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    Bergerac or Bordeaux to Rennes

    in Travelling to/from France

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    You won't find direct flights. Therefore 2 choices:

    Use point to point airlines (Ryanair et al), trust you can make the international connections and hunt the lowest prices. It's probable you'll have to clear passport control each time.

    Use Air France indirect via CDG, but at least missing connections won't cost you. AF will handle any problems  

    Or check the trains

    Paris area - suggestions

    in Holidays

    Posted

    I'm travelling over to CDG weekend of 16/7, purely for the experience of travelling on the new A380. Can't see myself flying on it long haul any time in the near future.

    Give me some suggestions of what to do, where to go in the vicinity, that does NOT include Paris itself. I've done it to death and want a change 

    You gota Laugh

    in Travelling to/from France

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    How can you compare a short notice, early Monday morning, full service flight to CDG with a mid afternoon flight from Luton. Factor in ALL the associated costs for the target audience and they don't bear comparison.

    I've managed to book a return flight with KLM (Air France's partner) from Manchester to Madrid via Amsterdam for £120 in late May. None of the budget airlines could beat the price or match the convenient flight times - and that includes the transfer !!!

    Poitiers Airport - EuropCar

    in Travelling to/from France

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    Same experience at Limoges, I've dropped the keys in the box at the care hire building.

    And then last year, about a month after my return, I had a telephone call from them asking where I'd left the car. Seems someone had stolen the car - and it wasn't the first time.

    Maybe they should rethink their policy 

    ryan air

    in Travelling to/from France

    Posted

    Ryanair plan their routes on a seasonal basis, with effectively 2 seasons a year changing in spring and autumn. There's no guarantee a route will feature on both seasons, or that it will appear in subsequent years.

    In that, they're no different to any other airline - even the big boys.

    Just bcause a flight is full, doesn't make it profitable. A planeload of canny french homeowners who carry their own sarnies are nowhere near as profitable as a planeload of hen/stag parties heading to the eastern europeans weekend hotspots

    Online checkin Ryanair

    in Travelling to/from France

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    The airport staff help to enforce the rules of the airline they represent. Limoges and Stansted are going to enforce it strictly because Ryanair are one of their biggest clients. Edinburgh only has a couple of check in desks and they don't seem too bothered. But scheduled airlines, especially the american ones, allows loads of cabin baggage. It all depends on your boarding cards.

    However, some airports also impose a one bag limit, their excuse being they don't have the staff or the scanning facilities to manage everyone having multiple bags. Lame excuse, but they make up the rules.

    Online checkin Ryanair

    in Travelling to/from France

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    Enforcement of rules is pretty much down to the airport. Flew through Edinburgh a couple of weeks ago and cabin baggage wasn't being weighed, flew through Limoges last week and it was. They made a guy take a tiny travel wallet that was around his neck and put it in his baggage.

    Carry a large carrier bag and dump everything in that before you go through

    9.86 kg - pretty pleased at the accuracy of my Simpsons bathroom scales !!  

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