Hi wonder if anybody can give me any advice on driving to perpignan next year, We have looked at the plane travel and got it down to £209 but you have to changed at Paris and such a long wait, and then thought might be fun to drive would like to go be ferry but not sure what port would be the best one to arrive at so that we dont have a mammoth drive at the other end as not used to driving abroad, live in Wiltshire so any advice on ports to go from this side would be great.
Thanks in advance
Ruby
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Ryanair goes from Stansted to Perpignan direct and if you%26#39;re flexible about your departure dates (ie avoid Fridays and weekends) you can get some really good deals. Stansted%26#39;s a bit of a drive from Wiltshire, admittedly, but not too far.
Whichever ferry port you arrive at in France, you are going to have a long, long drive (and will probably want to break the journey with an overnight stop).
If you do the ferry route option, probably best (given you are in Wiltshire) to take one from Portsmouth to Le Havre. According to Michelin, it%26#39;s a 999km drive from there to Perpignan.
Other airports within striking distance of Perpignan and with flights from the UK include Montpellier, Carcassonne and even Girona in Spain.
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Ryanair%26#39;s strange pricing structure makes Girona the best airport to fly to for that corner of France. Tolls in Spain will add a couple of pounds, but fuel is slightly cheaper.
Carcasonne is always next expensive, followed by Perpignan then Montpellier
Girona is a main Ryanair destination, they even fly there from Bournemouth. In fact they have some flights in January for £3.99
Best site to monitor fares is www.skyscanner.net
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Should have added Girona Airport to Perpignan is one motorway and 73 miles. It takes me less than an hour, but I ignore speed limits when abroad (when in Rome and all that)
If you hire a car, go with Europcar, I have always found them faultless.
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Hi as I live near Perpignan and all have talked about flightd let me tell you the way i drive to UK
Tunnel to Calais
Calais to Lille
Lille to Paris
Round Paris following signs for Bordeaux
When at south of Paris follow signs for Orleans
STOP OVERNIGHT AT ORLEANS
from Orleans to Clermont Ferrand
Clermont Ferrand to Narbonne
Narbonne to Perpignan
its 1300 km and will take about 12 hours but you will go over the new bridge at Millau.
Advice re planes are good and Gerone airport is 50 mins to Peroignan if you use Ryanair Hertz hire cars are cheaper.
Any further info jusr post.
Chris
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The cheapest car hire by a long way is holidayautos. They use Europcar to supply them but typically, for a three day rental, you get the car from holidayautos for EUR 30, the exact same car from Europcar is EUR 50 or so. Moreover, there%26#39;s a whole lot less included in the Europcar price.
Other direct flights are Birmingham and Southampton to Perpignan via FlyBE and from next year Manchester to Perpignan from BMIBaby.
Arnold
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Live in Dorset. Took ferry from Portsmouth to St Malo and drove to Ceret in one day. Took 10 hours plus stops of 30 minutesx4, sharing driving with husband. St Malo to Nantes to Bordeaux to Toulouse to Narbonne to Perpignan. Met up with friends who flew from Southampton with flybe direct for £90 each. Driving quite straightforward but buzy on ringroads around cities mentioned above.
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I really wouldn%26#39;t recommend driving it in one day. We have guests who drive and guests who fly. The English ones that drive from northern France in one day are all quite loopy by the time they get here (near Perpignan). Interestingly, the Belgians %26amp; Dutch who have further to drive are OK but I think they%26#39;re more used to the long distance driving.
There are a considerable number of accidents caused locally by long distance drivers who just fall asleep or lose concentration.
If you%26#39;re driving, take it in two days. You%26#39;ll see the scenery properly and get here in one piece.
Arnold
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Depending on where you are in Wiltshire, you may find flying to Barcelona from Bristol Airport a better option. We flew there in July and it was still fairly cheap. We hired a car at Barcelona airport (the Bristol flight arrives around 1pm-ish) and drove straight to Perpignan. It%26#39;s only about 3 hours drive at most and is a beautiful straightforward journey.
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2 1/2 to 3 hours is the normal time from Barcelona airport to Perpignan but be very wary of the rush hour. If it looks like you%26#39;ll hit that, I%26#39;d be inclined to sit in the airport for a while to avoid it as it can easily add an hour or more to your trip.
On the way back to the airport, the signposting is very bad. You need to change direction 12 times (we counted it once) and almost all the time the sign is immediately before the turnoff which, on the five lane highway, is far from easy to get to.
Snag is that if you miss a turnoff it can take over an hour working out how to get back on the route.
Arnold
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Hi
This list of low cost flight routings into Languedoc for summer 2006 may be useful :
To From Airline
Avignon Southampton Flybe
Barcelona Amsterdam Air Berlin
Barcelona Amsterdam Transavia
Barcelona Amsterdam Vueling
Barcelona Austrian cities Air Berlin
Barcelona Basel-Mulhouse Easyjet
Barcelona Belfast Thomsonfly
Barcelona Belfast Jet2
Barcelona Berlin Easyjet
Barcelona Billund Sterling
Barcelona Birmingham Thomsonfly
Barcelona Bratislava Sky Europe
Barcelona Bristol Easyjet
Barcelona Brussels Virgin Express
Barcelona Brussels Vueling
Barcelona Bucharest Blue Air
Barcelona Budapest Sky Europe
Barcelona Budapest Wizzair
Barcelona Cardiff Thomsonfly
Barcelona Cologne-Bonn Germanwings
Barcelona Copenhagen Sterling
Barcelona Dortmund Easyjet
Barcelona Edinburgh Flyglobespan
Barcelona Gatwick Easyjet
Barcelona Gatwick Thomsonfly
Barcelona Geneva Easyjet
Barcelona German cities Air Berlin
Barcelona Glasgow Thomsonfly
Barcelona Glasgow Flyglobespan
Barcelona Glasgow Air Scotland
Barcelona Gothenburg Sterling
Barcelona Helsinki Sterling
Barcelona Helsinki Air Berlin
Barcelona Italian cities Meridiana
Barcelona Italian cities Vueling
Barcelona Katowice Wizzair
Barcelona Krakow Sky Europe
Barcelona Leeds Thomsonfly
Barcelona Leeds Jet2
Barcelona Liverpool Easyjet
Barcelona Liverpool Thomsonfly
Barcelona Luton Easyjet
Barcelona Luton Thomsonfly
Barcelona Manchester Thomsonfly
Barcelona Manchester Monarch
Barcelona Newcastle Easyjet
Barcelona Newcastle Thomsonfly
Barcelona Nottingham Thomsonfly
Barcelona Oslo Sterling
Barcelona Paris Vueling
Barcelona Riga Air Baltic
Barcelona Riga Estonian Air
Barcelona Salzburg Sky Europe
Barcelona Spanish cities Vueling
Barcelona Stansted Easyjet
Barcelona Stansted Air Berlin
Barcelona Stockholm Sterling
Barcelona Stockholm Fly Nordic
Barcelona Stuttgart Germanwings
Barcelona Swiss cities Air Berlin
Barcelona Teeside Thomsonfly
Carcassonne Charleroi Ryanair
Carcassonne Dublin Ryanair
Carcassonne Nottingham Ryanair
Carcassonne Stansted Ryanair
Girona Birmingham Thomsonfly
Girona Blackpool Ryanair
Girona Bournemouth Ryanair
Girona Brussels JetOnly
Girona Cardiff Thomsonfly
Girona Charleroi Ryanair
Girona Doncaster Thomsonfly
Girona Dublin Ryanair
Girona Dusseldorf Ryanair
Girona Eindhoven Ryanair
Girona Florence Ryanair
Girona Frankfurt Hahn Ryanair
Girona Gatwick Thomsonfly
Girona Glasgow Thompsonfly
Girona Karlsruhe Baden Ryanair
Girona Liverpool Ryanair
Girona Luton Ryanair
Girona Luton Thomsonfly
Girona Manchester Thomsonfly
Girona Milan Ryanair
Girona Newcastle Thomsonfly
Girona Nottingham Ryanair
Girona Prestwick Ryanair
Girona Rome Ryanair
Girona Rotterdam Transavia
Girona Shannon Ryanair
Girona Stansted Ryanair
Girona Stockholm Ryanair
Girona Teeside Thomsonfly
Girona Venice Ryanair
Lyon Bournemouth Thomsonfly
Lyon Coventry Thomsonfly
Lyon Doncaster Thomsonfly
Lyon Dublin Aer Lingus
Lyon Heathrow BA
Lyon Heathrow BMI baby
Lyon Stansted Easyjet
Lyon Marakesh Atlas Blue
Marseille Cologne-Bonn Hapag Lloyd Express
Marseille Dublin Aer Lingus
Marseille Gatwick BA
Marseille Gatwick Easyjet
Marseille Prestwick Ryanair
Montpellier Casablanca Air Horizons
Montpellier Copenhagen Sterling
Montpellier Frankfurt Hahn Ryanair
Montpellier Gatwick BA
Montpellier Oslo Norwegian
Montpellier Oslo Sterling
Montpellier Stansted Ryanair
Montpellier Stockholm Sterling
Nimes Charleroi Ryanair
Nimes Liverpool Ryanair
Nimes Luton Ryanair
Nimes Nottingham Ryanair
Perpignan Birmingham Flybe
Perpignan Manchester BMI baby
Perpignan Southampton Flybe
Perpignan Stansted Ryanair
Reus Coventry Thomsonfly
Rodez Stansted Ryanair
St Etienne Stansted Ryanair
Toulon Brussels JetOnly
Toulon Brussels Virgin Express
Toulon Rotterdam Transavia
Toulon Stansted Ryanair
Toulouse Birmingham Flybe
Toulouse Bristol Flybe
Toulouse Dublin Aer Lingus
Toulouse Gatwick BA
Toulouse Gatwick Easyjet
Toulouse Hamburg Germanwings
Toulouse Manchester BMI baby
Toulouse Marakesh Atlas Blue
Peter
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