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. The budget airline Ryanair flies once a day (or twice Map of Airports close to Rodes during high season) from Stansted. During the summer FlyBE have a daily service to Perpignan from Birmingham and from Southampton. New for 2006, BMIBaby have now added a 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 (€15.60) will also take you from the airport into Perpignan. From Perpignan station, a 30 minute train ride (€3.40) 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 calls it Barcelona) is also well served by Ryanair.

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

Southampton

FlyBE

Bournemouth

Ryanair

Gatwick

easyJet, BA

Heathrow

Stansted

Luton

East Midlands

easyJet

Bristol

Belfast

Birmingham

Leeds Bradford

Manchester

Liverpool

Newcastle

Glasgow

Blackpool

Shannon

Dublin

Last updated 28 Feb 2008

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

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

During the summer there is TGV service direct between Perpignan and Brussels. During 2004 a TGV service is expected to be introduced between Perpignan and Barcelona with a journey time of just forty minutes.

From Perpignan station, Gare De Perpignan, (which according to Salvador Dali is 'The centre of the universe') a local train (€3.40) 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