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Anyone gone to S of France on Motorail (ie putting car on train)?

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CountessDracula · 27/09/2006 14:43

I wondered how much it cost as the website doesn't show any info yet

I am debating this or ferry to Bilbao but then you end up so far from where I want to be.

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KBear · 27/09/2006 14:43

My friends did it this summer - was about £600 to south of France from Calais. Recommended it though.

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CountessDracula · 27/09/2006 14:46

return or single do you know?

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KBear · 27/09/2006 17:00

hmm, not sure but think it was return. Don't quote me!

Tutter · 27/09/2006 17:06

friends did it this summer and had a nightmare - thieves on train went though each carriage robbing passengers at knifepoint. sod all staff on french trains - just a few students apparently. they decided to scarp the return ticket and drove all the way home from the cote d'azur .

they told me it was a lot of money - imagine more than kbear says here, but am unsure. tgv website would be where i'd start. goes to avignon or montpellier iirc.

Tutter · 27/09/2006 17:08

cd see link here

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CountessDracula · 27/09/2006 17:10

wow how awful

Yes I had seen that page but they have no prices yet

Maybe I will drive! Or stick to the ferry option

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bossykate · 27/09/2006 17:13

oh are you going to the langued'oc by any chance? i really fancy going there next summer but was put off by the journey...

Tutter · 27/09/2006 17:15

we went to the south of france this year and decided the flight + car hire would be the least stressful of all options. flew southampton to avignon, which may sound a bizarre choice, but only 1hr to get to the airport and no queues at check-in as it's such a small airport. cheap flight with flybe.

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CountessDracula · 27/09/2006 17:20

yes we usually do that but it restricts the amount of wine we can bring back

I really wanted to buy a VW campervan this year and take 3 weeks and do a mix of camping and renting a villa with pool for a week in the middle, lots of wine tasting and buying etc

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Tutter · 27/09/2006 17:22

if dd (think you have a dd) is good in the car maybe you could think about pottering down over 3-4 days. otherwise, the ferry could be a good option. no idea about cost though - would be interested to kow if you find out.

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CountessDracula · 27/09/2006 17:26

I worked out to do ferry Portsmouth to Bilbao and then back calais to dover is about £350 in June (incl 2 nights on the ferry on way out in posh cabin)

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Aznerak · 06/10/2006 22:23

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PretendFriend · 06/10/2006 22:29

Poitou-Charente not as far as Languedoc I know, but a friend and I got the overnight ferry Portsmouth-Caen and were S of Poitiers by lunchtime (IIRC, was a while ago )

PretendFriend · 06/10/2006 22:31

Plus I priced Motorail years ago for S of France and it was c £600 each way - can't imagine it's gone down since then.

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