Hideaway in France - gîtes in the Pyrénées near Carcassonne

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How to get to France by ferry

Crossing the channel

Crossing the channel

The new motorways which are being opened across France have made the journey to the South much much easier than it used to be. We take regular ferry crossings to the UK, and at the legal speeds it usually takes about eleven hours from Calais or St Malo or ten hours from Caen or Le Havre. These times are from the ferry to here at L'Enclos, excluding stops.

It is possible to get here from the ferry without an overnight stop, but this needs the journey to be very carefully planned and we would still recommend an overnight stop around Limoges in most circumstances.

What's the best route from the channel?

For full details of our route, including maps, please download our 'Directions from Calais' on the Travel Directions page.

Ferries across the channel

Ferries can be the cheapest and easiest way for a larger group to travel, and there's no baggage allowance so you can bring (or take home!) as much as you can fit in.

The list below gives the ferry crossings from the UK to France that we are aware of, and we try to update the list once a year. For completely up-to-date information we use the Direct Ferries website.
Last updated Feb 2010
From To Ferry Company Frequency
Cork Roscoff Brittany Ferries 1 per week
Dover Boulogne LD Lines 4 per week
Calais P&O Ferries Up to 30 crossings a day
Seafrance Up to 15 crossings a day
Dunkirk Norfolkline 8-10 per day
Folkestone Calais Eurotunnel Up to 40 crossings a day
Harwich Hook of Holland Stena line Ferries 3 per day
Hull Rotterdam P&O Ferries 1 per day
Zeebrugge P&O Ferries 1 per day
Newcastle Amsterdam DFDS seaways 1 per days
Newhaven Dieppe Transmanche ferries 2-3 per day
Plymouth Roscoff Brittany Ferries 1-3 per day
Santander Brittany Ferries 1 per week
Poole Cherbourg Brittany Ferries 1-3 per day
St Malo Condor Ferries 2 per day
Portsmouth Le Havre LD Lines 1 per day
Caen (Ouistreham) Brittany Ferries 3 per day
Cherbourg Condor Ferries 1 per week
Brittany Ferries 1 per day
St Malo Brittany Ferries 1-2 per day
Bilbao P&O Ferries 3 per week
Ramsgate Ostend Trans Europa ferries 4 per day
Rosslare Cherbourg Irish ferries 2-3 per week
Celtic link 3 per week
Roscoff Irish ferries 1 per week
Rosyth Zeebrugge Norfolkline 3 per week
Weymouth St Malo Condor Ferries 1 per day

We also advertise in the 'Chez Nous' catalogue, and they provide a travel booking/advice/insurance service which is available to anyone who stays at L'Enclos. Please ask us for the contact number and reference numbers when booking.

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