Trains
Eurostar can be booked on-line eurostar.com all the way through from London St Pancras to Bordeaux St Jean or Libourne. The journey takes 6 hours 50 minutes with a 1 hour 20 minute change Paris Gare du Nord to Paris Montparnasse.
Driving
If you are driving, the GPS Coordinates are ”
44°47’52.9″N 0°06’10.9″E
Decimal Degrees “44.7980380, 0.1030390”.
On your phone or tablet our Google Maps Page will help you plot a route:
An alternative is: viamichelin.com good directions and shows locations of speed cameras.
For the Channel tunnel: www.eurotunnel.com
For cross Channel ferry operators and other online ferry booking sites:
From St.Malo and Caen the drive takes 6 to 7 hours. From Calais allow about 10 hours.
Flying
Claribes is about 40 minutes west of Bergerac airport and an hour east of Bordeaux airport. A good selection of budget airlines fly to both airports and each have excellent car hire services.
Bergerac:
British Airways – www.ba.com from Southampton, London City
Ryanair – www.ryanair.com from London Stansted, Bristol, East Midlands, Leeds/Bradford and Liverpool.
Bordeaux:
British Airways – www.ba.com from London Gatwick .
EasyJet – www.easyjet.com from Luton, Gatwick and Bristol.
Ryanair – www.ryanair.com from Edinburgh, Cork and Brussels.
Car hire
These car hire firms operate at both Bordeaux and Bergerac airports, and Bordeaux train station.
Avis – www.avis.com
Budget – www.budget.com
Europcar – www.europcar.com
Hertz – www.hertz.com
additionally at Bordeaux airport :
Alamo – www.alamo.com
Thrifty – www.thrifty.com
Ada – www.ada.fr
