There are several different transport options to choose from when planning your journey to Provence. If you decide to travel by ferry, there are several different operators that you can go with; Brittany Ferries, Condor Ferries, LD Lines, Norfolk Line, P&O Ferries and Sea France.
Depending on where your destination is there are several airports if you opt to fly to Provence. Nice Airport is situated just over 7km west from Nice. Most passengers flying to Nice will be headed for the Côte d’Azur. There are excellent transport links by train, TGV, bus and car hire services. Nice also doubles up as Monaco’s airport, with a helicopter service available.
Marseille Airport is 27km north of the city and also good bus, train and TGV links. Toulon-Hyères Airport is 20 minutes on the motorway to Toulon and also has bus and train links. Finally, NÌmes Airport is 20km southeast of NÌmes and there are shuttle buses and car hire services available.
By car, Provence takes between 10 and 12 hours from the Channel ports. Take the Reims-Rhone valley route – A7 autoroute – to Provence and the Côte d’Azur and the Massif Central route – A75 autoroute – to Central Languedoc.
You can travel to the South of France on the Eurostar between London Waterloo or Ashford, Kent to Paris or Lille. At these destinations you can then change to the TGV to complete your journey. From July and September the Eurostar travels between London St Pancras International and Avignon Central. The whole journey takes a mere 6 hours. The Eurostar is great for having the convenience of your car when you are on holiday.
France has some of the best mainline train services in the whole of Europe. The high speed TGV train travels to Avignon, Nîmes, Aix-en-Provence, Marseille, Toulon, Draguignan-Les Arcs, St-Raphaël, Cannes, Antibes, Nice, Monte-Carlo, Menton and Lyon.
