Fly-Drive    U.K. & Ireland

Fly-Drive packages provide a great alternative for visitors to the Loire Valley who do not  wish to take their own vehicle. The area, as indeed all of France, now has airlines flying into the smaller regional airports so there has not been a better time to use this method of getting to your destination. The prices compare favourably  with self-drive/ferry travel especially if you are travelling from Ireland, Scotland or the north of England. Fly to the nearest airport to your ultimate destination and finish the journey off in your hire car - or fly to Paris, pick up a hire car and take in some of the sights en-route to your 'Loire Valley experience'.

UK and Irish airlines flying into the region / Paris are:

**Information provided as a guide only - please check with airlines /booking agents before planning your journey

Tours airport is a good option as a destination as it gives excellent access to the whole of  Loire Valley/Centre region. The airport itself is a 10 minute bus/taxi trip to the city centre where you have access to the  TGV and SNCF rail networks.

The airport is open seven days a week with frequent services from Ryanair to and from London Stansted. The recently refurbished terminal is small but adequate and enjoys free short term parking or car rental facilities.  You are just five minutes from the A10 motorway with its links to Paris and the north or to Bordeaux and the south.   Although Tours Airport is a good option Angers, Nantes, Poitiers plus new flights into La Rochelle and Angouleme offer alternative routes to access the pleasures of this area. Both rail and road links are excellent between all these destinations. 

For further information:

• Tours Airport
   http://www.tours.aeroport.fr
• Angers Airport
  http://www.angers-airport.com
• Poitiers Airport                                                                                                                    http://www.poitiers.cci.fr/aeroport
• Ryanair
  http://www.ryanair.com
• http://www.corkairport.com/

• http://www.dublinairport.com/
• http://www.worldtimeserver.com/current_time_in_FR.aspx

 Airports within Ireland with services operated by Ryanair to London Stansted:

 
Dublin (also Gatwick and Luton)
Cork
Kerry
Shannon
Knock
Derry

Aer lingus: Belfast to London Heathrow

Links:

http://www.dublinairport.com/

http://www.corkairport.com/

Airports within Scotland with services operated by Ryanair to London Stansted:

Glasgow (Prestwick)-also to Paris Beauvais