Club Arnage

Anyone got any ideas?  Looks like I've missed the cheap ferry deals this year.  I've worked out that it'll be £142 each to get the ferry from Portsmouth to Le Harve and then petrol on top.  I'm considering flying to Paris and then getting the train to Le Mans.  Flight is about £120 and then I'm not sure about the train fare as SNCF (la gare) only show fares 90 days in advance... 

I'm just wondering if anyone has done the fly - train thing before?  Any ideas/advice/recommendations appreciated. Vx

Thinking out Wednesday night/Thursday morn and back Sunday night/Monday...  Just considering our options at the moment.

PS, hope you're well FS!x

Queen Vic, how many of you are there in the car?

Give me a call tomorrow if you have five minutes to chat things through!  :)

I'm on the Pompey/Cherbourg ferry on Weds morning, will be leaving Chandlers Ford around 06:30

Returning Monday morning back in to Poole around lunchtime.

Have spare seat & space in the car/MPV

I think that an extra passenger is £38

Let me know if you're interested.

Paul

Long way round I know, but Seafrance wanted £38 for a return Dover/Calais last friday.

I have done the fly-train thing 3 times now.

By far the best way to do it is fly into Charles De Gaulle and catch the TGV from there straight to Le Mans then get the tram up to the circuit. It could'nt be easier and the airport may be big but it is pretty simple to get around and obviously your train tickets can be bought in advance so you dont even need to speak french  :P

I cant remember any prices off the top of my head but it aint even that expensive.

I had hoped to do the drive myself this year but the way the work situation is right now flying down wednesday or thursday and home monday is looking more likely.

Mike

I'm bound to ask, why not train the whole way?  St Pancras, change at Lille.  Job done. :)
This is what we do - albeit in reverse.

Train the whole way?  I saw the state of some of these after an hour on the "Party Bus" I can't begin to imagine how they would be after 5/6 hours on a train :o

There's that... ;D

You Bloody liar Underwood - You couldn't see in a straight line either after an hour on that bus - I blame Steve Zarse......

Thanks for the info!  ;D

Mike, how long do you think the journey took you in total and do you know how much (roughly) the train costs from CDG?

Landman, you have PM

Mark, two of us travelling, will call you over the weekend...  just finished work...

Termietermite, great idea...  It's just getting into London plus the cost of the Eurostar.  Cost just into London for us will be £35-£55 each...  Oh and Bob is right we wouldn't be able to get off the train at LM!

This year I flew from Leeds to CDG & then TGV to LM. Flying time 1 hour & then 2 hours in TGV bar with Lord Steve  ;D.

TGV cost me £60 return from CDG to LM this year. Return price is made up of two single journeys, TGV don't do return tickets.
Journey is approx 1 3/4 hours from TGV. Train times never seem to change form year to year.

Oh!, and yes we got off the train.

Ade

Just to reinforce what Ade said - plane/train combo is excellent if you've got someone to take a tent for you.
Best bit is, as Ade said, planes and trains are cheap and have bars.
Job done!

Steve

PS Ade, how are you doing fella?

I was thinking of going this way too - last couple of years we flew int Beauvais with Ryanair and rented a car, this year someone dented the bonnet on the car with a rock or something, luckily I didn't get charged by the rental co., but decided to investigate other options, plus, if I'm not driving back to Beauvais on Sunday I can drink beers :D

Exactly what AJW and Lord Steve said  ;D

The best way I have found is defo flying into CDG and catch the TGV all the way to Le Mans.

At the moment our plans are out thursday morning,home monday morning

Mike

Where's my bloody photo gone?

Hope all are well...

Been down on the Eurostar/TGV for two years and it's a great way to do it... Last year (and we were a little late in booking... mid May) was £125 therebouts... From home (Bedford) to Le Mans took 5 hours therabouts... I'll be booking when tickets for Thurday departure become available and my guess is that it'll be c£90-£100.

Upsides for me... ? Not having to get up at 5.00am knowing you've got at least 10 hours driving  you know you're knackered before you even turn the key... beers and food on the trains, brief stop in Paris and a wander round in Montparnasse...and this year the added bonus of sitting next to the very nice lady who was masseur for the Drayson Racing Team, on the Le Mans to Paris TGV...

I just checked out Flights to CDG from Southampton, its about £72 rtn at present for a 7am flight and about the same currently for the TGV to LM, which gets in just after 2pm??? so traveling light could be an option.

In the MGA.  Dover-Calais booked this evening.  Out on the Tuesday, back after the race finishes on the Sunday night.

MG Mark