Melbourne to St Jean Pied de Port

[wendyjoy]

What is the quickest and easiest way to get from Melbourne Australia to St Jean Pied de Port?

 

[walkingtotheend]

Hi Wendyjoy

We live in Melbourne and fly to London heathrow (usually with Qantas). Go by London underground to Stansted airport and then fly Ryanair to Biaritz. Bus to train station at Bayonne ( pretty much same place as Biaritz) and then train to SJDP.

Ryanair is very cheap if you buy in advance but follow there rules re luggage and weight etc or they hit you hard. Pay extra for the priority seating.

When are you going? We go again next April

Salads

Ian


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[Trudy]

Another option is to fly Qantas to Paris - this involves a Qantas flight to Singapore changing to an Air France flight to Paris (it's a Qantas codeshare flight so all on the one Qantas ticket). Then, perhaps after a couple of nights in Paris to get over jetlag, take the TGV from Gare Montparnasse to Bayonne, and local train from Bayonne to St Jean Pied de Port.

Look at http://www.voyages-sncf.com for train timetables and tickets. You can buy and print TGV tickets, just remember to select France as your country of origin, and book the Bayonne to SJPP section picking up tickets at any French train station.

Trudy

 

[wendyjoy]

thanks everyone for two great replys, has anyone ever flown to Heathrow from Melbourne and taken a coach through the tunnel under the channel to France?
Next question, how do I get from Santiago ( or Finnestre) back to Melbourne.

 

[norelle]

I flew from Sydney to Paris - Charles de Gaulle. Then took an airport shuttle to Orly for a flight to Biarritz. Express Bouricot ( you will find lots of information about them on this forum) met me at the airport - then straight to St Jean!
On the way home you could get a flight from Santiago to Madrid then Melbourne.
Good luck!

 

[dougfitz]

I travelled through Paris (CDG) in 2010 using Malaysian airlines, catching the train the day I arrived. On the way back I left from Paris, but the airline was prepared to open jaw the ticket from their other European ports with the only fare difference being the difference in airport taxes.

Your travel agent will be able to make sure you are getting the best arrangements in place for the major air legs, but I have found doing the surface travel arrangements over the internet reasonably easy. They are also leas critical provided you don't tightly couple the air and surface travel too tightly together. That only works in the movies and for heads of state!

 

[walkingtotheend]

You can also fly Ryanair from Santiago back to Stansted London. Tube to heathrow and then back to Melbourne

Ian


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