Brittany travel information

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Fly to Brittany

Sail and drive to Brittany

Train to Brittany

Holiday cottages

Brittany is a part of France that is easy to reach.  Travellers from the British Isles who don't want to drive can fly to a choice of destinations in or near Brittany; but if you want to travel to Brittany by car, there are ferry crossings that will take you straight to Brittany, to minimise driving once you disembark. The alternative solution is to take a short Channel crossing from Dover, then follow France's northern coastal motorway via Boulogne and le Havre. Brittany is very well served by motorways and dual carriageways.

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Fly to Brittany

Brittany is relatively well served by airports; the main airports serving Brittany are located in Rennes and Nantes, with other smaller airports in Brest and Dinard.
 
Traditional carriers - within France:

Brittany Airport	Carrier	Flights to / from
Rennes	Air France	Paris, Lyon, Nice, Marseille, Toulouse and more
Brest	Air France	Paris, Lyon, Nice, Marseille, Toulouse and more
Nantes	Air France	Paris, Lyon, Nice, Marseille, Toulouse and more

Brittany / NW France	Carrier	Flights to / from
Dinard	Ryanair	2021  East Midlands,
Rennes	Flybe - now closed Aer Lingus	Exeter, Manchester, Southampton,  London Southend, London city, 2021 Cork, Dublin.
Brest	Flybe - now closed Ryanair	Birmingham,  Southampton, 2021 London Southend,
Quimper	BA	2021 London City
Caen (Normandy)	Flybe - now closed	London Southend
Nantes (Loire valley)	British Airways Flybe - now closed Easyjet Ryanair Aer Lingus Air Transat	London Heathrow Manchester, Birmingham, Edinburgh 2021 London Gatwick, Luton, Bristol 2021 Dublin, London Stansted, Manchester, Edinburgh, 2021 Dublin 2021 Montreal
Tours (Loire valley)	Ryanair	2021 none announced

Click here for Brittany sea port or airport low cost car hire 

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Sail and Drive to Brittany

There are direct ferrry services from the UK to Brittany, operated by Brittany Ferries but also by Condor Ferries .  There are also services to Normandy.
Brittany is served directly all year round by ferry services from Plymouth.

For travellers coming from London or the south east of England, it may be quicker, though a longer drive, to take one of the short crossings from Dover, such as P&O Ferries and drive the rest.  Click here to check ferry prices and book online. 

Train to Brittany

From the UK, Brittany can be reached by train in a number of ways. There is no shuttle bus connection from the station at Plymouth to the ferry port, but there are taxis.
To reach Brittany directly by train from the UK, the easiest way is to take the Eurostar to Paris and then go to Paris Gare Montparnasse for a direct TGV high-speed train to Rennes and stations beyond. Direct TGV services operate from Paris to Brest and Quimper.

Accommodation information

Booking a hotel or holiday cottage in Brittany

   Brittany accommodation tends to be quickly booked up for the peak season, notably between mid July and midAugust, so booking early is a wise move; but unlike parts of the south of France, the holiday season falls off quite sharply at the start of September, so there are plenty of hotel rooms and holiday homes in Brittany available for bookings late in the season. However, if it is sun and the seaside that you are after, as well as escaping from the crowds, it is probably best to take your holiday in June or early July when the days are longest, rather than at the start of Autumn.

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