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- From: yan-dicky@cs.yale.edu (Dicky Yan)
- Newsgroups: rec.travel
- Subject: Re: Getting to coastal France from London
- Date: 21 Dec 1992 23:09:02 -0500
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- >I will be in London in February next year. While there, I thought we could
- >make a quick 3-day trip into France (see Paris, say). Ideally, we would
- >like to take the ferry (hovercraft?) from London to Calais or Caen, pick
- >up a rental car there and drive to Paris or outskirts.
- >
- >Fodor's guide does not list any London-coastal France ferry service, though
- >they are available from Dover/Folkstone, etc.
- >
- >1. We want to avoid travelling to Dover for the ferry. Is there a
- >ferry from London? If yes, could I have the name of the co.?
- >
- >(Our other option it to take the bus from London-Paris (via ferry), but
- >then again we will need to stay in the city in a reasonable place.)
- >
- >Thanks.
- >
- >-Manish Sharma
- >...att!trumpet!mks
-
- You can take the train (instead of driving your own car) from central
- London to a port in Kent (a few of them are available) and then take
- a ferry or a hovercraft to France (again, a few routes exist) and then
- get your car or take another train to central Paris.
-
- * You can find information about all these in Victoria Station (cental
- London) and you can buy all these tickets (rail-ferry-rail, rail-hover-rail)
- as a combined ticket.
-
- * The ferry is biger and slower but it will take cars too. Not sure whether
- the hovercarft will take cars. I guess not.
-
- * When you said a "3-day" trip, do you mean 3 days including the time spent
- on traveling? It may be a bit short if the 3 days include traveling.
- Versailles (sorry, cannot spell) will take you one day. (Well, it is not
- "in" Paris but near there.) All the good museums ... etc.
- You can save one night's accommodation cost if you take an overnight
- ferry. They usually leave the train station early in the evening and
- reach a port in Kent before midnight. Then everyone would hunt for a
- spot to sleep.
- You will arrive early next morning. I did this a few times
- and it was okay, except I had to get up in the middle of the night to
- go from the ferry to the rail after passing thru custom. Also, there
- are several routes to go to France from England over the sea.
- They vary a bit in
- traveling time, may be you should check this up. I think it is a shorter
- trip to go to Calis than to Dieppe.
-
- * May be next time you go to Paris from London, life will be easier.
- Does anyone know when the chunnel will
- really start working? If it is working, life would be easier. I guess then
- you can take a train from London directly to France and have a good sleep
- and arrive early in the morning.
-
- Dicky.
-
-