Malo, Cherbourg, Caen, Le Havre, Dieppe departing Plymouth, Poole, Portsmouth, Newhaven, Dover). 4-5 hours from Calais/Boulogne.

Ferry Companies:
> Brittany Ferries
> P&O Ferries
> DFDS Seaways

All of these operators offer accommodation and leisure packages.

Channel tunnel
A quick way to get to France (just 35 minutes from Folkestone to Calais). Up to 4 shuttles per hour. An easy drive to the area by the motorway.

> Eurotunnel

> To convert miles and kilometers

By train

 
Daily TGV (high-speed train) services from Paris, Lille, Lyon and to the major towns in Pays de la Loire.
For example: Paris - Nantes: 2 hours
201 stations and stops are served by trains and buses on the Pays de la Loire regional railway network.
> Voyages SNCF

By plane

• Nantes Atlantique Airport  

1 hour from London Gatwick; 45 min from Paris (Roissy CDG)
Direct flights from: London (City, Gatwick and Heathrow), Birmingham, Bristol, Manchester, Liverpool, Glasgow, Southampton, Cork, Dublin, Shannon.
> Flybe
> Cityjet
> Easyjet
> Aer Lingus
> Ryanair
> British Airways - New in 2017

• Angers Loire Airport

• Tours Airport

Direct flights from London (Stansted) and Dublin.
> Ryanair 

• La Rochelle Airport

Direct flights from: Birmingham, Bristol, East Midlands, London (Stansted, Gatwick), Manchester, Southampton, Cork, Dublin.
> Flybe
> Easyjet
> Cityjet
> Ryanair

What to visit and where to stay?
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