Travelling to Rodes in Roussillon, Pyrenees Orientales, South France.

By Air
By Car
By Train

By Air to Perpignan PGF
Perpignan-Rivesaltes airport Tel. 00 33 4 68 52 60 70
The nearest airport to Rodes is Perpignan which is only a 25 minutes drive away. During the summer of 2011 the budget airline Ryanair will fly 4 times per week from Stansted. Also FlyBE have a twice weekly summer service to Perpignan from Southampton and BMIBaby have a summer service from Mancester.

Other flights for the Roussillon region are shown in a table in By Air to nearby airports section below.

From Perpignan to Rodes
There are at least 5 car hire companies at Perpignan airport. There is a bus service (€4.50) to Perpignan bus station (Gare Routière) and train station (Gare De Perpignan), operated by Les Couriers Catalan Tel; 00 33 4 68 55 68 00. A 3 mile Taxi ride (about €17.60) will also take you from the airport into Perpignan. From Perpignan station, a 30 minute train ride (€4.60) to Ille sur Tet, or Vinca will take you close to Rodes.

By prior arrangement we can organise transportation from the airport or Ille sur Tet, or Vinca railway stations.

By Air to nearby airports Flights to South France
Your choice of UK departure airports is increased by flying into one of the other nearby airports. The ones shown on this map are all less than a 2.5 hours drive to Rodes. With this increased choice you may be even able to save more money on the flights!

By flying into Spain you should be able to obtain cheaper car hire. Barcelona has many flights from the UK, and Girona (Ryanair sometimes calls it Barcelona) is also well served by Ryanair.

Frogbus

a low-cost bus from Girona airport to Perpignan central train station

see: www.frogbus.com/en

The following websites offer to search for cheap flights:

Travelsupermarket
TravelJungle
SkyScanner

Flights from the British Isles to near Rodes, Roussillon, South France

Airports

Perpignan
30 mins

Beziers
70 mins

Girona (Barcelona)
90 mins

Carcasonne
90 mins

Montpellier
90 mins

Nimes
120 mins

Toulouse
120 mins

Barcelona
150 mins

Reus (Barcelona)
180 mins

London City

London Gatwick

London Heathrow

London Luton

London Stansted

Belfast

Birmingham

Blackpool

Bournemouth

Bristol

Doncaster

Dublin

East Midlands

BMIBaby

Edinburgh

Glasgow

Leeds Bradford

Liverpool

Manchester

Newcastle

Southampton

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Last updated 01.01.2011

By Car
Depending on the Channel crossing you choose, you can almost certainly reach our doorstep in Rodes direct by using only autoroutes and dual-carriage ways. The travel time will vary but from Calais to Rodes, you should allow 12 hours. We are about 580 miles from Paris.

Use the Michelin route finder (click on the Union Jack for English version) to give you detailed travel instructions. The post code for Rodes is 66320.

Useful sites for Ferry & Eurotunnel information include:
Ferrysavers

Dover-Calais
Eurotunnel
P&O Ferries
Seafrance
Hoverspeed

Dover-Dunkirk
Norfolkline

Newhaven-Dieppe
Hoverspeed
Transmanche Ferries

Portsmouth-Cherbourg, Portsmouth-Le Havre
P&O Ferries

Portsmouth-Caen Poole-Cherbourg, Portsmouth-St Malo
Brittany Ferries

Poole-St Malo via the Channel Islands, Portsmouth-Cherbourg, Weymouth-St Malo, changing craft in the Channel Islands
Condor Ferries

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By Train

From the North
The SNCF TGV (Train Grande Vitesse) has a daily service from Paris to Perpignan, with a journey time of about 6 hours.

St Pancras to Avignon with Eurostar from May to October and then TGV to Perpignan. Guest fedback says it's incredibly quick! (and civilised) see: www.directrail.com/eurostar.aspx

During the summer there is also a TGV direct service between Brussels and Perpignan.

From the South
The TGV service will be extended from Perpignan to Barcelona with an expected journey time of just forty minutes. In December 2010 a TGV service ran into Spain from Perpignan for the first time, but only goes as far as Figueres (about 40 Kms). The journey from the south to Figueres can be accomplished by conventional train.

There is also a bus service called Frogbus serving the journey between Girona airport and Perpignan central train station. Advanced on-line booking will probably be the cheapest option. See: www.frogbus.com/en

Perpignan to Rodes
From Perpignan station, Gare De Perpignan, (which according to Salvador Dali is 'The centre of the universe') a local train (€4.60) takes about 30 minutes to either Ille-sur-Tet, or Vinca. Iles-sur-Tet has a public telephone at the station. By prior arrangement we can organise transportation from either of these stations.

French Railways SNCF

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Self Catering holiday gîte and B&B accommodation in South France for holiday / vacation rent in Tet Valley near Pyrenees Mountains Southern France
For further information please contact the resident English speaking owners of the Peach Valley gite:
Jolanta & Steve Williams on
Tel: 00 33 4 68 05 96 44
6 Cami Ral, 66320 Rodès, France.
Email us at enquiry@peachvalley.co.uk