Book a Campanile
A stopover
in a hotel can break the journey from Calais. Campaniles offer
good "motel" style rooms. Rooms with a double bed are
£60 a night and the attached restaurants are cheap and decent
quality. Rouen (on the Vache roundabout, you go past the door)
and Alencon are convenient from Calais.
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You
can fly from Stanstead to La Rochelle with
Ryanair
or
from Manchester, Birmingham or Southampton to La Rochelle with Flybe
or
from Leeds/Bradford to La Rochelle with Jet2
Other
flights are available to Bordeaux which is a bit further away but
still convenient if you are hiring a car.
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L
D Lines
Ferry crossings
from L D Lines, Portsmouth to Le Havre, Le Havre to site is 360
miles and Dover to Dieppe 398 miles from site.
Directions
from Le Havre |
Notes:
Distance from
Calais to site is 495 miles. A new motorway opened in late 2005
from Rouen to Le Mans so it's motorway nearly all the way which
makes this route much
more practical than it used to be. |
Driving
from the western ports of Caen or St Malo is quicker and there is
a much lower cost in tolls as well as petrol so it is worth comparing
the cost of a Brittany Ferries crossing (with our 20% discount)
and lower driving costs versus a cheap Dover - Calais crossing with
higher driving costs.
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Caen to the site is 300
miles
St Malo is 230
Directions
from St Malo
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