Travel from Nantes to Concarneau (Brittany) in June - bus, car or train?

Travel from Nantes to Concarneau (Brittany) in June - bus, car or train?

It's possible that sometime in June, at reasonably short notice (about
a week I think) I am going to have to get from Nantes airport to
Concarneau.

Last year, I had a similar incident and managed to find a great site
that looked and worked exactly like the UK's traveline network, except
I cannot find it despite googling for hours.

What I HAVE found is that, even booking this far ahead, a train is
about 120GBP, a car is 130GBP for 5 days...but of course, I don't know
when or even if I'm going to be needed, so advanced booking isn't a
possibility.

Someone then said they thought they heard that bus travel in Brittany
was about EUR2 per journey, but again, we can't find the info site.
But that if that was so, I could save a bit of a packet, albeit have a
longer journey!

If you don't know the answer to the bus question, I'd still be
grateful for that Brittany version of Traveline which does all the
travel links of different companies.

Re: Travel from Nantes to Concarneau (Brittany) in June - bus, car or train?

On Mon, 05 May 2008 10:31:33 -0700, Digitaltoast wrote :

> It's possible that sometime in June, at reasonably short notice (about a
> week I think) I am going to have to get from Nantes airport to
> Concarneau.
>
> Last year, I had a similar incident and managed to find a great site
> that looked and worked exactly like the UK's traveline network, except I
> cannot find it despite googling for hours.
>
> What I HAVE found is that, even booking this far ahead, a train is about
> 120GBP, a car is 130GBP for 5 days...but of course, I don't know when or
> even if I'm going to be needed, so advanced booking isn't a possibility.
>
> Someone then said they thought they heard that bus travel in Brittany
> was about EUR2 per journey, but again, we can't find the info site. But
> that if that was so, I could save a bit of a packet, albeit have a
> longer journey!
>
> If you don't know the answer to the bus question, I'd still be grateful
> for that Brittany version of Traveline which does all the travel links
> of different companies.

Car rental at Nantes Airport
* w w w .nantes.aeroport . fr /ANA-English/Page/
AccueilCommerces~ARBO_ID~1591~ARBO_VERSION~6.aspx

Train (+local bus) is possible, but Concarneau is slightly outside the
main Paris-Quimper line. You will have to wait for the Quimperle-
Concarneau bus connexion. Overall more than 3 hours for a few km.
Once in Concarneau the town is small so walking is possible.

* w w w .tourismeconcarneau . fr /en/discovering/

Local bus company
* w w w .viaoo29 . fr /

Re: Travel from Nantes to Concarneau (Brittany) in June - bus, car or train?


"Digitaltoast" <digitaltoast@gmail . com > wrote in message
news:d8bc000c-1f45-46de-8710-21abae02d2bd@m44g2000hsc.googlegroups . com ...
> It's possible that sometime in June, at reasonably short notice (about
> a week I think) I am going to have to get from Nantes airport to
> Concarneau.
>
> Last year, I had a similar incident and managed to find a great site
> that looked and worked exactly like the UK's traveline network, except
> I cannot find it despite googling for hours.
>
> What I HAVE found is that, even booking this far ahead, a train is
> about 120GBP, a car is 130GBP for 5 days...but of course, I don't know
> when or even if I'm going to be needed, so advanced booking isn't a
> possibility.

Where on earth did you find that astronomical figure for the train? It is
30 euro one way from Nantes (gare) to Concarneau.
From w w w .voyages-sncf . com

You can get from the aiport to Nantes by the following methods:
* w w w .nantesairport . net /Access/

Regards

David Bennetts
Australia

Re: Travel from Nantes to Concarneau (Brittany) in June - bus, car or train?

Two replies in one - thanks for the suggestions so far!

On May 6, 5:24 am, "David Bennetts" <davibenne-nos...@yahoo . com .au>
wrote:

> Where on earth did you find that astronomical figure for the train?

I thought * w w w .raileurope.co.uk/ was the standard europe rail
booking system, which is where I got the fares from. Are they very
expensive then?

> It is
> 30 euro one way from Nantes (gare) to Concarneau.

I forgot to mention there would be two of us - that's £95. The car is
still looking good :)

> From w w w .voyages-sncf . com

Hmmm, I think booking anything on a French website isn't a thing to do
at night :)

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But it said the voyages were bookable in English at * w w w .tgv-europe.co=
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On May 5, 8:05 pm, JuanElorza <Juan-Elo...@tiscali.localhost> wrote:
> Local bus company * w w w .viaoo29 . fr /

Thanks - I think I might try it again tomorrow, it says:

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